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These days, Ronic, Daniele and I achieved stable cavity locking with the menhir pulsed laser.
- After vacuuming, the current cavity finesse is now about 23,000. The diameter of the cavity mode is w_x=2.2mm, w_y=2.7mm.
- We had to compensate for frequency drift by manually adjusting the cavity length to keep locking.
Now the problem is that CEP's compensation range is not enough. The laser CEP is drifting from day to day. We adjusted the CEP by tuning the pump current of the menhir laser, but the adjustment range was not enough.
- The laser pump current is varied in the locking state and the variation of repetition rate is recorded. The current range is 850mA to 950mA and the repetition rate changes by 24 Hz. The calculation process is shown in Figure 3.
- By calculation, the variation of CEP caused by the variation of laser current is only π/2, which we hope is 2π.
- For Gamma Factory, the target FSR is 40 MHz, so the 4-pulse stack provides 4 times CEP tuning range to meet the requirements. But for our experiment, it seems not enough now.
The next step is to evaluate the gap to the maximum gain and draw the curve of CEP. Then we will discuss solutions.
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