While he was initially planning on using a diode laser, doing anything ... though [Owen] admits perhaps a laser cutter-specific driver board would have been better as he spent many hours trying ...
To interface with laser diodes, laser diode drivers require a series-damping resistor for impedance matching. Typically, these resistors minimize the optical output aberrations caused by signal ...
While he was initially planning on using a diode laser, doing anything ... though [Owen] admits perhaps a laser cutter-specific driver board would have been better as he spent many hours trying ...