I've been trying to get my head around the concepts of "short die" and "long die", as well as "open can" and "closed can" with respect to laser diodes.
There may well be other concepts of relevance which I welcome dicussion on e.g. single mode etc.
In particular how each of these concepts affects choices of optics, collimation, cooling, etc (if at all). E.g. would you use a Roithner Lens 27 (which has been identified as being perfect for a harvested DVD diode) for a harvested blu-ray diode?
I welcome any enlightenment on this and would like to accumulate the knowledge on this subject to later add to this post.