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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.
  
  392   Wed Jan 8 16:08:59 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | cablingThomX iglooCEM noise measurementsThis afternoon, we started almost all the
parts of the machine with Vincent and Nicolas,
and we didn't see any change in the Loop
  
  391   Wed Jan 8 12:24:48 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | cablingThomX iglooCEM noise measurementsThe 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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  390   Tue Jan 7 10:18:08 2025 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionthis morning, I restarted the cavity after
the Christmas shutdown.
everything went fine.
  
  389   Tue Dec 17 16:28:32 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionthis morning, Kevin reduced the steering
current in the IcePap controllers of the
FP cavity motors.
  
  388   Thu Dec 12 18:28:02 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionmajor result of the day: X-ray vertical
scan by moving the hexapod

abscise : hexapod position
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  387   Wed Dec 11 18:51:35 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionThis morning, I added an amplifier on the
33MHz beating signal in between the mixer+LPF
and the scope/Laselock.
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  386   Wed Dec 4 17:53:49 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionlast thing we tried :

we removed the threshold on the
FPC/RF error signal.
  
  385   Wed Dec 4 17:11:50 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionwe observed that :

- the MOT.03 motor always exhibits
some perturbations on the transmitted, reflected
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  384   Wed Dec 4 12:26:03 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productiontoday 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
  
  383   Tue Nov 26 18:00:14 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionat 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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  382   Fri Nov 22 10:23:33 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooday by day run for X-ray productionthe RF frequency changed from 500.1003MHz
to 500.0913MHz => it reduced by 9kHz @
500MHz which is equivalent to 600Hz @ 33MHz
  
  381   Wed Nov 20 18:55:37 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooChecking the amplifier powerthis afternoon, we put back the 1/4 and
1/2 waveplates and after a long alignment/angle
tuning/CEP optimization process, we hardly
  
  380   Wed Nov 20 12:42:11 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooChecking the amplifier powerI put back and aligned the 1/2 waveplate
only and I get 71kW max after its optimization
and optimizing the CEP and alignment (without
  
  379   Wed Nov 20 12:00:47 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooChecking the amplifier powerwe did a long term run (25 mn) with the
powermeter located at the FPC position at
33% amplifier ratio.
  
  378   Wed Nov 20 11:28:01 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooChecking the amplifier powerthis morning, with Daniele, we checked
the amplifier power, right after the CVBG
(the power meter has to be placed on a metal
  
  377   Tue Nov 19 17:37:55 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and optics | softwareThomX iglooOptimizing lock parameters for stable X-ray productionthe RF frequency is now 500.1003MHz which
is equivalent (if divided by 15) to 33.34002MHz.

the frequency has to be changed
  
  376   Fri Nov 8 15:23:11 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and optics | softwareThomX iglooOptimizing lock parameters for stable X-ray productionthis morning, I did some walking procedure
and CEP alignment to get ~80kW in the FPC
with 33% amplifier ratio.
  
  375   Wed Oct 23 12:23:10 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and optics | softwareThomX iglooOptimizing lock parameters for stable X-ray productionthis morning, I did some walking procedure
and I got 82kW in the FPC with 33% amplifier
ratio (after CEP optimization too).
  
  374   Tue Oct 22 18:58:56 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and optics | softwareThomX iglooOptimizing lock parameters for stable X-ray productionToday, 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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