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    Reply   correlations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hz, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 8x
then, I moved the accelerometer on top of the "X-hutch side" vessel, placed directly on the metal top case, inside the housing.

- the "no noise same range" image shows a standard situation during 10s when there no noise either on PZT or Accelerometer.
on can compare the noise level on the accelerometer with the previous post when it was outside on top of the housing.
    Reply   correlations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hz, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
at the end of the day, I moved the accelerometer from the top of the cavity vessel to the top case of the Onefive laser.

I quickly saw again quite strong correlations between the vibrations compensated by the PZT and the accelerometer signal.
when one does a laser motor step which makes a systematic lock loss, one doesn't see any signal on the accelerometer.
    Reply   correlations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hz, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 6x
this morning, I did some new plots with the accelerometer placed on the top of the case of the OneFive laser.
I previously observed with the accelerometer placed on the top of one cavity vessel, the correlation between the accelerometer signal and the PZT
noise is pretty good but not 100%.
    Reply   correlations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hz, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 7x
new plots, with the accelerometer placed directly on the optical cavity table (on the marble part), close to the oscillator.
the correlation seems a bit better....

we would need to put the accelerometer on one foot of the table to check if the table has not some micro-movement or at the IP to check if the
Entry   New power record in ThomX cavity, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics img1.jpg
today, we were able to store more than 93kW in the FP cavity, always with the same parameter : 33% laser amplifier ratio
    Reply   correlations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hz, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
one possible source for this acoustic noise was the vibrations coming from the water cooling of the dipoles which is normally never turned off even when
the machine is off.

this afternoon, Kevin turned off the main valve of the water cooling of half of the dipoles (the half on the FPC side), and we recorded the peak-peak
    Reply   correlations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hz, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics Capture.JPG
here is the pk-pk measurement of the accelerometer during the whole night.
the recording started at 5pm yesterday and has been stopped this morning at 10am.

one got 28k points in 17 hours => 1.65k points / h
    Reply   correlations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hz, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics Capture.JPG
here is the acquisition from 10:30am to 5:30pm

11k point in 7h => 1.57k points / h

the noise is almost the same during the daylight, a little bit increasing from 1:30pm.
    Reply   correlations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hz, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics Capture.JPG
here is the same kind of measurement (pk-pk of 1 sec of acquisition) done on the laser PZT when the FP is at 90kW.
it's from 6:20pm to 7:10pm => ~2.4s by point

the minimum values are for the PZT being off.
    Reply   correlations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hz, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics Capture.JPG
long term pk-pk measurement of the accelerometer (placed on the optical cavity table, on the marble part close to the laser oscillator) from 5:30pm to
9am => ~ 2.255s / pt

start of the quiet period : ~ 5k pts <=> 8:45pm
    Reply   correlations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hz, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics img1.jpgCapture.JPGCapture.JPGCapture.JPG
I installed the accelerometer on the ground close to one feet of the FP cavity hexapod (see picture) and restarted the acquisition at 6:40pm on 20th
of february.

the acquisition corresponds to the night between the 20th and the 21th of february.
    Reply   New power record in ThomX cavity, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics img1.jpg
today, we were able to store more than 94kW in the FP cavity, always with the same parameter : 33% laser amplifier ratio




Ronic
Chiche wrote:



today, we were able to store more than 93kW in the FP cavity, always
    Reply   correlations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hz, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
for this 20Hz oscillation, could it be a natural resonance of the optical table placed on its feet ?

typical mass of the table m ~ 8T

feets :
Entry   strange drift (new effect !?!), posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about software 
today, we had a strange effect :
both the laser and the FP cavity were locked on the RF frequency (500.10045 MHz), and we were producing X-rays but with a slowing (several seconds)
fluctuation exactly as the electrons-photons phase was drifting and the fluctuation can goes to 0 Xrays produced even at the "right" phase.
Entry   Good Xrays production trend, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics | software img1(1).jpg
this afternoon, we succeeded to get a quite long Xray production trend around 15-20 minutes with a flux above 25k on i1.
Entry   New direction for cavity motors, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | software 
from now on, one reverts the FP cavity motors direction to compensate the long drift from the begining of the project.
the motor MOT.06 will be used for the upward direction (presently -1 082 650 steps)
and the motor MOT.03 will be used for the downward direction (presently +37 170 steps)
Entry   Electrons-Photons phase stability measurement, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics | detectors and electronics img1(1).jpg
we installed a measurement at the IP with the BPM for ion cleaning for electrons and we used a fast photodiode at the output of the FP-cavity and measured
with a fast oscilloscope the phase jitter between the 2 signals.
in red, the BPM signal
    Reply   Electrons-Photons phase stability measurement, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
the phase between the 500Mhz ring RF oscillator and the electrons is measured on a BPM and is very stable after 2-3ms (<< 6ps, typically) !

in the same time, we can use the residual phase beating after our 500MHz mixer to estimate the phase noise coming from the laser part.
the rms noise of this signal is around 60mV for 1.25V peak (2.5 pk-pk) signal => ~ 50mrad rms
    Reply   day by day run for X-ray production, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about mechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
this morning, the cavity was pretty misaligned => basic alignment in y direction helps a lot => 93kW for 33% amp ratio.

the Rigol 33MHz generator phase was adjusted : phase ch2 = phase ch1 (40 deg) + 36 deg = 76 deg.




Ronic
    Reply   New power record in ThomX cavity, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics img1(2).jpg
today, we were able to store more than 95kW in the FP cavity, always with the same parameter : 33% laser amplifier ratio




Ronic
Chiche wrote:



today, we were able to store more than 94kW in
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