At the beginning of the week, I installed a half-wave plate, a beamsplitter cube and a quarter-wave plate, as well as the end-of-cavity mirror, which I unsuccessfully tried to align.
I removed the end-of-cavity mirror and started the laser injection over again with the two motorized mirrors placed in front of the vacuum chamber (but left Ronic's setup as it was).
Today, I aligned the laser by putting an iris on the cavity mirrors' mounts. I tested the repeatability of such a setup, both by removing and putting back the same iris and by using a different iris. The result is in the attached pictures. Is it good enough ?
The mirrors' motors positions are :
- 1 : 3.349670 mm ;
- 3 : 2.060280 mm ;
- 4 : 3.484560 mm ;
- 5 : 3.269710 mm.
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