I feel for ya. If it helps you feel better, My career with lasers has survived 3500$ and 7000$ mistakes. In both cases with parts that were going to fail anyways. Still not a fun thing to think about nor, tell the boss about. In both cases the boss had worked with lasers enough to know that these things happen. So I reprimanded myself worse then he EVER did.
FYI for others, Thorlabs sells a moderately inexpensive professional de-canning tool. You then need a desiccant pack in the instrument to keep moisture off the diode face. For certain lab uses, diodes need de-canned to prevent interference patterns forming from the window.
A known flaw with the Nichia parts is that the can windows seal out water, but the adhesive used dissolves in acetone and alcohol. Your not the first to have this happen. I had it on two blues before I learned.
Better diode packages have the can window sealed with hermetically bonded glass frit, and you can clean them once or twice.
Steve
FYI for others, Thorlabs sells a moderately inexpensive professional de-canning tool. You then need a desiccant pack in the instrument to keep moisture off the diode face. For certain lab uses, diodes need de-canned to prevent interference patterns forming from the window.
A known flaw with the Nichia parts is that the can windows seal out water, but the adhesive used dissolves in acetone and alcohol. Your not the first to have this happen. I had it on two blues before I learned.
Better diode packages have the can window sealed with hermetically bonded glass frit, and you can clean them once or twice.
Steve
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