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  473   Thu Jun 11 17:11:02 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | vacuumThomX iglooremoving of the M1 mirrorThis afternoon, we installed a new M1 mirror,
the only one for which the box was not already
opened.
  
  472   Thu Jun 11 11:16:55 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | vacuumThomX iglooremoving of the M1 mirrorthis morning, with Daniele, we took some
images of the M1 mirror HR surface :

1- large image span of the mirror
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  471   Wed Jun 10 16:16:33 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | vacuumThomX iglooremoving of the M1 mirrorafter trying to increase the power and
after moving S3 to try to change the size
of the beam on the mirrors, the FPC power
  
  470   Thu May 28 10:31:23 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooIncreasing the FP-cavity power Last friday, with Daniele, we did some
realignement on the 2nd CVBG of the compressor
: the beam shape seems better, now.
  
  469   Mon May 18 11:33:46 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooIncreasing the FP-cavity power this morning with Daniele, we set the amplifier
ratio to 33% => 97kW

then, we set the amplifier ratio
  
  468   Wed Apr 29 15:31:06 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooIncreasing the FP-cavity power I installed a stronger optical filter on
the reflection photodiode and loaded it on
1kOhms.
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  467   Wed Apr 29 09:38:20 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooIncreasing the FP-cavity power new power increase after alignment of the
waveplates and iris.

amplifier ratio (%) => FPC cavity
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  466   Mon Apr 27 16:55:15 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooIncreasing the FP-cavity power today with Alice and Daniele,

we checked the distance of the
optical setup :
  
  465   Wed Apr 22 09:52:40 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooIncreasing the FP-cavity power Last Friday, we tried to increase the FP-cavity
power by just increasing the amplifier ratio
from 35% to 70%.
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  464   Mon Feb 2 15:29:45 2026 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooLaser Amplifier used at 70%today, I installed a laser dump just before
the telescope to avoid any high power (50W
instead of 17W usually) issue in the injection
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  463   Mon Dec 8 11:17:17 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooHigh frequency noiseThis morning, I installed a high-voltage
probe (1:1000) on the AC-line to see if one
could detect a correlation between lock losses
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  462   Wed Dec 3 16:23:40 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooNoise issueyesterday, in the same conditions, we had
so many locking issues... exactly
in the same way than before. :-(
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  461   Mon Dec 1 18:03:29 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooNoise issuesince several days, we see that the locking
is more and more unstable and the lock duration
was sometime less than 20-30 seconds !
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  460   Tue Oct 28 17:31:47 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooHigh frequency noisewe did some tests with Marie to make some
vibrations on the door.
below, I exhibit some pictures of
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  459   Tue Oct 28 10:07:48 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooHigh frequency noiseAfter this observation, we did a test with
Daniele to try to correlate the road traffic
in front of the Igloo with the lock losses
  
  458   Wed Oct 1 10:14:12 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooHigh frequency noiseAt the end of the day, we found out what
was the origin of this noise : some road
renovation work with jackhammer and road
  
  457   Tue Sep 30 15:17:30 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooHigh frequency noiseToday, the lock of the FPC was particularly
bad (maybe the worst ever seen), with a lot
of high frequency noise.
  
  456   Mon Sep 29 10:22:32 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | vacuum | detectors and electronics | cabling | software | utilitiesThomX iglooPower shut down on September 23thThis morning I did a phase alignment on
the PDH signal generator (Rigol DG4102)
this procedure ensure that both phases
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  455   Fri Sep 26 11:13:35 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | vacuum | detectors and electronics | cabling | software | utilitiesThomX iglooPower shut down on September 23ththe 33MHz/500MHz RF frequencies from the
Ring seems different from the previous state
(maybe working at an energy of 50MeV instead
  
  454   Fri Sep 26 11:08:21 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | vacuum | detectors and electronics | cabling | software | utilitiesThomX iglooPower shut down on September 23ththis morning, I restarted all the equipments
of the FPC.

everything was fine after being
  
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