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Calculating Power Budget and Power Margin for Fiber-Optic Cables

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An efficient optical data link must have enough light to exceed the minimum power that
the receiver requires to operate within its specifications. In addition, the total dispersion
must be less than the limits specified for the type of link in Telcordia Technologies
document GR-253-CORE (Section 4.3) and International Telecommunications Union
(ITU) document G.957.
When chromatic dispersion is at the maximum allowed, its effect can be considered as
a power penalty in the power budget. The optical power budget must allow for the sum
of component attenuation, power penalties (including those from dispersion), and a
safety margin for unexpected losses.
Use the information in this topic and the specifications for your optical interface to
calculate the power budget and power margin for fiber-optic cables.
TIP: You can use the
the pluggable transceivers supported on your Juniper Networks device.
To calculate the power budget and power margin, perform the following tasks:
Calculating Power Budget for Fiber-Optic Cable on page 161
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Calculating Power Margin for Fiber-Optic Cable on page 161
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Calculating Power Budget for Fiber-Optic Cable

To ensure that fiber-optic connections have sufficient power for correct operation, you
need to calculate the link's power budget, which is the maximum amount of power it
can transmit. When you calculate the power budget, you use a worst-case analysis to
provide a margin of error, even though all the parts of an actual system do not operate
at the worst-case levels. To calculate the worst-case estimate of power budget (P
you assume minimum transmitter power (P
P = P – P
B T R
The following hypothetical power budget equation uses values measured in decibels
(dB) and decibels referred to one milliwatt (dBm):
P = P – P
B T R
P = –15 dBm – (–28 dBm)
B
P = 13 dB
B

Calculating Power Margin for Fiber-Optic Cable

After calculating a link's power budget, you can calculate the power margin (P
represents the amount of power available after subtracting attenuation or link loss (LL)
from the power budget (P
P = P – LL
M B
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) and minimum receiver sensitivity (P
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