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  115   Tue Jul 12 19:07:50 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareOptical roomCELIA amplifier installationThe amplifier was installed on the optical
table next to SBox table.

The CVBG that will be used for
  
  224   Wed Oct 2 10:12:55 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and opticsOptical roomCELIA 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,
  
  225   Wed Oct 2 18:12:54 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and opticsOptical roomCELIA 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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  230   Mon Dec 16 10:20:56 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and opticsOptical roomCELIA 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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  9   Fri Oct 19 11:23:27 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomBeam size vs D-shape positionMeasurement done on 18/10/18.

At high power, the shape of the
0.0 mode does not change. The D-shape only
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  10   Fri Oct 19 11:46:21 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomBeam size vs D-shape positionMatlab code for size vs position and power


clear all
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  37   Tue Dec 17 10:46:24 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomBeam size behind M2Beam diameter behind M2 :

- 2nd stage @ 6A - 1kW inside cavity
sx = 2120 µm
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  41   Tue Dec 17 17:58:12 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomBeam size behind M2the telescope matchs the cold cavity beam,
so it is normal to have a power decrease
on the transmission photodiode when the cavity
  
  44   Thu Dec 19 16:03:17 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomBeam size behind M2Yesterday, we tried to better adapt positions
of the telescope lenses, dynamically, during
the lock, to improve the matching between
  
  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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  132   Fri Aug 19 16:31:11 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomAmplifier output Beam ProfileIn preparation to measure the output beam
profile from the amplifier at high power,
I have placed two wedge mirrors just before
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  135   Mon Aug 22 18:39:13 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomAmplifier output Beam ProfileBeam divergence after amplifier 4.46 mrad

 

  
  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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  232   Tue Mar 4 18:51:57 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | 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
  
  118   Fri Jul 22 18:00:21 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareOptical roomAlignment / Table setup The current setup of the optical table
attached.

The cavity is aligned and the lock
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  130   Fri Aug 19 16:03:17 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareOptical roomAlignment / Table setup closing series




  
  29   Wed Nov 13 13:15:53 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOtherAFM+ InfraRed spectroscopy (IR spectro) has been performedAFM+ InfraRed spectroscopy (IR spectro)
has been performed on 400kW S-BOX mirrors.

Seems that XPS made M3 and M4 dirty,
 191113_AFMetspecIR-miroirs_SBOX.pdf 
  27   Fri Feb 1 13:45:19 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOtherAFM performed on S-BOX mirrors29/02/19 - AFM has shown that spots
on mirror's surfaces are bumps and not
holes.
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  50   Fri Jan 24 17:56:11 2020 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomAFM analysis of M2We had enough time to proceed a quick scan
of M2 which has also a hole but not centered
on the mirror.
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  49   Fri Jan 24 17:52:14 2020 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomAFM analysis of M1AFM has been proceeded on M1 and M2.

The pdf shows the first images
taken with the PLIC room Leica microscope
 200115_AFM_miroirs.pdf 
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