Optoelectronic Device Reliability
The following sections are included:
Basic Considerations
Material properties
AlGaAs and GaAs
InGaAsP and InGaAs
AlGaInP
GaAsP
AlGaInN
InGaN
Operating conditions and failure definitions
Light-emitting diodes
Laser diodes
Reliability of Light-Emitting Diodes
General characteristics
Mechanisms
Laser Diode Reliability
General characteristics
Dark-Line Defects
Catastrophic optical damage
Facet damage
Electrode damage
Reliability evaluation
VCSELs
Tunable and Frequency Stabilized Lasers
Tunable lasers
Frequency-stabilized lasers
Optical Detectors
Conventional detectors
Avalanche photodetectors
Summary
References