Ok all, I've had a bit of time to mess around with measureing the linearity , rise time and fall times for the lasers in my RGB.
I'm picking off about small % of my final mixed beam, them filtering out any IR, then splitting the beam back into R-G-B and feeding them into 3 photodiodes.
I'm planning to use this to drive a hybrid light/delay/threshold circuit to try to match everything up.
Anyway, I thought I should share my results....
Red is a 635nm 300mw from Lasever ( Magenta trace in graphs)
Green is a CNI 500mw driven with a Lasever driver inc crystal TEC (Green trace in graphs)
Blue is a Laserwave 473nm 150mw. ( Blue trace in graphs)
Modulation signal is yellow in graphs - note that the laser drivers seem to flatten the tops of the signal .
Note that these sensors are not calibrated to any particular measurement - only so that once the lasers have warmed up and stabilised that they don't saturate the photodiodes & their amplifiers.
First of all the linearity over a 1 second ramp up:
Then the rise times:
And again, zoomed in on the start, and averaged to clean up the blue noise:
Last of all the fall times:
Cheers,
Barney