Only Shane on site for REAL. Arrived at site around 9:35 AM PDT.
Ran REAL for second night in a row. Have concluded that, since it is performing very stably, it is better to run it continuously rather than start each morning where laser beam profile changes. Here is the trace of the Nd:YAG energy over almost 48 hours since flashlamp change:
And here is the 1543nm pulse energy over the same period:
The following photo of the experimental area was taken around 9:30 AM this morning on the road to the landfill which is about 4.2 miles WNW of the REAL.
Here is a GOES visible satellite image from this morning. Very clear in western NV. Upper air chart and forecasts show changes to occur later this week.
We decreased the Nd:YAG q-switch time today by 5 microseconds (from 250 to 245) at 12:25 PM to increase pulse energy. For the record here is the situation just before the bump:
As the traces below show, not much of an increase (10 mJ of 1064 and 2 mJ of 1543) but better than nothing...
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Tuesday, August 29.
Only Shane on site for REAL. Arrived at site around 9:35 AM PDT.
Ran REAL for second night in a row. Have concluded that, since it is performing very stably, it is better to run it continuously rather than start each morning where laser beam profile changes. Here is the trace of the Nd:YAG energy over almost 48 hours since flashlamp change:
And here is the 1543nm pulse energy over the same period:
The following photo of the experimental area was taken around 9:30 AM this morning on the road to the landfill which is about 4.2 miles WNW of the REAL.
Here is a GOES visible satellite image from this morning. Very clear in western NV. Upper air chart and forecasts show changes to occur later this week.
We decreased the Nd:YAG q-switch time today by 5 microseconds (from 250 to 245) at 12:25 PM to increase pulse energy. For the record here is the situation just before the bump:
As the traces below show, not much of an increase (10 mJ of 1064 and 2 mJ of 1543) but better than nothing...