Maintaining consistent laser diode temperature

[macpod]

What do you folks do to keep the temperature of your laser diodes constant? I have had a few incidents where I had to heat my green laser up with a heat gun because it was incredibly dimm from sitting in a cold car.

Just a tec? Which one? Is it home made? How are you controlling it?

[edison]

Heat and cool driver. Someone is working on that one

[macpod]

Is it open source?

[macpod]

I have a green laser that has some type of thermal management (a fan and probably a tec stuffed inside the heatsink/case). It is glue shut so I can't see what's inside. Have any of you opened one of these up? Is it just a small tec glued directly to the module or is there some sort of tec out there that you can press a laser into?

[macona]

Wavelength electronics makes some temp control modules that will do what you want. They pop up on ebay.

Maybe this might work too:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DPSS-532nm-4...item19d80ad33b