Title :
Power Consumption of Erbium Doped Fibre Amplified Links
Author :
Hinton, Kerry ; Farrell, Peter ; Peng Wang ; Pilai, Bipin S. G.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommun., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
A model for the power consumption of EDFAs in an optically amplified link is presented. This model accounts for the EDFA pump lasers, accumulated ASE across the full EDFA gain bandwidth, required link Bit Error Ratio as well as covering both non-coherent and coherent modulation formats. An estimate of the lower limit for the energy per bit is provided for a variety of link designs.
Keywords :
erbium; error statistics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical links; optical modulation; EDFA pump laser; accumulated ASE; bit error ratio; coherent modulation format; erbium doped fibre amplified link power consumption; noncoherent modulation format; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Power demand; Optical amplifiers; energy efficiency; energy per bit; green networks;
Conference_Titel :
Big Data and Cloud Computing (BdCloud), 2014 IEEE Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
DOI :
10.1109/BDCloud.2014.12