Lens Mount Modification

Created April 30, 2004

Last updated April 30, 2004


This is a relatively simple job. We originally had a 1-inch lens as the f/10 expander/collimator (depends on which direction you're going). But this results in field-of-view problems for the CCD camera. So we will go with a 38-mm diameter lens, and need to acquire the mount for it. But the mount will need to be modified, as we need to keep the translation stage plus vertical jack plus lens mount short enough so that the center of the lens is only 61 mm off the table. The stage and jack being 19 mm each, the lens mount will have to have no more than 3 mm of material on the bottom edge.

A good candidate mount is the CVI product 33-15. Nothing fancy, but it's a good starting point, and can probably be modified easily enough.


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