Abstract
We estimate the energy consumption of digital-signal-processing-based chromatic dispersion (CD) compensation in wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) systems and show that energy efficiency of digital electronic compensation is comparable to that of optical fibre-based compensation.
© 2012 Optical Society of America
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