I am guilty of using a MM. The Dac had some issues with one of the Dac chips not functioning and I sent to Marconi and he fixed it....replacing all tha DAC chips and a few other components. The reason I measured it this way is thatYadda stated that it was OK to do so if the laser was on and a non-modulated input were being sent to the laser. Before and now after repairs....still the max of 3.6 v or close to it.I am runnin analog lasers and on the bench my 473 unit was doing right at 312mW with 5 volts applied. Now I am lucky to get 175 out of it driving it with this DAC............Have you measured your laser output in lasecad? I would be interested in your findings.
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