Survey of Faster-Than-Nyquist for Flexible Passive Optical Networks

The constant growing in traffic demands has driven to look for new methods with which to reduce the occupied bandwidth and efficient use of the optical spectrum. Despite non-orthogonal signalling lead to intersymbolic interference introduction, it can be considered as a promising solution if interference is introduced in a controlled manner. In this paper the modulation scheme called Faster-Than-Nyquist (FTN) is presented for Flexible Passive Optical Networks application. Different ratios of bandwidth reduction vs. power penalty are presented and compared to the Nyquist modulation.