Recent content by mcguyver32934

I just heard back from an engineer who snapped a photo of the SHARP 150mW 405nm laser diode. Top & bottom. It still may be the SHARP diode, but as the photos show of the $1100 laser diode, it has NO barcode on the rear. It looks like the specifications are similar. Maybe the 2d barcode was a...

sharpsma.com/Page.aspx/americas/en/part/GH04P21A2GE/ Sharp laser

Why don't we call / e-mail digikey / Avnet or whomever stockes the GH04P21A2GE laser diode and see if a tech or engineer could photograph the laser in the antistatis package. I assume like all good laser diodes, they are in a static shielded box, leads in antistatic foam. The problem here is...

You can speak to anyone or anything, whether you get a response requires a brain. An intelligent response requires a brainstem and some gray matter. I realize this is off topic, sorry. :D

This was very much the same back in the early 80's when RED laser diodes first came out. One the mass production begins and sales go flat, surplus diodes / systems will be available. Some mfg's still have reletively expensive 635nm laser diodes. Sony & Sanyo have always been expensive from the...

Right, but unless Toshiba's QC went doen the toilet, they did expect and bank on the fact that the HD-DVD would be accepted. I do not think they just tossed their name on a reader with B grade LD's in them.. My .02. They seem to lase very well. Nice far field pattern. THe pinouts seem to look...

Dave Et Al: I am very new to this forum. I have worked with laser diodes for about 15 years. I asked the group if they knew which diode was in the Toshiba HD-DVD sled. DO you have any idea who manufactures this laser diode? Sony has pinouts like these. I would like to be a part of this forum, I...

On these Toshiba HD-DVD drives with PHR-803T sled, has anyone figured out which diode is in it? Sony, Toshiba??

IS the 15mW still for sale? Will I be able to remove the laser diode?