Today, I spent the day working on the first progress report for SURF, which Tara would like by Wednesday. I have everything complete except a nice figure of the planned experimental setup, which I will do tomorrow.
I also emailed Dmass about getting a current driver from the Cryo lab that we can modify and use.
I've also been corresponding with the companies that sell the laser diodes. It seems like neither can guarantee exactly 1064 nm wavelength, nor does either offer any way to preselect a diode. However, we should be able to tune the wavelength using temperature, since both diodes change at 0.3 nm/degree C. Tara is placing an order for several of the items today. |