Ooooo boy, there's so much I could add in there!
Redacted from a certain publication that I authored:
"50 Amps and 200 Volts through a LED results in a momentary power consumption equal to your average sauna stove. But for nanoseconds only."
For a laser diode, applying a constant driving current of 20A can be considered
cratering to the PCB underneath the laser chip.
We designed the optical angle response according to the theoretical model since we couldn't fix the device to our measurement system.
The measurements were not repeated due to long data logging time - we only had one set of eye safety goggles suitable for that wavelength.
From the tweets, my favorite was this:
"we didn't read half of the papers we cite because they are behind a paywall"
Which sort of happens to be the truth quite often
