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From: prk@charm.UUCP (Paul Kolodner)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: 100-Watt laser diodes for the ultimate in reproduction
Message-ID: <680@charm.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Jun-85 00:51:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: charm.680
Posted: Sat Jun  8 00:51:21 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Jun-85 02:26:36 EDT
Organization: Physics Research @ AT&T Bell Labs Murray Hill NJ
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>Well yes, laser diodes do crap out eventually.  But the cost problem here,
>if there really is one, is probably in the nature of what the CD equipment
>makers force you to buy if you get replacement parts from them.  Laser
>diodes per se, from the original sources (e.g., RCA) are not particularly
>expensive until you get up into the 100-watt range.  Of course, the next
>problem may be that RCA doesn't have one with the same dimensions as the
>Quasimoto Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. model that's in your player,
>and that's probably no accident.

Please send information about 100-W laser diodes soon!!
I want to invest in this product before it hits the market!