User:Andy Maloney/Optical tweezers/Notebook
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Optical tweezer build
Spatial filtering
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/22/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sample translation stage, Spatial filtering
- Description: Thoughts on beam shaping and spatial filtering. More talk of the optical tweezers.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/23/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sample translation stage, Spatial filtering
- Description: Moving on to thinking about the condenser and detector stage.Thoughts on beam shaping and spatial filtering. More talk of the optical tweezers.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/05/22/Laser diode
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Koch meeting, Spatial filtering
- Description: Talking about the laser diode and making sure one writes in your notebook even if it's a failure.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/03/Laser diode stuff
- Categories: Beam shaping, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sketchup, Spatial filtering
- Description: Attempting to collimate the diode laser with a fiber optic.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/08/Laser diode
- Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Spatial filtering
- Description: I finally was able to get the fiber collimated. But, it's multimode and I won't figure that multimode lasers don't work for optical tweezers.
Condenser and detector stage
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/23/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sample translation stage, Spatial filtering
- Description: Moving on to thinking about the condenser and detector stage.Thoughts on beam shaping and spatial filtering. More talk of the optical tweezers.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/06/Optical Tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Condenser detector stage, Optical tweezers
- Description: Lamenting about the condenser adapter that fits into Thorlabs' 60mm cage cube.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/09/Optical tweezer
- Categories: AM Engineering, Condenser detector stage, Optical tweezers
- Description: More lamenting on the condenser adapter.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/10/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: Final design for the condenser adapter and initial work with the PLT laser diode.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/18/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: Olympus dovetail mount design.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/20/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: Update for the dovetail machined from John DeMoss. Also, I talk about some of the output connectors on the control box we can use for monitoring the system.
Sample stage
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/19/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sample translation stage
- Description: Brainstorming the parts needed for an optical tweezers.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/22/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sample translation stage, Spatial filtering
- Description: Thoughts on beam shaping and spatial filtering. More talk of the optical tweezers.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/23/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sample translation stage, Spatial filtering
- Description: Moving on to thinking about the condenser and detector stage.Thoughts on beam shaping and spatial filtering. More talk of the optical tweezers.
Diode laser
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/19/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sample translation stage
- Description: Brainstorming the parts needed for an optical tweezers.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/22/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sample translation stage, Spatial filtering
- Description: Thoughts on beam shaping and spatial filtering. More talk of the optical tweezers.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/23/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sample translation stage, Spatial filtering
- Description: Moving on to thinking about the condenser and detector stage.Thoughts on beam shaping and spatial filtering. More talk of the optical tweezers.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/10/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: Final design for the condenser adapter and initial work with the PLT laser diode.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/17/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: Amperage usage in the control box and PID adjustments.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/18/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: Olympus dovetail mount design.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/19/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: Found out that we weren't supplying enough current to the controller thus we weren't able to keep the temperature stable.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/20/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: Update for the dovetail machined from John DeMoss. Also, I talk about some of the output connectors on the control box we can use for monitoring the system.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/25/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: Building the laser diode control box.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/27/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: New power supply build. PID control and talk about anamorphic prisms.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/30/Optical tweezers
- Categories: Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: Futile attempts at collimating the laser diode.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/31/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: More futile attempts at collimating the laser diode.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/04/01/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: Space issues, collimation and such.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/04/02/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: Futile belief that the laser is collimated.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/04/30/Optical tweezers stuff
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: More on collimating the diode laser.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/05/22/Laser diode
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Koch meeting, Spatial filtering
- Description: Talking about the laser diode and making sure one writes in your notebook even if it's a failure.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/03/Laser diode stuff
- Categories: Beam shaping, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sketchup, Spatial filtering
- Description: Attempting to collimate the diode laser with a fiber optic.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/04/In the lab
- Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: More attempts at coupling the diode laser to the fiber optic.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/08/Laser diode
- Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Spatial filtering
- Description: I finally was able to get the fiber collimated. But, it's multimode and I won't figure that multimode lasers don't work for optical tweezers.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/09/Please sir, may I have some more laser?
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Pages with broken file links
- Description: I was able to make an optical cannon with the diode laser.
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/11
- Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
- Description: I was able to tweeze with the diode laser. But, the forces were way to weak to be useful.
Calibration
- Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/04/15/Optical tweezers
- Categories: AM Engineering, Optical tweezers, Optical tweezers calibration
- Description: Optical tweezer calibration overview and my thoughts on what it means.
