Abstract
Computer simulations are used to analyze the evolution of chirped retum-to-zero pulses in long-haul dispersion managed 10 Gb/s systems. We demonstrate that pulses in the channels that are offset from system’s zero dispersion suffer significant spreading over several bit periods. In the presence of nonlinearity this effect sets the usable bandwidth of the system.
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