The resistor and 10 uF capacitor are already forming a low-pass filter, which should prevent any spikes in either current/voltage. I don't know much about laser diodes though, so I am not sure what ...

[Les] from [Les’ Lab] has designed a driver for laser diodes up to 10 watts, and decided to show us how it operates, tells us what we should keep in mind when designing such a driver, and talks about ...

LASER COMPONENTS has established long term supply partnerships with several of the world’s leading laser diode and laser diode driver suppliers. We work closely with our partners to offer a ...

PLD Series components are available in plug-n-play PCB or compact chassis mount packages. They offer excellent stability and safety features for maximum diode protection. The PLD Series Laser Diode ...

Laser diodes are enjoying ever greater popularity in sensor engineering and measurement technology thanks to their high optical output power. One of the advantages of this is that a wide optical range ...

If there’s one lesson to be learned from [Aled Cuda]’s pulsed laser driver, it’s that you can treat the current limits on electronic components as a suggestion if the current duration is measured in ...

The increase in laser-diode sales has had a knock-on effect on activity in the diode-driver market. Neil Savage gives an update of the latest products on offer. Trends in laser-diode drivers, ...

Recently re-engineered to integrate with higher temperature, RoHS-compliant manufacturing processes, the low-noise FL500 laser-diode driver is now compatible with reflow processing at less than +250°C ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- June 14, 2010--Ensphere Solutions, an emerging leader in advanced communications semiconductor ICs, today announced the availability of two new 10G laser diode driver arrays ...

The HPL-2400 is a water-cooled, very low inductive high power load, capable of dissipating up to 2400 Watts. Fault detection is possible using a six pin connector, with normally open and normally ...

Intersil announced the ISL78365 laser diode driver for automotive heads-up display (HUD) systems. The highly integrated device pulses four high intensity lasers up to 750mA for projecting full-HD ...

The basis of a solid-state diode laser is, of course, the diode. Laser diodes can have different emission wavelength—most of them have between 405 nm to 808 nm. The diodes usually have TO3, TO5, TO9, ...