The Raspberry Pi Auto-aligner: Machine Learning for Automated Alignment of Laser Beams

Autor:	Mathew, Renju S., O'Donnell, Roshan, Pizzey, Danielle, Hughes, Ifan G.
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors Quantum Physics
Zdroj:	Review of Scientific Instruments 92, 015117 (2021)
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1063/5.0032588
Popis:	We present a novel solution to automated beam alignment optimization. This device is based on a Raspberry Pi computer, stepper motors, commercial optomechanics and electronic devices, and the open source machine learning algorithm M-LOOP. We provide schematic drawings for the custom hardware necessary to operate the device and discuss diagnostic techniques to determine the performance. The beam auto-aligning device has been used to improve the alignment of a laser beam into a single-mode optical fiber from manually optimized fiber alignment with an iteration time of typically 20~minutes. We present example data of one such measurement to illustrate device performance. Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15246 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv