Abstract
This paper describes the transmission performance of prechirped return-to-zero (RZ) and prechirped carrier-suppressed return-to-zero (CS-RZ) signals over a periodically dispersion-compensated transmission line. We analyze the transmission characteristics of both formats, taking account the transmitter configuration expected, in which pulse chirping is generated by using both a phase modulator and a linear dispersion compensating device. We also discuss the dependence of the transmission characteristics on phase modulation, pre-and postcompensating dispersion, and receiver optical and electrical filter widths. We show that, in single-channel transmission, phase modulation effectively reduces the intrachannel nonlinear interaction and improves the transmission performance. Next, we discuss the transmission characteristics of chirped RZ and chirped CS-RZ signals in dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) signal transmission. In 100-GHz spaced 40-Gb/s-per-channel systems, it is shown that the phase modulation must be carefully optimized in order to minimize the linear crosstalk and waveform distortion induced by the intra-and interchannel nonlinear interaction in the transmission fiber.
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