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  161   Mon Sep 12 18:50:57 2022 Manar AmerFixedissuelasers and opticsOptical roomDamage on mirror surface Tomorrow will try to shift the injection
mirror to avoid hitting the damaged spot.

 
  
  162   Tue Sep 13 19:26:27 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomDamage on mirror surface After discussing, we have decided against
shifting the mirror to avoid the time lost.

We changed the injection mirror
  
  163   Tue Sep 13 19:31:14 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomliPower storage In CavityAfter changing the mirror M1 and cleaning
the 2 mirrors

They were placed in the cavity
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  164   Wed Sep 14 16:16:08 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPower storage In CavityThe cavity was locked under vacuum, coupling
is approximately < 10%

The lock was relatively easy and
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  165   Wed Sep 14 17:21:59 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomPower storage In CavityWe improved the lock using the alignment,
polarization and CEP , the maximum we got
was ~ 12% coupling
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  166   Fri Sep 16 15:56:45 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomDamage on mirror surface a better image of the damaged spot, image
taken with the arrow for the reflective surface
facing the other direction (image shows position)
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  167   Fri Sep 16 17:47:56 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomDamage on mirror surface ThomX injection mirror has been cleaned
and placed again inside the optical cavity.

This time to avoid the damaged
  
  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.
 00mode_damaged_0_26ms.jpg00mode_damaged_saturted_50ms.jpgreflection_noLock.jpgreflection_Lock_0_15ms.jpg 
  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
 00mode_ThomX_Mirror_degeneracySpot_1point04ms.jpg00mode_ThomX_Mirror_degeneracySpot_saturateat50.jpgCoupling_mirror_.jpeg 
  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 
  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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  175   Thu Dec 7 09:30:03 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareOptical roomnew setup for the 160MHz Menhir oscillatorfrom the begining of the week, Xinyi, Aurélien,
Viktor and myself started to install a new
setup for the Menhir 160MHz oscillator.
 Plan_SBOX_@_160MHz.pptxImplantation_disymmetric.mIMG_20210519_155329.jpg 
  176   Fri Dec 8 18:59:24 2023 Xinyi LuFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomMounts installation and cavity alignmentOver the last two days, Viktor, Ronic and
I have started to install the mirror mounts
and try to align the cavity.
  
  177   Thu Dec 14 17:52:53 2023 Xinyi LuFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomMounts installation and cavity alignmentOver the past few days, Viktor, Ronic and
I have continued to align the cavity.
We installed 4 mirrors and monitored the
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  178   Wed Dec 20 10:45:37 2023 Xinyi LuFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomMounts installation and cavity alignment- Over the last few days, Viktor, Ronic
and I have reinstalled the mounts and realigned
the cavity with CW laser and old mirrors.
 resonances.jpgcavity_mode.jpgcavity_mode_diameter.jpg 
  179   Wed Jan 10 18:35:46 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomCoupling efficiency improvement- Recently we have focused on improving
the coupling efficiency. Without the telescope,
the original coupling efficiency was less
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  180   Mon Jan 15 19:19:00 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomCoupling efficiency improvement- We got 30% coupling efficiency by installing
a set of telescopes, adjusting the polarization
and optimizing the alignment. The diameter
 coupling_efficiency.jpgcavity_locking.jpg 
  181   Tue Jan 16 18:42:42 2024 Xinyi LuFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomFSR and Finesse measurement- Today, Ronic and I measured the finesse
and FSR after optimizing the locking. FSR
was adjusted to 160.27 MHz to match the pulsed
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