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Your thinking is absolutely correct, but I do want to use a blue source. Maybe I should look for a single mode blue diode as the beam quality will be higher... Thanks! That's something I will look in to. A single transistor! That's so simple that it might just work! All I would need...

I have my reasons... ;) I'll just say that I need powerful blue lasers and the 445's fit the bill. EDIT: I'll link this paper too! http://dspace.mit.edu/openaccess-disseminate/1721.1/59310

I am looking to test the limits of the diodes that I have. I intend to use them for data transmission so the faster the better. I guess I figured that 500 MHz would be more than enough so I just wanted to have enough room to work with.

Hey everyone! I have been doing some research for the past few weeks but have come up empty. I am looking to either build or buy a high speed (500 MHz) laser diode driver for a 445 nm laser diode. I have seen that using a bias tee is probably the easiest method, but I also want to take...