Dvd Player 4 Pin Laser Diode Pinout

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Dvd player 4 pin laser diode pinout.

So since i already had one i decided to remove the insides and extract the laser diode within. Laser pointed out the window. Took an old rewritable dvd drive and extracted the red laser diode to use in a future project. It can be seen that 5mw laser beam is even weaker than the side beams of dvd rw laser.

Stay tuned for the next video and feel free to ask questions i. This is how the bare laser diodes look like 5 6mm. A range of small laser diodes is used in laser pointers and bar code scanners. However the most common laser diodes can be found in cd rom and cd players.

Hi i got a dvd player at an auction in fully working condition for 10. 4 pin laser diode. Instead i have a 4 pin diode of unknown wavelength color and power. How to extract laser diodes from dvd burner housings and put it into an aixiz housing duration.

Comparison with laser diode f laser 5mw with power 5mw from gme. What pin does what. These types of laser diodes produce an invisible beam at or around a wavelength of 780nm which is in the near infrared spectrum. One of them has an arrow pointing out but none of the others have labels.

Determining the laser diode pinout. I used the current 48 ma maximum is 50 ma. Hd dvd player which was disassembled. Toshiba hd dvd player model hd a2ku newport laser diode driver notes.

I salvaged a laser diode from a broken dvd player.