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  10   Mon Nov 26 15:18:49 2018 Ronic ChicheFixedinfovacuumOptical roomEtuvage cavité THOMXMail de Bruno Mercier
du 19/11/2018 :


Une première cavité
  
  11   Fri Dec 21 13:55:09 2018 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfovacuumOptical roomEnd of vacuum test and cavity ready for cleaningVacuum tests finished on 19 december
2018.

Spent last two days to discuss
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  12   Wed Jan 16 14:54:14 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and optics | utilitiesOptical roomCleaning outside IP cavityFrom 7th january to 11th january.

 
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  13   Fri Feb 1 13:20:47 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportutilitiesOptical roomEnd of cleaning, plastic fixed on cavity08/02/19 - End of the cleaning process.  covered_by_plastic.pngcovered_by_plastic2.png 
  14   Fri Feb 1 13:39:21 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomMirrors checked with binocular microscope29/01/19 - ThomX mirrors have also been
checked with binocular microscope. They shown
the same spots as S-BOX mirrors. 
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  15   Fri Feb 1 14:10:25 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOtherMirrors sent to LMA30/01/19 - As LMA people came, we discussed
about the spots on ThomX mirrors which should
be clean. As mentionned in "SBOX commissioning",
  
  16   Thu Feb 14 18:20:52 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportmechanics | lasers and opticsOptical roomBasic alignment & alignment motors check14/02/19: The 4 motors but Mby control
works. Mby motor home does not bring
it to its "middle" position
  
  17   Tue Feb 19 15:50:08 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfomechanicsOptical roomMotors connexionsMotors are connected. The true mirror's
name are P1 for injection mirrors, S2, S3
and P4. (S=spherical, P=planar).
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  18   Tue Mar 19 16:35:32 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomBeam size and finesseFSR initiale : 33.34 MHz (S3 = -825000
et S4 = -825000)

Beam size initiale : wx=2.05mm
  
  19   Tue Mar 19 17:01:52 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedissuemechanicsOptical roomMotors Z axis reversedS2 and S3 z-axis are initially at 1/4 (5mm/20mm) of
there range over ~20mm range. This is meant
to be able to spread them up to ~15mm in
  
  20   Fri Mar 22 17:53:10 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and optics | vacuumOptical roomCavity at atm pressureDry air injected into the cavity.

Lock has been proceeded without
any trouble. ~~4000 finesse. Considered to
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  21   Tue Mar 26 18:26:32 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomCheck of mirrors and coating directionsDirection of HR face of P1 and P4 have
been checked, there was no problem. The mirrors
are in the good direction and the coating
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  22   Tue Mar 26 18:32:40 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportmechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomWires in laser pathThere was some ceramic wires close to the
beem path right before P4. We moved them
away (we can imagine they could move again
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  23   Thu Mar 28 09:25:58 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedissuemechanicsOptical roomMotors Z axis reversedAll Z motors (for P1, S2, S3 and P4) have
been initialized again with a proper HOME
command with their own controller  with
  
  24   Fri Mar 29 18:33:15 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and opticsOptical roomAlignment procedurewe did again the complete alignment procedure
starting with iris and optimizing injection
motors Ma and Mb, then installing mirror
  
  25   Tue Apr 2 17:59:18 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomFinesse after removing wires19/04/01: We removed the wires from the
beam path in the cavity. Finesse stayed at
3400. FSR: 33.342 MHz.
  
  26   Tue Apr 2 18:03:31 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomTransmission of the mirrorsWe openned the cavity, removed S2 and measured
trans of P1 and same for S2.

Pin ~= 3.91 mW
  
  27   Tue Apr 2 18:05:46 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomBeam size at closest spherical mirrors positionS3 and S2 @ +1 640 000 and P1 and P4 @
-825 000

Diameter in x: 4.7mm
  
  28   Thu Apr 4 09:42:12 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomTransmission of the mirrorsAfter verification, transmission of P1
correspond to ~150ppm.

The 1337ppm come from a beam leakage.
  
  29   Fri Apr 5 11:18:47 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomTransmission of the mirrorsP1 transmission out of the mount (means
angle of the mirror is not the real angle):

Pin = 3.2 mW
  
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