A turn-on of a quantum dot semiconductor laser is analyzed in detail both theoretically and experimentally. We show that quantum dot lasers have a nonlinear damping rate which strongly affects laser turn-on dynamics due to the non-instantaneous capture of carriers to a dot. It results in nonvanishing turn-on delay even at very high pumping in good agreement with experiment.
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