TY - JOUR AU - Souto Bartolomé, Jorge Manuel AU - Pura Ruiz, José Luis AU - Jiménez López, Juan Ignacio PY - 2016 SN - 1612-2011 UR - http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/21757 AB - It is usually assumed that the catastrophic optical damage of high power laser diodes is launched when a critical local temperature (Tc) is reached; temperatures ranging from 120ºC to 200ºC were experimentally reported. However, the physical meaning... LA - eng PB - IOP Publishing KW - Catastrophic optical damage TI - About the physical meaning of the critical temperature for catastrophic optical damage in high power quantum well laser diodes ER -