Dvd Player 4 Pin Laser Diode Pinout

This is how the bare laser diodes look like 5 6mm.

Dvd player 4 pin laser diode pinout.

A range of small laser diodes is used in laser pointers and bar code scanners. Determining the laser diode pinout. Stay tuned for the next video and feel free to ask questions i. Instead i have a 4 pin diode of unknown wavelength color and power.

Toshiba hd dvd player model hd a2ku newport laser diode driver notes. 4 pin laser diode. Took an old rewritable dvd drive and extracted the red laser diode to use in a future project. What pin does what.

Laser pointed out the window. I salvaged a laser diode from a broken dvd player. See figure 7 for the area of the near infrared spectrum. Hd dvd player which was disassembled.

How to extract laser diodes from dvd burner housings and put it into an aixiz housing duration. I did so expecting to have just a normal 50 200mw 3 pin red diode. Hi i got a dvd player at an auction in fully working condition for 10. But the laser diode has 4 pins instead of the usual 3.

These types of laser diodes produce an invisible beam at or around a wavelength of 780nm which is in the near infrared spectrum. It can be seen that 5mw laser beam is even weaker than the side beams of dvd rw laser. Comparison with laser diode f laser 5mw with power 5mw from gme. However the most common laser diodes can be found in cd rom and cd players.

I used the current 48 ma maximum is 50 ma.