Timing jitter dependence on data format for ideal dispersion compensated 10 Gbps optical communication systems

Simulations for data formats Return to Zero (RZ), Non-Return to Zero (NRZ), RZ-Soliton, Duobinary and their subcategories have been done with and without ideal dispersion compensation for optical communication systems. The results show that, in general, dispersion compensation improves timing jitter. RZ-Rectangular pulses show the smallest value of jitter without compensation. It has been observed that the RZ-Raised Cosine, and Soliton, give minimum jitter after ideal compensation. It has been reported that the BER performance of optical communication system using Duobinary data format is 10−8 and 10−37 before and after dispersion compensation, respectively. Further the comparative study shows that the timing jitter is the lowest in case of RZ-Soliton (0.0127 ns) after dispersion compensation and 0.0135 ns for RZ-Rectangular data format before dispersion compensation.