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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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  461   Mon Dec 1 18:03:29 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooNoise issuesince several days, we see that the locking
is more and more unstable and the lock duration
was sometime less than 20-30 seconds !
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  462   Wed Dec 3 16:23:40 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooNoise issueyesterday, in the same conditions, we had
so many locking issues... exactly
in the same way than before. :-(
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  465   Wed Apr 22 09:52:40 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooIncreasing the FP-cavity power Last Friday, we tried to increase the FP-cavity
power by just increasing the amplifier ratio
from 35% to 70%.
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  466   Mon Apr 27 16:55:15 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooIncreasing the FP-cavity power today with Alice and Daniele,

we checked the distance of the
optical setup :
  
  467   Wed Apr 29 09:38:20 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooIncreasing the FP-cavity power new power increase after alignment of the
waveplates and iris.

amplifier ratio (%) => FPC cavity
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  468   Wed Apr 29 15:31:06 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooIncreasing the FP-cavity power I installed a stronger optical filter on
the reflection photodiode and loaded it on
1kOhms.
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  469   Mon May 18 11:33:46 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooIncreasing the FP-cavity power this morning with Daniele, we set the amplifier
ratio to 33% => 97kW

then, we set the amplifier ratio
  
  470   Thu May 28 10:31:23 2026 Ronic ChicheUnder Processreportlasers and opticsThomX iglooIncreasing the FP-cavity power Last friday, with Daniele, we did some
realignement on the 2nd CVBG of the compressor
: the beam shape seems better, now.
  
  3   Tue Oct 2 16:23:54 2018 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | cabling | softwareOptical roomtest des vérins ISP * les vérins de 20mm (axe Z) ont
été testés sur table
grace à une rallonge SUB-C - DB9,
  
  4   Tue Oct 2 18:00:36 2018 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | cabling | softwareOptical roomtest des vérins ISP  




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  19   Tue Mar 19 17:01:52 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedissuemechanicsOptical roomMotors Z axis reversedS2 and S3 z-axis are initially at 1/4 (5mm/20mm) of
there range over ~20mm range. This is meant
to be able to spread them up to ~15mm in
  
  23   Thu Mar 28 09:25:58 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedissuemechanicsOptical roomMotors Z axis reversedAll Z motors (for P1, S2, S3 and P4) have
been initialized again with a proper HOME
command with their own controller  with
  
  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
  
  35   Thu Apr 18 16:17:53 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedissuelasers and opticsOptical room33MHz Onefive power overtime decreasePower of the 33MHz Onfive decreases over
time. Have to pay attention to that.
Note that air dryers have never been
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  47   Thu Jul 4 18:28:55 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedissuelasers and opticsOptical roomOnefive 33MHz unmodelockedOscillator randomly unmodelocked on 3rd
july afternoon (during oscillator power
measurement, maybe a reflection from the
  
  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.
  
  53   Tue Sep 3 17:51:04 2019 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | vacuumOptical roomVessel cleanlinesslooking in the vessel of the FP cavity
using a UV lamp shows a lot of dust... more
dust than outside the cavity !!!
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  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.
  
  66   Thu Oct 3 14:00:13 2019 Loïc AmoudryFixedissuecablingOptical roomElectrical trouble (disjunction)The circuit breaker on ThomX cavity drops
@1.5-1.8kW when we turn on 1/2nd
stage of the amplifier or 3rd stage of the
  
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