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Nextreme squeezes Peltier cooler in TO-8 laser can

Steve Bush
Wednesday 20 January 2010 15:04

A laser diode cooled by a solid-state heat pump, all in a TO-8 can.

The HV14 thermoelectric cooler is made by North Carolina's Nextreme and at 85°C it can pump 1.7W of heat in a footprint of less than 3mm2.

A temperature differential up to 50°C can be created and as part of a demonstration a laser diode was cooled from 42°C to approximately 21°C "in milliseconds", claimed the firm, and the output level of the laser nearly doubled from 0.38mW to 0.74mW at a drive current of 100mA.

"An optical spectrum analyser measured a wavelength shift toward the blue spectrum of approximately 13.6nm," said Nextreme.

A test report and a video are available.

 

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