Many laser diode manufacturers supply application notes which suggest control circuits to drive their laser diodes. As an example, Figure 1 shows a typical discrete APC 1 laser diode driver solution ...

This circuit was designed to meet a medical application’s requirement to drive a laser diode with reasonable precision and a minimum of components and footprint (the device is now in clinical ...

Figure 1 This laser-diode-drive circuit provides a constant current and protection against input overvoltages and start-up transients.

See this diagram,I've been told the the proprietary drivers offer some extra protection from very short spikes (on power up and shutdown) in the current which laser diodes are very sensitive to ...

The “Thin Gate Driver” technology has been applied successfully by SiliconCore Technology on its full range of LDD devices and it has enabled the company to achieve over 50% world-wide market ...

[Les] from [Les’ Lab] has designed a driver for laser diodes up to 10 watts, and decided to show us how it operates, tells us what we should keep in mind when designing such a driver, and talks ...

The laser powered home theater projector is the first of a large family of audio and video media technology to feature direct blue diodes.