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  67   Wed Mar 23 18:11:22 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportutilitiesOptical roomDust Cleaning of SBoxAn Initial cleaning of the KBoX outside
was done, All the optics and mechanics placed
that were on the table were removed.
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  68   Wed Mar 23 18:17:45 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportutilitiesOptical roomDust Cleaning of SBoxThe cleaning was done twice with half an
hour interval between the two times
reading on the dust meter was taken
  
  70   Tue Mar 29 16:27:34 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportutilitiesOptical roomSpincoater - Mirrror cleaning In preparation for cleaning the mirrors.

The spincoater has been moved with
its bump into the sas of the SBox.
  
  121   Thu Jul 28 13:52:23 2022 Aurélien MartensFixedreportutilitiesOptical roomchiller for CELIA amplifierThe chiller of CELIA amplifier has been
moved from the corridor to the changing room
in front of PLIC. 
  
  122   Mon Aug 8 11:11:28 2022 Aurélien MartensFixedreportutilitiesOptical roomchiller for CELIA amplifiertoday, temperature of the chiller has been
set to 23°C.

measured temperature in the chiller
  
  228   Tue Dec 3 13:51:52 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfoutilitiesOptical roomoptical table cleaningthis morning with Alice and Daniele, we
removed all the optics elements and equipments
from the SBOX optical table and started to
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  229   Fri Dec 6 16:59:57 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfoutilitiesOptical roomoptical table cleaningthis afternoon, we checked the dust meter
which is at 0 for 1 and 5µm dust particles
but ~ 2000-3000 for 0.3µm particles.
  
  231   Tue Mar 4 18:33:26 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedinfoutilitiesOptical roomoptical table cleaningnow, it seems the table is clean enough
(dust meter counts 0 particles) to install
a 2 mirrors FP-cavity.
  
  71   Wed Mar 30 18:53:01 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportmechanics | lasers and optics | utilitiesOptical roomDust Cleaning of SBoxThe inside of the cavity was cleaned today.
It was very dirty and had big dust particles
and fibers inside.
 6x 
  72   Thu Mar 31 13:29:01 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportmechanics | lasers and optics | utilitiesOptical roomDust Cleaning of SBoxAfter an overnight where the cavity box
was left open, a measurement of the Dust
meter was taken:
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  175   Thu Dec 7 09:30:03 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareOptical roomnew setup for the 160MHz Menhir oscillatorfrom the begining of the week, Xinyi, Aurélien,
Viktor and myself started to install a new
setup for the Menhir 160MHz oscillator.
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  99   Tue Jun 21 23:52:28 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomMenhir Pulsed LaserThe SBox Length (FSR), was changed to match
the repetition rate of the Menhir
pulsed laser Frep = 216.6625 MHz
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  156   Fri Sep 9 18:35:07 2022 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomD-shape mirrors positionning statusThis afternoon we opened the cavity and
put the D-shape mirrors at their correct
place, close to the beam.
  
  157   Fri Sep 9 19:03:58 2022 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomD-shape mirrors positionning statusThe cavity box is vacuum pumped at 6*10^-2
mbar.

  
  223   Wed Jun 19 10:38:00 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomD-shape mirrors positionning statussummary:

- the motors used to move the D-shape
are the Newport Picomotors 8303-V
  
  238   Mon Jun 23 14:38:33 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomfirst attempt to lockWith Alice, we installed the EOWaves oscillator
to be locked on the FP-cavity (T1 ~ 2500ppm,
T2 ~ 10ppm => F ~ 2500)
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  7   Thu Oct 18 09:42:39 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportmechanics | lasers and opticsOptical roomMotors for D-shaped mirrorsMotors have been installed on 16/10/18.
No problem with them.

Effect of the motors tested on
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  11   Wed Oct 31 11:27:49 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportmechanics | lasers and opticsOptical roomPower measurement with D-shapeMeasurements of lot of points with D-shape
mirrors well positionned.

Power not optimized to the best
  
  232   Tue Mar 4 18:51:57 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and opticsOptical roomAlignment of a 2-mirror FP cavitytoday with Alice,

- we measured the height of the
SBOX windows center : 140mm from the optical
  
  233   Fri Mar 21 18:27:36 2025 Alice RenauxUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and opticsOptical room2-mirror cavity alignmentAt 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
 2-mirror_cavity_alignment.zip 
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