Interband optical pulse injection locking of a quantum dot mode-locked semiconductor laser

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.

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