JTK Notebook

To Do

Short Term

• Modify diode mount for water cooling
• Build crystal mount

Long Term

• Assemble Ti:sapph laser
• Build box for Ti:sapph laser

Theory

• Work through Raman System Effective Hamiltonian calculations

To Buy

• 3 TECs TEC3-6 and 3 thermistors TH10K
• Kapton tape KAP22-075
• TEC Driver (buy single one or go modular?
• Water chiller & accessories (tubing, etc.)
• Ti:sapph cavity mirrors (probably from Layertec)
• Ti:sapph cavity saturable absorber
• Ti:sapph extracavity optics
• Blue optics (cylindrical-lens telescope, focusing lens)
• Indium foil

Log

6/17/2015

• Cut channel into diode laser mount. Waiting to drill screw holes until I get the part to see if I need to mill any more out to make it fit.

6/16/2015

• Got questions back from Thomas at Layertec. Sent answers. They're working on a quote.

6/15/2015

• Ordered water blocks from Custom Thermoelectric.
• Ordered rotation/translation mount from Thorlabs.
• Designed channel cut for diode laser water cooling modification. Looks like it should work with no problems...
• Designed crystal mount.
• Ordered crystal mount copper/aluminum stock.

6/11/2015

• Talked to Deniz about lasing direction. Decided we don't need an intracavity isolator for the Ti:sapph laser. The output coupler will provide enough asymmetry to force lasing in the correct direction.
• Sent email to Layertec requesting quote for Ti:sapph cavity mirrors.
• Talked to Zach about design for Ti:sapph crystal mount. Decided on basic design using water block, possibly from here. Crystal should probably be wrapped in thin indium foil for better contact with copper. Also talked about cutting a "channel" out of the diode laser aluminum block to add a similar water block below the TEC.