EXACT CORRELATION-FUNCTIONS FOR NON-MARKOVIAN LASER PHASE FLUCTUATIONS

A new model describing laser noise in terms of non-Markovian stochastic phase jumps has been recently introduced. In this letter an exact expression for the correlation function for the electric field is obtained. This expression, valid for all possible values of the parameters of the stochastic process, reduces to the previously reported approximations. A procedure is described for the inverse problem of determining the stochastic parameters from measured data for real lasers.