Internal cooling in a semiconductor laser diode
- 7 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 14 (4) , 453-455
- https://doi.org/10.1109/68.992575
Abstract
A thermal model of a diode laser structure is developed which includes a bipolar thermoelectric term not included in previous models. It is shown that heterostructure band offsets can be chosen so that there are thermoelectric cooling sources near the active region; this method of cooling is internal to the device itself, as opposed to temperature stabilization schemes which employ an external cooler. A novel laser structure is proposed that is capable of internal cooling in the Ga/sub 1-x/In/sub x/As/sub y/Sb/sub 1-y/-GaSb material system with /spl lambda/ = 2.64 /spl mu/m.Keywords
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