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Yesterday and today, I replaced the OEWaves CW laser with the NKT CW laser. Its screen does not display anything, so it has to be operated through the GraphiK software.
I then re-aligned the cavity with a new adjustment adaptation tool between the mirror mounts and the irises.
The motor positions are :
- 1 : 3.354420 mm
- 3 : 2.128850 mm
- 4 : 3.468480 mm
- 5 : 3.157300 mm
I then connected the LaseLock module to scan the NKT laser wavelength on a roughly 0-10 V range at a 2Hz rate, so that it could match the cavity's resonance frequency.
Without optimizing the injection, I monitored the transmitted power with a photodiode paired with an amplifier. The pictures are available through this link : https://box.in2p3.fr/s/TGgwkKgYik7MyqW, and an example picture is attached. Their timestamp is in their filenames, and it seems that the transmission varies quite a lot on a ≈10 s scale, and these variations seem to be periodic on a ≈1 minute scale. The peaks seem weirdly wide, almost up to 100-200 MHz (≈FSR).
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