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  293   Tue Nov 28 11:32:17 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooSmaract motors parameters and controllercurrent Smaract motors parameters : 
- Closed loop Max frequency : 5000
- Signal Amplitude threshold : 2047
  
  292   Tue Nov 28 10:24:47 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooLaser cavity temperature/pressure sensitivitytoday, I swapped the 500MHz RF reference
oscillator for a Siglent 500MHz DDS oscillator.

see the attached plot : the
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  291   Fri Nov 24 18:47:25 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooLaser cavity temperature/pressure sensitivitythe last thing we did with Daniele, is
to start/stop the airflow on top of the housing
(closed) to see a possible pressure effect
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  290   Fri Nov 24 18:16:37 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooLaser cavity temperature/pressure sensitivityNow, I placed a temperature probe stuck on
the laser housing itself.

fig. 1
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  289   Fri Nov 24 12:56:39 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooLaser cavity temperature/pressure sensitivitylaser cavity :

when one decreases the laser motor
position, the laser repetition rate
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  288   Thu Nov 23 12:26:26 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and opticsThomX iglooTemperature control of the Laser length with the inside Peltier

bunker temperature @ 22.5°C

today, Sebastien Pitrel improved
  
  287   Thu Nov 23 12:25:07 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooTemperature control of the FP-cavity lengthas the CFP motors displacements induce
a cavity unlock, we try to change the cavity
length by changing the temperature of elment
  
  285   Fri Nov 17 11:44:35 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooLaser / FP-cavity "day by day" lockingtemperature @ 21.9°C

48.5kW inside CFP for 30% amplifier
ratio
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  284   Thu Nov 16 17:48:29 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooLaser / FP-cavity "day by day" lockingtemperature @ 22.3°C

today, all the PC applications
were closed except the web browser.
  
  283   Wed Nov 15 09:36:35 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedreportdetectors and electronicsThomX igloobunker temperature curve   2023-11-10_to_2023-11-15_-_temperature_curve.png 
  282   Tue Nov 14 11:33:45 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedreportmechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooM4 motor using icepap controller and jive/Atkpanel IHMone problem is the FP-cavity/laser lock
loss when one moves a FP-cavity motor.

with acceleration = 0.01 units/s²
  
  281   Tue Nov 14 10:51:57 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooRing frequency / Laser "day by day" lockingtemperature stable around 21.7°C

today, the equivalent Smaract position
corresponding to the 500.25MHz ring frequency
  
  280   Tue Nov 14 10:35:16 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooLaser / FP-cavity "day by day" lockingtemperature since we moved to temperature
probe (jump at the beginning of the plot)
below the ring on a metallic base.
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  279   Fri Nov 10 12:37:42 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooLaser / FP-cavity "day by day" lockingas the temperature is back to a normal
value ~ 20.8°C, the injected power to
the amplifier (PD_IN in the Alphanov software)
  
  278   Fri Nov 10 09:51:22 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedreportmechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooM4 motor using icepap controller and jive/Atkpanel IHMKevin moved the M4 mirror controller from
the ISP controller to some ICEPAP controller.

the IHM to access this ICEPAP controller
  
  277   Fri Nov 10 09:43:26 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooRing frequency / Laser "day by day" lockingtemperature stable around 20.8°C

today, the equivalent Smaract position
corresponding to the 500.25MHz ring frequency
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  276   Thu Nov 9 17:02:26 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooLaser / FP-cavity "day by day" lockingtoday, we locked the FP cavity at ~50kW
with 30% laser amplifier ratio (16W) during
almost all the day (from 10am to 4pm)
  
  275   Thu Nov 9 16:40:16 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooRing frequency / Laser "day by day" lockingtoday, the equivalent Smaract position
corresponding to the 500.25MHz ring frequency
is +156µm on MCS-1/ch0 (closed loop
  
  274   Wed Nov 8 18:52:44 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloosome changes in the feedback schemefrom several weeks, the maximum power stored
in the FP-cavity was ~ 5kW.

today with Daniele, we finished
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  273   Wed Nov 8 17:51:30 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and opticsThomX igloo!!! strange amplifier beam pointing fluctuations !!!we confirmed the effect of the bunker temperature
on the laser amplifier "beam pointing"
fluctuations.
  
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