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  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)
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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
  
  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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  452   Tue Sep 16 17:41:28 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooAccelerometer measurementwith Daniele, we placed the accelerometer
on top of the fiber amplifier box which is
inside the housing.
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  22   Tue Mar 26 18:32:40 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportmechanics | lasers and optics | cablingOptical roomWires in laser pathThere was some ceramic wires close to the
beem path right before P4. We moved them
away (we can imagine they could move again
 before.jpgafter_wire_displaced.jpg 
  316   Thu Jan 25 10:15:28 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingThomX igloocontroller M1 & M4 (plan mirrors) with IcePap controllerspreviously, we have connected motor M4
with an IcePap controller.
see this post : https://elog.lal.in2p3.fr/FPC/THOMX+commissioning/278
  
  317   Thu Jan 25 12:45:41 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingThomX igloocontroller M1 & M4 (plan mirrors) with IcePap controllersthis double motors scheme works good.

if motor P4 is used by increasing
value, the FP-cavityPZT signal (pink signal
  
  319   Fri Jan 26 11:05:27 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | cablingThomX igloocontroller M1 & M4 (plan mirrors) with IcePap controllersat the begining of each session, it will
be mandatory to avoid any backlash for the
motors :
  
  16   Thu Feb 14 18:20:52 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportmechanics | lasers and opticsOptical roomBasic alignment & alignment motors check14/02/19: The 4 motors but Mby control
works. Mby motor home does not bring
it to its "middle" position
  
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