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Series Laser Diode Driving Scheme
This article presents the design and implementation of an Automatic Power Control (APC) loop in laser system which uses LMH13000 for driving the laser diode. The setup uses a laser diode which has an integrated back-facet photodiode for feedback. This application note will introduce ROHM's LD line-up and show how to design the drive circuits of ROHM LDs. 3), the driving circuit should act as a current source and. Laser diodes (LD) are semiconductor devices that convert electrical energy into high-power optical energy. If case temperature; Tc is 25 degrees Celsius, Po becomes about 6mW.