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  408   Wed Feb 19 09:28:12 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hzlong term pk-pk measurement of the accelerometer
(placed on the optical cavity table, on the
marble part close to the laser oscillator)
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  409   Wed Feb 19 10:35:06 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20HzI installed the accelerometer on the ground
close to one feet of the FP cavity hexapod
(see picture) and restarted the acquisition
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  411   Fri Feb 21 10:13:03 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hzfor this 20Hz oscillation, could it be
a natural resonance of the optical table
placed on its feet ?
  
  417   Tue Mar 18 11:25:07 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionthis morning, the cavity was pretty misaligned
=> basic alignment in y direction helps
a lot => 93kW for 33% amp ratio.
  
  419   Mon Mar 31 17:12:56 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productiontoday, the alignment of FP cavity was so
bad that I tuned the 01 mode by error (CEP
and alignment)...  insead of the 00
  
  421   Tue Apr 29 09:26:08 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productiontoday, after 1 week of vacation, I was
able to easily lock the cavity with 92kW
with 33% amp ratio without too much optimizations
  
  422   Fri May 2 10:05:43 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooair conditionning in ThomX BunkerThe temperature slitly increase in thomx
Bunker from 23° to 24° during the
last day.
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  423   Tue May 6 09:29:43 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooair conditionning in ThomX Bunkerafter the new temperature setting for the
bunker air cooling (winter to summer transition),
the temperature drop from 24° to 20°C
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  424   Tue May 6 10:58:18 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooair conditionning in ThomX BunkerI finally got 93-94kW for 33% amp ratio.

I had to move the FP-cavity length
to compensate the temperature change in the
  
  425   Wed May 14 09:50:52 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionToday, I removed the NKT oscillator from
the bunker to put it in the PLIC room.

I locked the FP cavity and obtained
  
  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)
 long_run_wihtout_lock_loss.pnglong_run_wihtout_lock_loss_with_optimum_CEP.png 
  430   Wed Jun 25 18:48:28 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionNew locking parameters (I got 98kW for
33% amp ratio) :

Axis 18 position : +0009420
  
  433   Tue Jul 1 17:31:41 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionWe had a long run without any lock loss
during ~1h with the 23kW recipie in the morning.
during the afternoon, we had some
  
  434   Tue Jul 8 18:45:17 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionlong run yesterday at relatively low power
(~23kW) with double loop (FPC + RF) between
10am and 6pm
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  435   Tue Jul 8 18:48:51 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionlong run today at relatively
nominal power (~90kW) with double loop
(FPC + RF) between 13:30am and 6:30pm
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  444   Tue Jul 15 17:34:13 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooStability test Without and with The laser starts at 93 KW.

This morning I operated the laser
locked with the RF for 1h30 without any delock.
  
  445   Wed Jul 16 17:17:57 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooSuite tests stabilitéWe continue to find what gives high freq.
perturbation.

The laser starts at 92 KW it is
  
  446   Fri Jul 18 09:23:40 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooXrays experiment with prostateToday we do XRays for experiment.

The laser start to 33% at 93 KW
but Pgain = 0.033
  
  447   Fri Jul 18 15:56:40 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and opticsThomX igloolaser operation again with machine OFFThe laser start at 33% with 92 KW optimized
and

P=0.03
  
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