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Ultra-wideband Modelling of Optical Fibre Nonlinearity in Hybrid-amplified Links

Buglia, Henrique; Killey, Robert I; Bayvel, Polina; (2024) Ultra-wideband Modelling of Optical Fibre Nonlinearity in Hybrid-amplified Links. Journal of Lightwave Technology 10.1109/jlt.2024.3439999. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Ultra-wideband (UWB) transmission using hybrid Raman amplifier technologies is an attractive option to increase the total throughput of a transmission link satisfying the demands for data traffic in optical fibre systems. This amplification technology achieves improved system performance when compared to that obtained with the utilisation of lumped amplifiers only. However, accurate and real-time system performance estimation is required. This paper presents the characteristics of the first analytical model to estimate the performance of the optical system in the presence of hybrid Raman amplifiers and inter-channel stimulated Raman scattering (ISRS). The model accounts for the fibre nonlinear interference (NLI), amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) generated by Raman amplification (RA) and lumped amplification (LA), and transceiver (TRX) noise. It also allows for any RA setup, such as an arbitrary number of forward (FW) and/or backward (BW) pumps, wavelength-dependent fibre parameters, variable modulation formats, per-channel launch powers and channel bandwidths. The model is used to evaluate the performance of a multi-span 18.4 THz transmission system (with 80-km spans) and capacity-maximising hybrid Raman amplifiers are designed based on a particle swarm optimisation (PSO) algorithm, where the semi-analytical nonlinear model was used to achieve real-time optimisation. An extensive theoretical investigation for different systems configurations ranging from short to metro, long-haul and trans-Atlantic links is described, demonstrating the trade-off between the various sources of noise and amplifier technologies.

Type: Article
Title: Ultra-wideband Modelling of Optical Fibre Nonlinearity in Hybrid-amplified Links
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2024.3439999
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/jlt.2024.3439999
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Ultra-wideband transmission, Raman amplification, lumped amplification, hybrid amplification, S+C+L band transmission, closed-form approximation, Gaussian noise model, nonlinear interference, nonlinear distortion, optical fibre communications, inter-channel stimulated Raman scattering
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195796
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