Laser 

Details on the laser diode

According to the safety warning bundled with the printer, it is a 405nm wavelength, 120mW violet laser diode. Since the all three legs of the diode, as it can seen on the pictures, are soldered to the PCB, and since four cables connect the diode to the main PCB of the Form 1, it is assumed that it's a laser diode including a photodiode.

As the output power of the laser diode can vary strongly just with a little room temperature change (laser output power will be different with 20 degrees celsius room temperature than with 25 degrees celsius room temperature) there is a photodiode included in the laserdiode, to give immediate feedback to the main processor about the current laserpower. If the output power of the laser diode changes due to room temperature change, the main processor can immediately adjust that output power by changing the voltage of the laser diode.

Here's a picture of such a laserdiode with integrated photodiode: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Laser_diode_with_the_case_and_window_removed-powered_off.jpg

The diode is connected with the main PCB through four cables: yellow, blue, black and red. black and red are the - and + of the laser diode, yellow and blue are the - and + of the photodiode.

Optics of the laser diode

At this point it is not fully clear what the optics consists of, but it must be certainly at least one collimator lense for focusing the beam overall, and most likely a cylindrical lense to compensate for the elliptical shape of the beam and be able to focus it to a round point, rather than an ellipse. The lense will most likely consist of glass, as plastics would very quickly melt.

Front view with USB microscope of laser diode with lens removed