
How to Set Up and Run the FG5
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59. Remove the top cap of the alcohol container and place the container inside the
interferometer base. By eye, center the alcohol pool left/right, and slide it all
the way back until it contacts the rear wall. This insures the laser spot is
centered in the alcohol pool.
60. Focus the telescope crosshairs by placing a white card in front of the telescope
objective. Place the card at an angle to allow light to strike the card and
illuminate the crosshairs.
!
DO NOT ADJUST THE
INFINITY FOCUS
OF THE
COLLIMATING TELESCOPE (adjust only the eyepiece). THE OPERATOR
WHO FOCUSES THE CROSSHAIRS SHOULD ALSO PERFORM THE
FOLLOWING ALIGNMENT STEP.
61. Pull out both beam blockers and align the test and reference beams by
making the beams coincident in the telescope.
Align the beams by adjusting
the two screws on the fiber optic mounting plate
(mirror mount)
on the
interferometer base only!
Do not adjust the twiddler or the mirror below the
telescope (mirror #2) when the alcohol pool is in the interferometer; only
adjust the fiber optic mounting plate. Note that both beams move with
respect to the telescope crosshairs as you adjust the mirror mount screws.
3.1.10.FRINGE OPTIMIZING
62. To optimize the fringe signal, the test and reference beams must be made
perfectly coincident and parallel. The two interfering beams should be
perfectly overlapped and also have no angular deviation for the greatest
signal. The translation of the test beam relative to the reference beam is done
by adjusting the translator plate (sometimes called twiddler). The angular
deviation is minimized by adjusting mirror mount # 2, located below the
telescope (see figure 2-8).
63. For convenience, it is possible to move the test and reference beams to the
center of the telescope viewfinder by adjusting mirror # 3, located in front of
the telescope objective. Note this does not affect the interferometer
alignment; it is only for the user’s convenience.
64. Look in the fringe viewer and adjust the twiddler until the test and reference
beams are coincident (overlapped).
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