Data Sets for SNR Estimation in Flexible Optical Networks: Lightpath, Link, and Span Levels

For PM-BPSK and PM-QPSK modulation format levels, equation 41-43 [1], and for PM-8-64QAM modulation format levels, equation 7.32 [2], are applied. [1] P. Poggiolini, G. Bosco, A. Carena, V. Curri, Y. Jiang and F. Forghieri, "The GN-Model of Fiber Non-Linear Propagation and its Applications," in Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 694-721, Feb.15, 2014, DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2013.2295208.

[2] P. Poggiolini, Y. Jiang, A. Carena and F. Forghieri, "Analytical modeling of the impact of fiber non-linear propagation on coherent systems and networks" in Enabling Technologies for High Spectral-Efficiency Coherent Optical Communication Networks, New York, NY, USA:Wiley, pp. 247-310, 2016. | Farhad Arpanaei acknowledges support from the CONEX-Plus programme funded by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 801538.