Dvd Player 4 Pin Laser Diode Pinout

Comparison with laser diode f laser 5mw with power 5mw from gme.

Dvd player 4 pin laser diode pinout.

Determining the laser diode pinout. Took an old rewritable dvd drive and extracted the red laser diode to use in a future project. 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.

I did so expecting to have just a normal 50 200mw 3 pin red diode. However the most common laser diodes can be found in cd rom and cd players. How to extract laser diodes from dvd burner housings and put it into an aixiz housing duration. 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. Laser pointed out the window. 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.

A range of small laser diodes is used in laser pointers and bar code scanners. Stay tuned for the next video and feel free to ask questions i. This is how the bare laser diodes look like 5 6mm. I used the current 48 ma maximum is 50 ma.

Hi i got a dvd player at an auction in fully working condition for 10. See figure 7 for the area of the near infrared spectrum. But the laser diode has 4 pins instead of the usual 3. I salvaged a laser diode from a broken dvd player.

What pin does what.