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  159   Thu Oct 13 12:19:11 2022 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical room33MHz laser SN2439 back to OrsayToday, we succeded to make the laser modelock.
the ouptut power is above 35mW (the
powermeter was saturated)
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  200   Mon Mar 20 17:23:09 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical room33MHz laser SN2439 back to OrsayAs the general local network for the FP-cavity
devices is 192.168.xxx.xxx, I changed the
IP adress of the smaract laser motors (Frep
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  35   Thu Apr 18 16:17:53 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedissuelasers and opticsOptical room33MHz Onefive power overtime decreasePower of the 33MHz Onfive decreases over
time. Have to pay attention to that.
Note that air dryers have never been
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  314   Tue Jan 16 12:26:12 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo33MHz (FP-cavity vs RF) phase stabilitythis morning, with Vincent Chaumat, we
made a beating (phase detection) between
the laser 33MHz and the 33MHz coming from
  
  320   Fri Jan 26 13:04:56 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo33MHz (FP-cavity vs RF) phase stability today, I locked the laser on the
FP-cavity and the FP-cavity on the RF reference
with 47kW inside the FP-cavity.
  
  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.
  
  48   Thu Jul 4 18:30:39 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical room2nd stage output power validated Onefive output power : 28mW
Power before fiber injection :
7.8mW
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  258   Fri Sep 15 18:00:41 2023 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo20Hz oscillation in the locking between Laser and FP-cavitythis morning, we tried to find the origin
of the 20Hz oscillation.

- we switched OFF the laser Smaract
  
  259   Fri Sep 15 18:11:07 2023 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo20Hz oscillation in the locking between Laser and FP-cavitythis afternoon, we did 2 tests to better
understand this 20Hz oscillation:

- we locked the amplified laser
  
  324   Fri Feb 9 09:50:45 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo20Hz oscillation in the locking between Laser and FP-cavityyesterday I did 2 tests to try to understand
the origin of the 20Hz oscillation which
is dominant in the remaining 10-20ps rms
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  325   Fri Feb 9 15:49:39 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo20Hz oscillation in the locking between Laser and FP-cavitywhat does this 10ps phase jitter mean in
term of cavity length variations ?

L = L0 + dL sin(2pi fm t) = L0
  
  326   Fri Feb 9 18:00:05 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo20Hz oscillation in the locking between Laser and FP-cavitymeasure to be done next week to check the
20Hz noise on the laser amplifier signal:

- install a DET10 in reflection
  
  361   Fri Sep 6 17:27:20 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo20Hz oscillation in the locking between Laser and FP-cavitycould it be possible this 20Hz oscillations
comes from anouncements in the bunker, puting
the housing+table in vibration ?
  
  269   Thu Sep 21 18:56:56 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and opticsThomX igloo!!! strange amplifier beam pointing fluctuations !!!this morning, I locked the cavity to ~25kW
without any problem.

but this afternoon, the reflected
  
  273   Wed Nov 8 17:51:30 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and opticsThomX igloo!!! strange amplifier beam pointing fluctuations !!!we confirmed the effect of the bunker temperature
on the laser amplifier "beam pointing"
fluctuations.
  
  261   Fri Sep 15 18:56:36 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo!!! strange FP cavity behavior => impossible to lock !!!suddenly, BEFORE switching the HV amplifier
ON and BEFORE connecting it to the EOM (in
order to explore the HV effect on the EOM
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  263   Mon Sep 18 12:48:39 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo!!! strange FP cavity behavior => impossible to lock !!!this morning, we tried:

- to move a bit the arm of the
L-shape off the beam axis (in case of it
  
  264   Mon Sep 18 17:12:07 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo!!! strange FP cavity behavior => impossible to lock !!!it could be also an optical unstability,
as when the intra-cavity power increases,
the radius of curvatures of the mirrors increases
  
  265   Wed Sep 20 14:16:09 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo!!! strange FP cavity behavior => impossible to lock !!!This morning,

- I installed the fast feedback
loop.
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