Generation and Transmission of 10-Gb/s RZ-DPSK Signals Using a Directly Modulated Chirp-Managed Laser

We propose and experimentally demonstrate the generation of a 10-Gb/s return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying (RZ-DPSK) signal based on a directly modulated chirp-managed laser (CML), without requiring any differential encoder and optical phase modulator (PM). It shows better fiber chromatic dispersion tolerance and comparable nonlinearity tolerance, compared with a PM-based RZ-DPSK signal using 231 - 1 pseudorandom bit sequence data.

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