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  55   Wed Feb 5 16:46:01 2020 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSBOX mirrors cleanedToday we put the cavity to vacuum (~ 0.1
mBar) and we measured again the Finesse with
Koheras and modulation technique.
  
  56   Thu Feb 6 11:01:08 2020 Ronic ChicheFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomanalysis of stored and reflected powerwith this Finesse around 22-23k, the technique
comparing TRANSMISSION and REFLECTION signals
doesn't work, even in taking into account
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  57   Thu Feb 6 16:58:57 2020 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPower up to 48kW crater effect againAs we said, after glow discharge and spin
coater we recovered a low power finesse ~23000
(aligning away from the M1 crater).
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  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
 14x 
  61   Tue Jan 5 12:38:04 2021 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomTransmission Measurements for the Mirrors.
Thursday 10 December 2020:  
First Test Measurement - Inside Box

 The
transmission ( T ) for the mirrors of SBOX
 6x 
  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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  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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  76   Wed Apr 20 19:05:37 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomKBox Alignment Starting with the alignment of the KBox
using CW Koheras.

The size of the CW output from
 7x 
  77   Mon Apr 25 17:28:29 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSBox Alignment SBox alignment, using CW laser Koheras
power 1 mW


 6x 
  78   Mon Apr 25 17:58:01 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSBox Alignment After pointers and Advice from Aurélien,

improvement of the beam alignment
through M1 and M2 irises was done.
 Ma1_Ma2_Horizontal_Position_Optimized.pngMa1_Ma2_Vertical_Position_Optimized.pngAfter_M1_diaphram_1m_Saturated_Beam_Optimized.jpgAfter_M2_M1_diaphram_Saturated_Beam_Optimized.jpgAfter_M2_M1_diaphram_Beam_Optimized.jpg 
  79   Mon Apr 25 18:02:09 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSBox Alignment Remember to update the position of the
reference Irises tomorrow !!!!

  
  80   Tue Apr 26 20:08:10 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSBox Alignment
Adjust the placement of
the Irises  (done at the start of the
 9x 
  81   Wed Apr 27 22:13:37 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSBox Alignment Finished the alignment of the SBox with
M1 of SBox placed, to be changed to gamma
factory mirror later
 all_mirrorsplaced_after_m2_window.jpg20222704_SBox_alignment.pptx 
  83   Mon May 9 18:36:48 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSBox Alignment Last week In FP cavity we had all SBox
mirrors including the damaged M1 mirror.

The beating was observed with just
 Beating_TM00_SBox_damaged_M1.jpgBeating_HigherOrder_SBox_damaged_M1.jpg 
  84   Mon May 9 19:05:35 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSBox Alignment Today; replaced the M1 SBox mirror with
M1 from gamma factory , following the previous
alignment.
 M2_alignment_M3_pinhole.jpgM3_alignment_M4_pinhole.jpgM4_alignment_M1_pinhole.jpgBeating_TM00_CW_piezo_drive.jpg 
  86   Wed May 11 09:19:48 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSBox Alignment Yesterday, to find the source of why the
mode is deformed, I tried to rotate the mirrors
to see if there is a change.
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  88   Wed May 11 21:10:27 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSBox Alignment M2 Sbox changed to spare. Alignment of
M2 was redone. 

With the help of Ronic , We observe
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  90   Tue May 24 22:05:48 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSBox Alignment The external and internal alignment was
redone.

External Alignment : the collimator
 7x 
  91   Tue May 24 22:11:40 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomFundamental Mode TEM00The current setup for the SBox has a beam
viewer and 2 photodiodes placed at reflection
and transmission.
 20220524_SBox_Setup.png00mode_CW_piezo_drive.bmp00mode_11mode.bmp 
  92   Wed May 25 17:34:29 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomFundamental Mode TEM00Adding images from the transmission after
the spherical mirrors M3 and M4 window for
a resonating mode inside the cavity.
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