Calorimetric measurement of absorption loss in orientation-patterned GaP and GaAs

Yelena Isyanova; Peter F. Moulton; Peter G. Schunemann

doi:10.1117/12.2081225

24 March 2015 Calorimetric measurement of absorption loss in orientation-patterned GaP and GaAs

Yelena Isyanova, Peter F. Moulton, Peter G. Schunemann

Proceedings Volume 9347, Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials, Devices, and Applications XIV; 93471B (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081225
Event: SPIE LASE, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Materials grown by vapor phase techniques such as chemical vapor deposition or hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) often exhibit very low losses which are difficult to quantify by simple transmission measurements. The measurement of extremely low absorption coefficients can be carried out by laser calorimetric or thermal rise techniques, which determine the absorption coefficients by measuring the temperature increase caused by the absorbed laser radiation. We report here on results of measuring absorption coefficients of bulk HVPE-grown orientation-patterned GaAs (OP-GaAs) and GaP (OP-GaP) crystals using one of the methods of laser calorimetry, called transient calorimetry. In our setup, the sample under test is attached to a high-conductivity copper holder and placed in a vacuum chamber. A 2-micron cw laser beam is transmitted through the sample and the temperature rise in the sample is measured and, through the calorimeter calibration process, related to the power absorbed in the sample. The absorbed power, P_a, is a function of the total attenuation coefficient α_tot , the length of the sample, and the laser power P_o, defined as P_a= P_o exp (-α_tot l), where total attenuation α_tot is the sum of absorption and scattering: α_tot = α_abs + α_scat. Since scattered light does not cause heating, the calorimetric technique is only applicable to determining αabs. By this technique we have measured 2-micron absorption coefficients in OP-GaAs and OP-GaP as low as 0.007 cm^-1.

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Yelena Isyanova, Peter F. Moulton, and Peter G. Schunemann "Calorimetric measurement of absorption loss in orientation-patterned GaP and GaAs", Proc. SPIE 9347, Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials, Devices, and Applications XIV, 93471B (24 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081225

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