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Hudson Alexander Loughlin - posted 07:56, Monday 31 July 2023 (11259)
CMTF Mode Match to Optical Cavity
On Friday, Chris and I worked to mode match our laser to an optical cavity. At the end of the day, we placed our lenses in roughly the location suggested by a mode matching calculation, but the mode reflected off of the cavity appears much larger than the incident mode, so we believe we need to move the lenses further to improve mode matching. The attached file shows the calculated mode matching solution given a beam profile of the incident beam and the waist size and location of the reference cavity.
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