Find out about ESD and how to protect laser diodes

Are your laser diodes or laser-based products failing prematurely or mysteriously?

 

Do you believe the cause of the failure may be electrostatic discharge (ESD) or power surges?

 

This web site presents information about protecting laser diodes from damage caused by ESD and power surges.

 

Although this web site converges on LASORB as a product designed specifically to protect laser diodes from ESD, it is the intention of this web site to serve as a definitive source of information about how ESD and power surges can dramatically decrease the lifetime of laser diodes, and how to help ensure their maximum lifetimes.

 

In fact there isn’t much good information about this topic available on the internet today. Having done much research about this topic, we are happy to share our findings about ESD and laser diodes, and to present our solution for protecting laser diodes.

 

 

   
LASORB division of Pangolin Laser Systems
9501 Satellite Boulevard, Suite 109, Orlando, FL 32837
(407) 299-2088, fax (407) 299-6066
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HOME PAGE


THE ESD PROBLEM
     Background information about laser diodes
     Laser diode damage mechanisms
     Why we destroyed hundreds of laser diodes -- so you don't have to!

     More info on ESD
          Relevant books and links
    
     Evaluating ESD using a Human Body Model
    
     A quick quiz on ESD and laser diodes

 

REVIEW OF ESD APPROACHES
       Introduction: Common ESD protection approaches
           Simple resistor
           Simple capacitor
           Schottky diode
           Zener diode
           Switch, relay and MOSFET
           Multi-layer varistor

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  The LASORB component

 

LASORB SOLUTION
      LASORB overview
      LASORB datasheets
      Pricing and ordering information
     
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      Videos: Seeing is believing
      Products protected by LASORB
      LASORB in the news

 

CONTACT PANGOLIN
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      Contact information