Raman micro-probe studies of diode laser facet temperatures in CW operation show a significant linear temperature rise below the laser threshold and a rapid nonlinear heating above the threshold. Dynamical measurements using current injection pulses show fast heating of the laser facet with a sub-microsecond risetime and much slower cooling within several micro-seconds.
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Krantz et al. (1990) studied this question.