Net 3.2 Tbps 225 Gbaud PAM4 O-Band IM/DD 2 km Transmission Using FR8 and DR8 with a CMOS 3 nm SerDes and TFLN Modulators

2025/03/31 by Charles St-Arnault, St-Arnault, Charles, Santiago Bernal +23
Engineering · #FOS: Electrical engineering #Optical Network Technologies #Photonic and Optical Devices #Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2503.24147

openalex publication_date 2025/03/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We report the first 3.2 and 4.2 Tbps (8 x 225Gbaud PAM4-8), IM/DD transmission system using FR8 and DR8 configurations with TFLN modulators driven by a 3nm SerDes under the HD-FEC threshold.

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