This document summarizes research presented at an optical technologies workshop on flexible optical transmission. It describes work done by CPqD, a Brazilian optical technologies company, on developing components and systems for 100G, 200G, and 400G optical transmission over long-haul, metro, and data center interconnect distances. This includes polymer-based transmitters for 100G and 200G coherent modules, spectrally-sliced receivers to enable 400G transmission, and achieving transmission distances of over 1500km for 400G using these techniques.