NRZ versus RZ in 10-40-Gb/s dispersion-managed WDM transmission systems

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 991-993

  Hayee, M I ^a   Willner, A E ^b  

^a TYCO TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DISPERSION MANAGED SYSTEMS; NONRETURN TO ZERO MODULATION; OPTICAL DISPERSION MANAGEMENT; OPTICAL FIBER NONLINEARITIES; RETURN TO ZERO MODULATION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0032668482     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.775323     Document Type: Article

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