Lightscribe... Burning laser?

[gunsimon]

I've been doing some reading lately (see: wikipedia) and have, after I raised thoughts over the matter, discovered lightscribe technology is a 780nm laser.

However, I do not know the power of this laser....

Does anyone know about harvesting lightscribe diodes/lasers as a functioning IR laser?

 

[Cyparagon]

Lightscribe is software based. The laser is no different than any other CD burner.