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Entry   First Lock with 2nd satge of amplifier : Finesse issue ?, posted by Ronic Chiche at Optical room about lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
    Reply   First Lock with 2nd satge of amplifier : Finesse issue ?, posted by Ronic Chiche at Optical room about lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
Message ID: 74     Entry time: Fri Oct 11 18:42:32 2019     In reply to: 72
 Author: Ronic Chiche 
 Status: Fixed 
 Type: issue 
 Category: lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
 Location: Optical room 
 Title: First Lock with 2nd satge of amplifier : Finesse issue ? 

First of all, we used and optical spectrometer to determine which proportion of pump and signal is in the injected beam.
the wavelength is THE SAME for the 2nd stage for the beam coming from the core or coming from the clad !
thus, it is impossible to use a spectrometer to obtain this proportion.

Thus, we made the assumption the pump beam (Sp) is unpolarized in contrary to the core beam (Sc) which is almost linearly polarized (Scp, Scs)

with a half waveplate and a PBS, we can define 2 cases in rotating the half waveplate at the output of the PBS :
maximum power : Scp + Sp/2 = a1
minimum power : Scs + Sp/2 = a2
The sum of both power a1 and a2 : a1+a2 = (Scp+Scs) + Sp is the total power of the beam before PBS.
The subtraction of power a1 and a2 : a1-a2 = Scp - Scs is independant of the pump power which can vary for example in opening an iris which normally block the most part of the pump beam.

if the core beam is perfectly linear, Scs=0 => a1-a2=Scp and Sp=2*a2
We did 2 measurements with a1=227mW, a2=67mW => Scp=160mW (Sp=134mW)
and with a1'=277mW, a2'=107mW => Scp=170mW (Sp'=214mW with a wider opened iris)

if these measurements and assumptions are correct, the real power injected to the cavity was 170mW (instead of 300mW).
with a coupling of 75% => Gain ~ 6.3k => Finesse ~ 19.7k !

to be confirmed...

Ronic Chiche wrote:

1st lock today with the second stage of the amplifier.
~ 300mW of injected power (but which proportion of the pump and of the signal ? => One must use a spectrometer to determine this proportion)
MAYBE the real injected power of the signal is lower => maybe the Finesse is higher !


Coupling ~ 75%

1.2 mW measured in transmission => ~800W inside the FP cavity
=> Gain ~ 3500 => Finesse ~ 11k !!!

Last Finesse measurement was about 19k ! :-(

 

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