50mw 405nm laser (purple) module
I purchased a blu-ray burner from ebay

and destroyed the burner

The diode

I am housing the diode in an old red house. This will act as a heat sink and it has a focusable lens.

The diode runs on 4.5-5v and around 80ma. Thanks to Robin for the custom made driver to power this diode.

This is the driver i will be using, its from die4laser and has been modded specially for a blu-ray diode. outputting 5v and between 10-100ma.

 

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