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  7   Thu Oct 18 09:42:39 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportmechanics | lasers and opticsOptical roomMotors for D-shaped mirrorsMotors have been installed on 16/10/18.
No problem with them.

Effect of the motors tested on
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  24   Fri Dec 21 13:42:43 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMirrors features, come back from LMAMirrors arrived today from LMA. Their features
are damaged.

Photos avant ou après nettoyage,
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  23   Thu Nov 15 13:02:44 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMirrors cleaningThe new mirrors didn't give expected
results. Then the 4 old mirrors have been
sent to LMA on 12/11/18 for a cleaning and
  
  31   Fri Dec 6 11:54:58 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomMirror's installedThe initial 400kW SBOX mirrors which have
been cleaned ont 28th of november have been
installed this morning on the SBOX.
  
  60   Wed Dec 16 12:36:37 2020 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomMirror's cleaning and microscope imagingOn 10th of december 2020 we cleaned the
SBOX mirrors and took microscope images
(the name of the images indicates what they
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  30   Fri Dec 6 11:53:53 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomMirror's cleaningXPS has been proceeded on the 400kW SBOX
mirrors M3 and M4 (the initial cavity spherical
mirrors) in frebruary 2019. Deposited a lot
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  69   Tue Mar 29 16:23:00 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | cablingOptical roomMightylaser Amplifier Migthylaser amplifier has been moved from
the SBox table to the PLIC table.

 
  
  46   Thu Jan 9 16:54:05 2020 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomMicroscope and cleaning of SBOX mirrorsThe mirrors went in the cavity the 28th
of november (We did several power up
to 30kW stored and only one to 40kW then
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  190   Wed Feb 21 17:33:59 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir pulsed laser lockingThese days, Ronic, Daniele and I achieved
stable cavity locking with the menhir pulsed
laser.
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  191   Wed Feb 21 18:09:11 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir pulsed laser lockingHere is a simulation of the relative FP-cavity
gain vs the CEP for a Finesse of 23000 and
taking into account the Menhir laser optical
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  192   Mon Feb 26 08:58:33 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir pulsed laser lockingLast week, Ronic and I focused on CEP
measurements of the menhir laser.


Measurements without
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  193   Mon Feb 26 16:53:24 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMenhir pulsed laser lockinghere is the code to get this last curve




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  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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  99   Tue Jun 21 23:52:28 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomMenhir Pulsed LaserThe SBox Length (FSR), was changed to match
the repetition rate of the Menhir
pulsed laser Frep = 216.6625 MHz
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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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  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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  28   Fri Feb 1 14:04:27 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOtherMeeting with LMA people, AFM30/01/19 - The following powerpoint
shows the results discussed with LMA people.

What came out from the discussion
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