Design Optimisation of Power-Efficient Submarine Line through Machine Learning

• DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2020.sth4m.5
• Publication Date: 2020-09-14T19:29:43Z
• Authors: Maria Ionescu; Amirhossein Ghazi...; Jérémie Renaudier; Pascal Pecci; Olivier Courtois
• Keywords: Subsea; Repeater (horology); Line (geometry); Flattening

An optimised subsea system design for energy-efficient SDM operation is demonstrated using machine learning. The removal of gain-flattening filters employed in submarine optical amplifiers can result capacity gains at no additional overall repeater cost.