Reduction of the Power Consumption in a WDM/SDM Network by using Cladding Pump Scheme MC-EDFA with Impairment Aware Least Wavelength Bandwidth Routing

We show 39 % reduction of amplification power consumption with cladding pump MC-EDFA using 16-core spectral superchannels over SDM NSFNET16 topology. Impairment aware least wavelength bandwidth routing algorithm further reduces the power consumption by 45%.