Estimate of the Cost-Effective Number of Erbium-Doped Amplifiers in an AM-VSB Multichannel Optical Link

S. L. Stevan Jr., A. A. P. Pohl

DOI: 10.14209/its.2002.794

Evento: 2002 International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS2002)

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Abstract

"We calculated the maximum distance of an HFC link by considering all noise mechanisms that contribute to CNR. Cost-effective solutions are limited to a small number of optical amplifiers in distances up to 120 km."

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