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terry.mcrae@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:20, Thursday 16 May 2024 (77875)
Spare SHG has green light

Terrry,  Kar Meng

The spare SHG in the optics lab is now fully assembled and producing green light. The conversion efficiency looks quite respectable with 29 mW of green at 61 mW of pump (IR) power. I've extended Nutsinees model alog(40199)  down to lower powers and added our data points measured at low power (circled points). We did not go to higher powers as there is some worry about unnecessarily degrading the lifetime of the crystal.

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