I've used a HeNe aligning laser along with a CO2 laser interferometer to align optics (similar to what you're doing).
You need a window aligned as a previous poster said so that the CO2 beam goes straigh through (material correctly specified previously as Zinc Selenide) and the aiming laser incident at 90 degrees to the CO2 beam and bouncing off the "front" face of the window.
Note that if the CO2 beam in converging or diverging at the window then it should have a small wedge manufactured in it to avoid astigmatism... not sure if this would matter for cutting lasers, but it does for interferometers.
The optics should be coated for transmission at 10.6um
Note that ZnSe is toxic, don't eat it
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