biconcave lens ?

firefly

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Hi everybody
my biconcave lens in my leadlight 5 mW are spoil with what other biconcave lens i can remplaced it?

Firefly
 
If you live in the USA you can purchase a Bi-concave lens from Edmund Optics . A Plano-concave will also work. You should also know what the focal length of the original lens is.I'd write to either Wicked lasers or Leadlight directly and ask.
I suggest you buy a Plano-convex, cause the selection is larger. AR coated lens would be good too. I think about 4% of the light is lost per surface with non Ar coated lenses, in other words the light never gets out.
You may need to re-collimate.There is info I think at Wicked Lasers.
This is only a guess but I suspect that the negative focal length lens has a focal length around 3mm.
Another link which is useful Gaussian beam propagation
 
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