Photothermal approach to local heating imaging: application to laser degradation

R. Cherrak; Vincent Loriette; Benoit Claude Forget; Jean Paul Roger; D. Fournier; Albert Claude Boccara

doi:10.1117/12.307026

20 April 1998 Photothermal approach to local heating imaging: application to laser degradation

R. Cherrak, Vincent Loriette, Benoit Claude Forget, Jean Paul Roger, D. Fournier, Albert Claude Boccara

Proceedings Volume 3244, Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials: 1997; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.307026
Event: Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials: 1997, 1997, Boulder, CO, United States

Abstract

We use various probes to measure local temperature induced by internal or external heating of active or passive devices: Mirage detection can reveal heating of few ppb of the input power, whereas photothermal microscopy provides sub-micron spatial resolution. Temperature distribution is measured through periodic deflection or reflectivity mapping at frequencies high enough to confine heating near the source. Scanning InGaAsP/InP lasers facets, shows the weak influence of nonradiative recombination, in agreement with the high output power of these lasers before degradation. On strained-layer InGaAs quantum well lasers we obtained a drastic temperature rise, that we explain through simple model based on line heating for the laser cavity and point heating located at the facet. On a damaged laser the result, demonstrate clearly the existence of heating zones far from the facet along the laser cavity.

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R. Cherrak, Vincent Loriette, Benoit Claude Forget, Jean Paul Roger, D. Fournier, and Albert Claude Boccara "Photothermal approach to local heating imaging: application to laser degradation", Proc. SPIE 3244, Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials: 1997, (20 April 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.307026

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