Abstract

In recent years some attention has been paid to the theoretical and experimental analysis of the time jitter in pulse modulated semiconductor lasers. The time jitter, which is defined as the standard deviation of the stochastic delay between the emission of the optical pulses and the electrical exciting pulses, assumes a certain relevance in high bit rate systems and can represent a limiting factor for the attainment of the highest bit rates.¹ Until now it has been mainly characterized, both experimentally and theoretically, studying the response of the laser to an excitation constituted by a series of current steps more widely spaced than any characteristic time constant of the laser system.^1,3

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