Applications of electroabsorption modulators in high bit-rate extended reach transmission systems

We report the demonstration of 1310 nm and 1550 nm electroabsorption modulators as high output power, low dispersion penalty transmitters in unrepeatered, uncompensated 80-104 km 10 Gbit/s and 2.4-40 km 40 Gbit/s SMF-28 fibre links.