Recent content by ba12348

Now I'm curious, if heating a diode will cook it and shorten its life, will cooling it extend its life? i.e. would a laser diode with some sort of liquid helium super cooling system last far longer than expected? I know computers better than I know lasers, and processors run better the colder...

Because I'm sure that joke hasn't been used here before. First off, hello to all, newly interested laser hobbyist here. As my profile says I'm a maintenance tech, but I also do a fair bit of woodworking, and though I don't own the machinery I know my way around a metal shop (I've got my eye on...