Optical duobinary spectral efficiency versus transmission performance: is there a tradeoff?

Tradeoffs between optical spectral efficiency, ASE noise-tolerance, and dispersion tolerance are investigated experimentally for three modulation formats - RZ, NRZ, and duobinary. Duobinary does not follow conventional wisdom - achieving excellent performance with the narrowest bandwidth.

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