Abstract
Combined thermal and near field imaging monitors the catastrophic optical damage dynamics in diode lasers. Red emitting high power lasers display a very rapid and spatially confined catastrophic process with re absorption as the key mechanism of device degradation.
© 2008 Optical Society of America
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