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  24   Fri Mar 29 18:33:15 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and opticsOptical roomAlignment procedurewe did again the complete alignment procedure
starting with iris and optimizing injection
motors Ma and Mb, then installing mirror
  
  40   Tue Jun 11 18:03:10 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportmechanics | lasers and opticsOtherAmplifier mission BordeauxVoyage Bordeaux au CELIA avec Jérôme
LHERMITE (Loïc et Titoutan)

1er jour (34°) :
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  41   Wed Jun 12 12:07:11 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportmechanics | lasers and opticsOtherAmplifier mission BordeauxM² mesuré à 10W.
M²x = 1.17
M²y = 1.14
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  49   Mon Jul 29 17:15:35 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedinfomechanics | lasers and opticsOptical roomSpin coater air supply removed and front panel changedSpin coater firstly needed vacuum and air
supply. The air supply being useless for
our experiments, it has been disabled.
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  58   Thu Sep 12 16:19:26 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportmechanics | lasers and opticsOptical roomCavity dust source checkSeveral experiments have been done in order
to check the potential source of dust in
the ThomX cavity. For each step, we look
  
  111   Thu Jan 13 17:08:56 2022 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and opticsOptical roomAlignment procedurePicture of the installed mirrors inside
the FP cavity.

To install an Iris instead of a
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  269   Thu Sep 21 18:56:56 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and opticsThomX igloo!!! strange amplifier beam pointing fluctuations !!!this morning, I locked the cavity to ~25kW
without any problem.

but this afternoon, the reflected
  
  273   Wed Nov 8 17:51:30 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and opticsThomX igloo!!! strange amplifier beam pointing fluctuations !!!we confirmed the effect of the bunker temperature
on the laser amplifier "beam pointing"
fluctuations.
  
  278   Fri Nov 10 09:51:22 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedreportmechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooM4 motor using icepap controller and jive/Atkpanel IHMKevin moved the M4 mirror controller from
the ISP controller to some ICEPAP controller.

the IHM to access this ICEPAP controller
  
  282   Tue Nov 14 11:33:45 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedreportmechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooM4 motor using icepap controller and jive/Atkpanel IHMone problem is the FP-cavity/laser lock
loss when one moves a FP-cavity motor.

with acceleration = 0.01 units/s²
  
  289   Fri Nov 24 12:56:39 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooLaser cavity temperature/pressure sensitivitylaser cavity :

when one decreases the laser motor
position, the laser repetition rate
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  290   Fri Nov 24 18:16:37 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooLaser cavity temperature/pressure sensitivityNow, I placed a temperature probe stuck on
the laser housing itself.

fig. 1
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  291   Fri Nov 24 18:47:25 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooLaser cavity temperature/pressure sensitivitythe last thing we did with Daniele, is
to start/stop the airflow on top of the housing
(closed) to see a possible pressure effect
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  292   Tue Nov 28 10:24:47 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooLaser cavity temperature/pressure sensitivitytoday, I swapped the 500MHz RF reference
oscillator for a Siglent 500MHz DDS oscillator.

see the attached plot : the
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  296   Wed Nov 29 09:35:10 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooLaser cavity temperature/pressure sensitivitylong-term correlation, over 5-6 days, between
the temperature measured in the bunker, outside
of the housing (blue curve) and the temperature
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  322   Fri Feb 2 11:53:40 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooLaser cavity temperature/pressure sensitivitythis morning, I did a 500MHz beating frequency
(Laser vs RF) drift test with the Smaract
motors configured with "Sensor Mode"
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  329   Mon Mar 4 12:39:56 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooLaser and FP cavities frequency adjustmentat the beginning of the procedure, the
frequency gap between the new Ring 33MHz
frequency (33.3378MHz) and the laser/FP cavities
  
  330   Mon Mar 4 18:32:21 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and opticsThomX iglooLaser and FP cavities frequency adjustmentThis afternoon, I did the 2nd half of the
travel: dF @ 33MHz = 0Hz
=> the Smaract motor position is
  
  52   Fri Aug 30 17:52:41 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomMotor issueToday, Axis 9 (Z-axis of P1) has blocked
the software which drives all the motors.
impossible to bypass the problem.
  
  59   Wed Sep 25 15:49:28 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomMotor issueToday again, same problem with axis 9 blocking
the controlling software during the mirror
alignment procedure.
  
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