TY - JOUR AU - Souto Bartolomé, Jorge Manuel AU - Pura Ruiz, José Luis AU - Rodríguez, M. AU - Anaya, Julián AU - Torres, Alfredo AU - Jiménez López, Juan Ignacio PY - 2015 SN - 0277-786X UR - http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/21786 AB - The catastrophic optical damage (COD) of laser diodes consists of the sudden drop off of the optical power. COD is generally associated with a thermal runaway mechanism in which the active zone of the laser is molten in a positive feedback process.... LA - eng PB - Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) KW - Laser diodes, TI - Mechanisms driving the catastrophic optical damage in high power laser diodes DO - 10.1117/12.2079464 ER -