Where to Buy Laser Diode Drivers

From its beginning, Monocrom has been designing and building laser electronics:

• digital and analog laser diode drivers for reliable long-life operation
• TEC laser drivers for precise temperature control

AMS Techno­logies’ range of laser diode drivers addresses the requirements for low-, medium- and high-power laser diodes, whether driving single laser diodes, laser diode arrays or complete diode laser modules:

• laser diode drivers/controllers for PCB, chassis or benchtop mount
• driving LD currents from a few watts up to kW ranges at a maximum of 250 A
• LD drivers with a temperature controller for Peltier (TEC) modules included
• module-type low-noise laser diode drivers, providing up to 15 A
• module type devices combining LD driver and thermoelectric (TEC) temperature controller on one small board
• instrument-type laser diode and TEC temperature controllers
• drivers for quantum cascade lasers (QCL)

Together with our suppliers, we can create a customized laser driver solution tailored to your requirements.

Lumics offers customized OEM Driver Kits, enabling manufacturers to easily commission their LuOcean diode laser modules for testing or system integration. The Driver Kit includes a controller for reading laser module signals and controlling the pilot laser, a laser driver for laser activation, and an optional chiller driver for the TEC-based LuOcean Chiller Unit. Featuring an RS232 programming interface and built-in protection functions, these kits streamline operations and enhance equipment safety. Lumics' OEM Driver Kits provide a comprehensive solution for efficient and secure laser module management.

Apart from a well-engineered optomechanical design and the integrated laser diode, the most important part of a tunable diode laser system is its driving electronics, which is responsible for getting the most out of a laser system.

Wide mode-hop-free tuning with Littrow setups requires a well-defined interplay between piezo actuator and current driver. Drifts of the laser diode current, the temperature or the piezo voltage determine the drift of the laser frequency and the stability against mode-hopping. Noise on any of these outputs increases the laser linewidth. The digital DLC pro represents the latest stage of development of laser control electronics. Its noise and drift properties are even better than the well established and widely used preceding electronics SYS DC 110.

Artifex Engineering's LDD100 is a fast pulsed current source for driving laser diodes and high power LEDs. We offer this instrument with various end stages with current ranges from 1 A to 600 A. The graphical user interface is clear and intuitive to use. These drivers are ideal for testing laser diodes.

A large range of diode laser drivers covering CW and pulsed currents from 100 mA to 300 A are available as standard or as customer-specific products at competitive prices. The diode laser drivers are complemented with TEC drivers of various powers for easy integration into the customer’s laser systems. The product line includes also drivers for picosecond pulse diode lasers with repetition rates up to 100 MHz and laser diode current modulation up to 1 GHz.

Eblana’s proprietary DX-1 laser/temperature controller is a low noise, high stability driver solution for CW and modulated usage scenarios. The device’s accurate bias and temperature tuning via the single 4-pin voltage connector allows easy benchtop operating for testing, and simplifies integration for applications such as field monitoring of environmental pollutants, portable LIDAR systems, gigabit ethernet and more.

Sacher Lasertechnik offers different types of low-noise laser controllers, including benchtop and OEM versions with digital control interfaces.

EKSPLA uniLDD driver can supply almost any middle- and high-power laser diode in continuous or pulsed operation mode.

SHIPS TODAY: AeroDIODE offers a wide range of laser diode drivers or SOA drivers for use by R & D teams or as OEM modules for photonics systems manufacturers. Some models are suitable for driving high-power multimode laser diodes, while others can generate nanosecond pulses for both laser singlemode laser diodes or SOAs. All of them have an integrated TEC controller for thermal management. A low noise laser diode driver is also available for narrow linewidth single frequency laser diodes.

AMI offers a family of diode drivers for high current and low current, CW and pulsed applications. AMI’s OEM seed laser drivers are ideal for driving 14-pin butterfly packaged laser diodes for use in CW or pulsed fiber MOPA systems. Featuring risetimes down to 100 ps and up to 50 MHz repetition rate. For high power diode stacks AMI offers up to 300 A, 280 V drivers. Turn-key diode controllers are also available.

Alpes Lasers offers QCL laser drivers for pulsed and continuous-wave operation. Pulse widths as low as 20 ns are achievable with repetition rates up to 1 MHz.