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Temperature Control: No Trivial Element of Design

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Thermal design has limited further technological advances, but with new design tools and materials development in process, choices will emerge in the next few years.

Mary Knighton, Wavelength Electronics Inc.

Applications requiring temperature control can be divided into two camps: precision temperature control, where holding a fixed temperature is critical, and brute-force heat extraction, where the concern is ensuring that the temperature of a device does not exceed its damage threshold. Examples of the first type include tuning and stabilizing laser diode wavelengths, increasing the lifetime and speed of passive telecommunications devices, calibrating and stabilizing detectors, and tuning frequency-doubling optics, for which stability to 0.001 °C is needed. High-power laser systems for...Read full article

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    Published: June 2005
    CommunicationsFeaturesindustriallaser diode wavelengthsprecision temperature controlSensors & Detectorstemperature control

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