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.

Dvd player 4 pin laser diode pinout.

These types of laser diodes produce an invisible beam at or around a wavelength of 780nm which is in the near infrared spectrum. Stay tuned for the next video and feel free to ask questions i. Beam incident on the wall. A range of small laser diodes is used in laser pointers and bar code scanners.

It can be seen that 5mw laser beam is even weaker than the side beams of dvd rw laser. Hd dvd player which was disassembled. What pin does what. One of them has an arrow pointing out but none of the others have labels.

Took an old rewritable dvd drive and extracted the red laser diode to use in a future project. I did so expecting to have just a normal 50 200mw 3 pin red diode. I salvaged a laser diode from a broken dvd player. See figure 7 for the area of the near infrared spectrum.

How to extract laser diodes from dvd burner housings and put it into an aixiz housing duration. Determining the laser diode pinout. But the laser diode has 4 pins instead of the usual 3. However the most common laser diodes can be found in cd rom and cd players.

This is how the bare laser diodes look like 5 6mm. Hi i got a dvd player at an auction in fully working condition for 10. Comparison with laser diode f laser 5mw with power 5mw from gme. Toshiba hd dvd player model hd a2ku newport laser diode driver notes.

I used the current 48 ma maximum is 50 ma.