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  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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  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,
  
  223   Wed Jun 19 10:38:00 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomD-shape mirrors positionning statussummary:

- the motors used to move the D-shape
are the Newport Picomotors 8303-V
  
  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 
  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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
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  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.
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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
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  207   Fri Mar 29 16:23:34 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical room100W CELIA laser amplifier "Power vs Pump current" curveWe measured again the 100W CELIA laser
amplifier with a pump current until 8A.

as the first current pump of the
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  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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