It might have potential; it looks like it's pulsed, but pulsed in the kilohertz frequencies -basically CW to analog creatures like us.
It's used in Laser/Radar speed guns, rangefinders and point to point, open air communications.
Needs an advanced driver, see:
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/Direc...d=131185&seq=0&CFID=25692769&CFTOKEN=49209552
Here's a quote that has some good information:
"Performance of the laser according to the invention can be further understood with reference to the following
example. The source of Laser emission used was the
OSRAM SPL PL90_3 diode, having nanostack technology. The nanostack technology consists in the "vertical" or epitaxial integration of a number of discrete emitters on a semiconductor chip, and this produces a two to three times increase in maximum power. The specific diode exhibits an aperture of 200x10 microns, from three overlapping emitters that reach an optical output of approximately 75 W when limited to 100 ns pulse lengths. The diodes were pulsed by means of a DEI PCX 7410 diode laser driver, from Directed Energy Inc. capable of covering the regime 20 ns to 1 Ps at 10A, and 5A in CW mode. To access the regime above 10A, a DEIPCO 7120 hybrid OEM driver was employed. The pulse voltage and current was monitored by a Tektronix TDS2014 to reconstruct the electrical power onto the diode, and extrapolate its optical output on the basis of the diode specifications.
[0191] Both the condenser and the objective can be chosen among aspheric lenses (as those used in optical disks systems) and glass multiplets optimized to operate in the near infrared region (700-1100 nm)."
"The basic characteristics of the SPL PL90_3 when driven with a commercially available
avalanche transistor circuit [21] are shown in fig. 1. The output pulse duration could be
adjusted from ~15 – 180ns and the repetition frequency was variable over ~1-10kHz. In these
experiments, the pulse duration and frequency of ~180ns and 1kHz respectively were used
throughout."
