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  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
 133mhzpower.PNG133mhz_power_zoom.png 
  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....)
 IMG_20210610_161502.jpgspectre_133MHz.PNGScreen_0015.png 
  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.
 Beating00_after_rotatingM2_2.jpg 
  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
 TM00_mode.jpgTM01_mode.jpgTM10_mode.jpg 
  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.
 beamviwer_transmission_at_M3.bmpbeamviwer_transmission_at_M4.bmp 
  93   Wed Jun 8 10:47:45 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSBox Alignment Closing Series for Alignment.

Beating observed, beam is in the
locking stages
  
  94   Wed Jun 8 10:58:15 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomFundamental Mode TEM00Images of the Transmitted beam at M2 mirror
at different days. 

The first one was from last week,
 20220530_00_Mode.bmp00_Mode_Beam_Transmitted_Position_drift_due_to_temperature.bmp 
  96   Wed Jun 8 11:24:35 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomTelescope - Spacial Matching Divergence of the CW beam out of the collimator
measured after 1 meter to be 


 SBox_Spacial_Matching_Telescope.png 
  102   Wed Jul 6 18:35:38 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomFundamental Mode TEM00Closing series of 00 mode for FSR @ 133.33
MHz

 
  
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