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SECTION 2: MOUNT ON BREADBOARD

Mounting on the breadboard

Put dowel pins into holes

Mount brackets for PupilRealy3 first, make them pressed against the pins and their angled side facing down

Mount pupil relay 3, push so all the way to the left (edge against mounting surface). Tighten down clamps with screws with springs. Make sure nuts are in right place.

Mount IMOholder and tray, pushed it against the table and pins.

Mount primary dichroic, make sure caret faces down

Add primary dichro cap, pressing it against vertically mounted breadboard

Add bigDetLensHolderAssby - note need a 1/2 inch 10-24 screw to secure top right part

Add detLensCap

Mount the galvo block, pushing it against pins. Note there is not a lot of space between the galvo mirrors and pupil relay 3

Attached pupil relay 2 to the resonant chamber

Use long handle quarter-20 hex drive to mount resonant chamber to breadboard. Use paper trick to get screw sitting on ball end of hex drive, and then screw chamber down.

Attach pupil relay 1 mount to breadboard

Attach pupil relay 1

Attach remote focus objective assembly

Attach fold mirror assembly

Blow all dust out of resonant mirror chamber before sealing it up

Attach emisson splitting assembly

Attach PMT assembly, with PMT cover on. Have to thread cables through cover. Screw on filters to PMT assembly.

Attach periscope

SECTION 3: WIRING

Set up scanimage

Machine data file setting

Wiring galvos / voice coil / PMTs / etc.

SECTION 4: TABLE OPTICS ALIGNMENT

Align table optics at 900nm with the laser in alignment mode

1) Mount pockels cell just after laser, and align so that beam goes through it. Then manually set pockels cell power to about 10% for the rest of the alignment procedure.

2) Place beam expander after pockels cell. Adjust its height and the position of the front entrance such that the beam passes through the center of the iris on the beam expander. Adjust the position of the back end of the beam expander such that the beam passes straight through it. Adjust the beam expander so that the beam is collimated.

3) Position two silver mirrors such that the beam hits their centers and is steered towards the PPC. Make sure the beam remains level at its original height. Do this using an IR card stuck to a support to check beam height at different positions.

4) Place the uniblitz shutter just before the PPC in the path of the beam.

5) Adjust the positions of the enterance and exit irises at the beginning and end of the PPC so that the beam passes centeres through them.

6) Adjust height and lateral position of first two mirrors such that the beam hits both of them in the center. Then adjust the orientation of the mirrors so that the exiting beam direction is normal to entrance beam.

7) Position the large silver mirror such that the beam is centered on it, and adjust the mirror position such that the reflected beam is parallel to table and then adjust its angle it is entering prism close to its far edge.

8) Now adjust angle of prism to find the angle of minimum deviation using rotation stage (coarse). Do this by placing an IR card far away and rotating prism to find angle where beam is furthers to the right.

9) Now make sure reflected beam and incident beam are coplanar by adjusting the angle of the prism and looking at the height of the reflected beam on the IR card. The reflection is very faint and needs an IR viewer to be seen.

10) Now make sure the refracted beam is coplanar with the reflected and incident beam by adjusting the other angle of the prism.

11) Redo finding angle of minimum deviation using fine adjustment. This will be the angle where the beam is the rightmost possible.

12) Algin retroreflector axis. Adjust height of retreflector such that the return beam is centered on the roof mirror. Then adjust close side of rail such that the returning beam is hitting the prism a little further into the prism (2 to 3 mm). Then adjust the back position such the rail is exactly parallel to the beam. Slide the retroreflector back and forth along the rail to check that it is moving along the axis of the beam.

13) Adjust lateral position of roof prisms so that return beam is entering the prism, and rotate it so that the outbound beam 3 is hitting the retroreflector. Do fine angle adjustments of the prisms angle such that return beam 4 is level to table and colinear with track.

14) Mount output coupler. Place in bypass mode, and set target card after exit iris. Left bypass mode. Align exit beam to pass through iris and hit target by adjusting height of retroreflector so that beam passes through center of exit iris and move mirror to translate mirror, and use angle of mirror to make beam hit target on iris card.

15) Add two mirrors such that beam is level as it goes into the entrance of periscope.

16) Set periscope entrance mirror center to be 120 mm heigh (height of laser beam).

Pockels cell

Shutter

2x table beam expander

Assembling the compressor

Build enclosure for table optics

SECTION 5: MICROSCOPE ALIGNMENT

Multistage periscope alignment

Quarter wave plate adjustment for multistage periscope

Alignment of beam to remote focus objective

Adjustment of quarter wave plates for maximum transmission