DocumentCode
2861270
Title
RZ versus NRZ pulse shape in duobinary modulation
Author
Lyubomirsky, Ilya ; Chien, Cheng-Chung
Author_Institution
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
fYear
2006
fDate
21-26 May 2006
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We present experimental data comparing RZ versus NRZ pulse shapes for optical duobinary modulation at 10 Gb/s. The NRZ pulse shape is found to be superior for duobinary systems dominated by ASE noise and/or dispersion.
Keywords
distributed feedback lasers; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical transmitters; superradiance; ASE noise; DFB laser transmitter; EDFA optical pre-amplifier; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; chromatic dispersion; duobinary transmission; nonreturn-to-zero pulse; optical duobinary modulation; return-to-zero pulse; ultra-narrow optical filtering; Bandwidth; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical pulse shaping; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Pulse modulation; Pulse shaping methods; Shape; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.4510) Optical communications;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-55752-813-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627614
Filename
4627614
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