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--[[User:Jmiles2|Jmiles2]] ([[User talk:Jmiles2|talk]]) 11:05, 15 May 2014 (CDT)
Need to get FORT 1 laser to one polarization. Alignment affects polarization, looks like most of the light is vertically polarized. 19 amps give me 20 Watts in vertical direction. ~20 Watts is max for the AOM. Put in a wave plate to change to horizontally polarized so it would go through the beam cube. Still get good efficiency through beam cube, 45% to 50% at high powers. I get a little over 7 Watts after the beam cube.
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FORT 2 is now aligned to the MOT. I can get atoms trapped with either FORT now, they are aligned over top of one another and I can load FORT 2 from the atoms in FORT 1, with no MOT. Need to check lifetimes of both.
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