The performances of nonlinear WDM systems with different duty cycle are compared by means of numerical simulation.The numerical results show that the optical pulse with duty cycle of 0.5 is superior to the conventional NRZ modulation schene.The conclusion is different from that of some references.The reason is that inter symbol interference is not included in some references.In fact,inter symbol interference plays an important role in monlinear WDM system.Although the larger the duty cycle is,the stronger the effect of the cross-phase modulation and self-phase modulation on nonlinear WDM is however,the larger the duty cycle is ,the stronger the inter symbol interference is.