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  57   Fri Sep 6 14:59:00 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomLMA cleaning techniqueChristophe MICHEL told us more precise
informations about spin coater cleaning.

They always clean with pur water
  
  34   Thu Apr 18 16:07:23 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomInjection of 33MHz Onefive through fiberOutput power of the Onefive, and power
after injection and different components
have been measured.
 power_ouput_Onefive.PNGpower_after_injection_and_point9dB_blue_fiber.PNGpower_after_halfwaveplate_and_injection_and_point9dB_blue_fiber.PNGpower_after_halfwaveplate_and_injection_and_point9dB_blue_fiber_and_EOM_NIR-MPX-LN-0dot1.PNGpower_after_halfwaveplate_and_injection_and_point9dB_blue_fiber_and_EOM_NIR-MPX-LN-02.PNG 
  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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  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 :
  
  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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  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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  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
  
  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.
  
  226   Wed Jun 28 19:07:42 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuelasers and opticsThomX iglooIncoming laser beam power issuetoday, we observed on the photodiode used
in reflexion of the cavity, that its voltage
level stops increasing after 50% of power
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  68   Wed Oct 9 10:08:24 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomImprovement holder amplifier fiberWe've added a clamp in the 3rd stage
to prevent the pump fiber from moving and
tilting (it was tilting to the left).
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  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.
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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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  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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  413   Fri Feb 21 19:52:57 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX iglooGood Xrays production trendthis afternoon, we succeeded to get a quite
long Xray production trend around 15-20 minutes
with a flux above 25k on i1.
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  69   Wed Oct 9 10:10:01 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomFree Spectral Range (FSR)FSR is 33.347 MHz @1e-8 mbar

 
  
  318   Thu Jan 25 13:36:35 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfodetectors and electronicsThomX iglooFirst stable X-rays productionthis morning, we locked the laser on the
FP-cavity with about 48-49kW stable in the
FP-cavity (for 32% of amplifier ratio).
  
  76   Tue Oct 22 09:10:45 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomFirst mode degeneracy on ThomXYesterday, we've observed the first
degeneracy on ThomX cavity at ~115 kW stored.
The shape of the stored power on the oscilloscope
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  130   Fri Mar 11 17:33:33 2022 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooFirst hands on the Alphanov amplifier & softwareAurélien, Manar, and I spent more
than 2h trying to start the software communicating
with the Alphanov amplifier controller.
  
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