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Hindawi Publishing Corporation ISRN ermodynamics Volume 2013, Article ID 424705, 6 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/424705 Research Article Wavelength Width Dependence of Cavity Temperature Distribution in Semiconductor Diode Laser S. P. Abbasi and A. Alimorady Iranian National Center for Laser Science and Technology, No. 71-20th North Kargar, P.O. Box 33665-576, Tehran, Iran Correspondence should be addressed to A. Alimorady; [email protected] Received 4 July 2013; Accepted 28 August 2013 Academic Editors: J. K. Brennan and D. E. Khoshtariya Copyright © 2013 S. P. Abbasi and A. Alimorady. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. e study of heat distribution in laser diode shows that there is nonuniform temperature distribution in cavity length of laser diode. In this paper, we investigate the temperature difference in laser diode cavity length and its effect on laser bar output wavelength width that mounted on usual CS model. In this survey at the first, laser was simulated then the simulations result was compared with experimental test result. e result shows that for each emitter there is difference, about 2.5 degree between the beginning and end of cavity. 1. Introduction High-power infrared diode laser arrays are effective sources for pumping solid-state lasers [13]. ese laser arrays are composed of one or more laser bars; each laser bar consists of numerous individual laser emitters formed on a single piece of semiconductor [4, 5]. Various characteristics like quantum efficiency, output power, and their dependence on cavity length and composition have been discussed. ere are a number of factors that limit the output power and reliability of diode lasers, for example, catastrophic optical damage and overheating. Cavity length increase was used for increasing output power [4]. In this paper at first four laser diode heat sources were considered and this distribution in the cavity was studied and was simulated. en the temperature distribution was simulated in the single emitter in the laser diode bar that packaged on the CS mount model and then measured the temperature difference in laser diode points in cavity length. Temperature distribution effect on the wavelength width and the wavelength peak shiſt and other hand simulation results were compared with experimental results. 2. Laser Diode Structure and Simulation Our simulation is based on GaAs, 20 W, CW modes, 808 m CS laser diode. e laser diode has 19 emitters with 100 m width stripe and 20% fill factor that was produced in INLC (Figure 1). e laser operation specification is listed in Table 1. e mounting of laser bar on the package and the heat removing direction was shown in Figure 2 and layer structure specification is listed in Table 2 and its arrangement was shown in Figure 3. e bar dimensions, thickness, bar width (cavity length), bar length, are 117, 1000, and 9800 m, respectively. Laser diode thermal structure simulated in COMSOL 3.5 Multiphysics soſtware. Geometric symmetry in laser bar can help for simplifying the geometry and then single emitter was simulated. e 150313 triangular meshes were used in this simulation for laser diode, Indium paste, and Cu heat sink body (Figure 4). e laser was simulated in the temperature condition 27 C, current operation 25 A, and optical output power 20 W. e heat value that must be removed from laser bar equals 24.5 W. 3. Thermal Model Temperature 3D profiles are found in the laser structure using the thermal conduction equation: div { [ (, , ) , , , ] ⋅ grad [ (, , )]} = − [ (, , ) , , , ] , (1)

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Hindawi Publishing CorporationISRNThermodynamicsVolume 2013, Article ID 424705, 6 pageshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/424705

Research ArticleWavelength Width Dependence of Cavity TemperatureDistribution in Semiconductor Diode Laser

S. P. Abbasi and A. Alimorady

Iranian National Center for Laser Science and Technology, No. 71-20th North Kargar, P.O. Box 33665-576, Tehran, Iran

Correspondence should be addressed to A. Alimorady; [email protected]

Received 4 July 2013; Accepted 28 August 2013

Academic Editors: J. K. Brennan and D. E. Khoshtariya

Copyright © 2013 S. P. Abbasi and A. Alimorady. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative CommonsAttribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work isproperly cited.

The study of heat distribution in laser diode shows that there is nonuniform temperature distribution in cavity length of laser diode.In this paper, we investigate the temperature difference in laser diode cavity length and its effect on laser bar output wavelengthwidth that mounted on usual CS model. In this survey at the first, laser was simulated then the simulations result was comparedwith experimental test result.The result shows that for each emitter there is difference, about 2.5 degree between the beginning andend of cavity.

1. Introduction

High-power infrared diode laser arrays are effective sourcesfor pumping solid-state lasers [1–3]. These laser arrays arecomposed of one or more laser bars; each laser bar consistsof numerous individual laser emitters formed on a singlepiece of semiconductor [4, 5]. Various characteristics likequantum efficiency, output power, and their dependence oncavity length and composition have been discussed.There area number of factors that limit the output power and reliabilityof diode lasers, for example, catastrophic optical damage andoverheating. Cavity length increase was used for increasingoutput power [4].

In this paper at first four laser diode heat sources wereconsidered and this distribution in the cavity was studiedand was simulated. Then the temperature distribution wassimulated in the single emitter in the laser diode bar thatpackaged on the CS mount model and then measured thetemperature difference in laser diode points in cavity length.Temperature distribution effect on the wavelength width andthe wavelength peak shift and other hand simulation resultswere compared with experimental results.

2. Laser Diode Structure and Simulation

Our simulation is based on GaAs, 20W, CWmodes, 808 𝜇mCS laser diode. The laser diode has 19 emitters with 100 𝜇m

width stripe and 20% fill factor that was produced in INLC(Figure 1).The laser operation specification is listed inTable 1.

The mounting of laser bar on the package and theheat removing direction was shown in Figure 2 and layerstructure specification is listed in Table 2 and its arrangementwas shown in Figure 3. The bar dimensions, thickness, barwidth (cavity length), bar length, are 117, 1000, and 9800 𝜇m,respectively.

Laser diode thermal structure simulated in COMSOL 3.5Multiphysics software. Geometric symmetry in laser bar canhelp for simplifying the geometry and then single emitter wassimulated. The 150313 triangular meshes were used in thissimulation for laser diode, Indium paste, and Cu heat sinkbody (Figure 4).

The laser was simulated in the temperature condition27∘C, current operation 25A, and optical output power 20W.The heat value that must be removed from laser bar equals24.5W.

3. Thermal Model

Temperature 3D profiles are found in the laser structure usingthe thermal conduction equation:

div {𝑘 [𝑇 (𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧) , 𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧] ⋅ grad [𝑇 (𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧)]}

= −𝑔𝑇[𝑇 (𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧) , 𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧] ,

(1)

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100𝜇m

500𝜇m

Figure 1: Schematic of laser bar, bar stripe geometry dimension, andCS model packaging laser diode.

Table 1: Laser operation Characteristics.

Parameters Value Unit1 Output power 20 W2 Threshold current 0.25 A3 Operation current 25 A4 Operation voltage 1.8 V5 Serial resistance 0.007 Ω

6 Wave length peak 808 ± 3 nm

where the temperature- and position-dependent thermalconductivity 𝑘, 𝑔

𝑇stand for the 3D distribution of heat

generation (in Wm−3). Heat sink is the copper (5 × 5mm2)radiator that is properly taken into account assuming itsmuch larger dimensions than those of the laser chip, so itsexternal walls are assumed to remain at room temperatureof the ambient. Top and sidewalls of the laser crystal areassumed to be thermally isolated because of negligible effectof thermal radiation and thermal diffusion of air particles [1].

In this simulation four heat sources were considered:

(1) nonradiative recombination,

(2) reabsorption of radiation,

(3) Joule heating,

(4) mirror absorption.

The produced heat of mirrors absorption is very smaller thanthe other heat sources but its effect was observed in theresults.

The reflectivity of back mirror is 96–98% and for frontmirror 7–10%was considered. Nonradiative recombination isproportional to the 1−𝜂

𝑖that 𝜂𝑖is internal quantum efficiency

and relates the waveguidematerial and doping level (carriers)[4–7]. Reabsorption of radiation occurs in resonator and thisprocess is spatially homogeneous. Diode lasers Joule heatingdistribution depends on spreading of injection current [4].

Current spreading and the nonuniformity effect of theinjection have been studied and simulated in COMSOL 3.5Multiphysics software in steady state analysis. The electricalmodel is composed of the Laplace equation:

div {𝜎 (𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧) grad [𝑉 (𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧)]} = 0. (2)

Injection currentCS heat sink

bodyLaser bar

Heat removed from CS body to Peltier

Output beam

Figure 2: Bar packaging position on CS heat sink and heat removedpath from the bar to TEC.

123

4

5678

9

10

11

Figure 3: Laser bar structure and epitaxial layer arrangement.

X

Z

Y

0

10

20

30

0

10

Figure 4: Laser diode and heat sink meshing in COMSOL software.

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Table 2: Laser bar structure layers specification.

Number Layers Function Thickness (A) Doping (cm−3)1 P contact Au/Ti/Pt Contact 3000 —2 SiO2 Dielectric 1300 —3 p-GaAs Contacting 2500 (3–15) × 1018

4 p-Al0.15Ga0.35In0.5P Cladding 12000 2 × 1018

5 Ga0.17In0.83P SCH 4500 5 × 1017

6 GaAs0.81P0.19 QW 1607 Ga0.17In0.83P SCH 4500 5 × 1017

8 n-Al0.15Ga0.35In0.5P Cladding 12000 2 × 1018

9 n-GaInP Buffer 4000 2 × 1018

10 n-GaAs Substrate 110000 2.2 × 1018

11 N contact Au/Ge/Ni Contact 4000 —

Table 3: Thermal conductivity, electrical resistivity, and electron mobility of material (300K).

Metals and oxide materials Thermal conductivity (W/mK) Electrical resistivity (Ωcm)Cu 398 1.7 × 10−6

In 87 8.4 × 10−6

SiO2 1.38 1018

Au 318 2.27 × 10−6

Pt 73 108 × 10−6

Ti 22 39 × 10−6

Ni 92 7.2 × 10−6

GeAu 150 6.5 × 10−3

Semiconductor materials Thermal conductivity (W/mK) Mobility (cm2 V−1 s−1)GaAs 44 8500Al0.15Ga0.35In0.5P 114 2700Ga0.17In0.83P 73 5500GaAs0.81P0.19 61 7850

And the diffusion equation within the active region

𝐷 (𝑇)𝑑2

𝑛𝐴

(𝑦)

𝑑𝑦2− [𝐴𝑛

𝐴(𝑦) + 𝐵 (𝑛

𝐴, 𝑇) 𝑛2

𝐴

(𝑦) + 𝐶𝑛3

𝐴

(𝑦)]

+𝑗pn (𝑦)

𝑒𝑑𝐴

= 0.

(3)

In the above equations, 𝜎 stands for the 3D electrical con-ductivity profile, 𝑉 is the 3D potential distribution, 𝐷 isthe temperature-dependent ambipolar diffusion constant, 𝑛

𝐴

is the active-region carrier-concentration distribution, 𝐴,𝐵, and 𝐶 are the monomolecular, the bimolecular (mostlyradiative), and the Auger, respectively, recombination coef-ficients, 𝑗pn(𝑦) stands for the p-n junction current-densitydistribution, 𝑒 is the electron charge, and 𝑑

𝐴is the cumulative

active-region thickness. The Laplace equation, instead ofthe Poisson one, is used because noncompensated electriccharges are confined only to the active-region area, which istreated separately [4]. Current-density profiles are calculatedfrom the potential distribution using the Ohm’s law:

𝑗 (𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧) = 𝜎 (𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧) grad [𝑉 (𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧)] . (4)

The room temperature electrical resistivity of material andlayer that was used in simulation was listed in Table 3[1, 8, 9].

Results show that increasing the current density cannotchange the Joule heating distribution in the laser diode andthe main part of Joule heating is related to stripe position andonly less than 6% in outside of stripe part. Figure 5 shows thecurrent spread in laser diode in a different current.

For simulating the Joule heating, COMSOL 3.5 Mul-tiphysic software was used in steady state analysis in theelectrothermal interaction.

For ternary GaInP and GaAsP compounds and thequaternary AlGaInP at the values of the room temperature,thermal conductivities are found in [4, 8] and their relativetemperature dependencies are giving finally in (Wm−1K−1):

𝑘In𝑥Ga1−𝑥

P =100

1.30 + 20.07𝑥 − 19.9𝑥2,

𝑘GaAs𝑥P1−𝑥

=100

1.30 + 22.57𝑥 − 21.6𝑥2,

𝑘Al𝑥Ga𝑦In1−𝑥−𝑦

P = 147 − 57𝑥 − 70𝑦.

(5)

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450100 150 200 250 300 350 40050 5000

1.8

1.6

1.4

1.2

1.0

0.8

0.6

0.4

0

0.2

11.1

1.21.3

Arc-length (𝜇m)

Current density (kA/cm2)

Elec

tric

al p

oten

tial (

V)

Figure 5: The current spread in laser diode in different currents.Stripe width and chip width are 100𝜇m and 500 𝜇m, respectively.

The values of the room temperature thermal conductivi-ties relative temperature dependencies are giving finally in(Wm−1K−1):

𝑘GaAs = 44(𝑇

300)

−1.25

,

𝑘GaP = 77(𝑇

300)

−1.36

,

𝑘InP =100

[1.47 + (𝑡 − 300) /111].

(6)

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there are no publishedmeasurements of thermal conductivities relative temperaturedependencies in Quaternary AlGaInP compounds. Effectivethermal conductivity of a two-layer contact is calculatedusing the relation

𝑘𝐴𝐵

=𝑘𝐴𝑘𝐵(𝑑𝐴

+ 𝑑𝐵)

𝑑𝐴𝑘𝐵

+ 𝑑𝐵𝑘𝐴

, (7)

where 𝑘𝐴, 𝑘𝐵and 𝑑

𝐴, 𝑑𝐵are the thermal conductivities and

the thicknesses, respectively, of both 𝐴 and 𝐵 layers. For athree-layer contact, this approach should be repeated [2].Thevalues of thermal conductivities of contactmaterials thatwereused were shown in Table 3.

Thermal conductivity of material at room temperatureused in simulation was listed in Table 3. This conductivitycalculated from the related equations [1].

4. Simulation Results

Figure 6 shows the temperature profile of emitter and heatsink. Figure 6 shows the top view temperature profile of thechip and the temperature difference of regions in the cavitylength. There is a temperature difference between 2 regionsalong the cavity near the front and back mirrors. The reason

X

Z

Y

Max: 316.15

Min: 300300

302

304

306

308

310

312

314

316

318

Figure 6: Temperature profile.

316.5

316

315.5

315

314.5

314

313.50 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.1

Cavity length (mm)

313.6

313.9

313.8

313.7

313.5

316.15

316.10

316.05

316.000.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.95 0.96 0.97 0.98 0.99 1.00

Tem

pera

ture

(∘K)

I = 25A, P = 20W

Figure 7: The temperature difference in cavity length and mirroreffect.

of this difference is for nonsymmetric position on the heatsink in the straight line of cavity (Figure 2).

The temperature differencemeasuring in the cavity lengthwas shown in Figure 7.

There are nonlinear differences near mirrors because ofmirror absorption and on other hand the mirror materialAl2O3thermal conduction that is less than cavity material

GaAs thermal conduction.The temperature difference in cavity length in different

operation currents was shown in Figure 8. The result shows

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0 400 600 800 1000306.5

307.5

200

308.5

309.5

310.5

316.5

312.5

313.5

314.5

315.5

311.5

Distance (𝜇m)25 A21 A 14 A

17 A

Tem

pera

ture

(∘K)

Figure 8: The temperature difference in cavity length in differentoperation currents.

12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26

0.5

1

1.5

2

0

2.5

3 1

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.6

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.5

Wav

eleng

th w

idth

FW

HM

(nm

)

Tem

pera

ture

diff

eren

ce (∘

C)

Operation current (A)

Figure 9: The wavelength width increasing in different operationcurrents affected by temperature difference in cavity length.

the linear increase in this difference with increase of theoperation current (Figure 8).

Simulation results for temperature difference in the cavityand the wavelength width variation for this temperaturedifference was shown in Figure 9. The wavelength shift valuein single the cavity in simulation is 0.28𝜇m/∘C that hasagreement with experimental results which show that thisvalue is 0.26 𝜇m/∘C.

5. Experimental Results

The experiment was arranged according to Figure 10 and thepeak wavelength shift and wavelength width were measured

Power WavePower meterspectrometer

Detector

Integrated sphere

Laser beam

Fiber connection

Laser diode(CS model)

Controller(laser current controller, Peltier current controller,

temperature sensors)

Figure 10: Experimental arrangement.

20000

40000

60000

80000

100000

120000

140000

160000

180000

200000

780 790 800 810 820Wavelength (nm)

Inte

nsity

Current = 14A (PWL = 805.2nm)Current = 17A (PWL = 806.2nm)Current = 21A (PWL = 807.4nm)Current = 25A (PWL = 808.8 nm)

Figure 11:The experimental spectra in different operation currents.

in laser diode in different operation currents. The suitableaccurate drivers and sensors control the laser current forstable power and TEC (Peltier) current for heat removing.

The spectral result was shown in Figure 11. There aredifferences in spectral wavelength width that was shown inFigure 12. The peak wavelength shift value is 0.26𝜇m/∘C.

6. Result and Conclusion

Laser diode peak wavelength was shifted by temperatureincrease.Our survey about the heat distribution in laser diodeshows that there is nonuniform temperature distributionin cavity length of laser diode. This temperature differenceincreases the spectral wavelength width.

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12 14 1 6 1 8 20 2 2 24 26

2.2

2.4

2.6

2.8

2Wav

eleng

th w

idth

FW

HM

(nm

)

Operation current (A)

Figure 12: The experimental wavelength width increasing in differ-ent operation currents.

In this investigation the laser diode CS model was sim-ulated. The result shows that there is 2.5∘C difference alongcavity length. This difference was increased by increasingoperation current. For example, when the operation currentwas increased from 14A to 25A the temperature differencealong cavity length was increased from 1∘C to 2.7∘C; thisprocess increases the wavelength width from 2.2𝜇m to2.7 𝜇m.This result was confirmed with experimental results.

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