A bandwidth-efficient coherent ultra-dense WDM-PON based on Nyquist independent-sideband modulation

We firstly demonstrate a coherent Ultra-Dense WDM-PON with much enhanced spectral and bandwidth efficiency using Nyquist independent sideband modulation. A capacity of 1200 × 10-Gb/s users at 5.628-bits/s/Hz spectral efficiency is demonstrated with an ODN loss budget of 35.5 dB.