Need help identifying laser module

[HarvesterOfBeer]

I recently acquired this laser module. It's a couple inches long. The end cap has a lens which is orange in color. The diode sits in the main case and is pressed in or glued in pretty firmly. I didn't crank on it trying to remove it.

Looking down the cable into the case, I can see a small pcb with a chip on it that is connected to the diode.

The cable coming from the laser has a 4-pin connector. I can only see 3 wires going in to the pcb. One black, one red, one white. The 4th pin at the connector looks like stainless mesh that is shielding the cable.

The case has "F21063B" inscribed on it. Googling turned up nothing.

Any ideas on who made this? Frequency? Power? Is the white wire a TTL control? Alien death ray?

Thanks!

-Pete

 

[ped]

Fire that sucker up via a current limited psu and see what happens!


I cant quite make out the AR coating, what colour is it?

 

[HarvesterOfBeer]

I did try firing it up briefly after the post at 5V and 12V with a 10K resistor inline. I did not connect anything to the white lead. I was viewing the output remotely (video camera) and saw no output.

The AR coating on the lens is an orange color...sort of burnt reddish orange brown.

Thanks.

 

[ped]

a 10k resistor is too high, i'd be going for a 220R @ 5v

Also if that white wire is TTL, your going to need to connect that to the "output" of the resistor as well.

 

[HarvesterOfBeer]

I'll try a lower value resistor as well as pulling the white line high.

Any ideas on what frequency the orange AR coating may indicate?

Thanks.

 

[JLSE]

I'll try a lower value resistor as well as pulling the white line high.

Any ideas on what frequency the orange AR coating may indicate?

Thanks.

Thats a good question... I know I havent seen that shade
in anything from UV up to 808 NIR. Perhaps its up in the IR
region?

Need somebody who knows their optics to chime in here..
But something tells me its not going to be in the visible range..