We provide a new analytical model that fully justifies the recently disclosed Generalized Droop Formula of the nonlinear signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio in very-long submarine links with power-mode amplifiers, and show its relation with the Gaussian-Noise model SNR.
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@article{arxiv.1906.08645,
title = {A model for the generalized droop formula},
author = {A. Bononi and J. -C. Antona and A. Carbo Méseguer and P. Serena},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08645},
year = {2019}
}
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submitted to ECOC 2019, with typos corrected in red in this ARXIV version