Timing jitter as a performance limiting factor when signal propagated along a nonlinear and dispersive fibre

In this paper, the IM/DD optical system is considered by treating the optical fibre as a nonlinear medium. In the system of information transmission over large distances with high velocity, we must consider a combined influence of nonlinear and dispersive effects on signal propagation along the fibre. This paper studies propagation of short pulses which width is moving within the range of 10 fs to 10 ns and which is subjected to common influence effects of GVD-group velocity dispersion and SPM-self phase modulation, along the fibre. The case of Gaussian pulse propagation is assumed. The error probability is calculated for unchirped incident pulses in the presence of timing jitter and Gaussian noise. In addition, a detailed analysis of obtained results is performed.