Let us suspend disbelief for a moment, and consider the following proposal:
Is it possible to either run a driver with a variable power setting (rotating head, switch, slider, etc), OR, run two (or more) drivers on the same circuit, set to different power levels, to drive a laser?
In either case, the maximum power level of any driver would have to be equal to, or lower than, the input current required for the laser diode.
For example:
A laser diode requires 3 volts at 200mA (Arbitrary, since I know next to nothing about actual current levels). Couldn't we set the driver's potentiometer (I think that's what it's called) to be adjusted with the head of the laser mechanism, with a minimum of 1mA and a maximum of 200mA? Alternately, there could be a switch, similar to the mechanism which swaps between gas tanks on a truck, which would alternate between a full-power, 200mA driver, and one set to 100mA?
It seems as though it could work; just looking for confirmation.
Is it possible to either run a driver with a variable power setting (rotating head, switch, slider, etc), OR, run two (or more) drivers on the same circuit, set to different power levels, to drive a laser?
In either case, the maximum power level of any driver would have to be equal to, or lower than, the input current required for the laser diode.
For example:
A laser diode requires 3 volts at 200mA (Arbitrary, since I know next to nothing about actual current levels). Couldn't we set the driver's potentiometer (I think that's what it's called) to be adjusted with the head of the laser mechanism, with a minimum of 1mA and a maximum of 200mA? Alternately, there could be a switch, similar to the mechanism which swaps between gas tanks on a truck, which would alternate between a full-power, 200mA driver, and one set to 100mA?
It seems as though it could work; just looking for confirmation.