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From: tedk@ihuxv.ATT.COM (Kekatos)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: LASER diodes
Message-ID: <2547@ihuxv.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Mar 88 23:09:51 GMT
References: <5451@spool.cs.wisc.edu|
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In article <5451@spool.cs.wisc.edu| cad@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Owner of VLSI software) writes:
|Hey, optics gurus!
|
|How much current should be put through a laser diode from
|a compact disc player?
|
|200ma is my guess (a friend used about 1.2A and it slowly
|got dimmer).
|
|Thanks,
|Chris Schumann			chris@leyden.cs.wisc.edu
|(Mail to this address if possible)


I didn't think that the laser diodes were VISIBLE. Are you
sure that it is visible?? I think it is Infra-Red 






Ted G. Kekatos
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