Authors

J. Kim;P. J. Delfyett

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Express

Keywords

AMPLIFIERS; DYNAMICS; Optics

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate optical clock recovery from quantum dot mode-locked semiconductor lasers by interband optical pulse injection locking. The passively mode-locked slave laser oscillating on the ground state or the first excited state transition is locked through the injection of optical pulses generated via the opposite transition bands, i.e. the first excited state or the ground state transition from the hybridly mode-locked master laser, respectively. When an optical pulse train generated via the first excited state from the master laser is injected to the slave laser oscillating via ground state, the slave laser shows an asymmetric locking bandwidth around the nominal repetition rate of the slave laser. In the reverse injection case of, i.e. the ground state (master laser) to the first excited state (slave laser), the slave laser does not lock even though both lasers oscillate at the same cavity frequency. In this case, the slave laser only locks to higher injection rates as compared to its own nominal repetition rate, and also shows a large locking bandwidth of 6.7 MHz.

Journal Title

Optics Express

Volume

16

Issue/Number

15

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

11153

Last Page

11161

WOS Identifier

WOS:000258069100032

ISSN

1094-4087

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