%S Optical Society of America (OSA) %I The Optical Society %B Proceedings Advanced Photonics 2018 (BGPP, IPR, NP, NOMA, Sensors, Networks, SPPCom, SOF) %T Transmission Schemes for Future Access Networks %O This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. %D 2018 %X We review recent work on low-complexity coherent transceivers for future optical access networks, using single-photodiode heterodyne detection with DSP-based linearization and polarization-independent operation through the use of Alamouti coding. %A RI Killey %A MS Erkilinç %A D Lavery %A P Bayvel %J Optics InfoBase Conference Papers %C Zurich, Switzerland %K (060.4510) Optical communications, (060.1660) Coherent communications, (060.2840) Heterodyne %L discovery10056041