Effects of pre- and post-compensation on timing jitter in dispersion-managed systems

Summary form only given. It has been known for many years that Gordon-Haus timing jitter imposes a fundamental limitation on long-haul soliton transmissions. Recently, it was recognized that timing jitter occurs with any transmission format, including the non-return-to-zero (NRZ), chirped-return-to-zero (CRZ) and dispersion-managed-soliton (DMS) formats. We used the moment equations to study the timing jitter of optical pulses in dispersion-managed (DM) systems. We found that one can reduce the output timing jitter significantly by choosing the pre- and post-compensation of residual dispersion judiciously.