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  165   Thu Oct 20 15:01:02 2022 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooStrecher and fiber injection alignmentI used the 33MHz spectrum measurement :
https://elog.lal.in2p3.fr/FPC/THOMX+commissioning/153
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  166   Mon Oct 24 17:35:01 2022 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooStrecher and fiber injection alignmentManar + Victor, today in the morning we
aligned the CVBG of the stretcher.

The double path using the mirror
  
  167   Wed Nov 2 11:42:43 2022 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooStrecher and fiber injection alignmentThis morning with Manar, we continued the
strecher CVBG alignment and fiber injection
procedure :
  
  168   Thu Nov 3 09:09:18 2022 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooStrecher and fiber injection alignmentthis morning : still 6.2 mW at the output
of the fiber.

the powermeter has been removed
  
  169   Wed Nov 9 11:34:54 2022 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooStrecher and fiber injection alignmentMonday 7/11 morning, the power in the fiber
was still 6.2 mW

  
  272   Tue Nov 7 14:09:25 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooStrecher and fiber injection alignmentToday, the power measured at the input
of the amplifier (PD_IN on the LAL amplifier
software) is 2.5mW instead of >3mW generally
  
  305   Fri Dec 8 12:21:25 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooStrecher and fiber injection alignmenttoday, the Alphanov amplifier stopped because
of the too low injected power : ~2.5mW (measured
by the Alphanov software)
  
  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.
  
  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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  77   Wed Nov 6 16:11:12 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomSpherical mirrors at closest position. FSR, finesse and beam size.The spherical mirrors are at the closest
position to get a FSR ~=33.3435 MHz. Planar
mirrors are at the largest position.
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  293   Tue Nov 28 11:32:17 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooSmaract motors parameters and controllercurrent Smaract motors parameters : 
- Closed loop Max frequency : 5000
- Signal Amplitude threshold : 2047
  
  238   Wed Sep 6 20:09:56 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooSmaract controller remplacementpreviously, we were using a spare Smaract
MCS controller to drive the Onefive linear
stages (without -LV -low vibration-
  
  275   Thu Nov 9 16:40:16 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooRing frequency / Laser "day by day" lockingtoday, the equivalent Smaract position
corresponding to the 500.25MHz ring frequency
is +156µm on MCS-1/ch0 (closed loop
  
  277   Fri Nov 10 09:43:26 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooRing frequency / Laser "day by day" lockingtemperature stable around 20.8°C

today, the equivalent Smaract position
corresponding to the 500.25MHz ring frequency
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  281   Tue Nov 14 10:51:57 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooRing frequency / Laser "day by day" lockingtemperature stable around 21.7°C

today, the equivalent Smaract position
corresponding to the 500.25MHz ring frequency
  
  309   Wed Jan 10 14:52:22 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX iglooRestarting equipements after Christmas shutdownthis morning, I plugged back the 4 power
cables which supply all the equipments.

all the equipments have restarted
  
  311   Wed Jan 10 18:43:03 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX iglooRestarting equipements after Christmas shutdownthe laser coupled into the amplifier is
still measured at ~3mW at the input, on the
Alphanov software, once the Amp stage are
  
  312   Thu Jan 11 13:42:16 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX iglooRestarting equipements after Christmas shutdownthis morning, I set the Ring frequency
at 500.25MHz and after switching ON the power
supply of the amplifiers for the RF signal
  
  313   Tue Jan 16 12:19:35 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX iglooRestarting equipements after Christmas shutdownon last friday (12/01/2024), the IcePap
DS issue was solved and I was able to control
the FP-cavity motors properly.
  
  241   Fri Sep 8 12:43:04 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooRemoving high order modesthis morning we locked the laser and the
FP-cavity with ~ 40kW => some HOM appeared
"randomly" depending on the power.
  
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