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  155   Fri Sep 9 15:47:46 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPower storage In CavityAt transmission power of 42 mW, coupling
60%, we see fundamental mode with a degeneracy

The D-shape motors were moved to
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  158   Mon Sep 12 16:27:14 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPower storage In CavityPower increased in the amplifier

reflective filters added at the
transmission point to be able to have signal
  
  159   Mon Sep 12 17:00:35 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPower storage In Cavityat max stage we reached at 2.5
A on the diodes we have

8000 gain , coupling ~
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  164   Wed Sep 14 16:16:08 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPower storage In CavityThe cavity was locked under vacuum, coupling
is approximately < 10%

The lock was relatively easy and
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  165   Wed Sep 14 17:21:59 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPower storage In CavityWe improved the lock using the alignment,
polarization and CEP , the maximum we got
was ~ 12% coupling
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  11   Wed Oct 31 11:27:49 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportmechanics | lasers and opticsOptical roomPower measurement with D-shapeMeasurements of lot of points with D-shape
mirrors well positionned.

Power not optimized to the best
  
  5   Tue Oct 9 10:15:17 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPolarization optimizationOptimization of the polarization has been
made the 03/10/18. Checked in reflection
of the cavity in reflection&transmission
  
  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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  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
  
  13   Wed Oct 31 13:42:22 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPolarization frequencyCheck of the frequency of the onefive locked
on each polarization of the cavity (tilt
a waveplate by 45°).
  
  14   Wed Oct 31 13:43:03 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPolarization frequencyMeasurement on 30/10/18.




  
  2   Mon Oct 1 11:30:39 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPhase measurement with HASO2 measurement.

First one locked, in transmission
of M2 with 2nd stage 0A.Total 89 cm from
 180928_M2_0A.has1801001_input_0A.has180928_M2_trans_0A.txt 
  3   Mon Oct 1 14:27:35 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPhase measurement with HASO* Loic has to fix the number of files (3)
regarding the number of measurements (2)

* splitted Intensity and phase
 8x 
  4   Mon Oct 1 15:19:48 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPhase measurement with HASOwith just intensity, the coupling is 98%,
and with phase, x direction coupling is 95%,
y direction 97%, so the telescope is good.
  
  63   Thu Jun 10 17:55:15 2021 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomOrigami SN2440 133MHz laser testsToday, we received the Origami SN2440 133MHz
oscillator from repair (NKT mentioned a defective
wire inside the controller....)
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  62   Tue Jan 12 10:44:57 2021 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and opticsOptical roomOrigami SN2440 133MHz laser power measurment... and failurewe received from NKT the Origami SN2440
133MHz oscillator from repair on 2020/12/17
and we measured the power trend from
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  39   Tue Dec 17 12:16:54 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomOptical amplifier polarization stateWe placed a PBS + 2 photodiodes (PhD1,
PhD2) at the output of the amplifier to check
how the polarization of the amplifier changes
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  40   Tue Dec 17 17:54:38 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomOptical amplifier polarization stateThe
polarimeter was giving a strange 50% of DOP
of the light coming from the cavity.
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  42   Thu Dec 19 09:21:45 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomOptical amplifier polarization statepolarization state of the cavity at higher
power : 20kW, 30kW  and 33kW (slight
CEP and alignment optimization) :
 cavity_polar_3e_etage_2A_-_20kW.PNGcavity_polar_3e_etage_3A_-_30kW.PNGcavity_polar_3e_etage_3A_-_33kW.PNG 
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