RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Thermal and mechanical issues of high-power laser diode degradation A1 Souto Bartolomé, Jorge Manuel A1 Pura Ruiz, José Luis A1 Jiménez López, Juan Ignacio AB A computational model for the evaluation of the thermomechanical effects that give rise to the catastrophic optical damage of laser diodes has been devised. The model traces the progressive deterioration of the device running in continuous wave conditions. The local heating of the active layer locally leads to the onset of the plastic regime. As a result, dislocations and threads of dislocations grow across the active layers and lead to rapidly growing temperatures in the quantum well. The poor power dissipation under these conditions has been identified as the key factor driving the final degradation of the laser PB Cambridge University Press YR 2018 FD 2018 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/31334 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/31334 LA eng NO MRS Communications, 2018, Volume 8, Issue 3, pp. 995-999 DS UVaDOC RD 25-abr-2024