Abstract
We characterize and experimentally demonstrate the effect of negative chirp produced by SOA-MZI DXPM-based wavelength convertor at 40-Gb/s 33% RZ in a 80-km dispersion-compensated SMF link. >2-dB performance improvement is achieved by adding positive residual dispersion of +30ps/nm.
© 2010 Optical Society of America
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