Scalable and Disaggregated GGN Approximation Applied to a C+L+S Optical Network

Abstract

We investigate quality of transmission (QoT) estimation in a multi-band transmission scenario, including a wideband description of the frequency-dependent physical layer parameters and a disaggregated QoT estimation approach.In particular, we use experimentally-derived erbium- and thulium-doped fiber amplifier operational data, and simulate the generation of the nonlinear interference (NLI) noise by comparing implementations of the split-step Fourier method, the generalized Gaussian noise (GGN) model implemented in the open-source GNPy library, and an efficient approximation that provides accurate results in a limited computational time. The latter semi-analytical solution is obtained by approaching the Manakov equation from a disaggregated standpoint, including the power transfer induced by stimulated Raman scattering, along with the frequency-dependent evolution of the fiber parameters of loss, dispersion and the nonlinearity coefficient. We validate the proposed approximation within a C+L+S 400 G transmission scenario and investigate 21 channels under test that are equally spaced along the three bands.