Looking For High Power Infrared LED at ~1070nm

[Geogecko]

A friend is asking for some assistance from me to find an infrared LED for a project he is working on. The problem is finding an LED that operates at 1070nm, which is what the wavelength needs to be for the given project. Most common IR LEDs out there are around 870nm.

Has anyone seen any around this wavelength, and also at a fairly high power (around 100mA, or 150mW) output? If so, where, and who makes them?

Edit:

I've gotten some clarification on this, and really, the LED needs to be high power, such as 6W. There are some out there, but they run about $400 each, and for this project, about 150W of power are needed, which means about 25 of these, which as you can see, would be a large amount of money.

If there would be some at maybe 1W that would be a lot cheaper, such as the Luxeon LEDs or similar, that would require 150 of them, but that would be better than using 1,000 of the 150mW LEDs, which may be impossible anyway, since the available space is not that large.

Thank you!

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Re: Looking For Infrared LED at ~1070nm

That sounds like the wavelength used to pump the frequency-doubling crystal in a green laser pointer. Many green pointers have an IR pump assembly that operates at 100mw or more. He could just disembowel a greenie to get at the crystal assembly and separate the two crystals, leaving him with the 808nm diode and the crystal that's closest to the diode. That would give him a fair amount of power at ~1070nm.

 

[Geogecko]

Re: Looking For Infrared LED at ~1070nm

Thanks PW. I am not real familiar with green lasers. I'm not sure if this would be expensive or not, but I've got more information about the project now, and it seems like the 100-150mW LEDs wouldn't even be close to what we need.

I've updated the original post to include the new information.