Rana forced me to write this entry for summary because he didn't come to the 40m meeting today.
Status update :
Interferometer Input Beam alignment with the PZTs.
60 % done. The rest of the 40 % is to make the procedures automated.
The beam spots on ITMY and ETMY are centered within ~1 mm accuracy.
PRM, BS, ITMX, & ITMY actuator calibrations and PRC/MICH error calibrations
Ongoing: First we will do it by hand, then some scripts will be made for the calibraion and resultant noise budget.
F2A Suspension filter calculations.
ETMY and ITMY are done. Need volunteer for ETMX, ITMX, BS, PRM, & SRM !!
Bounce-Roll notch filters
Leo is working on it. 25% complete...
DC signal from RFPDs
The RFPDs have a local SMA DC output as well as a DC output from their PD Interface cards in the LSC rack. We have hooked up some of the PD Interface DC outputs to the LSC ADCs but not tested??
Next steps:
Installation of a temporary (Thorlabs) DCPD on either POY to see the intra-cavity power in the PRC. It would be ridiculous to put detectors on POX or POP since they're still clipped.
D-phase and amplitude imbalance adjustment of the demod baords.
make a script which uses pynds.
Alignment of the full interferomter, starting from the X arm
Loss measurements for the arms
Schnupp asymmetry measurement
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