Laser Table Required Components

Laser Table requirements and purchasing (might have some on hand)

Requirements

Power Distribution:

• 2 ft x 2 ft breadboard
• High power faraday isolator
• 5 Half waveplates
• 5 wave plate mounts
• High power PBS
• 4 PBSs
• 1 90:10 Beam splitters
• 1 10:90 Beam splitters
• 50:50 Beamsplittter
• 7 cube beamsplitter mounts
• Lens set
• 3.5 W beam dump
• 8 mirror mounts
• 8 mirrors
• Camera/Power Meter

• 5 fiber couplers
• 5 single mode fibers

 

SHG Sled:

• 2 ft x 4 ft breadboard

780 nm parts

Faraday Isolator

20 mirrors

20 mirror mounts

1 EOM

A lot of lenses

3 50:50 Beam Splitters

4 PBSs

4 AOMs

4 Quarter Waveplates

2 half waveplates

6 wave plate mounts

7 beam dumps

5 fiber couplers

5 single mode fibers

 

Single Bowtie:

• 2 ft x 4 ft breadboard

Half Wave plate?

1 wave plate mounts

1 PBS

9 mirror mounts

9 mirrors

5 power meters

1 camera

Lenses

2 EOMs

2 polarizers

2 fiber couplers

3 ~90:10 beamsplitters

 

 

Purchasing

• Baselab Tools

2 2x2 $498 each

4 2x4 $979 each

$4,912 total

 

Liop-Tec

Get equal mix of handedness, get high performance, get some with 3 screws, get equal mix left and right handed

20 SR100-100R-2, variety of colors

20 SR100-100L-2, variety of colors

60 or 80 Euro Each

2400 or 3200 Euro

 

64 total

32 R

32 L

 

Waveplates:

Lambda

Zero order optically contacted

6 Half needed

4 quarter needed

 

Beamsplitters from Thorlabs

3 BS015 (50:50), $245.74 each

3 BS027 (10:90 R:T), $245.74 each

6 PBS254, $253.89 each

 

Faraday Isolator

Thorlabs IO-5-15550-HP, @ 5 W, the waist needs to be 2.4 mm or larger

40 dB isolation

Max beam diameter 4.7 m