Close-up of a rotating LiDAR sensor head, its glass aperture reflecting a faint cyan glint, on a city street at dusk.
905 nm pulsed emitterbehind the aperture of the scanning head

Application

LiDAR & 3D Sensing

905 nm pulsed emitters, VCSEL arrays and APDs — the transmit and receive path inside time-of-flight modules.

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A rugged handheld laser rangefinder resting on a mossy rock at dusk, its multi-coated objective lens catching a faint teal glint.
905 nm pulsed emitterbehind the objective lens

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Laser Rangefinders & Hunting Optics

The highest-volume 905 nm socket in the world — plastic and metal TO56 emitters, pin-compatible with the OSRAM SPLPL90 family.

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A pair of industrial through-beam photoelectric sensors facing each other across an automated conveyor line.
905 nm emitter diodetransmitter aperture of the through-beam pair

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Industrial Photoelectric Sensors

Standard 905 nm parts for distance sensors, light curtains and safety scanners — long qualification, ten-year repeat business.

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Close-up of a terrestrial laser scanner head on its tripod, standing on open hillside at blue hour.
905 nm emitter stackbehind the blue scan window

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Surveying, Mapping & Airborne LiDAR

Multi-stripe emitters up to 600 W and low-drift parts for terrestrial scanners and airborne mapping payloads.

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A weatherproof traffic sensor housing on a roadside pole at night, its optical window catching a cyan reflection.
905 nm emitter and APDbehind the weatherproof lens

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Traffic Enforcement & Perimeter Security

Emitters and receivers for laser speed guns, traffic scanners and perimeter intrusion detection.

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An airborne electro-optical gimbal turret under the fuselage of an unmarked survey aircraft at dusk.
1535 nm eye-safe sourceinside the EO turret

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Defense & Aerospace EO

Eye-safe 1550 nm and 1535 nm erbium-glass sources plus high-gain APDs for designation and EO payloads.

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A portable TDLAS gas analyser aimed at a stainless steel pipe flange at an industrial plant at night.
DFB source and detectorin the analyser optical path

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Gas Detection & TDLAS

DFB sources from 760 nm to 1742 nm with matched photodetectors — the complete optical core of a TDLAS instrument.

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A fibre-coupled laser light engine on a laboratory bench, its output glowing with cyan excitation light.
Fibre-coupled light engineat the glowing FC/APC output

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Medical, Bio & Analytical Instrumentation

Turnkey fibre-coupled light engines with TEM00 output and M² ≤ 1.2 — flow cytometry, confocal microscopy, Raman.

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VCSEL Arrays · 850 / 905 / 940 nm

PLD850 / PLD905 / PLD940 · MV series

Availability confirmed at enquiry This family is supplied to order rather than held on the shelf — send us the specification and the annual volume and we will confirm stock, tooling and lead time before you commit.

Addressable-emitter VCSELs from a single 5 mW emitter up to a 1273-emitter array delivering 6 W. TO56 and TO9 packages, low threshold current, circular low-divergence beam — the natural emitter for dToF, structured light and IR illumination.

  • 1 to 1273 emitters on a single die
  • Low threshold current from 0.9 mA
  • Circular beam, 18–21° divergence
  • TO56 and TO9/TO56 packages
  • Dual-wavelength 660 + 850 nm part available

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VCSEL Arrays · 850 / 905 / 940 nm product photo

Configurations

Expand a group to see the model table. All powers are peak pulse power at 25 °C unless the table states otherwise.

905 nm pulsed VCSEL-MV

Pulsed operation for time-of-flight LiDAR and robot vacuum obstacle avoidance.

905 nm pulsed VCSEL
ModelPeak powerEmittersThreshold currentOperating voltageDivergenceApplication
PLD905-4W-MV4.5 W120 mA20 V18°Robot vacuum LiDAR, obstacle-avoidance modules
PLD905-10W-MV10 W72 A18 V18.5°Robot vacuum LiDAR, obstacle-avoidance modules
PLD905-70W-MV70 W560.25 A21 V20°LiDAR and laser rangefinding
850 nm quasi-CW VCSEL-MV

Infrared illumination and 3D sensing. 850 nm is the best match for silicon detector responsivity.

850 nm quasi-CW VCSEL
ModelPowerEmittersThreshold currentOperating voltageDivergenceApplication
PLD850-5mW-MV5 mW11.3 mA2.2 V20°IR illumination, laser lighting
PLD850-100mW-MV100 mW2325 mA2.1 V20°IR illumination, laser lighting
PLD850-500mW-MV500 mW95120 mA2.1 V20°IR illumination, laser lighting
PLD850-1W-MV1 W201250 mA2.2 V21°IR illumination (TO9 / TO56)
PLD850-1.5W-MV1.5 W280340 mA2.2 V21°IR illumination (TO9 / TO56)
PLD850-2W-MV2 W400550 mA2.2 V21°IR illumination (TO9 / TO56)
PLD850-3W-MV3 W624680 mA2.3 V21°IR illumination (TO9 / TO56)
940 nm quasi-CW VCSEL-MV

The consumer choice — invisible to the eye at higher irradiance than 850 nm, and the emitter used in most phone and tablet depth sensors.

940 nm quasi-CW VCSEL
ModelPowerEmittersThreshold currentOperating voltageDivergenceApplication
PLD940-5mW-MV5 mW10.9 mA1.9 V21°IR illumination, laser lighting
PLD940-100mW-MV100 mW2320 mA2.0 V21°IR illumination, laser lighting
PLD940-500mW-MV500 mW9585 mA2.0 V21°IR illumination, laser lighting
PLD940-1W-MV1 W201200 mA2.1 V21°IR illumination (TO9 / TO56)
PLD940-1.5W-MV1.5 W280250 mA2.1 V21°IR illumination (TO9 / TO56)
PLD940-2W-MV2 W400400 mA2.1 V21°IR illumination (TO9 / TO56)
PLD940-3W-MV3 W624600 mA2.1 V21°IR illumination (TO9 / TO56)
PLD940-6W-MV6 W12731200 mA2.2 V19°Highest-power array in the range
Dual wavelength-MV

Two wavelengths from one package for applications that need a visible aiming beam alongside an IR illumination beam.

Dual wavelength
ModelPowerEmittersThreshold currentOperating voltageDivergenceApplication
PLD660/850-10/100mW-MV10 mW + 100 mW1125 mA2.1 V20°Dual-wavelength IR illumination with visible aiming beam

Typical applications

Where this family is usually designed in:

LiDAR & 3D Sensing Industrial Photoelectric Sensors

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Wavelength, peak power, package and annual volume is usually enough for us to quote — and to say whether a sample is available from stock.

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