The spectral behavior of a laser diode during its modulation was investigated in order to find the correlation between the spectral properties of a light source and the appearance of an interferogram resulting from its radiation. The expected fringe visibility curves for a laser diode working in a stable as well as in 'mode hopping' regions are given. The experimentally obtained interference patterns which visualize such effects as wavelength shift and coherence collapse are also presented.
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