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  216   Tue Jun 6 01:12:11 2023 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronics | cabling | softwareThomX iglooCavity Lock - Alphanov Amplifier Today, I installed a power meter at the
transmission point of the 1st spherical mirror
, transmission 3 ppm (direct from cavity
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  218   Wed Jun 7 21:46:50 2023 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronics | cabling | softwareThomX iglooCavity Lock - Alphanov Amplifier Today with Ronic,

starting with major events that
happened (Water circulation + ThomX valves
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  220   Fri Jun 9 19:51:43 2023 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronics | cabling | softwareThomX iglooCavity Lock - Alphanov Amplifier In the morning, we locked on the first
resonance. With an increase on the amplifier
power @ 20-25% and 30%, which reduced the
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  221   Mon Jun 19 16:08:15 2023 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronics | cabling | softwareThomX iglooCavity Lock - Alphanov Amplifier The computer is possible to connect from
the control room,

we are able to run remotely the
  
  391   Wed Jan 8 12:24:48 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | cablingThomX iglooCEM noise measurementsThe goal of these measurements is to check
if one can find some correlation between
the CFP lock losses observed during a run
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  392   Wed Jan 8 16:08:59 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | cablingThomX iglooCEM noise measurementsThis afternoon, we started almost all the
parts of the machine with Vincent and Nicolas,
and we didn't see any change in the Loop
  
  72   Thu Oct 10 17:51:26 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomFirst Lock with 2nd satge of amplifier : Finesse issue ?1st lock today with the second stage of
the amplifier.
~ 300mW of injected power (but which
  
  74   Fri Oct 11 18:42:32 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomFirst 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.
  
  81   Fri Nov 22 17:56:56 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical room30Hz noise issuesince some days, we observe the cavity
is difficult to lock and a strange 30Hz noise
has appeared on the PZT signal which normally
  
  84   Tue Nov 26 16:35:39 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical room30Hz noise issueThe 30 Hz noise issue has been solved !

It came from translation stage
of P1 and/or P4.
  
  115   Tue Feb 1 14:17:02 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooFP cavity alignment Installed and inputs: 


CW laser ; power = 101
mW
PDH ;

at output

Low
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  116   Tue Feb 1 16:40:06 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooFP cavity alignment This afternoon, I did some alignment of
the injection mirrors with a fast scan on
the LaseLock to get a regular transmission
  
  117   Wed Feb 2 11:22:51 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooFP cavity alignment This morning with Manar, we installed the
AOM+RF amplifier and the associated fast
feedback loop.
  
  118   Wed Feb 2 11:41:01 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooFP cavity alignment Adding Oscilloscope images


delocked + locked intervals
showing the 20% coupling
lock
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  119   Thu Feb 3 13:56:24 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooFP cavity alignment Ending alignment series !!




  
  120   Thu Feb 3 14:10:08 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooFP cavity alignment As it can be seen on the first plot, even
with a good locking (good reduction of "high"
frequencies noise: we had better locking
  
  121   Thu Feb 3 14:11:50 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooCavity Lock and Finess measurment This morning, me and Ronic managed to obtain
the FSR and image of the finesse which is
to be analyzed.
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  123   Thu Feb 3 18:40:04 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooFP cavity alignment The fluctuation problem has been solved.
It was simply the new scheme to inject
2 RF frequencies in a single EOM.
  
  125   Thu Feb 3 18:59:10 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooCavity Lock and Finess measurment

to measure the Finesse, instead
of having 2x EOM for the PDH and for the
  
  126   Thu Feb 3 19:01:04 2022 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooCavity Lock and Finess measurment

After changing the way of injecting
modulation for PDH and modulation for FSR
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