The ISV850-004 from ISOCOM Limited is a VCSEL Laser Diode that operates at a wavelength of 860 nm. It delivers a continuous wave optical output power of 4 mW and has a slope efficiency of 0.8 mW/mA. This laser diode has a beam divergence of 16° and spectral bandwidth of 0.25 nm RMS. It has a pulse width of less than 10 ns and duty cycle of up to 1 %.
The ISV850-004 has a rise & fall time of 1 ns, temperature variation of 0.06 nm/°C, and slope efficiency temperature variation of -3000 ppm/°C. It has a maximum forward voltage of 3 V and requires a threshold current of 500 mA. This laser diode is available in a hermetically sealed TO-46 package and is ideal for gesture recognition, LiDAR, and 3D IR imaging applications.
