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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Rene Dufour, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corp., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ; H01S / ; H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 25 ; 372 29 ; 372 30 ; 372 31 ; 372 38 ;
Abstract
A method of and a device for pulse-mode driving a semiconductor laser in which the semiconductor laser (60) is operated by first driving the laser into the LED region with a pedestal current pulse from a first current source (41) and by superposing thereon an information current pulse from a second current source (51) after current stabilization. Due to this two-stage drive, switching transients can be reduced so that shorter pulses are possible and unnecessary power dissipation between the information pulses is avoided, which extends to the lifetime of the semi-conductor laser.