High output IR LED - will this work?

[heartsurgeon]

HSDL-4220
High-Performance T-13/4 (5mm) TS alGaAs Infrared (875nm) Lamp

I'm building a new emitter, might this work?

also, when you run two emitters off the back plug, does each emitter just put out half the IR illumination that a single emitter would?