Some notes on aligning the laser through the beam transport.

Will add pictures and clearer descriptions in a bit. This is just based on some quick notes I made when Henrik showed me the ropes.

Claudio's code might take care of the alignment soon, so this might become less useful in the future.

Update Nov 2021: Most of the alignment is now indeed automated and can be controlled using Claudio's GUI. Screenshots and instructions to follow once details are ironed out., but camera issues still require manual alignment every now and then.

References can be found here and are hard-coded into the auto-aligner: Laser alignment references

HeNe: Automated alignment procedure (GUI)

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Press 'Stop Alignment' (red button). This will stop any scripts running on other machines.

Then tick boxes for for the references/mirrors to align and click 'Grab References', and 'Start Alignment'.

Claudio recommends to take a few minutes to set a suitable ROI and to grab a background before starting the procedure and to do one at a time at the beginning to speed things up.

Every time a new ROI has been selected, one has to grab new references.

HeNe: Manual alignment procedure

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