F. Delorme et al., FAST TUNABLE 1.5-MU-M DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASER FOR OPTICAL SWITCHING APPLICATIONS, Electronics Letters, 29(1), 1993, pp. 41-43
Rise and fall times of 500 ps were measured during the transient of a
DBR laser between two successive modes. These values are independent o
f the two successive wavelengths chosen among the accessible channels
of the whole tuning range, but increase up to 2.5 ns for a hop between
six modes.