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  194   Tue Feb 27 17:51:56 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomAmplified laser injectionIn the last two days, Ronic and I connected
the amplifier and locked the cavity.

- We installed an iris on the output
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  196   Thu Mar 7 18:55:42 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomCoupling efficiency improvement- These days, Ronic, Fatematuj and I measured
the beam parameters of the output of the
third-stage amplifier.
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  197   Fri Mar 8 18:04:43 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomCoupling efficiency improvementToday, Ronic and I installed the new telescope
and locked the cavity.

- We locked at the amplifier
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  198   Tue Mar 12 22:13:47 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomCoupling efficiency improvement- Today, Ronic and I locked at the amplifier
current of 2 A and obtained ~60% coupling
after optimizing the CEP (see Figure
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  199   Wed Mar 13 19:44:41 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomInjection at the amplifier current of 2 AToday, Ronic and I optimized the locking at
the amplifier current of 2 A and
obtained ~ 21 kW inside
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  200   Wed Mar 20 18:22:53 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomPolarization issueThese days, Ronic, Aurélien, Fatematuj
and I have been doing some tests on polarization
issue, trying to see if it is possible to
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  201   Thu Mar 21 09:26:50 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomPolarization issuejust to add some details
:

about the S and P polarization
  
  202   Thu Mar 21 17:32:59 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomPolarization issue & 50kW with 22W injectionToday, Ronic and I lock the cavity on the
other polarization and achieved 50kW with
22W injection.
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  203   Tue Mar 26 19:36:48 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomHigh power experiments (200kW)These days, Ronic and I achieved 200kW
inside the cavity and 70% coupling efficiency.

- By optimizing the telescope,
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  204   Wed Mar 27 09:47:37 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomHigh power experiments (200kW)all the injection power in the chart have
not been measured recently but during the
Loic thesis period.
  
  205   Wed Mar 27 22:37:02 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomHigh power experiments (272kW)Today, Ronic and I achieved 272kW inside
the cavity at 7.5A. The coupling maintained
60%-70%.
 Screenshot_2024-03-27_7_270kW_7.5A.png210_kW_power_at_5A_injection.png272.3kW_at_7.5A.jpg 
  206   Thu Mar 28 19:03:55 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomAmplifier power and mirror transmissionToday, Ronic, Daniele, Aurélien
and I measured the amplifier power and mirror
transmission.
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  208   Tue Apr 2 08:39:17 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomHigh power experiments (500kW)Last week, we achieved a stable intracavity
average power of 500kW, limited by amplifier
power. The experimental data are shown
 record.pngpower_vs_time.pngcavitymode_vs_power.png 
  209   Wed Apr 3 08:53:33 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomHigh power experiments (520kW)Yesterday, Ronic, Xing, Qili and I achieved
a more stable 520kW power at 7.5A (71W injection)
by optimizing the alignment and locking parameters.
 power_vs_time.pngcavitymode_vs_power_1.pngrecord.pnginjection_power_vs_intra_power.png 
  210   Wed Apr 3 21:37:07 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomHigh power experiments (550kW)- Today we moved the position of the D-shaped
mirror at 6A. When motor1 (vertical) is 0.2mm
away from the spot, the power in the cavity
 record.pngpower_vs_time_550.jpg1A.JPG 
  211   Thu Apr 4 21:48:16 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomLarger beam size & Spectrum- We re-measured the gain before moving
the mirror. Gain ~9000 was achieved at 3A,
but as the power increased, the gain dropped
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  212   Mon Apr 8 08:34:54 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomDifferent cavity modes & Pulse width- Last week, we obtained three curves of
the variation of different cavity modes with
power (Fig. 1). By comparing the gain for
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  213   Tue Apr 9 08:57:22 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomDifferent cavity modes & Pulse widthAdditional information:

The pulse duration has been performed
in RF on a UPD-70-IR2-P photodiode from Alphalas
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  214   Wed Apr 10 11:35:54 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomFinesse measurement (35k)These days, Ronic, Aurélien
and I use OEwaves CW laser to measure the
finesse of SBOX. We made 5 measurements
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  215   Thu Apr 11 19:09:21 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomInstall 2-mirror cavityToday, Viktor and I started installing
the two-mirror cavity.
- Firstly, we cleaned the environment
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