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After changing the mirror M1 and cleaning the 2 mirrors
They were placed in the cavity box (avoiding touching the mounts to not affect the alignment and placing the mirrors as close to the previous position)
we saw horizontal higher order modes immediately after injecting power, horizontal misalignment!!.
We aligned the injected beam, adjusted the cavity length and saw the modes 01 (high transition) and 00 (ok but still much lower than 01)
The image attached shows some coupling < 5% , we adjusted the CEP, but it was the max coupling.
we will need to align better tomorrow to increase 00 modes.
The cavity box is closed and placed under vacuum again.
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at max stage we reached at 2.5 A on the diodes we have
8000 gain , coupling ~ 60% , with power inside the cavity 50 kW
The higer order mode that was observed today,
it was also observed on Friday along the other higher order mode recorded on the logbook.
after cutting it with the D-shaped mirror we recorded the shape (image attached)
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Power increased in the amplifier
reflective filters added at the transmission point to be able to have signal on the Beam Profiler, Transmission diode and power meter
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Amplifier output current (A)
diode 1
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Amplifier output current (A)
diode 2
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Amplifier output current (A)
diode 3
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Amplifier output current (A)
diode 4
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Power Output (W) |
Transmitted power (mW) |
note |
| 0.5 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
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no change in the beam shape |
| 1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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| 1.5 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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Appearance of higher order mode (vertical), suppressed using D-shaped mirror (vertical only) by (-23000), image recorded. |
| 1.5 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
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no change |
| 2 |
1.8 |
1.5
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1.5 |
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52 mA |
52 mA after CEP adjustment , power measured after 2 reflective fillers NDUV30A and NDUV20 |
| 2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
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70 mA |
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| 2.5 |
2.5 |
2 |
2 |
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95 |
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| 2.5 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
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sudden drop in power, cavity lock lost, lock system looks ok (maybe something in the cavity)
mode shape is the same
coupling is large, transmission is very low
change the CEP, mo effect in changing it (we have no gain in the cavity, No Finesse) could be something happened to the mirrors !!!!!!
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At transmission power of 42 mW, coupling 60%, we see fundamental mode with a degeneracy
The D-shape motors were moved to a position 2 000 000 steps (in theory they should be the max position)
but no change appeared on the 00 mode or the higher order mode.
We will break the vacuum and check the position of the D-shaped mirrors.
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We start of power output from amplifier of 1W with only the first and second stage on then we start with the third stage power increase,
Note: when changing the current on the third stage 4 diodes, better to do it step by step for each one with a step of ~ 0.5 A
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Amplifier output current (A)
for four diodes
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Power Output (W) |
Transmitted power (MW)
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| 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 |
~ 1 |
2.3 |
| 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 |
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11.0 |
| 1.5 , 1.3, 1 , 1 |
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35 |
| 1.5 , 1.5 , 1 , 1 |
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42.16 |
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- we placed at the transmission point a splitter the transmitted power before was 35 mW after placing it we had 26 mW
- 97 % transmission , 3% reflected which goes to the beam profiler
- We see degeneracy modes at the last step of 42.16 mW , so we started to test the D-shaped mirrors
- the full range of the motors is 50.8 mm
- each step = 30 nm , 30 000 steps = 1 mm
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