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  224   Wed Oct 2 10:12:55 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuelasers and opticsOptical roomCELIA 100W laser amplifier repair this morning with Alice, we sent the Menhir
160MHz injected in a fiber (with 6mW at the
end of a long fiber) into the laser amplifier,
  
  225   Wed Oct 2 18:12:54 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuelasers and opticsOptical roomCELIA 100W laser amplifier repair this afternoon, we saw some electric cables
badly connected to their power supply.
we fixed it by soldering them together
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  230   Mon Dec 16 10:20:56 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuelasers and opticsOptical roomCELIA 100W laser amplifier repair friday morning, we add a zoom call with
Jerome Lhermite about the amplifier repair.
he approximately confirmed the amplifier
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  238   Mon Jun 23 14:38:33 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomfirst attempt to lockWith Alice, we installed the EOWaves oscillator
to be locked on the FP-cavity (T1 ~ 2500ppm,
T2 ~ 10ppm => F ~ 2500)
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  1   Wed Sep 26 18:12:44 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomCavity polarization states (Koheras), Finesse of 2 polarization statesMeasurments of Finesse with the 2 polarization
states, let's call them H (higher) and
L (lower): 24500 for the H and 23500 for
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  18   Wed Oct 31 13:51:17 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomChange of the 3 ULE mirrors by 3 spare ULE mirrorsFirst finesse measurement 20 266, FSR 133.351
MHz under vacuum
 Miroirs_à_1031_nm-ThomX_-_décembre2017.pdfvacuum.isf 
  23   Thu Nov 15 13:02:44 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMirrors cleaningThe new mirrors didn't give expected
results. Then the 4 old mirrors have been
sent to LMA on 12/11/18 for a cleaning and
  
  24   Fri Dec 21 13:42:43 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomMirrors features, come back from LMAMirrors arrived today from LMA. Their features
are damaged.

Photos avant ou après nettoyage,
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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
 POINT_SUR_LES_MIROIRS.pptx 
  58   Wed Jun 19 18:54:00 2019 Huan WangFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomamplifierOnefive output power is 24mW now, and 2.41mW(after
EOM) injected into fiber,

a injection power monitor
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  59   Mon Jun 24 16:15:08 2019 Huan WangFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomamplifierI just had a phone call with Jérome
and he told me 2 things :

* Be carefull ! the MightyLaser
  
  32   Tue Dec 10 09:36:56 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomFSR and Finesse measurementYesterday the cavity has been aligned and
locked with the CW Koheras laser.

the FSR has been measured by modulation
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  37   Tue Dec 17 10:46:24 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomBeam size behind M2Beam diameter behind M2 :

- 2nd stage @ 6A - 1kW inside cavity
sx = 2120 µm
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  39   Tue Dec 17 12:16:54 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomOptical amplifier polarization stateWe placed a PBS + 2 photodiodes (PhD1,
PhD2) at the output of the amplifier to check
how the polarization of the amplifier changes
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  40   Tue Dec 17 17:54:38 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomOptical amplifier polarization stateThe
polarimeter was giving a strange 50% of DOP
of the light coming from the cavity.
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  41   Tue Dec 17 17:58:12 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomBeam size behind M2the telescope matchs the cold cavity beam,
so it is normal to have a power decrease
on the transmission photodiode when the cavity
  
  42   Thu Dec 19 09:21:45 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomOptical amplifier polarization statepolarization state of the cavity at higher
power : 20kW, 30kW  and 33kW (slight
CEP and alignment optimization) :
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  44   Thu Dec 19 16:03:17 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomBeam size behind M2Yesterday, we tried to better adapt positions
of the telescope lenses, dynamically, during
the lock, to improve the matching between
  
  45   Thu Dec 19 16:23:39 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomCavity beam axis moving with powerhow the cavity beam axis is moving during
a lock when the cavity is hot ?
could it explain a part of the Transmission
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  50   Fri Jan 24 17:56:11 2020 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomAFM analysis of M2We had enough time to proceed a quick scan
of M2 which has also a hole but not centered
on the mirror.
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