Fundamentals of Light and Lasers: Optical Alignment Techniques

This lab activity, presented by John Chamberlain, demonstrates techniques for optical alignment that will be useful to students in completing subsequent laboratory activities in this series. In the seven-minute video, Chamberlain shows both the rough and fine horizontal adjustment of a laser beam to near and far targets, as well as the adjustment of a mirror to intersect the light beam and the alignment and focus of that redirected beam. This lab, 1-4B, is one in a series of 20 available on the Fundamentals of Light and Lasers. 

These videos were created as a supplement to the Fundamentals of Light and Lasers curriculum available through OP-TEC, but can be used independently to guide lab activities related to this topic.