"Jerry G." writes:

This would be from the manufacture only, if they would give out this
type of information, without you being a manufacture contractor for
them.

Generally, and very basically speaking, I know that a few of the pins
are for the power. There are a number of them for the data I/O, and a
few for the bias drive and or bias reference drive for the laser.

If you were to purchase or get a copy of the service manual for the
player it came out of, you may be able to decipher the pins
configuration, but they may not give any more details than what is
required to troubleshoot and do the alignment of the player.

You could probably figure this out on the older pickups with separate
laser diode and photodiode array, and the focus and tracking coils.

But on the new ones with a single integrated hybrid circuit having
the laser and photodiodes in a single package, it is more difficult.

However, some of these are standary parts for which datasheets exist on
the Web.

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