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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 RenauxUnder Processinfolasers 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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  19   Wed Oct 31 14:03:22 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM4 transmission measurementThe kept transmission for M4 is
2.17 ppm. Which is the value
measured after alignement (center of the
  
  20   Wed Oct 31 14:04:50 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM4 transmission measurement


Loïc
  
  172   Wed Sep 28 18:43:51 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM2 ThomX spherical Cleaning Today, M2 Spherical-3 from ThomX that was
installed inside the SBox was removed, there
was one big dust on the surface of the mirror,
 6x 
  17   Wed Oct 31 13:48:58 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM1 transmission measurementCenter of M1:




I
  
  21   Wed Oct 31 14:06:17 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM1 transmission measurementAt different positions, transmission give
194, 193, 208, 200 ppm?

  
  168   Tue Sep 20 12:50:40 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM1 ThomX used while shifted from damaged spot Yesterday , we locked the cavity and we
see a sign of a high finesse on the transmission
signal, but no measurement of Finesse was
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  169   Wed Sep 21 12:10:07 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM1 ThomX used while shifted from damaged spot To compare between the 2 images of the
cavity mode:


the mode by itself has
  
  170   Mon Sep 26 16:15:06 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM1 ThomX used while shifted from damaged spot On Wednesday 21st , I opened the cavity
did an additional 2 mm shift of the injection
mirror and put it under vacuum again.
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  171   Tue Sep 27 19:30:49 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomM1 Gamma FactoryIn the morning, Vacuum broken and rotated
M1 ThomX 90 degrees clockwise, locked the
cavity in air and we observe a degeneracy
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  146   Wed Sep 7 18:58:03 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomLocking Amplifier with Cavity Today we managed to observe the fundamental
mode and stabilize the scan on it until we
improved the alignment enough.
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  147   Thu Sep 8 11:16:40 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomLocking Amplifier with Cavity Today, we played on the CEP but using the
I-tune input of the Menhir Laser (+/- 5V
maximal range).
  
  148   Thu Sep 8 13:39:03 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomLocking Amplifier with Cavity We played on the CEP using the USB command
"id0=xxxxx" of the Menhir.

we put id0=48650 and we improved
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  149   Thu Sep 8 14:58:51 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomLocking Amplifier with Cavity We managed to lock the cavity by adding
the AOM , but the lock is still difficult
to stabilize.
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  150   Thu Sep 8 18:28:51 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomLocking Amplifier with Cavity We wanted to increase the power of the
amplifier to measure the transmission output
at M2,
  
  151   Fri Sep 9 11:50:17 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomLocking Amplifier with Cavity We locked the cavity, and it is stable
using the Transmission,

the high frequency that we thought
  
  152   Fri Sep 9 12:45:19 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomLocking Amplifier with Cavity image of the lock with Coupling of ~ 60%

 

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