Before Beam Time
- Find IP YAGs
- Confirm signal on diodes with LeCroy scope
- Check bias-Ts
- Place rough crosshairs on inline and time tool cameras based on previous experiments
- Get fs laser on IP frosted YAG
- Roughly align slow diode in chamber to fs laser
- Confirm signal on LeCroy
- Roughly align outcoupling mirror and fast diode to fs laser
- Confirm signal on Acquiris
- Make sure DG2 lenses are unlocked
During Beam Time
- Get beam on DG1
- Get beam on DG2
- Get beam on TT YAG
- Place crosshairs
- Get beam on IP YAG
- Place crosshairs
- Find spatial overlap between beam and fs laser on IP frosted YAG
- Align slow diode to X-rays using LeCroy scope
- Set trace
- Align laser to slow diode if needed
- Move laser timing to match trace
- Move in outcoupling mirror
- Align fast diode and outcoupling mirror for fs laser
- Use DG2 lenses to increase X-ray spot size to larger than fs laser spot size
- Align X-rays and lasers on IP clear YAG
- Use fast diode signal to find t0 at IP
- Move in time tool frosted YAG
- Find spatial overlap between beam and fs laser
- Try adding delta T from IP timing to delay stage
- If this does not work, go to time tool diode and do rough timing
- Optimize delay stage position until edge on time tool spectrum is in the middle of the camera
- Do cross correlation scan to calibrate time tool
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