Since we have yet to hear back from ThorLabs, we spent today setting up the physical assembly for our experiment. We moved the stages into position and mounted our lens on top of them. This added about 2 pounds to the load, so we had to talk to ALIO Industries again and retune the stages; the previous settings were not providing enough current to the stages to allow them to go though the homing procedure.
The holes on the bottom two stages were imperial, so they fit with the standard screws, but for some reason ALIO decided to make the Z (vertical) stage have metric M5 holes, so we had to find some metric screws and figure out a way to mount the lens. In the end we had to ask Anton to counter-bore holes in our (previously) imperial pieces so that we could screw them to the Z stage, but it's now attached and stable.
We also spent a good deal of time organizing our lab space, there were a lot of extra parts and pieces on our optical table which we were no longer using and were taking up quite a bit of space. We then separated and untangled the many cables from each other, securing different bundles to the table. This allows us to better manage and move our cables if need be.
(pre- mounting the lens)
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