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Entry   2-mirror cavity alignment, posted by Alice Renaux at Optical room about lasers and optics IMG20250527160111.jpg
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Message ID: 235     Entry time: Wed May 28 10:55:15 2025     In reply to: 234
 Author: Alice Renaux 
 Status: Under Process 
 Type: report 
 Category: lasers and optics 
 Location: Optical room 
 Title: 2-mirror cavity alignment 

The NKT laser PZT sensitivity is ~0.09pm/V of wavelength variation, which is equivalent to ~ 25MHz/V
So, the full range of the scan is roughly 250MHz (more than a FSR) for 10V.

It seems impossible to get such large resonances unless the Finesse is very low => let's try to change M1 by a spare GammaFactory plan or 10m ROC mirror.

Alice Renaux wrote:

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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