Photos of Assorted Diode Lasers

• Laser Diodes (Gallery)

  (The following photo provided courtesy of: Dave (Ws407c@aol.com).)

  • View 01 - Closeup of laser diode with cover removed.

• Laser Pointer Diode Lasers (Gallery)

  If you are really interested in the much more complex green laser pointers, go to the Dissection of Green Laser Pointer Gallery wing and check out the very detailed photos there.

  Typical Red Laser Pointer is a diagram of a unit containing a module similar to those below.

  (The following 3 photos and description provided courtesy of: Curt Graber (cgraber@fwi.com).)

  • View 01 - Guts of laser pointer/diode laser modules, top view.
  • View 02 - Bottom view.
  • View 03 - Front view.

• Laser Diode Driver (Gallery)

  (The following photo provided courtesy of: Musser and Associates, Inc.)

  • View 01 - Light Control Instruments, Inc. model 502 laser diode driver system. This is the sort of thing you might use to drive a $10,000 high power laser diode array or bar, not a $2 CD player laser diode - though it probably would work for that!

Laser Diodes

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Laser Pointer Diode Lasers

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Laser Diode Driver

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