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Message ID: 90
Entry time: Tue Aug 17 16:31:55 2010
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Aidan |
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Bought a laser diode from Thorlabs for HWS |
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http://www.thorlabs.com/thorProduct.cfm?partNumber=CPS180
I bought this laser diode from Thorlabs today to try the current modulation trick Phil and I discussed last Friday.
That is:
- Accept that there will be interference fringes on the Hartmann sensor probe beam with a laser diode source (especially if the probe beam is the retro-reflection from a Michelson interferometer with a macroscopic arm length difference)
- Modulate the current of the laser diode source to vary its wavelength by a few hundreds on nm. Do this on a time scale that is much faster than the exposure time for a Hartmann sensor measurement
- The contrast of the interference fringes should average out and the exposure should appear to be the sum of two incoherent beams.
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