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  160   Mon Sep 12 18:49:42 2022 Manar AmerFixedissuelasers and opticsOptical roomDamage on mirror surface Following the storage of ~ 50 kW inside
the cavity and a sudden drop in transmitted
power from the cavity 
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  161   Mon Sep 12 18:50:57 2022 Manar AmerFixedissuelasers and opticsOptical roomDamage on mirror surface Tomorrow will try to shift the injection
mirror to avoid hitting the damaged spot.

 
  
  162   Tue Sep 13 19:26:27 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomDamage on mirror surface After discussing, we have decided against
shifting the mirror to avoid the time lost.

We changed the injection mirror
  
  163   Tue Sep 13 19:31:14 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomliPower storage In CavityAfter changing the mirror M1 and cleaning
the 2 mirrors

They were placed in the cavity
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  164   Wed Sep 14 16:16:08 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPower storage In CavityThe cavity was locked under vacuum, coupling
is approximately < 10%

The lock was relatively easy and
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  165   Wed Sep 14 17:21:59 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPower storage In CavityWe improved the lock using the alignment,
polarization and CEP , the maximum we got
was ~ 12% coupling
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  166   Fri Sep 16 15:56:45 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomDamage on mirror surface a better image of the damaged spot, image
taken with the arrow for the reflective surface
facing the other direction (image shows position)
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  167   Fri Sep 16 17:47:56 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomDamage on mirror surface ThomX injection mirror has been cleaned
and placed again inside the optical cavity.

This time to avoid the damaged
  
  168   Tue Sep 20 12:50:40 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM1 ThomX used while shifted from damaged spot Yesterday , we locked the cavity and we
see a sign of a high finesse on the transmission
signal, but no measurement of Finesse was
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  169   Wed Sep 21 12:10:07 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM1 ThomX used while shifted from damaged spot To compare between the 2 images of the
cavity mode:


the mode by itself has
  
  170   Mon Sep 26 16:15:06 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM1 ThomX used while shifted from damaged spot On Wednesday 21st , I opened the cavity
did an additional 2 mm shift of the injection
mirror and put it under vacuum again.
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  171   Tue Sep 27 19:30:49 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM1 Gamma FactoryIn the morning, Vacuum broken and rotated
M1 ThomX 90 degrees clockwise, locked the
cavity in air and we observe a degeneracy
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  172   Wed Sep 28 18:43:51 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM2 ThomX spherical Cleaning Today, M2 Spherical-3 from ThomX that was
installed inside the SBox was removed, there
was one big dust on the surface of the mirror,
 6x 
  1   Wed Sep 26 18:12:44 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomCavity polarization states (Koheras), Finesse of 2 polarization statesMeasurments of Finesse with the 2 polarization
states, let's call them H (higher) and
L (lower): 24500 for the H and 23500 for
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  2   Mon Oct 1 11:30:39 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPhase measurement with HASO2 measurement.

First one locked, in transmission
of M2 with 2nd stage 0A.Total 89 cm from
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  3   Mon Oct 1 14:27:35 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPhase measurement with HASO* Loic has to fix the number of files (3)
regarding the number of measurements (2)

* splitted Intensity and phase
 8x 
  4   Mon Oct 1 15:19:48 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPhase measurement with HASOwith just intensity, the coupling is 98%,
and with phase, x direction coupling is 95%,
y direction 97%, so the telescope is good.
  
  5   Tue Oct 9 10:15:17 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPolarization optimizationOptimization of the polarization has been
made the 03/10/18. Checked in reflection
of the cavity in reflection&transmission
  
  6   Tue Oct 9 10:19:29 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomRecord power-upMeasurement made on 03/10/18 (nothing has
been done since there).

Stable power in the cavity of 225
  
  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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