Calculating Power Budget and Power Margin For Fiber
Calculating Power Budget and Power Margin For Fiber
Calculating Power Budget and Power Margin For Fiber
1. 2. Calculating Power Budget for Fiber-Optic Cable Calculating Power Margin for Fiber-Optic Cable
Fiber attenuation for 2 km @ 1.0 dB/km= 2 dB Loss for five connectors @ 0.5 dB per connector = 5(0.5 dB) = 2.5 dB Loss for two splices @ 0.5 dB per splice =2(0.5 dB) = 1 dB
Higher-order mode loss = 0.5 dB Clock recovery module = 1 dB The power margin (PM) is calculated as follows: PM = PB LL PM = 13 dB 2 km (1.0 dB/km) 5 (0.5 dB) 2 (0.5 dB) 0.5 dB [HOL] 1 dB [CRM] PM = 13 dB 2 dB 2.5 dB 1 dB 0.5 dB 1 dB PM = 6 dB The following sample calculation for an 8-km-long single-mode link with a power budget (PB) of 13 dB uses the estimated values from Table 1 to calculate link loss (LL) as the sum of fiber attenuation (8 km @ 0.5 dB/km, or 4 dB) and loss for seven connectors (0.5 dB per connector, or 3.5 dB). The power margin (PM) is calculated as follows: PM = PB LL PM = 13 dB 8 km (0.5 dB/km) 7(0.5 dB) PM = 13 dB 4 dB 3.5 dB PM = 5.5 dB