Micrometer Optic Stages

[Jem]

Careful Adam, its a trap to rid you of any remaining money.

Rob

That's truer than you can imagine Rob. Sadly, I was caught in the holography trap some time ago, and believe me, it's just as big a money pit as projectors. You either need great facilities for making bits and pieces yourself - as in a full machine shop. Or, you need to dig deep and buy the proper stuff, there is no inbetween

To progress beyond the very basics you need some essential pieces of kit and these don't come cheap. You can save money by using a sand table for stability, but sand and expensive optics don't mix very well. I've tried doing things on the cheap and just ended up wasting loads of money. I would have been much better off just getting the proper stuff in the first place.

If ever you fancy having a go just give me a call and pop across the Pennines one Saturday or Sunday ;-)

Cheers

Jem

[buffo]

Jem;

Yeah, you've got a point. So long as you don't mind increasing your exposure time you can get away with less expensive lasers. But then vibration becomes your enemy. With a higher power laser you don't need to be as anal when constructing your optical isolation table. But high power and long coherence length = $$$!

Truthfully though, even if I had the gear in my possession right now I still wouldn't have time to mess with holography. Hell, as it is I've got projects sitting on the shelf waiting for a rainy weekend...

Someday though... Someday!

Adam

[stanwax]

Hell, as it is I've got projects sitting on the shelf waiting for a rainy weekend...

Man we all have some of them!
I got so many I cant remember most of 'em!
And I still gotta get my head round building shows in shotime

Rob