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* Modify diode mount for water cooling (almost done, will drill screw holes once water blocks get here)
* Build crystal mount (aluminum part done, ordered copper part from eMachineShop)
* Write Gaussian Beam Mode Matching
* Order mirrors
===== Long Term =====
* Water chiller accessories (tubing, etc.)
* Ti:sapph cavity mirrors
* Ti:sapph cavity saturable absorber
* Ti:sapph extracavity optics
== Log ==
'''7/13/2015'''
* Emailed Lambda back with more questions re: mirrors.
* Realized we need to use a Z-cavity instead of a bowtie cavity so that we can use a prism pair for GVD (Group Velocity Dispersion) compensation. Started looking at cavity stability and how prism pairs work as GVD compensators.
* Decided I probably need to massage the code a little to avoid running into key errors because of floating points. Will probably recode everything so that it works in tenths of a millimeter as the "base unit" instead of meters, so that everything can be an int. My other thought is to simply add the dictionary keys to the position list - this would effectively decouple the position list resolution from the optical element positions, which would be very nice anyway (it would let you make things like cavity length scans at higher resolution than currently works). Still worried about floating point key errors with that method though. Maybe a combination....
'''7/10/2015'''
* Finished Gaussian Beam Tools v3.2, which reimplements existing cavity stability analysis MatLab code.
'''7/8/2015'''
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