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Did I lose a piece of my laser optics?

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Hi, recently I bought this laser module - https://www.banggood.com/405nm-50mW...r-Generator-Diode-p-960448.html?rmmds=myorder
And I did a few modifications, like replacing the provided power supply. In the process, I unscrewed the optics and it popped out, because of the spring loading.
After reassembling, my laser cannot be focused to a dot anymore, this is the best focus that I can get - http://i.imgur.com/xhcjwkv.jpg
This is the current state of the laser optics - http://i.imgur.com/KmefCKb.jpg

Am I missing a piece of the optic assembly? Or did I just somehow destroyed the laser?
 





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Looks like your laser might be dead there bud:( Kind of looks LED'd. Someone else with more experience could tell you better though:)
 
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Your window looks cracked, is it?

57144d1502746568-did-i-lose-piece-my-laser-optics-lookatwindow.jpg
 

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Your window looks cracked, is it?

57144d1502746568-did-i-lose-piece-my-laser-optics-lookatwindow.jpg


Good job noticing that, going by the image of the dot OP provided that looks like a likely cause.

Can you give us closer up pictures of the LD window OP?
 
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or by any chance if the diode window isnt broke try the lens backward.maybe after you remove it you placed it wrong
 
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That looks like the bar in the window of most LDs that is part of the diode holding the emitter. I was thinking the same thing about the lens being in backwards.
 

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That looks like the bar in the window of most LDs that is part of the diode holding the emitter. I was thinking the same thing about the lens being in backwards.


Could be an image artifact, but that window at the least doesn't look clean.

I can see the mount for the LD chip too, but I don't think that's causing the window to look dirty/damaged.
 
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There looks to be some kind of shmutz all over the module and diode. Can't tell if it is real or just the camera.
 




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