Hi everyone,
I've got these diode housings and I'm not sure what kind of metal they're made of (the description just says metal). I'm guessing it might be iron or steel though I'm not sure. Does anyone have any ideas?
Anyway I was wondering if there was a rule of thumb of choosing a housing...
Hey everyone,
Sorry if there was already a post about this, I did use the search function but didn't find much stuff.
Anyways I bought two SLD3134VL 20mw 405nm diodes from eBay and they arrived in plastic packaging (not even in antiESD bags).
So I tried out one of the diodes by using a constant...
Hi everyone :)
I'm new here and I just started getting into lasers.
I'm trying to build my first laser using an SLD3134VL 405nm 20mW laser diode.
For the diode housing I found this on Aliexpress: (sorry I can't post links yet) "10x Focusable 1230 Metal Housing w Lens for TO-18 5.6mm Laser Diode...