Identify this laser?

[Kenom]

I purchased over 2 years ago a 15mw laser from a user on ebay. I paid $250 for it. At the time all green lasers were bucko money. I've since burned out the diode but I've never seen a laser diode that was housed inside a copper assembly. I am posting a picture of the dissasembled laser with this. Most diodes I've seen look like what you take out of a dvd+rw small circular with two or three leads coming from the bottom and a glass lense on the one. Now I'm inclined to believe based on the copper construction that the laser I had was a very high quality laser. Look at the pics and you tell me.



I've gone through and labeled the parts as making it easier for identification.
A: lense for colimation
B: IR filter assembly that screws on top of c
C: another colimating lens?
D: Spacer ring for proper spacing between E and F
E: ??? crystal for frequency doubling?
F: ??? crystal for frequency doubling?
G: Laser Diode.

Hokay. Now for the fun stuff. at least I think so. What to keep and what to not. I'm not going to be buying this again as I cannot find the guy I bought it from originally. The IR filter could be usefull. Do they make other laser diodes like this one? Where can i buy one? Anyone want some parts?? LOL. I know they may be useful but at this point I've got nothing to use them with as the only funcioning laser I've got now is a DX 30mw and a red diode from a dvd burner. I'm open to anyone's rambling as this is my only passtime.:huh2:

 

[Ashton]

your diode is probably housed inside that heatsync, all you ahve to do is take a small screwdriver and hammer and you can remove the original diode and insert your own. If you dont have an 808nm diode, then just remove the crystals and use your red diode and make it into a handheld red (was there no driver board? I've never seen a greenie w/o a board)

 

[Kenom]

Yes, the diode is housed inside the smaller rectancle in the circle. However, instead of a normal diode this had contacts coming through two holes drilled into the copper. One hole you can see directly off to the left of the block it had a very small wire that connected it to the block and the other contact came off of the back of the block on teh other side of the circle copper peice leading me to believe that unlike other diodes it was fabricated this way originally instead of being machined later.

I will post a picture of a normal diode in comparison to this and you will see why I believe it to be this way.

 

[Ashton]

could be specially made, or could just be, as you said, some wires imbedded in the metal, I've never seen a diode that wasn't the normal tiny cyllender with 2-3 legs when you finally cut away the heatsync, but I'm told they do exist, so...

you could always jsut drill it out and put your red diode in and run leads to teh contacts for the switch.

 

[Kenom]

 

[Kenom]

it also had a driver for it but I'm not going to post pictures of that. The contacts were through each of the two holes in the back. I tried to pull the screw off the back but it was epoxied in and I stripped it so no go.