Per-Channel Launch-Power Optimization in Hollow-Core Fiber Systems
Abstract
In single-mode fiber (SMF) the Kerr effect ties every channel's quality of transmission to its neighbors' launch powers through cross-phase modulation (XPM), four-wave mixing (FWM) and inter-channel stimulated Raman scattering (ISRS), forcing a jointly planned launch profile. Hollow-core fiber (HCF), with a Kerr coefficient three to four orders of magnitude below silica, turns the per-channel powers into nearly independent knobs limited only by the shared amplifier budget. We build a per-channel generalized signal-to-noise ratio (GSNR) budget for amplified HCF links, including amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) with a wavelength- and output-power-dependent erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) noise figure (NF), inter-modal interference (IMI), nonlinearity in amplifier pigtails, CO2 gas-line loss and a flat transceiver (TRx) noise ceiling, and derive a sensitivity law that predicts when power shaping pays: its gain is bounded by the ASE noise share, canceled by self-phase modulation (SPM) at the SMF single-channel optimum, and positive in HCF. Across 80x64-GBaud C-band links over 400-3200 km, per-channel optimization buys up to 1.0 dB of worst-channel GSNR over a flat launch as the EDFA NF spread grows to 4 dB, cuts cross-channel power sensitivity by more than two orders of magnitude relative to SMF, and reaches a given GSNR at about 3 dB lower aggregate amplifier output. At a fixed amplifier budget this becomes a 1.26 to 1.41 times worst-channel reach extension, against at most 15% on the nonlinearity-capped SMF link.
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BibTeX
@misc{saber2026perchannel,
title = {{Per-Channel Launch-Power Optimization in Hollow-Core Fiber Systems}},
author = {Md Ghulam Saber and Qingyi Guo and Zhiping Jiang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.18977},
eprint = {2609.18977},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18977},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Per-Channel Launch-Power Optimization in Hollow-Core Fiber Systems
AU - Md Ghulam Saber
AU - Qingyi Guo
AU - Zhiping Jiang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/18
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.18977
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18977
AB - In single-mode fiber (SMF) the Kerr effect ties every channel's quality of transmission to its neighbors' launch powers through cross-phase modulation (XPM), four-wave mixing (FWM) and inter-channel stimulated Raman scattering (ISRS), forcing a jointly planned launch profile. Hollow-core fiber (HCF), with a Kerr coefficient three to four orders of magnitude below silica, turns the per-channel powers into nearly independent knobs limited only by the shared amplifier budget. We build a per-channel generalized signal-to-noise ratio (GSNR) budget for amplified HCF links, including amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) with a wavelength- and output-power-dependent erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) noise figure (NF), inter-modal interference (IMI), nonlinearity in amplifier pigtails, CO2 gas-line loss and a flat transceiver (TRx) noise ceiling, and derive a sensitivity law that predicts when power shaping pays: its gain is bounded by the ASE noise share, canceled by self-phase modulation (SPM) at the SMF single-channel optimum, and positive in HCF. Across 80x64-GBaud C-band links over 400-3200 km, per-channel optimization buys up to 1.0 dB of worst-channel GSNR over a flat launch as the EDFA NF spread grows to 4 dB, cuts cross-channel power sensitivity by more than two orders of magnitude relative to SMF, and reaches a given GSNR at about 3 dB lower aggregate amplifier output. At a fixed amplifier budget this becomes a 1.26 to 1.41 times worst-channel reach extension, against at most 15% on the nonlinearity-capped SMF link.
ER -