Manassa is helping me installing a camera for scattering measurement. The work is in progress.

I'm borrowing a Prosilica gc750 from the 40m. It will be used for scattering measurement on AlGaAs samples. It is a good idea to have a setup that can quantitatively measure scatter loss on mirrors. 

First I tried to install it on the small Acer laptop used with win cam, but it did not work. I'm not sure if the ethernet card of the laptop does not support the camera or not. Now I'm trying to install it on my mac book instead, since Manassa claimed that it worked on her macbook. 

I'll write a step by step installation guide once we succeed.

==note about the AlGaAs samples== 

I used a green laser pointer to check scattering loss on one sample. I couldn't see any green spot of the laser with my eyes. This means that the scattering is probably less than 100 ppm (according to Josh). Once we use the camera to measure it and it turn out to be smaller. We will probably go to Fullerton to have the samples measured there for better accuracy.