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  427   Wed Jun 11 18:59:34 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuemechanics | lasers and optics | vacuum | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooPossible causes for the noise in the FP-cavity systemlist of possible causes of the high frequency
noise which makes the system loosing the
lock => to be checked.
  
  429   Wed Jun 25 09:57:56 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processissuemechanics | lasers and optics | vacuum | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooPossible causes for the noise in the FP-cavity system4.3 - Vibrations of the mirror mounts due
to temperature related to cavity power (the
electrons machine is OFF)
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  53   Tue Sep 3 17:51:04 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | vacuumOptical roomVessel cleanlinesslooking in the vessel of the FP cavity
using a UV lamp shows a lot of dust... more
dust than outside the cavity !!!
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  393   Wed Jan 22 15:32:53 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | vacuumThomX igloocorrelations between vacuum gauges and lock losses @ 20Hzthe machine people saw a correlation between
BPM jumps and vacuum gauges peaks related
to breakdowns in the beam pipe.
  
  471   Wed Jun 10 16:16:33 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | vacuumThomX iglooremoving of the M1 mirrorafter trying to increase the power and
after moving S3 to try to change the size
of the beam on the mirrors, the FPC power
  
  472   Thu Jun 11 11:16:55 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | vacuumThomX iglooremoving of the M1 mirrorthis morning, with Daniele, we took some
images of the M1 mirror HR surface :

1- large image span of the mirror
 6x 
  473   Thu Jun 11 17:11:02 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | vacuumThomX iglooremoving of the M1 mirrorThis afternoon, we installed a new M1 mirror,
the only one for which the box was not already
opened.
  
  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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  132   Mon Mar 14 18:39:40 2022 Manar AmerFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooCurrent Installed SetupAttached is the current setup in ThomX  18-02-2022_ThomX_FPCavity_Finesse_Setup.jpg 
  241   Fri Sep 8 12:43:04 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooRemoving high order modesthis morning we locked the laser and the
FP-cavity with ~ 40kW => some HOM appeared
"randomly" depending on the power.
  
  242   Fri Sep 8 18:22:21 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooRemoving high order modeshere is the picture of the L-shape arm
and the inside of the vessel.

this image corresponds to the "zero"
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  245   Tue Sep 12 14:28:36 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooRemoving high order modesyesterday with Daniele, we tried again
to move the arm horizontally and vertically
from the "zero position" to have
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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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  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
  
  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
  
  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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  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,
  
  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
  
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