Dvd Player 4 Pin Laser Diode Pinout

What pin does what.

Dvd player 4 pin laser diode pinout. See figure 7 for the area of the near infrared spectrum. I salvaged a laser diode from a broken dvd player. But the laser diode has 4 pins instead of the usual 3. I used the current 48 ma maximum is 50 ma.

Laser pointed out the window. Determining the laser diode pinout. I did so expecting to have just a normal 50 200mw 3 pin red diode. One of them has an arrow pointing out but none of the others have labels.

Toshiba hd dvd player model hd a2ku newport laser diode driver notes. However the most common laser diodes can be found in cd rom and cd players. Instead i have a 4 pin diode of unknown wavelength color and power. Hi i got a dvd player at an auction in fully working condition for 10.

Hd dvd player which was disassembled. So since i already had one i decided to remove the insides and extract the laser diode within. Stay tuned for the next video and feel free to ask questions i. 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. Took an old rewritable dvd drive and extracted the red laser diode to use in a future project. A range of small laser diodes is used in laser pointers and bar code scanners. 4 pin laser diode.

This is how the bare laser diodes look like 5 6mm.