“…The impact of the total bandwidth on the difference in performance is very much very much lower, since this is dominated by the phase matching effects of dispersion, and is reflected in the logarithmic terms of equation 31, where the main difference is the effective lengths of the two systems. For submarine systems, where amplifiers spacing [167] and modulation format [168] are typically optimized to maximize the capacity per unit energy, it has been observed that the gain from including Raman amplification is less than 2dB [169], whilst for terrestrial systems, where amplifier spacing is typically much larger, the gains from the inclusion of Raman amplified spans are much more significant. The approach detailed above, where all noise sources are treated independently, and also independent of the signal has proved accurate for a wide range of deliberate experimental tests [170][171][172] and independent comparisons between predictions and experiments.…”