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Message ID: 240     Entry time: Wed Sep 3 18:10:34 2025
 Author: Alice Renaux 
 Status: Under Process 
 Type: report 
 Category: lasers and optics 
 Location: Optical room 
 Title: Successful lock (finally !) 

Today, with Ronic, we managed to get a successful lock with the NKT laser by setting up a new PDH box from scratch (photodiode + amplifer + mixer).

Me measured the injected power (5.4mW) and the transmitted power (33µW) after a wedge (92% transmission) and a 7ppm transmission mirror, so the intracavity power was 5.1W. We have a 950 enhancement factor for a 3100 finesse cavity, so a nominal enhancement factor of 2500. The lock was very stable, as shown in the attached picture (yellow signal is the transmitted power, orange signal is the error signal and green signal is the voltage sent from the Laselock module to the pizeoelectric actuator of the NKT laser cavity).

Then, we added a second EOM in order to perform a finesse measurement, but we weren't able to inject more than 3mW at full laser power in the cavity or to lock the laser onto the cavity.

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