Abstract
We show that system performance depends critically on the level of in-line dispersion compensation in 40 x 10-Gb/s WDM transmission. 110% and 90% per-span dispersion compensation yield similar high performance, however, 100% per-span dispersion compensation leads to a severe penalty.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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