Habruseva, T.Arsenijević, DejanKleinert, M.Bimberg, DieterHuyet, G.Hegarty, S. P.2022-01-172022-01-172014-01-150003-6951https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/16146http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-14920This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 021112 (2014) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4861604.Competing approaches exist, which allow control of phase noise and frequency tuning in mode-locked lasers, but no judgement of pros and cons based on a comparative analysis was presented yet. Here, we compare results of hybrid mode-locking, hybrid mode-locking with optical injection seeding, and sideband optical injection seeding performed on the same quantum dot laser under identical bias conditions. We achieved the lowest integrated jitter of 121 fs and a record large radio-frequency (RF) tuning range of 342 MHz with sideband injection seeding of the passively mode-locked laser. The combination of hybrid mode-locking together with optical injection-locking resulted in 240 fs integrated jitter and a RF tuning range of 167 MHz. Using conventional hybrid mode-locking, the integrated jitter and the RF tuning range were 620 fs and 10 MHz, respectively.en530 Physikquantum dotssemiconductorsoptical fibersfrequency combstelecommunications engineeringsignal processingoptical propertieslasersradiofrequency spectroscopyDoppler effectArticle1077-3118