Nonlinearity Tolerance of Time-Domain Single Carrier Index Modulation Signals in Optical Access Links

This paper investigates the impact of nonlinear optical effects on Time-Domain Single Carrier Index Modulation (TDSC-IM) optical signals in Wavelength Division Multiplexing-Passive Optical Network (WDM-PON) systems that use standard single-mode fibers. Simulations indicate that TDSC-IM optical signals with high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) can maintain sufficient signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) in C-band transmission in optical delivery networks with standard single mode fibers, while O-band transmission suffers larger nonlinear effects. This paper demonstrates that the degradation in the SNRs of the 25 GBaud quaternary phase shift keying (QPSK) based TDSC-IM optical signals can be less than 1 dB for 8 wavelength channel WDM-PON systems with 50 GHz spacing.