ThomX injection mirror has been cleaned and placed again inside the optical cavity.
This time to avoid the damaged spot I have displaced the mirror mount horizontally to have a distance between center of the beam and the spot ~ 2.5 - 3 mm.
The alignment was affected slightly but recovered by adjusting the mirror mount nobs, (00 mode observed in air)
The cavity was closed is being pumped with vacuum.
To be done: adjust the cavity length and find the resonance, improve the outer alignment, lock the cavity
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a better image of the damaged spot, image taken with the arrow for the reflective surface facing the other direction (image shows position)
The image of M1 for ThomX reflective surface was taken at min zoom (full image scale 13 mm) and max zoom (full image scale 2 mm) on microscope
The spot appears to be not close to the center of the mirror, at max zoom in the center we do not see the spot it is just out of the image
the last image has the mirror position adjusted to center the damaged spot for a better image of it.
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After discussing, we have decided against shifting the mirror to avoid the time lost.
We changed the injection mirror to a different mirror from Mighty Laser set, Transmission of mirror 80 ppm. (no visible damage at the center of the mirror, only a small scratch on the back)
mirror cleaned using pure ethanol and pure water with spin coater, also the spherical mirror was cleaned again.
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Tomorrow will try to shift the injection mirror to avoid hitting the damaged spot.
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Following the storage of ~ 50 kW inside the cavity and a sudden drop in transmitted power from the cavity
damage to the mirror surface was suspected.
We broke vacuum and took images of the surface of the 2 mirrors in the cavity, the spherical and the planar mirror
image 1 , spherical reflective surface (no visible damage with the UV light, and no visible damage under the microscope)
image 2 , planar coupler mirror reflective surface (no visible damage under UV light, but under the microscope there is a damaged spot close to the center)
image 4 is the planar surface reflective surface at zoom 8 on the microscope.
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