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  272   Tue Nov 7 14:09:25 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooStrecher and fiber injection alignmentToday, the power measured at the input
of the amplifier (PD_IN on the LAL amplifier
software) is 2.5mW instead of >3mW generally
  
  271   Mon Oct 9 13:11:23 2023 Daniele NutarelliFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooTests of pointing stability of the laser CFPLast monday with Victor we have cheked
the stability of de pointing of the laser
FP.
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  270   Fri Sep 22 11:30:28 2023 Daniele NutarelliFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomLaser FP operationThis morning FP Laser was operating well
locked at 30 KWatts in stable vay.

There are some fluctuations due
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  269   Thu Sep 21 18:56:56 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and opticsThomX igloo!!! strange amplifier beam pointing fluctuations !!!this morning, I locked the cavity to ~25kW
without any problem.

but this afternoon, the reflected
  
  268   Wed Sep 20 19:17:44 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfodetectors and electronicsOptical roomlock oscillateur 33MHz - synthé 500MHzafter a sudden FP-cavity Finesse increase,
we had to install the Fast Feedback Loop
in order to continue to lock the cavity.
  
  267   Wed Sep 20 19:12:16 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooFast feedback loop between laser and FP cavityI copy the post about Fast Feedback loop
: https://elog.lal.in2p3.fr/FPC/THOMX+commissioning/265

This morning,
  
  266   Wed Sep 20 19:10:16 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo!!! strange FP cavity behavior => impossible to lock !!!this afternoon, in adjusting the CEP and
improving the parameters of the lock, I was
able to get ~ 47kW stable inside the cavity,
  
  265   Wed Sep 20 14:16:09 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo!!! strange FP cavity behavior => impossible to lock !!!This morning,

- I installed the fast feedback
loop.
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  264   Mon Sep 18 17:12:07 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo!!! strange FP cavity behavior => impossible to lock !!!it could be also an optical unstability,
as when the intra-cavity power increases,
the radius of curvatures of the mirrors increases
  
  263   Mon Sep 18 12:48:39 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo!!! strange FP cavity behavior => impossible to lock !!!this morning, we tried:

- to move a bit the arm of the
L-shape off the beam axis (in case of it
  
  262   Fri Sep 15 19:13:44 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX igloodrift calculation for the SMA100Athe goal is to estimate what could be the
frequency drift at 500MHz for the SMA100A:
see phase noise datasheet in attachement
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  261   Fri Sep 15 18:56:36 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo!!! strange FP cavity behavior => impossible to lock !!!suddenly, BEFORE switching the HV amplifier
ON and BEFORE connecting it to the EOM (in
order to explore the HV effect on the EOM
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  260   Fri Sep 15 18:27:24 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooFast feedback loop between laser and FP cavitythis afternoon, we tried to better understand
how to drive properly the EOM to kill high
frequency noise.
  
  259   Fri Sep 15 18:11:07 2023 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo20Hz oscillation in the locking between Laser and FP-cavitythis afternoon, we did 2 tests to better
understand this 20Hz oscillation:

- we locked the amplified laser
  
  258   Fri Sep 15 18:00:41 2023 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloo20Hz oscillation in the locking between Laser and FP-cavitythis morning, we tried to find the origin
of the 20Hz oscillation.

- we switched OFF the laser Smaract
  
  257   Thu Sep 14 19:16:44 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfodetectors and electronicsOptical roomlock oscillateur 33MHz - synthé 500MHzthis afternoon, we were able to lock the
laser on the FP-cavity and the FP-cavity
on the Ring reference oscillator in a same
  
  256   Wed Sep 13 18:33:50 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfodetectors and electronicsOptical roomlock oscillateur 33MHz - synthé 500MHzthis afternoon, I firstly connected the
HV output of the Laselock to the FP-cavity
PZT : https://elog.lal.in2p3.fr/FPC/THOMX+commissioning/248
  
  248   Wed Sep 13 17:57:08 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloowork with HV voltage on the LaselockThis afternoon, I connected the HV output
of the Laselock (instead of the standard
0-10V output) to the FP-cavity PZT to increase
  
  255   Wed Sep 13 12:24:14 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfodetectors and electronicsOptical roomlock oscillateur 33MHz - synthé 500MHzthis morning, I added a Thorlabs lowpass
filter at 1kHz after the mixer and a resistor
at the Laselock output to the FP-cavity PZT.
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  254   Tue Sep 12 17:58:41 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfodetectors and electronicsOptical roomlock oscillateur 33MHz - synthé 500MHzthis afternoon, I tried to lock the FP-cavity
on a local 500MHz synthesizer as a frequency
reference
  
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