yeah i have one of those sitting on my desk. too lazy to take the PCB board off of it since there are two layers that the prongs go through. i pulled mine from an old cd burner
the one I got was a red and it was powerful. I say was because I killed it just before I got my host light. it was NOT pure IR, it was a red, yours "should" be also.
it will work but in order to use an axixz module you will have to use a dremel to grind down the casing to make it fit. I don't have pics of mine anymore. if you don't grind down the casing the lens won't get close enough to focus the beam.