• DocumentCode
    654646
  • Title

    Approaching fundamental energy consumption limits in optical communications

  • Author

    Antonelli, C. ; Mecozzi, Antonio ; Shtaif, Mark ; Winzer, P.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Chem. Sci., Univ. of L´Aquila, L´Aquila, Italy
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    30-31 Oct. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    We study the fundamental energy consumption of fiber-optic communications links. We show that the quantum limit for the energy efficiency of a multi-span system deploying generalized on-off keying with photon-counting inline regeneration exceeds by orders of magnitude that of state-of-the-art systems employing inline optical amplification.
  • Keywords
    amplitude shift keying; energy conservation; energy consumption; optical fibre communication; optical links; photon counting; energy efficiency; fiber-optical communications link; fundamental energy consumption; inline optical amplification; multispan system; on-off keying; photon-counting inline regeneration; Energy consumption; Noise; Optical fiber communication; Optical mixing; Optical receivers; Photonics; Repeaters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT), 2013
  • Conference_Location
    Palermo
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SustainIT.2013.6685210
  • Filename
    6685210
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=654646