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T1 Effect of thermal lensing and the micrometric degraded regions on the catastrophic optical damage process of high-power laser diodes
A1 Pura Ruiz, José Luis
A1 Souto Bartolomé, Jorge Manuel
A1 Jiménez López, Juan Ignacio
K1 Laser diodes
K1 Diodos láser
AB Catastrophic optical damage (COD) is one of the processes limiting the lifetime of high-power laser diodes. The understanding of this degradation phenomenon is critical to improve the laser power and lifetime for practical applications. In this Letter, we analyze the defect propagation inside the cavity of quantum well (QW) high-power laser diodes presenting COD. For this, we studied the effect of highly localized thermal gradients and degraded regions on the laser field distribution. Finite element method (FEM) simulations are compared to experimental cathodoluminescence (CL) measurements. The presence of micrometric hot spots inside the QW induces the thermal lensing of the laser field. The laser self-focusing inside the cavity eventually generates a new hot spot, and, in a repetitive way, a sequence of hot spots would be created. This would account for the propagation of the dark line defects (DLDs) that are characteristic of this degradation mode.
PB Optica Publishing Group
SN 1539-4794
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/49457
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/49457
LA eng
NO Optics Letters, 2020, vol. 45, n. 7. p. 1667-1670
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 18-nov-2024