“…Currently, utilisation of the 1310 nm wavelength domain is limited to the 100 Gbit/s Ethernet standard (wavelength multiplexed 4 × 25 Gbit/s transmission) [1], upstream channel in the passive optical network systems and a few coarse wavelength division multiplexing channels. The recent developments of the 1310 nm components and transmission techniques, for example, the hybrid silicon 67 GHz EAM, direct modulation of the distributed Bragg reflector laser at the bit rate of 50 Gbit/s, the distributed feedback (DFB) laser integrated with an EAM operating at 50 Gbit/s, the integrated electroabsorption modulator integrated with distributed feedback laser (EADFB) transmitter subassemblies with the bit rate of 4 × 40 Gbit/s, as well as available 100 GBase ER4 standard compliant electroabsorption modulated laser diodes (EML) chips [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11], create a solid component base for the extended utilisation of the 1310 nm wavelength domain.…”