Passive mode locking of a semiconductor diode laser.
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.
Silberberg
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Smith
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Eilenberger
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Miller
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Gossard
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Wiegmann
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