Measurement and Analysis of the Power Consumption of Hybrid-Amplified SCL-band Links

2025/07/30 by Sohanpal, Ronit, Yang, Jiaqian, Sillekens, Eric +5
#FOS: Electrical engineering #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.22616

Abstract

We studied the power consumption of hybrid-amplified SCL-band links using commercial benchtop amplifiers and Raman pumps. We show a reduction in energy per bit for multi-span hybrid Raman amplified links of up to 26% versus lumped amplification.

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