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Tue Oct 22 18:58:56 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | info | lasers and optics | software | ThomX igloo | Optimizing lock parameters for stable X-ray production | Today, after setting the locking parameters,
I got 80kW in the FPC for 33% amplifier ratio
after CEP tuning (Smaract CH2 ~ -423.5µm) |
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375
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Wed Oct 23 12:23:10 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | info | lasers and optics | software | ThomX igloo | Optimizing lock parameters for stable X-ray production | this morning, I did some walking procedure
and I got 82kW in the FPC with 33% amplifier
ratio (after CEP optimization too). |
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376
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Fri Nov 8 15:23:11 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | info | lasers and optics | software | ThomX igloo | Optimizing lock parameters for stable X-ray production | this morning, I did some walking procedure
and CEP alignment to get ~80kW in the FPC
with 33% amplifier ratio. |
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377
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Tue Nov 19 17:37:55 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | info | lasers and optics | software | ThomX igloo | Optimizing lock parameters for stable X-ray production | the RF frequency is now 500.1003MHz which
is equivalent (if divided by 15) to 33.34002MHz.
the frequency has to be changed |
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378
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Wed Nov 20 11:28:01 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Fixed | info | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | ThomX igloo | Checking the amplifier power | this morning, with Daniele, we checked
the amplifier power, right after the CVBG
(the power meter has to be placed on a metal |
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379
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Wed Nov 20 12:00:47 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Fixed | info | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | ThomX igloo | Checking the amplifier power | we did a long term run (25 mn) with the
powermeter located at the FPC position at
33% amplifier ratio. |
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380
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Wed Nov 20 12:42:11 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Fixed | info | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | ThomX igloo | Checking the amplifier power | I put back and aligned the 1/2 waveplate
only and I get 71kW max after its optimization
and optimizing the CEP and alignment (without |
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381
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Wed Nov 20 18:55:37 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Fixed | info | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | ThomX igloo | Checking the amplifier power | this afternoon, we put back the 1/4 and
1/2 waveplates and after a long alignment/angle
tuning/CEP optimization process, we hardly |
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382
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Fri Nov 22 10:23:33 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | report | mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | ThomX igloo | day by day run for X-ray production | the RF frequency changed from 500.1003MHz
to 500.0913MHz => it reduced by 9kHz @
500MHz which is equivalent to 600Hz @ 33MHz |
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383
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Tue Nov 26 18:00:14 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | report | mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | ThomX igloo | day by day run for X-ray production | at the begining of the day, we started
to get ~81kW in the FPC for 33% amplifier
ratio and after ~1h, we got 84kW after CEP |
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384
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Wed Dec 4 12:26:03 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | report | mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | ThomX igloo | day by day run for X-ray production | today with Alice, we planned to do a long
run with ~80kW in the FPC to check if the
lock problems are coming from the interaction |
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385
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Wed Dec 4 17:11:50 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | report | mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | ThomX igloo | day by day run for X-ray production | we observed that :
- the MOT.03 motor always exhibits
some perturbations on the transmitted, reflected |
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386
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Wed Dec 4 17:53:49 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | report | mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | ThomX igloo | day by day run for X-ray production | last thing we tried :
we removed the threshold on the
FPC/RF error signal. |
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387
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Wed Dec 11 18:51:35 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | report | mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | ThomX igloo | day by day run for X-ray production | This morning, I added an amplifier on the
33MHz beating signal in between the mixer+LPF
and the scope/Laselock. |
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388
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Thu Dec 12 18:28:02 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | report | mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | ThomX igloo | day by day run for X-ray production | major result of the day: X-ray vertical
scan by moving the hexapod
abscise : hexapod position |
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389
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Tue Dec 17 16:28:32 2024 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | report | mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | ThomX igloo | day by day run for X-ray production | this morning, Kevin reduced the steering
current in the IcePap controllers of the
FP cavity motors. |
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390
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Tue Jan 7 10:18:08 2025 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | report | mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | ThomX igloo | day by day run for X-ray production | this morning, I restarted the cavity after
the Christmas shutdown.
everything went fine. |
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391
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Wed Jan 8 12:24:48 2025 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | info | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | cabling | ThomX igloo | CEM noise measurements | The goal of these measurements is to check
if one can find some correlation between
the CFP lock losses observed during a run |
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392
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Wed Jan 8 16:08:59 2025 |
Ronic Chiche | Under Process | info | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | cabling | ThomX igloo | CEM noise measurements | This afternoon, we started almost all the
parts of the machine with Vincent and Nicolas,
and we didn't see any change in the Loop |
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393
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Wed Jan 22 15:32:53 2025 |
Ronic Chiche | Fixed | info | mechanics | lasers and optics | vacuum | ThomX igloo | correlations between vacuum gauges and lock losses @ 20Hz | the machine people saw a correlation between
BPM jumps and vacuum gauges peaks related
to breakdowns in the beam pipe. |
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