Getting our green on at the PCL. Day 1 of the laser install. Check out first light here:

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Starting to get some green light out of the new laser. This first flash of green was at "low" power (390 mW of green at 30 Hz). Check the afterglow on the camera, I though I burned out my phone's retinal display (more realistic, right, you are supposed to have a hole in your retina!).

Why are we so happy? We didn’t tip over a 1 ton laser table! #westernu

The profound-ess problem of the day: how to move our 1 ton laser table a couple feet forward as part of the new laser install? After MUCH looking around town, including every gadget AB Rental had to offer we founds some dollies at Canadian Tire made for moving a disabled car around. We were concerned the feet at the bottom of the table would punch right through them, but they held and we got the table in place in anticipation of Monday’s install. Much thanks to Peter D who is an expert with the jack! Amazing how much weight that 4x4 can bear.

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