200Gb/s VCSEL transmission using 60m OM4 MMF and KP4 FEC for AI computing clusters

2024/03/25 by Wettlin, Tom, Lin, Youxi, Stojanovic, Nebojsa +4
#FOS: Electrical engineering #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2403.17275

Abstract

We show a beyond 200Gb/s VCSEL transmission experiment. Results are based on 35GHz VCSEL and advanced DSP. We show an AIR of 245Gb/s PAM-6 back-to-back, and 200Gb/s PAM-4 over 60m OM4 fiber assuming KP4-FEC.

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