Title :
Interband optical pulse injection locking of a quantum dot mode-locked semiconductor laser
Author :
Kim, Jimyung ; Delfyett, Peter J.
Author_Institution :
CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate that the slave laser oscillating on the ground state (GS) or excited state (ES) transitions can be locked through the injection of optical pulses generated via the opposite transition bands, i.e. the ES or GS transition, respectively.
Keywords :
laser beams; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; oscillations; quantum dot lasers; excited state transitions; ground state transitions; interband optical pulse injection locking; opposite transition bands; optical pulse generation; quantum dot mode-locked semiconductor laser; slave laser oscillation; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser theory; Laser transitions; Master-slave; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Quantum dot lasers; Semiconductor lasers; (140.3520) Laser, injection-locked; (140.4050) Mode-locked laser; (140.5960) Semiconductor laser;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
