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^ What Charlie says...
I personally am not familiar with that diode. It can certainly be ruled out as a PHR IR/Red, (although it is likely to have IR and Red emitters.), diode and it doesn't look to me like it's a 5.6mm diode either, and if that's the case, will not fit into any module without custom fitting, and let's face it... This diode ain't worth the trouble of doing that.
It'll be difficult to heatsink because of this too, and mounting a lens, yada, yada, yada...
In short, not much you can do with this diode except do as Charlie suggests and practice your soldering and powering of laser diodes. It's never a waste of time doing these things as you're preparing for the time you have a, 'proper', LD. If you can get hold of any other free drives, (try your local PC repair shop, I've found them to be itching to rid themselves of ROHS compliant specialist hazardous waste!), then keep opening them up and you're likely to find the right shape diode eventually. You're looking for a diode that looks like the pic below. They are mounted in a small heatsink, (it will likely look very similar to what you have there before you remove the heatsink), but you should be able to see the round back of the diode and break, or cut it out, (the round flange measures 5.6mm in the correct type of diode). It'll then fit into a module which will remove some heat, allow you to mount a lens in front and practice diode installation!
Sorry that it isn't a, 'super-diode', you've found there useful none-the-less.
Here's the pic...
Good luck,
M
I personally am not familiar with that diode. It can certainly be ruled out as a PHR IR/Red, (although it is likely to have IR and Red emitters.), diode and it doesn't look to me like it's a 5.6mm diode either, and if that's the case, will not fit into any module without custom fitting, and let's face it... This diode ain't worth the trouble of doing that.
It'll be difficult to heatsink because of this too, and mounting a lens, yada, yada, yada...
In short, not much you can do with this diode except do as Charlie suggests and practice your soldering and powering of laser diodes. It's never a waste of time doing these things as you're preparing for the time you have a, 'proper', LD. If you can get hold of any other free drives, (try your local PC repair shop, I've found them to be itching to rid themselves of ROHS compliant specialist hazardous waste!), then keep opening them up and you're likely to find the right shape diode eventually. You're looking for a diode that looks like the pic below. They are mounted in a small heatsink, (it will likely look very similar to what you have there before you remove the heatsink), but you should be able to see the round back of the diode and break, or cut it out, (the round flange measures 5.6mm in the correct type of diode). It'll then fit into a module which will remove some heat, allow you to mount a lens in front and practice diode installation!
Sorry that it isn't a, 'super-diode', you've found there useful none-the-less.
Here's the pic...
Good luck,
M
