The Design Challenge In low power laser diode modules the designer has the option to use the classical discrete solution or take advantage of fully integrated driver ICs. Often the component cost is ...

See this diagram,I've been told the the proprietary drivers offer some extra protection from very short spikes (on power up and shutdown) in the current which laser diodes are very sensitive to ...

We use a new class of complex dispersion characteristics to analyze threshold properties of gain-guided vertical-cavity lasers. The analysis gives a fundamental gain limit for single transverse mode ...