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Wed Oct 2 10:12:55 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | issue | lasers and optics | Optical room | CELIA 100W laser amplifier repair | this morning with Alice, we sent the Menhir
160MHz injected in a fiber (with 6mW at the
end of a long fiber) into the laser amplifier, |
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225
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Wed Oct 2 18:12:54 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | issue | lasers and optics | Optical room | CELIA 100W laser amplifier repair | this afternoon, we saw some electric cables
badly connected to their power supply.
we fixed it by soldering them together |
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227
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Fri Nov 29 16:50:04 2024 |
Alice Renaux | Under Process | info | lasers and optics | Optical room | Menhir 216MHz laser | The Menhir 216MHz laser has been put back
in place on the cavity table. Its output
power is measured to be 160mW with an attenuator. |
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230
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Mon Dec 16 10:20:56 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | issue | lasers and optics | Optical room | CELIA 100W laser amplifier repair | friday morning, we add a zoom call with
Jerome Lhermite about the amplifier repair.
he approximately confirmed the amplifier |
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232
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Tue Mar 4 18:51:57 2025 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | info | mechanics | lasers and optics | Optical room | Alignment of a 2-mirror FP cavity | today with Alice,
- we measured the height of the
SBOX windows center : 140mm from the optical |
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233
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Fri Mar 21 18:27:36 2025 |
Alice Renaux | Under Process | report | mechanics | lasers and optics | Optical room | 2-mirror cavity alignment | At 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 |
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234
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Tue May 27 18:12:22 2025 |
Alice Renaux | Under Process | report | lasers and optics | Optical room | 2-mirror cavity alignment | 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 |
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235
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Wed May 28 10:55:15 2025 |
Alice Renaux | Under Process | report | lasers and optics | Optical room | 2-mirror cavity alignment | The NKT laser PZT sensitivity is ~0.09pm/V
of wavelength variation, which is equivalent
to ~ 25MHz/V |
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236
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Wed May 28 18:27:27 2025 |
Alice Renaux | Under Process | report | lasers and optics | Optical room | 2-mirror cavity full setup | Today with Ronic, we changed the FP cavity's
mirrors to Layertek (Gamma Factory) mirrors
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238
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Mon Jun 23 14:38:33 2025 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | issue | mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | Optical room | first attempt to lock | With Alice, we installed the EOWaves oscillator
to be locked on the FP-cavity (T1 ~ 2500ppm,
T2 ~ 10ppm => F ~ 2500) |
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239
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Thu Aug 28 15:29:00 2025 |
Alice Renaux | Under Process | report | lasers and optics | Optical room | 2-mirror cavity locking | In June, we encountered some problems regarding
the transmission and error signals (see images
here), |
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240
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Wed Sep 3 18:10:34 2025 |
Alice Renaux | Under Process | report | lasers and optics | Optical room | 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 |
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242
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Thu Sep 4 17:52:03 2025 |
Alice Renaux | Under Process | report | lasers and optics | Optical room | Finesse measurement | Today, with Ronic, we measured the finesse
of the 2-mirror cavity witht the NKT CW laser.
We were able to perfrom the measurement |
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243
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Thu Sep 4 17:56:50 2025 |
Alice Renaux | Under Process | report | lasers and optics | Optical room | Finesse measurement | (Finesse 2651 is consistent with that obtained
from the mirrors' transmission coefficients,
which is about 3100.) |
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244
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Tue Sep 9 21:23:11 2025 |
Alice Renaux | Under Process | report | lasers and optics | Optical room | new cavity | Yesterday, we changed the M1 mirror to
a 161185 Gamma
Factory mirror of transmission 460ppm, the |
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245
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Wed Sep 10 11:27:45 2025 |
Alice Renaux | Under Process | report | lasers and optics | Optical room | new cavity | The 2-mirrors cavity has 460ppm of transmission
for M1 and 10ppm for M2 which should exhibit
a Finesse around 13400. |
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246
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Wed Aug 5 11:25:41 2026 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | info | mechanics | lasers and optics | cabling | Optical room | Neolase amplifier installation | we have all the adaptor plugs for connecting
the chiller.
so, I tested first the chiller connected |
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247
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Wed Aug 5 12:22:52 2026 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | info | mechanics | lasers and optics | cabling | Optical room | Neolase amplifier installation | now, I connected the chiller circuit to
the amplifier, thanks to the adapters.
chiller IN => blue pipe => |
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248
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Wed Aug 5 13:49:49 2026 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | info | mechanics | lasers and optics | cabling | Optical room | Neolase amplifier installation | pipes are maybe too long ?
we can use the Darcy-Weisbach +
Blasius laws (non linear laws). |
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249
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Thu Aug 6 14:49:32 2026 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | info | mechanics | lasers and optics | cabling | Optical room | Neolase amplifier installation | I drained the chiller to install again
the short pipe (< 1m) in closed loop.
then, I filled again the chiller |
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