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It is shown that direct modulation of semiconductor lasers yielding optical pulses with an exponential shape corresponds to a nearly chirp-free operation. With such pulses the maximum transmission capacity at λ = 1.55 μm is about 55 Gbit/s √km for a nondispersion-shifted single-mode fibre.
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K. Petermann (1985) studied this question.
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