TY - JOUR AU - Souto Bartolomé, Jorge Manuel AU - Pura Ruiz, José Luis AU - Jiménez López, Juan Ignacio PY - 2017 SN - 0022-3727 UR - http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/25374 AB - In this work we study the catastrophic optical damage (COD) of graded-index separate confinement heterostructure quantum well (QW) laser diodes based on AlGaAs/GaAs. The emphasis is placed on the impact that the nanoscale physical properties have on... LA - eng PB - Institute of Physics Publishing KW - high power laser diode, catastrophic optical damage, thermal conductivity, mechanical strengthening, nanoscale effects, finite element methods TI - Nanoscale effects on the thermal and mechanical properties of AlGaAs/GaAs quantum well laser diodes: influence on the catastrophic optical damage DO - https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aa6fbd ER -