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  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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  228   Tue Dec 3 13:51:52 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfoutilitiesOptical roomoptical table cleaningthis morning with Alice and Daniele, we
removed all the optics elements and equipments
from the SBOX optical table and started to
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  229   Fri Dec 6 16:59:57 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfoutilitiesOptical roomoptical table cleaningthis afternoon, we checked the dust meter
which is at 0 for 1 and 5µm dust particles
but ~ 2000-3000 for 0.3µm particles.
  
  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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  231   Tue Mar 4 18:33:26 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedinfoutilitiesOptical roomoptical table cleaningnow, it seems the table is clean enough
(dust meter counts 0 particles) to install
a 2 mirrors FP-cavity.
  
  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
  
  238   Mon Jun 23 14:38:33 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomfirst attempt to lockWith Alice, we installed the EOWaves oscillator
to be locked on the FP-cavity (T1 ~ 2500ppm,
T2 ~ 10ppm => F ~ 2500)
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  241   Thu Sep 4 17:35:50 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomInstallation of the avalanche photodiodeAfter installing the 2nd EOM, we had some
trouble to be able to lock again.
One possible reason was the very low
  
  246   Wed Aug 5 11:25:41 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationwe have all the adaptor plugs for connecting
the chiller.
so, I tested first the chiller connected
  
  247   Wed Aug 5 12:22:52 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationnow, I connected the chiller circuit to
the amplifier, thanks to the adapters.

chiller IN => blue pipe =>
  
  248   Wed Aug 5 13:49:49 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationpipes are maybe too long ?

we can use the Darcy-Weisbach +
Blasius laws (non linear laws).
  
  249   Thu Aug 6 14:49:32 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationI drained the chiller to install again
the short pipe (< 1m) in closed loop.

then, I filled again the chiller
  
  250   Thu Aug 6 15:12:49 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationnow, I installed the long pipes (2x 3m)
in closed loop (without the amplifier connected),
but the exact ones used to connect the laser,
  
  251   Fri Aug 7 10:59:52 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationI cut a small part of the black pipe on
the amplifier side (could it be slightly
deformed by a try with an other type of adapter
  
  252   Fri Aug 7 11:41:17 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationas soon as I connect the amplifier to the
pipes, the flow decreases to 1.7Lpm.

and the filling process is very
  
  253   Tue Aug 25 09:47:01 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationan email from Neolase/AMS claims that 1.7Lpm
is a normal flow (previous tests at 1.2Lpm
have been done successfully with a reduced
  
  254   Tue Aug 25 12:09:30 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationI connected the power supplies, laser controller
and laser head together with all the cables...
with no scheme in the manual.
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  255   Tue Aug 25 16:27:29 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationI installed 4 steel feets around the amplifier,
with rubber damping absorbers on top, to
put later the oscillator optical breadboard
  
  256   Wed Aug 26 16:12:13 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomNeolase amplifier installationthis morning, I tried to restart the controller
but all the temperatures values on the NeoCon
software were stuck to 0°C !
  
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