Re: Homemade DIY optical breadboard and mounts?

sam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I am going to make a homemade optical breadboard as well as mounts for
optical components. I bought some cube beamsplitters, first surface
mirrors, polarizing filters, diode laser, etcetera. And, I need a way
to mount them...and something to mount them to.

I figured I would start with some kind of ferromagnetic metal plate
(with foam padding underneath to absorb vibrations) as the optical
table so I could use simple magnets as the base for each mount. But
I'm not sure where to go from there.

Has anyone here made their own optical breadboard and mounts? Got a
webpage or anything? Is there any kind of forums or groups just on
making your own optical breadboards and mounts?

Thanks for any info....Sam

If you can afford to buy all those optics, why not also buy the
breadboard and mounts? You could use magnetic bases, or you could get
an aluminum surface with a grid of threaded screw-holes that you simply
bolt the optic bases to.

You can browse around at www.thorlabs.com to find most of this stuff.

Mark

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