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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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  153   Fri Sep 9 12:49:44 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomLocking Amplifier with Cavity Alignment was improved to ~ 1.2 V on the
photodiode.

Only the second stage was on with
  
  173   Fri Jan 6 12:33:18 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomLaser Menhir reinstallation + CVBG + fiber injectionThe lab purchased the Menhir laser @ 216MHz.

it has been sent back to Menhir
photonics for inspection, and then is now
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  211   Thu Apr 4 21:48:16 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomLarger beam size & Spectrum- We re-measured the gain before moving
the mirror. Gain ~9000 was achieved at 3A,
but as the power increased, the gain dropped
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  126   Thu Aug 11 19:27:09 2022 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomKoheras CW laser lock on FP cavityI locked the Koheras CW on the FP cavity
but the lock was pretty noisy and very difficult
to acquire.
  
  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 
  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
  
  114   Tue Jul 12 18:53:55 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomInstallation of D-shaped mirror / AlignmentTo prepare for the amplifier. I installed
the D-shapped mirrors after cleaning (using
aceton and ethanol) between the cavity 2
  
  117   Fri Jul 22 17:10:06 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomInstallation of D-shaped mirror / AlignmentThe D-shaped mirrors are installed properly
and not cutting the path of the beam.

The cavity has been aligned again
  
  182   Wed Jan 17 21:11:59 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomInstall new mirrorsToday, Ronic and I installed the new mirrors
and got resonance. We can see the oscillations
in this high-finesse case. We haven't
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  183   Thu Jan 18 22:14:03 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomInstall new mirrors- In the last two days, Ronic and I installed
new mirrors after cleaning the environment,
and locked the cavity.
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  184   Mon Jan 22 18:18:01 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomInstall new mirrors- Today, Ronic and I changed the signal
generator to a low-noise one (with a delay
time of only 0.5 us). Then we moved
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  185   Wed Jan 24 20:33:27 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomInstall new mirrorsYesterday we checked the mirrors with
UV light and there was some dust on the mirrors,
especially M2.
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  215   Thu Apr 11 19:09:21 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomInstall 2-mirror cavityToday, Viktor and I started installing
the two-mirror cavity.
- Firstly, we cleaned the environment
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