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  261   Mon Aug 31 16:28:31 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir oscillator phase noise measurementafter the previous
measurement, we installed similar dampers,
than the ones used belows the aluminium breadboard,
 Mehnir_PN_plots.png 
  260   Mon Aug 31 16:15:46 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir oscillator phase noise measurementcomparison of the Menhir 160MHz phase noise
with the CW reference.

- in blue, the oscillators are
 Mehnir_PN_plots.png 
  259   Mon Aug 31 15:14:04 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir oscillator phase noise measurementmeasurements made with Alice:

comparison between the CW OEwaves
oscillator phase noise measured last week
 CW_OEwaves_phase_noise_comparison.png 
  258   Thu Aug 27 11:13:07 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir oscillator phase noise measurementwith Alice, we installed the Menhir 160MHz
oscillator on a breadboad placed on top of
4 damped feet around the amplifier.
  
  257   Thu Aug 27 11:08:44 2026 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomfiber patch cables attenuation measurementsattenuation with 1 mating sleeve :

green jacket fiber : -0.4 dB

blue jacket fiber N°1 : -0.5
  
  256   Wed Aug 26 16:12:13 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationthis morning, I tried to restart the controller
but all the temperatures values on the NeoCon
software were stuck to 0°C !
  
  255   Tue Aug 25 16:27:29 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationI installed 4 steel feets around the amplifier,
with rubber damping absorbers on top, to
put later the oscillator optical breadboard
  
  254   Tue Aug 25 12:09:30 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationI connected the power supplies, laser controller
and laser head together with all the cables...
with no scheme in the manual.
 Neolaser_amplifier_connection.pdf 
  253   Tue Aug 25 09:47:01 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationan email from Neolase/AMS claims that 1.7Lpm
is a normal flow (previous tests at 1.2Lpm
have been done successfully with a reduced
  
  252   Fri Aug 7 11:41:17 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationas soon as I connect the amplifier to the
pipes, the flow decreases to 1.7Lpm.

and the filling process is very
  
  251   Fri Aug 7 10:59:52 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationI cut a small part of the black pipe on
the amplifier side (could it be slightly
deformed by a try with an other type of adapter
  
  250   Thu Aug 6 15:12:49 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationnow, I installed the long pipes (2x 3m)
in closed loop (without the amplifier connected),
but the exact ones used to connect the laser,
  
  249   Thu Aug 6 14:49:32 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationI drained the chiller to install again
the short pipe (< 1m) in closed loop.

then, I filled again the chiller
  
  248   Wed Aug 5 13:49:49 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationpipes are maybe too long ?

we can use the Darcy-Weisbach +
Blasius laws (non linear laws).
  
  247   Wed Aug 5 12:22:52 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationnow, I connected the chiller circuit to
the amplifier, thanks to the adapters.

chiller IN => blue pipe =>
  
  246   Wed Aug 5 11:25:41 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationwe have all the adaptor plugs for connecting
the chiller.
so, I tested first the chiller connected
  
  245   Wed Sep 10 11:27:45 2025 Alice RenauxFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomnew cavityThe 2-mirrors cavity has 460ppm of transmission
for M1 and 10ppm for M2 which should exhibit
a Finesse around 13400.
 Finesse.png 
  244   Tue Sep 9 21:23:11 2025 Alice RenauxFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomnew cavityYesterday, we changed the M1 mirror to
a 161185 Gamma
Factory mirror of transmission 460ppm, the
  
  243   Thu Sep 4 17:56:50 2025 Alice RenauxFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomFinesse measurement(Finesse 2651 is consistent with that obtained
from the mirrors' transmission coefficients,
which is about 3100.)
  
  242   Thu Sep 4 17:52:03 2025 Alice RenauxFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomFinesse measurementToday, with Ronic, we measured the finesse
of the 2-mirror cavity witht the NKT CW laser.

We were able to perfrom the measurement
 Figure_3.png 
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