Abstract:In this paper, a multi-pump cascaded improved Raman fiber amplifier (RFA) is designed using erbium-doped tellurite fiber, and the wild horse optimizer (WHO) algorithm is employed to optimize the pump parameters, transmission medium length, and noise of the RFA to achieve maximum possible output gain and low gain flatness. Additionally, the performance of RFA is analyzed under different optimization strategies by using other metaheuristic techniques such as grey wolf optimizer, differential evolution, immune algorithm. WHO is proved to be a better optimization technique, and its optimized model achieving an average output gain of 44.64 dB and a gain flatness of 0.71 dB within the 1530-1630 nm bandwidth range. Furthermore, the impact of the algorithm on the noise gain is analyzed, and the results show that the designed RFA effectively reduces double Rayleigh scattering noise and amplified spontaneous emission noise. This proves that the designed RFA has good performance, providing a reference for the design of next-generation optical communication networks amplifiers.