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  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
  
  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
  
  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.
  
  348   Tue Aug 27 09:59:18 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX igloorestarting CFP system after the long summer shutdown (RF section conditionning) and Alphanov amplifier issuetemperature in the casemate ~ 19.5°C
stable

this morning, I measured the power
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  349   Tue Aug 27 10:19:08 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX igloorestarting CFP system after the long summer shutdown (RF section conditionning) and Alphanov amplifier issueI refilled the chiller and the stabilized
temperature is @ 25°C

we started the 3rd stage of the
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  350   Tue Aug 27 11:33:24 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX igloorestarting CFP system after the long summer shutdown (RF section conditionning) and Alphanov amplifier issuewe had to move the laser cavity motor to
find the resonances and change a lot the
CEP.
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  351   Tue Aug 27 12:31:19 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX igloorestarting CFP system after the long summer shutdown (RF section conditionning) and Alphanov amplifier issueafter doing some alignment (walking procedure
on the Y axis), and CEP optimization, I got
83kW for 33% on the laser amplifier with
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  352   Fri Aug 30 10:50:45 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX igloorestarting CFP system after the long summer shutdown (RF section conditionning) and Alphanov amplifier issuethis morning with Daniele, we are measuring
the amplifier power just before the FP-cavity.
Casemate temperature @19.5°C
  
  353   Fri Aug 30 12:05:38 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX igloorestarting CFP system after the long summer shutdown (RF section conditionning) and Alphanov amplifier issueAfter the summer power shutdown, I restarted
all the equipements and got quickly ~80kW
for 33% amplifier ratio with CEP optimization
  
  354   Fri Aug 30 17:59:01 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX igloorestarting CFP system after the long summer shutdown (RF section conditionning) and Alphanov amplifier issueamplifier power measurement before the
compressor CVBG.
we used a mirror in between the amplifier
  
  358   Fri Sep 6 12:10:51 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX igloorestarting CFP system after the long summer shutdown (RF section conditionning) and Alphanov amplifier issueafter redoing the alignment of the CVBG,
we got back the initial power in the FPC
(87kW)
  
  359   Fri Sep 6 15:20:20 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX igloorestarting CFP system after the long summer shutdown (RF section conditionning) and Alphanov amplifier issuenow, the Ring RF frequency is set to 500.067MHz.

so the CFP/laser frequency should
be 500.067MHz/15 = 33.3378MHz.
  
  360   Fri Sep 6 17:21:51 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX igloorestarting CFP system after the long summer shutdown (RF section conditionning) and Alphanov amplifier issueI changed a little bit the locking parameters
(see picture) for the RF/FPC loop and it
locked rapidely.
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  362   Mon Sep 9 11:00:43 2024 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX igloorestarting CFP system after the long summer shutdown (RF section conditionning) and Alphanov amplifier issuethis morning, with Vincent :

- we added the 10Hz trigger to
the CH2 on the remote scope (192.168.229.21)
  
  426   Wed Jun 11 11:35:22 2025 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronics | softwareThomX igloo33MHz phase adjustmentthe 33MHz beating signal (phase) is used
to start and stop automatically the lock
on the 500MHz beating signal.
  
  212   Tue May 30 18:32:37 2023 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronics | cabling | softwareThomX iglooCavity Lock - Alphanov Amplifier This morning, while trying Guillaume solution
of disconnecting the 24 V necessary to the
second and third stage and raise the threshold
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  215   Fri Jun 2 10:54:25 2023 Manar AmerFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronics | cabling | softwareThomX iglooCavity Lock - Alphanov Amplifier Yesterday, with Ronic we locked ThomX cavity
on the second resonance 

Laser : 33.36 MHz , Amplifier :
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