2014, Pimenov, Alexander, Rachinskii, Dmitrii, Habruseva, Tatiana, Hegarty, Stephen P., Guillaume, Huyet, Vladimirov, Andrei G.

We study the effect of noise on the dynamics of passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers both experimentally and theoretically. A method combining analytical and numerical approaches for estimation of pulse timing jitter is proposed. We investigate how the presence of dynamical features such as wavelength bistability affects timing jitter.