Laser Alignment Heck Pt II

Being the continuing saga of Laser Alignment Heck

So, the laser’s working again and power levels are somewhat close to what they were before this adventure began.

I don’t have many pictures of the process I went through last night. Andres came over and I spent my picture time talking with him and taking him through the details rather than shooting.

I’ll probably clean the OC tonight so I’ll get a few more pictures to add later

In the meantime, here’s what I went through to get 19mW.

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Laser alignment heck

Ok, so for the last several weeks I’ve had a functionally dead Spectra Physics 907 laser.

I managed to tweak it past the point of lasing and had to start the arduous process of learning to align this kind of laser from square one. I then spent the better part of two weeks trying to align the laser myself but could never get the beam quality back the way it was before I screwed it up.

What follows is what I’ve done so far to get my laser fully alive again. It’s still not working but hopefully soon it will be.

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