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Entry   CW laser installation and cleaning, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics 20230308_121713.jpg
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Message ID: 193     Entry time: Mon Mar 13 14:02:59 2023     In reply to: 192
 Author: Ronic Chiche 
 Status: Fixed 
 Type: info 
 Category: lasers and optics 
 Location: ThomX igloo 
 Title: CW laser installation and cleaning 

This morning with Ronic , in preparation for the mirror installation, we removed additional mechanics and cables from the table. 

We organized and cleaned the permanently installed cables on the table away from the area of the cavity opening. 

We opened the two top vents and left the shutters open to circulate clean air , (note the shutters surrounding the laser and amplifier are half closed for safety)

Note: before installing the mirrors, preferably the shutters should be opened a day before to have clean air in the surrounding of the cavity openings

and avoid any cleaning or air disturbance.

 

Ronic Chiche wrote:

This morning with Manar, in order to prepare the installation of the news FP cavity mirrors,

- we installed the Koheras below the optical table
- we put a fiber prolongator at the end of the Koheras fiber and we put a mounted collimator at the end of the fiber.
we added a mirror at 45° to inject the beam to injection axis of the table.
- as the beam was still slightly divergent, we added a 750mm lens ~20cm after the collimator to improve the beam collimation.
now the collimated beam is going approximatively through the middle all of the iris in the optical path.

we finished by ~2h of cleaning of the optical table and elements, which were very dirty.
it is still a bit dirty. see the attached file to get the numbers provided by the particle counter after the cleaning.

 

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