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Entry   D-shape mirrors positionning status, posted by Ronic Chiche at Optical room about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
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Message ID: 157     Entry time: Fri Sep 9 19:03:58 2022     In reply to: 156     Reply to this: 223
 Author: Ronic Chiche 
 Status: Fixed 
 Type: info 
 Category: mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
 Location: Optical room 
 Title: D-shape mirrors positionning status 

The cavity box is vacuum pumped at 6*10^-2 mbar.

Ronic Chiche wrote:

This afternoon we opened the cavity and put the D-shape mirrors at their correct place, close to the beam.
we checked the relative position of the mirrors to the beam using the 2nd stage of the amplifier (<1W) and with the sensitive (and cleaned) orange optical card.
with this configuration, we can see very clearly the beam inside the cavity (~ 100µW) and we can check easily if the D-shape mirrors are correctly placed.

the motors used to move the D-shape are the Newport Picomotors 8303-V
with roughly 30nm/step sensitivity and 50mm of range (~1 600 000 steps)
the 4 axis controller used ot move these motors is the Newport 8742.

For both Vertical and Horizontal D-shape mirrors:
* when you do +N steps on the controller, you retract the D-shape mirror from the beam
* when you do -N steps on the controller, you push the D-shape mirror to the beam

the 0 position on the controller corresponds to the D-shape close to the beam.

now, the FP cavity is closed and pumped to go back to vacuum.

 

 

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