Abstract
Performance of 3 x 10 Gbps duty-cycle division multiplexing (DCDM) is analyzed. The channel demultiplexing is performed electronically at single user bit rate (10 Gbps). At 30 Gbps, null-to-null spectral width of 80 GHz is measured for DCDM technique which is 33.3% less compared to 30Gbps conventional return-to-zero (RZ). In this system, the worst channel required a receiver sensitivity of around -25.6 dBm at bit error rate (BER) 10(-9). The chromatic dispersion tolerances of the system are 210.5 and 236 ps/nm for the worst and the best channel respectively. (C) 2009 The Japan Society of Applied Physics