Where to Buy Laser Diode Drivers

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 preceeding electronics SYS DC 110.

Aerodiode offers a wide range of laser diode drivers as OEM devices for use by laser manufacturers or R & D teams. Some models are suitable for driving high-power diode bars or diode stacks, while others can generate nanosecond pulses for both laser diodes or SOAs. All of them have an integrated TEC controller for thermal management. Ultra-low-noise models are also available.

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.

APIC produces a turnkey tabletop laser drive module specifically designed to operate its high power, ultra low RIN lasers. The OEM laser of choice is integrated into the laser drive module at the factory. The laser drive module includes a high-quality laser driver with a low-noise power source, current driver and accurate temperature control circuit to maintain stable laser output with minimal noise. APIC is in the process of developing a similar turnkey driver module for its Direct Modulated Lasers (DML).

A high-quality laser driver with a low-noise power source, current driver and accurate temperature controls is required. If you do not have such equipment, we recommend you consider purchasing our turnkey tabletop CW laser drive module. The drive module has power conditioning with laser and TEC control electronics designed specifically to operate our lasers with minimal noise.

RPMC Lasers offers a wide range of laser diode drivers for CW, QCW, and pulsed operation. We offer turnkey laboratory laser drivers, rack-mountable laser drivers, and board level OEM drivers with currents ranging from 100 mA to 300 A. Additionally, the pulsed driver boards are capable of producing transform limited pluses down to 250 ps.

EKSMA Optics offers uniLDD universal laser diode drivers. uniLDD is a DC input power converter designed to supply CW or pulsed current for single emmiter, bar or stacked laser diode in constant current (CC) mode. Drivers can be supplied for a wide current range as well as wide diode compliance voltage range.