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Entry   Removing high order modes, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
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Message ID: 241     Entry time: Fri Sep 8 12:43:04 2023     Reply to this: 242
 Author: Ronic Chiche 
 Status: Fixed 
 Type: info 
 Category: mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
 Location: ThomX igloo 
 Title: Removing high order modes 

this morning we locked the laser and the FP-cavity with ~ 40kW => some HOM appeared "randomly" depending on the power.

we tried to play manually on the L-shape arm :
- first, we moved horizontally to put the L-shape in the beam axis
at some point, we saw the power level divided by ~2, we stopped and came back to restore the full power.
- then, we tried to move vertically.
whatever the direction, we were not able to see a clear cut of the beam.
BUT "strangely", at some point, the PZT drift followed the direction of the motion and was not really depending on the "cooling" or "heating" process when the lock stops or restart.
"strangely" again, at the endpoint, the power dropped by ~20-30% after a delock but it was impossible to restore the power when we put the arm at the initial position.
=> we had to adjust the FP-cavity alignment to restore the power !!!
=> we had the feeling that moving the arm could have misalign the cavity axis !!! :-(
=> we have to discuss with Yann and get the CAD files of the cavity to have a better understanding...

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