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  216   Fri Apr 12 17:18:15 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomInstall 2-mirror cavityToday Viktor and I completed the installation
of the two-mirror cavity and managed
to lock and measure the finesse.
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  217   Mon Apr 15 18:19:40 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomFinesse measurement of 2-mirror cavity- Today Daniele and I cleaned the spherical
mirror by wiping it with alcohol,
and the finesse increased to 47k
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  218   Tue Apr 16 18:38:04 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomFiber injection, spectrum and connection of 2nd stage amplifierToday, Daniele and I injected the laser
into the fiber, installed the telescope,
connected the second stage of the amplifier,
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  219   Thu Apr 25 22:12:25 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical room2 mirror cavity high power experimentsToday, Ronic and I recorded some intracavity
power and cavity mode size as shown in Fig.
1.
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  220   Mon May 6 18:38:18 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomhigh-power experiments of 2-mirror cavityToday, Ronic, Daniele and I redo the high-power
2-mirror cavity experiments, and the results
are shown in the table (Figure 1 and
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  221   Thu May 16 18:51:17 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomhigh-power experiments of 2-mirror cavityhere is a Matlab code to try to optimize
the telescope for a hot cavity,
taking into account the thermal lens
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  222   Fri May 17 15:02:01 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomhigh-power experiments of 2-mirror cavityHere's a summary of our experiment
last week:

The initial telescope position:
 6x 
  224   Wed Oct 2 10:12:55 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuelasers 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 ChicheUnder Processissuelasers 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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  226   Fri Nov 29 12:06:05 2024 Alice RenauxFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir 160MHz laserThe Menhir 160MHz has been put back in
place on the CELIA amplifier setup. Its output
power is measured to be 150-160mW with an
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  227   Fri Nov 29 16:50:04 2024 Alice RenauxUnder Processinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir 216MHz laserThe 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   Mon Dec 16 10:20:56 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuelasers 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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  234   Tue May 27 18:12:22 2025 Alice RenauxUnder Processreportlasers and opticsOptical room2-mirror cavity alignmentYesterday 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   Wed May 28 10:55:15 2025 Alice RenauxUnder Processreportlasers and opticsOptical room2-mirror cavity alignmentThe NKT laser PZT sensitivity is ~0.09pm/V
of wavelength variation, which is equivalent
to ~ 25MHz/V
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  236   Wed May 28 18:27:27 2025 Alice RenauxUnder Processreportlasers and opticsOptical room2-mirror cavity full setupToday with Ronic, we changed the FP cavity's
mirrors to Layertek (Gamma Factory) mirrors
:
  
  237   Fri Jun 13 20:10:00 2025 Alice RenauxFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomDamaged mirrors testToday with Dorian we tested three mirrors
with which we previously haven't been
able to obtain any resonance or optical beating
  
  239   Thu Aug 28 15:29:00 2025 Alice RenauxUnder Processreportlasers and opticsOptical room2-mirror cavity lockingIn June, we encountered some problems regarding
the transmission and error signals (see images
here),
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  240   Wed Sep 3 18:10:34 2025 Alice RenauxUnder Processreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSuccessful 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   Thu Sep 4 17:52:03 2025 Alice RenauxUnder Processreportlasers and opticsOptical roomFinesse measurementToday, 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   Thu Sep 4 17:56:50 2025 Alice RenauxUnder Processreportlasers and opticsOptical roomFinesse measurement(Finesse 2651 is consistent with that obtained
from the mirrors' transmission coefficients,
which is about 3100.)
  
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