Performance Analysis of Hybrid Optical Amplifiers for 32 Channel WDM System at 10 Gbps Bit Rate for WAN Applications

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we have simulated an optical 32 channel WDM system with 10 Gbps data rate for various hybrid amplifiers at varying lengths. Stand-alone EDFA gives better performance than other individual amplifiers but when hybrid with Raman amplifier, the performance of the WDM system is enhanced. A lot of researchers are working on the hybrid amplifiers like EDFA and Raman. In this research paper we have also included latest amplifier such as Ytterbium and Praseodymium amplifiers and the performance of the various hybrid combinations is compared. So, different hybrid amplifiers such as Raman-EDFA, EDFA-Yb, Raman-Yb, EDFA-Pr and Raman-Pr have been analyzed for performance parameters like quality factor, bit error rate, eye height and channel power. The analysis shows that EDFA-Pr has maximum Q-factor of 15.4883 at 80 km. EDFA-Pr has a maximum eye opening of 0.00534 at 80 km of length but at 120 km transmission distance EDFA-Yb shows maximum eye opening of 0.00154. Below 100 km of transmission distance, EDFA-Pr shows minimum BER value ranging from 10–54 to 10–20 but as the length is increased above 100 km EDFA-Yb shows better performance with values ranging from 10–16 to 10–09.