• DocumentCode
    3739829
  • Title

    On EDFA and Raman Fiber Amplifier Energy Efficiency

  • Author

    Peng Wang;Kerry Hinton;Peter M. Farrell;Bipin Sankar Gopalakrishna Pillai

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommun., Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    268
  • Lastpage
    275
  • Abstract
    We compare the energy efficiency of Distributed Raman Amplifiers (DRFA) and Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers(EDFA) used in long-haul transmission systems. This comparison accounts for the interaction between optical link power, signal quality (as measured by the Bit Error Rate (BER)), and the use of Forward Error Correction (FEC). We show that deploying DRFAs in some scenarios may be more energy efficient than EDFAs, despite their intrinsic requirement for higher pump powers, depending upon the link parameters.
  • Keywords
    "Forward error correction","Optical noise","Bit error rate","Signal to noise ratio","Optical fiber communication","Power demand","Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Data Science and Data Intensive Systems (DSDIS), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/DSDIS.2015.56
  • Filename
    7396513
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3739829