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  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
  
  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
  
  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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  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.
  
  396   Fri Feb 7 15:35:37 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20HzI installed an accelerometer setup in the
bunker.
presently, the accelerometer is placed
 Capture1.JPGCapture.JPG 
  397   Tue Feb 11 10:55:21 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hztoday I connected a copy of the laser PZT
signal to the 2nd scope CH2 (with AC coupling
to remove the DC offset) to be able to monitor
  
  398   Fri Feb 14 10:11:00 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hzthis morning, I did some measurement with
nobody interfering with the tests.

- the "no noise" image
 No_noise.JPGSlaping_door.JPGNoise1.JPGNoise2.JPGNoise3.JPG 
  399   Fri Feb 14 10:58:48 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hzthen, I moved the accelerometer on top
of the "X-hutch side" vessel, placed
directly on the metal top case, inside the
 8x 
  400   Fri Feb 14 19:08:09 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hzat the end of the day, I moved the accelerometer
from the top of the cavity vessel to the
top case of the Onefive laser.
  
  401   Mon Feb 17 09:52:21 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hzthis morning, I did some new plots with
the accelerometer placed on the top of the
case of the OneFive laser.
 6x 
  402   Mon Feb 17 10:48:00 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hznew plots, with the accelerometer placed
directly on the optical cavity table (on
the marble part), close to the oscillator.
 7x 
  404   Mon Feb 17 17:37:27 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hzone possible source for this acoustic noise
was the vibrations coming from the water
cooling of the dipoles which is normally
  
  405   Tue Feb 18 10:40:55 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hzhere is the pk-pk measurement of the accelerometer
during the whole night.
the recording started at 5pm yesterday
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  406   Tue Feb 18 17:36:25 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hzhere is the acquisition from 10:30am to
5:30pm

11k point in 7h => 1.57k points
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  407   Tue Feb 18 19:33:27 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX igloocorrelations between accelerometer and lock losses @ 20Hzhere is the same kind of measurement (pk-pk
of 1 sec of acquisition) done on the laser
PZT when the FP is at 90kW.
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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)
 Capture.JPG 
  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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