AbstractOptical amplifiers are developed to boost up the performance of the communication systems. Amplifiers such as erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), RAMAN and semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) are used for this purpose. It is mandatory to use optical amplifiers for signal transmission to long distances. In this paper, the hybrid optical amplifier EDFA-RAMAN-EDFA is proposed to enhance the signal quality received at receiver end and to initiate the efficient transmission of 8 × 10 Gbps transmission speed for wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) system. The proposed mechanism is evaluated with respect to various parameters such as quality factor, eye-height, and bit error rate (BER) and eye diagram considering various values of transmission distance ranging from 100 to 200 km. The analysis shows that the proposed mechanism has better quality factor value and minimum BER value than the traditional approach. Wider eye opening for proposed technique represents that the distortions produced in the system are least.
