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Greetings,
Please note device has not been characterized under this condition and operation is not guaranteed.
If MOD+/- is kept floating, following things can happen:
1) Vod will be much higher. (2x)
2) All the bias/modulation current now flows through the driver
In the long term, the following may happen:
(1) Will likely cause the transistor in the driver stage to operate in non-ideal region, causing more jitter. But who cares
(2) Over a long period of time may cause EM(Electro Migration) issues in active termination. Depends on the margin.
Also note that power dissipated by the device (heating) will be higher now since there is no external component.
Regards,, Nasser