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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 RenauxFixedinfolasers 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 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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  234   Tue May 27 18:12:22 2025 Alice RenauxFixedreportlasers 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 RenauxFixedreportlasers 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 RenauxFixedreportlasers 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 RenauxFixedreportlasers 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 RenauxFixedreportlasers 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 RenauxFixedreportlasers 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 RenauxFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomFinesse measurement(Finesse 2651 is consistent with that obtained
from the mirrors' transmission coefficients,
which is about 3100.)
  
  244   Tue Sep 9 21:23:11 2025 Alice RenauxFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomnew cavityYesterday, we changed the M1 mirror to
a 161185 Gamma
Factory mirror of transmission 460ppm, the
  
  245   Wed Sep 10 11:27:45 2025 Alice RenauxFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomnew cavityThe 2-mirrors cavity has 460ppm of transmission
for M1 and 10ppm for M2 which should exhibit
a Finesse around 13400.
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  257   Thu Aug 27 11:08:44 2026 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomfiber patch cables attenuation measurementsattenuation with 1 mating sleeve :

green jacket fiber : -0.4 dB

blue jacket fiber N°1 : -0.5
  
  258   Thu Aug 27 11:13:07 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir oscillator phase noise measurementwith Alice, we installed the Menhir 160MHz
oscillator on a breadboad placed on top of
4 damped feet around the amplifier.
  
  259   Mon Aug 31 15:14:04 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir oscillator phase noise measurementmeasurements made with Alice:

comparison between the CW OEwaves
oscillator phase noise measured last week
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  260   Mon Aug 31 16:15:46 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir oscillator phase noise measurementcomparison of the Menhir 160MHz phase noise
with the CW reference.

- in blue, the oscillators are
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  261   Mon Aug 31 16:28:31 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir oscillator phase noise measurementafter the previous
measurement, we installed similar dampers,
than the ones used belows the aluminium breadboard,
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  73   Mon Apr 4 13:58:23 2022 Manar AmerFixedissuedetectors and electronics | utilitiesOptical roomClean Airflow Dust measurementsThe dust meter cap was cleaned using Alcohol,
and using the filter white cap the dust count
was (0 Av. 10 min)
  
  74   Fri Apr 8 19:27:12 2022 Manar AmerFixedissuedetectors and electronics | utilitiesOptical roomClean Airflow Dust measurementsDust measurement done today on  top
of the SBox average 10min

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