Dvd Player 4 Pin Laser Diode Pinout

4 pin laser diode.

Dvd player 4 pin laser diode pinout.

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. What pin does what. 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. Stay tuned for the next video and feel free to ask questions i. Hd dvd player which was disassembled. Comparison with laser diode f laser 5mw with power 5mw from gme.

One of them has an arrow pointing out but none of the others have labels. So since i already had one i decided to remove the insides and extract the laser diode within. These types of laser diodes produce an invisible beam at or around a wavelength of 780nm which is in the near infrared spectrum. Toshiba hd dvd player model hd a2ku newport laser diode driver notes.

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. This is how the bare laser diodes look like 5 6mm. I used the current 48 ma maximum is 50 ma.

I did so expecting to have just a normal 50 200mw 3 pin red diode. Beam incident on the wall. I salvaged a laser diode from a broken dvd player. Laser pointed out the window.

However the most common laser diodes can be found in cd rom and cd players.