I finally got the new laser late Monday, just as I was about to call and see what the dillio was. Tues. was mostly dedicated to getting the spatial filter aligned, usually quite the bitch apparently, but some online resources were really helpful and I can do it in a few minutes now. Since then I've been going slowly with the realignment, especially since a package (with mysterious contents) was dispatched from AOS today. If the new DM's arrive then I can finally assemble the (hopefully) complete system. How many times have I said that? So far this laser is much easier to work with. I think the asymmetric divergence of the diode laser was really screwing things up.
Other than that I spent most of last week learning LaTeX while working on my prospectus. Just like shaving and wearing matching socks, its something every graduate engineer has to learn to do at some point.
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On the edge of incompetence
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