Two 200mw red  aixiz in one housing

This can be done and will fit because of the shape of the diodes themselves but will require a little dremel work on the back of the diode housing and the emitters are side by side with hardly any gap... ready for a cheap 400mw+ red laser through a glass lens! This may not be a totally correct way to do it but hey 400mw focusable to burn oh yeah!

Re: Two 200mw red  aixiz in one housing

Damage during cutting, excess heat buildup, catastrophic optical damage, destructive interference, there are so many ways I can see this failing spectacularly, even without talking about focus/optics.

Let me assure you that if building a laser diode twice as powerful was as simple as sticking two dies beside each other in the case, lasers would be a lot cheaper.

Re: Two 200mw red  aixiz in one housing

zxn474l said:

This can be done and will fit because of the shape of the diodes themselves but will require a little dremel work on the back of the diode housing and the emitters are side by side with hardly any gap... ready for a cheap 400mw+ red laser  through a glass lens! This may not be a totally correct way to do it but hey 400mw focusable to burn oh yeah!

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Then do it and post the pix..

Re: Two 200mw red  aixiz in one housing

This is going to fail, do it the proper way and use a PBS !

Re: Two 200mw red  aixiz in one housing

It won't work that way AT ALL.  The way the diodes are designed and the way the optics are design will make two low-powered funky uncollimated blobs of light.  Do some more research, there was someone who posted in a few different threads the right way to do it using 50 diodes I think.  You can do it with 2. This is not a bad concept but it lacks hard planning and formula.  If you're going to do it, continue this thread with your progress.