Abstract
We compare the performance of NRZ, RZ, dispersion-managed solitons, and pre-chirped RZ formats in the presence of high PMD for 10-Gbit/s terrestrial systems. Fiber nonlinearities and signal chirp interact with PMD-induced pulse distortion to generate clear trends in system power penalties. We show that chirped RZ pulses are more tolerant to high PMD values.
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