We have developed a new technique for monitoring the facet heating in semiconductor lasers and for correlating these measurements with the performance and reliability of the device. The method is based on thermoreflectance, which is a modulation technique relying on periodic facet temperature modulation induced by pulsed current supply of the laser. The periodic temperature change of the laser induces variation of the refractive index and consequently modulates the probe beam reflectivity. The technique has a spatial resolution of about 1 m and temperature resolution better than 1 K, and can be used for temperature mapping over a 300 m × 300 m area. It can be applied to any kind of edge emitting lasers or laser bars. The technique is crucial for understanding the thermal behavior of a device.
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In the high power semiconductor lasers, the surface of the mirror is the key element of the construction, which has the main impact on the reliability and degradation processes. In the case of lasers fabricated with the use of GaAs compounds the highest power emitted by the structure is limited by the catastrophic optical damage (COD) effect due to increase of temperature on the air-semiconductor edge. The technique which enables examining the temperature distribution on the mirror surface is thermoreflectance. In this paper, we present the technique of temperature mapping on the mirror surface of the high power semiconductor lasers based on the thermoreflectance method.
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In this paper we describe a number of optical techniques suitable for estimation of the semiconductor surface temperature. High spatially resolved thermoreflectance will be shown as a powerful tool to measure temperature distribution at the laser diode front facet. For determination of the absolute value of the front facet temperature we use micro-Raman spectroscopy. Both techniques will be presented as a complementary ways to determine surface temperature distribution on the working laser diode.
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Spatially resolved micro-Raman measurements have been performed to determine temperature distribution over the facet of high power semiconductor diode lasers. This technique is non-invasive and allows one to study the local temperature on the surface of the mirror of semiconductor diode lasers under normal operating conditions. The micro-Raman measurements can also serve as a calibration of absolute temperature for the other contact-less thermometric methods, e.g., thermoreflectance.
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