Hello List,

I just found a laser diode with a built-in photodetector in my home. I will play with it and report in the upcoming days. Since these are used in optical drives, they are supposed to be atom-cheap. What is evident right now is that the diode's temperature has to be controlled to keep the wavelength constant.

Regards,

Ferenc

On 1/25/22 21:42, Jacob Lifshay wrote:
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 12:05 David Lanzendörfer <leviathan@libresilicon.com> wrote:
Hi Ferenc
Good point with the precision issue...
Do you know of any good off-the-shelf laser distance measuring sensor
which has a sufficient resolution for determining the exact distance
(with an acceptable tolerance), so that we can do the fine adjustment?

it isn't off-the-shelf but you could likely easily build one based off of laser-diode self-mixing:
https://youtu.be/MUdro-6u2Zg

Jacob

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