Abstract: An expression of impulse response was deduced and a kind of optimum design method for digital prefilter is proposed in this paper. Design a kind of optimum digital prefilter. Simulate a timing recovery loop in order to get statistical data about timing jitter. Discuss the convergence characteristic of timing recovery loop. Compare the relation between timing jitter and signal to noise ratio, the relation between timing jitter and noise bandwidth of loop, the relation between symbol error ratio and signal to noise ratio in optimum prefilter and no prefilter. The result of simulation proved this design method has great affection to reduced timing jitter.