title: Passive mode locking of a semiconductor diode laser.
abstract: By using a GaAs/GaAIAs multiple-quantum-well sample as a saturable absorber in an external resonator, we have passively mode locked a GaAs laser to obtain pulses as short as 1.6 psec, the shortest pulses ever observed to our knowledge from a mode-locked diode laser in a regulator pulse train.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Silberberg
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Eilenberger
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Gossard
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wiegmann