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  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.
  
  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
  
  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
  
  310   Wed Jan 10 15:21:46 2024 Ronic ChicheUnder Processinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooVariable focal lens validationwe plan to use Electrically Tunable Lenses
EL-10-30-C NIR to build the ThomX telescope
but they need to be compatible with the powerful
 Optotune_EL-10-30.pdfJOSAB.8.000337.pdf 
  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
  
  308   Fri Dec 22 16:13:27 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX iglooChristmas shutdownthis afternoon, I checked visually what
happens when the AC power of the UPS is broken
down => the laser controller has still
  
  307   Fri Dec 22 09:46:18 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX iglooChristmas shutdownthis morning, I shut off all the equipements
(especially the computer) except the ones
powered by the UPS : laser controller, laser
  
  306   Mon Dec 11 17:21:32 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooTemperature control of the FP-cavity lengthtoday with Fatematuj, we did a long-term
frequency drift measurement between the FP-cavity
loaded with 50kW and the RF reference frequency...
 frequency_drift.png 
  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)
  
  304   Thu Dec 7 14:59:02 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooTemperature control of the FP-cavity lengthon last tuesday, I did a long-term measurement
of the frequency drift when the heating cable
is powered ON at 20V (2x 10V) @ t=0mn.
 untitled.png 
  303   Thu Dec 7 09:09:27 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooNew mirrors batch informationsthe 2 files describe the specfications
for the16  mirrors ordered (4 for ThomX
+ spare, 4 for SBOX + spare) and the measurements
 miroirs_puma_2022_thomx_Kbox.docxMiroirs_à_1031_nm-ThomX_-_KBox_Mars_2023.pdf 
  302   Mon Dec 4 10:45:50 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooTemperature control of the FP-cavity lengthlast friday, I locked the cavity and then,
switched ON the heating cable after waiting
the cavity reaches a steady state in frequency
 2023_12_01_temp_freq.png 
  301   Thu Nov 30 15:53:10 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooTemperature control of the FP-cavity lengththis afternoon, I started the heating cable after
the warm-up of the FP-cavity :

14h20 : start to fill 50kW
 Screenshot_2023-11-30_15-48-05.png 
  300   Thu Nov 30 12:33:08 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsThomX iglooFP-cavity inside power sensitivitythis morning I monitored the frequency
shift between the FP-cavity frequency (the
laser is locked on it) and the RF reference
 FP-cavity_freq.pngScreenshot_2023-11-30_12-30-23.png 
  299   Wed Nov 29 16:39:16 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooLong term lock of Laser-FP cavity-RF referencethis afternoon, we did a new long-term
"double lock" run w/o any single
lock loss during 1/2h.
 Screenshot_2023-11-29_15-25-37.pngScreenshot_2023-11-29_15-44-27.png 
  298   Wed Nov 29 12:33:33 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooLong term lock of Laser-FP cavity-RF referencetoday, I did a 20 minutes "double
lock" run w/o any single lock loss.

the attached file shows the recorded
 Screenshot_2023-11-29_12-04-09.png 
  297   Wed Nov 29 12:20:18 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooTemperature control of the FP-cavity lengthtoday, I removed one of the DC voltage
supply (as with 30V, we are already able
to 30°C on the heating cable).
  
  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
 Screenshot_2023-11-29_09-27-56.png 
  295   Tue Nov 28 19:01:19 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooLong term lock of Laser-FP cavity-RF referencetoday for the first time, we were able
to make a long term lock of all the elements
(Laser on FP cavity and FP-cavity on RF reference)
  
  294   Tue Nov 28 18:38:16 2023 Ronic ChicheFixedissuemechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsThomX iglooTemperature control of the FP-cavity lengthseveral days ago, we installed a heating
cable around the output flange (close to
the X-hutch) of the FP-cavity vessel.
  
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