ELOG 40m

FSS board chip replacement

A quick update.

I changed two AD797s on the FSS board to AD829s to mitigate the 50MHz oscillation, which I plan to report later.
For some reason, the PA85 was broken after the replacement. So I had to replace it with a spare one too.
Right now the FSS is back and working. The oscillation is gone.
However, the maximum achievable gain is still about the same as before.

1062

Tue Oct 21 16:14:42 2008

divergence of He Ne 1035P

The ITM oplevs laser diodes are noisy.
They will be replaced by JDS 1035P
SN T8093307 was measured with the beamscanner.
This will able us to calculate the right lenses to get a small beam on the qpd.

**

The first column is distance from the front face of the laser in cm.
The second column is beam diameter in the horizontal direction in microns.
The third column is the beam diameter in the vertical direction in microns.

(edit by Rana)

Attachment 1: 1035p_divergence.png

1063

Tue Oct 21 16:17:45 2008

AD797 Oscillation in the FSS board

I checked each op-amp's output in the FSS board to see if any indication of slew-rate saturation can be found.
PA85, which was the most suspicious one, actually has a very large slew rate limit (1000V/usec).
Its output swing was about 5V/usec. So PA85 was ok in terms of slew rate.
However, I found that an AD797 used at the first stage of the PC path was oscillating by itself, i.e. even without the loop closed.
The frequency was about 50MHz and the amplitude was large enough to reach the slew rate limit of this chip (the steepest slope was 30V/usec whereas the slew
rate limit of AD797 is 20V/usec).

I replaced it and another AD797 right after the oscillating one with AD829s. Just replacing the chips caused oscillation of AD829.
It was because there were no phase compensation capacitors connected to the pin 5 of AD829s.
Since the PCB was designed for AD797, there is no pattern for compensation caps. So I ended up putting Mica capacitors (47pF) across the pin 5 and the nearest ground point.
It worked and the oscillation stopped.

As I reported in an earlier elog, stopping the oscillation did not solve the problem of low FSS bandwidth.

1064

Tue Oct 21 17:52:30 2008

Summary

FSS Photo: early October

This is a photo of the FSS board before Yoichi did his surgery - it was taken with the D40 in macro mode, sitting on the big Gorilla pod.

Attachment 1: fss.jpg

1065

Tue Oct 21 18:19:42 2008

Computers

LISO and Eagle installed

I installed LISO, a circuit simulation software, into the control room linux machines.
I also installed a PCB CAD called Eagle to serve as a graphical editor for LISO.
I put a brief explanation in the wiki.
http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/40m/LISO

As a demonstration, I made a model of the FSS PC path and did a stability analysis of the op-amps.

The first attachment is the schematic of the model.
You can find the model in /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/eagle/projects/liso-examples/FSS

The second attachment shows the stability analysis plot of the first two op-amps when AD829s are used.
The op-amp model is for the uncompensated AD829. The graph includes the bode plots of the open-loop transfer function of each op-amp.
If the phase delay is more than 360deg (in the plot it is 0 deg because the phase is wrapped within +/-180 deg) at the unity gain frequency,
the op-amp is unstable.
It is clear from the plot that this circuit is unstable. This is consistent with what I experienced when I replaced the chips to AD829 without
compensation.
Unfortunately, I don't have an op-amp model for phase compensated AD829. So I can't make a plot with compensation caps.

The third attachment is the stability analysis of the same circuit with AD797. It also shows that the circuit is unstable at 200MHz, though I
observed oscillation at 50MHz.

Finally, I did an estimate of frequency noise contribution from the noise of AD829.
First I estimated the voltage noise at the output of the board caused by the first AD829 using LISO's noise command.
Then I converted it into the input equivalent noise at the stage right after the mixer by calculating the transfer function
of the circuit using LISO.
Within the control bandwidth of the FSS, this input equivalent noise appears at the mixer output with the opposite sign.
Since we know the calibration factor from the mixer output voltage to the frequency noise, we can convert this into the frequency noise.
The final attachment is the estimated contribution of the AD829 to the frequency noise. As expected, it is negligible.

Attachment 1: FSS_PC_Path.pdf

Attachment 2: AD829Stability.png

Attachment 3: AD797Stability.png

Attachment 4: FreqNoiseByAD829.png

1066

Wed Oct 22 09:42:41 2008

c1iool0 rebooted and MC autolocker restarted

DAQ

Computers

This morning I found the MC unlocked. The MC-Down script didn't work because of network problems in communicating with scipe7, a.k.a. c1iool0. Telneting to the computer was also impossible so I power cycled it from its key switch. The first time it failed so I repeated it a second time and then it worked.
Yoichi then restarted c1iovme. It was also necessary to restart the MC autolocker script according to the following procedure:
- ssh into op440m
- from op440m, ssh into op340m
- restart /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/scripts/MC/autolockMCmain40

1067

Wed Oct 22 12:37:47 2008

Attached in open office format as well as excel format is spreadsheet containing all the devices with IP addresses at the 40m. Please contact me with any corrections.

Attachment 1: 40m_network_10-15-08.ods

Attachment 2: 40m_network_10-15-08.xls

1068

Wed Oct 22 16:22:53 2008

Caryn received safety training

Bureaucracy

SAFETY

Caryn Polatchi has received 40m safety training on Monday, Oct 20

1069

Wed Oct 22 17:48:58 2008

Lenses for focusing the optical lever laser (Re:divergence of He Ne 1035P)

Steve had difficulty in finding lenses for focusing the HeNe laser for the ITM op-lev.
Following his measurement of the beam divergence, I did some calculation to find a suitable set of lenses and positions.

First, I fitted Steve's data to get the waist size and location of the new HeNe.
The first plot shows the fitting result.
The size of the waist is 0.3mm at -367mm from the laser output (i.e. inside the laser).
(I only used horizontal beam size data.)

Then using the obtained beam parameter, I calculated the propagation of the beam through two lenses.
After playing with the focal length and location of the lenses, I found that with parameters {f1=-0.125m, f2=0.2m, d1=0.2m, d2=0.1m} we get about 1mm beam at the QPD (about 4m away from the laser). f1 and f2 are the focal lengths of the lenses, d1 is the distance from the laser to the first lens and d2 is the distance between the two lenses.
The second plot shows the beam size as a function of the distance from the laser.

The Mathematica notebook used to plot the beam propagation is attached.
By running it on Mathematica 6, you can dynamically change the parameters (focal lengths and locations) by sliders, and the plot (like the one shown in the second attachment) updates in real time. It is cool. Please try it.

Quote:

The first column is distance from the front face of the laser in cm.
The second column is beam diameter in the horizontal direction in microns.
The third column is the beam diameter in the vertical direction in microns.

(edit by Rana)

Attachment 1: BeamProfile.png

Attachment 2: BeamPropagation.png

Attachment 3: BeamPropagation.zip

1070

Wed Oct 22 20:50:30 2008

Today I measured the GPS clock frequency at the output of CLOCK_MON in a board on the same crate where the c1iool0 computer is located. The monitor was connected with a BNC cable to the 10MHz reference input of the frequency counter on top of that rack, where it was used to check the 166MHz coming from one of the Marconi.

The frequency was supposed to be 10MHz but I actually measured 8 MHz. I tracked down the GPS input cable to the board and it turned out to come from one of the 1Y7 rack. Here it was connected to a board with a display that was showing corrupted digits, plus some leds on the front panel were red.

I'm not sure the GPS reference is working properly.

1071

Thu Oct 23 11:26:25 2008

optosigma forks for vacuum

Bureaucracy

VAC

Nine short forks from OptoSigma were cleaned, baked and measured by Bob T.
They passed the LIGO vac compatiblity test as Rana predicted.
Remember: Thorlab and Newfocus forks failed this qualification process.

1072

Thu Oct 23 15:27:19 2008

Here are the measurements I've got yesterday. The plot shows the transmitted power after the X arm while sweeping the frequency of the beat between the two lasers. That frequency is changed by scanning the frequency of the local oscillator of the PLL (that is the Marconi).
The X arm cavity has been locked to the TEM00 of the main beam. I tilted ITMX in order to enhance the higher modes of the secondary beam with the purpose of making them beat with the main beam.
Three traces are shown in the plot correspondent to three different measurements in which I clipped the transmitted beam at the X end with a razor blade from up and from the side of the photodiode.
Both the beats of the TEM00 mode of the main laser with the TEM01 and TEM10 modes of the secondary laser are expected to be at 6.2763 MHz. The plot has a candidate peak at 6.325MHz but it does not appear on both the measurements with the blade. the peaks at 3.897MHz and 7.795MHz are the first and the second longitudinal modes of the X arm cavity.

Attachment 1: TRX_aplot_03_04_05_together.png

1073

Thu Oct 23 18:23:47 2008

Quote:

Today I repeated the measurement and I'm attaching the resulting plot. Still, not clear and (and most of all) not nice.
It seems like tilting ITMX is introducing a lot of unwanted higher modes that don't let us to clearly identify TEM01 and TEM10.
I think I'm going to stop it to get back to technique in which the arm cavity is locked to the TEM01/10 of the main beam.

Attachment 1: TRX_plot_06_07_08_together.png

1074

Thu Oct 23 18:27:04 2008

Quote:

Here is the Matlab code I use to calculate the HOM frequencies.

Attachment 1: HOM_Frequencies.m

% FP Cavity HOM Frequencies Estimate
% Alberto Stochino, October 2008

R1 = 7280;      % Mirror1 radius of curvature
R2 = 57.57;     % Mirror2 radius of curvature
L = 38.458;     % Length of the FP Cavity
n = 1;          % X Order of the Mode
m = 0;          % Y Order of the Mode

c = 299792458;  % Speed of Light

... 11 more lines ...

1075

Thu Oct 23 18:45:18 2008

Computer Scripts / Programs

Omnistructure

Python code for GPIB devices developed for the Absl length experiment

I wrote two Python scripts for my measurement that can be also used/imitated by others: sweepfrequency. py and HP8590.py. The first is is the one that we run by a Python interpreter (just typing "python <name script> <parameters>"from the terminal). It manages the parameters that we have to pass it for the measurement and calls the second one, HP8590.py which actually does most of the job.

Here what it does. It scans the frequency of the Marconi and, for each step, searches the highest peak in the Spectrum Analyzer (which is centered 50 KHz around the frequency of the Marconi). It then associates the amplitude of the peak to the frequency of the Marconi and write the two number in two columns of a file.
The file name, the GPIB-to/LAN interface IP address, the frequency range, the frequency step amplitude and the number of measures we want it to average for each step, are all set by the parameters when we call sweepfrequency.py.
More details are in the help of the function or just looking at the header of the code.

I guess that one can perform other similar measurement just with little changes in the code so I think it could turn out useful to anyone else.

Attachment 1: HP8590.py

# This function provides the measuremeent of the peak amplitude on the spectrum analyzer
# HP8590 analyzer while sweeping the excitation frequency on the function generator.
#
# Alberto Stochino 2008

import re
import sys
import math
from optparse import OptionParser
from socket import *

... 55 more lines ...

Attachment 2: sweepfrequency.py

## sweepfrequency.py [-f filename] [-i ip_address] [-a startFreq] [-z endFreq] [-s stepFreq] [-m numAvg]
#
## This script sweeps the frequency of a Marconi local oscillator, within the range
## delimited by startFreq and endFreq, with a step set by stepFreq. An arbitary
## signal is monitored on a HP8590 spectrum analyzer and the scripts records the
## amplitude of the spectrum at the frequency injected by the Marconi at the moment.

## The GPIB address of the Marconi is assumed to be 17, that of the HP Spectrum Analyzer to be 18

## Alberto Stochino, October 2008

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1076

Thu Oct 23 18:51:19 2008

I checked it and the latest version of the elog software, the 2.7.5 (we have the 2.6.5) has, among new nice features, the very good ability to fit the entries into the screen width without showing kilometric lines like we see now. Should we upgrade it?

1078

Thu Oct 23 20:47:28 2008

pete

FSS LO calibration for MEDM

Today I took a quick series of measurements to calibrate the FSS LO power measurement in the MEDM. This was done by using the spec.an. to measure the 21.5 MHz peak in dBm at the LO input to the FSS box on the PSL table, and recording the MEDM value, for attenuations applied at the FSS REF box output ranging from -5 dBm to -30 dBm.

I measured the loss due to the BNC cable I used, which was (19.66-19.50) dBm. I accounted for this and plotted ln(MEDM) vs. dBm on the attached plot. A linear fit of this gives the CALC field of a calc record for the IOC db:
6.29*LOGE(A)+5.36

Since no one knew how to do this nonlinear conversion in EPICS I will describe how to do it in detail tomorrow. It is simple, although it requires power cycling the scipe3 bunch (typing "reboot" or "ctl-x" at the command prompt took it down, but it did not come back). I did power cycle those computers a few times today.

Attachment 1: fss_lo_calibration.png

1079

Thu Oct 23 21:52:27 2008

I measured the open loop transfer function of the FSS, for the first time after I mitigated the oscillation.
The attached plot shows the comparison of the OPLTF before and after the oscillation was mitigated.
Blue curves are when AD797 was oscillating, and the red ones are after AD797s were replaced by AD829s.
The FSS gain slider values are the same for the both measurements.
There is a notable difference in the shape of the TF.
Right now the UGF is around 450kHz with the phase margin of 50deg.
When the gain is increased by a few dBs in the common gain slider, the PC path becomes saturated.
This might be caused by the peak in the OPLTF at 1.7MHz sticking out of the 0dB line.
Another peak at 770kHz is also annoying.
Too bad that I did not take the TF above 1MHz before the oscillation was mitigated.
Also at 100kHz, the new TF has a lower gain than the old one, although it looks like the slope of the red curve is getting steeper and
it is catching up the blue one at lower frequencies.
I will measure the TF below 100kHz later.

With this bandwidth, I was able to increase the MC gain further.
I will report on the MC open loop measurements soon.

Attachment 1: FSS_OPLTF.png

1080

Thu Oct 23 23:09:18 2008

I measured three loop transfer functions of the MC servo.
The blue curve in the first attachment is the overall open loop gain of the servo measured using
the sum-amp A of the MC board (it is the sum-amp in the common part).
The red curve is the transfer function measured by the sum-amp B of the MC board, which is in the VCO path.
Mathematically the measured transfer function is G_vco/(1+G_L), where G_L is the loop gain of the length path
and G_vco is the loop gain of the VCO path.
The green curve is G_L/(1+G_vco) which was measured from dtt by using C1:SUS-MC2_MCL_EXC.
The UGF of the MC loop is 75kHz with the phase margin of 27deg.
The cross over frequency of the two loops is 43Hz. The phase margin there seems OK.

The second attachment is the comparison of the MC open loop TF measured on Sep. 4 (old) and today (new).
The increased bandwidth of the FSS gave us a slight gain in the phase margin and the elimination of
the slight bump in the gain around 150kHz existed in the blue curve.

Attachment 1: MC_Loop.png

Attachment 2: OldAndNew.png

1081

Fri Oct 24 10:06:16 2008

MC gain and FSS gain changed

IOO

Following the measurements of MC and FSS loop gains, I modified mcup script to set the MC VCO gain to 2dB (it was -4dB before).
I also changed the normal value of the FSS common gain to 7dB. The open loop transfer functions posted in the previous two entries
were measured with those settings.

1082

Fri Oct 24 11:09:08 2008

more lexan plates under cameras

SAFETY

The MC2, MC3&1 and BSC-SUS cameras were repositioned somewhat in the
process of placing lexan disks under neat them.
MC1&3 will have to be readjusted.

Now all horizontal viewports are protected.

1083

Fri Oct 24 11:21:26 2008

pete

FSS LO input calibrated in dBm

Based on the measurements described in my previous elog, I created a new calc record in the file /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1psl/psl.db

grecord(calc, "C1:PSL-FSS_LOCALC")
{
        field(INPA,"C1:PSL-FSS_LODET")
        field(SCAN,".1 second")
        field(PREC,"4")
        field(CALC,"6.29*LOGE(A)+5.36")
}

After restarting scipe3 to load this change, I told C1PSL_FSS.adl to look at this record instead of *LODET. That MEDM screen now shows LO input calibrated in dBm.

For reference, the operators available for use in the CALC field are listed in the EPICS Record ref manual, Chapter 9. The manual can be found here:
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/EpicsDocumentation/AppDevManuals/RecordRef/Recordref-3.html

Yoichi said he was fixing an SVN problem, so I have not yet committed the two files I changed: /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1psl/psl.db and /cvs/cds/caltech/medm/c1/psl/C1PSL_FSS.adl.

1084

Fri Oct 24 11:42:48 2008

Abs length: locking the X arm cavity in TEM01/10

I went back to lock the arm cavity in either TEM01 or TEM10 mode. Attached are the results. We still have several resonances which we can't clearly identify. I expect TEM01/10 to be at 6.276MHz but we don't have a peak exactly there. What we have is:
- a peak at 6.320MHz in the measurement of the TEM01 mode (the one with the lobes of the spot almost on the vertical axis)
- a peak at 6.590MHz in both the TEM01 and TEM10 measurements.

I'm either missing the real TEM01/10 mode or the peaks at 6.590MHz are those. If that were true, that would mean that the radius of curvature of ETMX is 49.29 m instead of 57.57 m as listed in the IFO data sheets. I think it's much more likely that the measurements are missing the right peaks.

Attachment 1: TRX_armTEM00-plot_09-10_together.png

1085

Fri Oct 24 15:05:13 2008

The old Dycor RGA is out of order.
I'm getting ready to purchase an SRS instrument.

1086

Fri Oct 24 17:21:13 2008

Abs length: the right amount of beam clipping

I found the reason why the peak at about 6.3MHz appeared only on the TEM10 mode: the blade was clipping the beam too much and it was probably totally killing the mode. I'm attaching a plot that shows that difference when I did that.

Attachment 1: 24OCT08_levels_of_clipping_comparison.png

1087

Fri Oct 24 18:05:01 2008

Abs length: transverse mode spacing measured for the X arm

The ETMX suffers of astigmatism. I measured the following frequencies for the higher order modes:
- f_01 = 6317500 +/- 500 Hz
- f_10 = 6305500 +/- 500 Hz

From

g2=1/g1*(cos(A*L*pi/c))^2

where A= (fsr-f_i), fsr=(3897654+/-15)Hz (see elog entry 956), L=(38.4580+/-0.0003)m, g1=0.9947 (from R1=7280m), I get the following values for the g-factor coefficients:

g2_x = 0.3164 +/- 0.0002
g2_y = 0.3209 +/- 0.0002

from which we have the radius of curvature of ETMX:

R_x = 56.26 +/- 0.01 m
R_y = 56.63 +/- 0.01 m

The specs for the mirror have R2= 57.57 m (unc).

So, they seem conditions similar of those of ETMY that Koji measured:

Rx = 56.1620 +/- 0.0013 [m]
Ry = 57.3395 +/- 0.0011 [m]

for which L_yarm: 38.6462 m +/- 0.0003 m

Attachment 1: 24OCT08_TEM10-01_comparison(file12-14).png

1088

Fri Oct 24 20:54:41 2008

I have removed linux2 and its cables from the control room and put it into 1Y3 along with op340m.

When Joe next comes in we can ask him to Cat6 it to the rest of the world, although it already
seems to me that the CDS hub/switch next Alberto's desk is too full and that we need to purchase
a 48 port device for there.

1089

Fri Oct 24 21:49:15 2008

Jenne

PEM

Short Seismometer Cable

Bad news regarding the cable that goes between the Guralp seismometer and the box that I've been working on: it's too short by about a factor of 2. Dang it. I've placed the seismometer underneath the Beam Splitter Chamber (where it needs to go), and started running the cable toward the ADC rack where box was planned to go, and as Rana guessed earlier tonight, the cable isn't nearly long enough. We have some options: the seismometer can go back into the half-height rack near the BS, SRM, PRM oplev's optical table where I think it used to be, or it can go into the rack with the Kepco high voltage power supplies and the laser's supply. The cable won't reach any farther than that.

I think that we can just add BNC extensions onto the octopus cable that Bob made for the Guralp box, so all we need to figure out after we decide on a rack is the power for the box.

1090

Fri Oct 24 22:30:38 2008

Jenne,rana

Noise from Guralp Seismometer

PEM

Attached is a Power Spectrum of the noise on the Vert1 channel of the Guralp seismometer. The noise is in the several hundreds of nV/rtHz up near 50Hz and higher, but is in the several microV/rtHz range at lower frequencies. Our high frequency noise is almost definitely below the noise of the ADC, but the lower frequencies, where we actually care, it's not as clear.

To Do list:

Measure the noise of the ADC - is the Guralp Box lower for all frequencies?
Use conversion factors to convert this measured noise into the minimum ground motion that we can measure. Is this at least a factor of 100 lower than our regular ground motion?

** UPDATE: This is actually the noise of the Guralp breakout box, not the Guralp itself. It is the noise measured on the output of the box
with the input shorted. The board is configured to have a gain of 20 (10 from the AD620 and 2x for differential drive). We also measured
directly at the AD620 output and all of this noise comes directly from that chip. If Jenne calculates that this noise is too high we would
have to find a replacement with a better low frequency floor (e.g. LT1012 or LT1007 depending on the Guralps source impedance).

Attachment 1: Vert1_Noise_24Oct2008.png

1091

Sun Oct 26 21:02:18 2008

Computer Scripts / Programs

SVN medm problem

As we've seen in the past a few times, there's something wrong with the files in the trunk/medm area.
I get the following error message when doing a fresh checkout:

A    c1/lsc/help/C1LSC_LA_SET.txt
svn: In directory 'c1/lsc/help'
svn: Can't copy 'c1/lsc/help/.svn/tmp/text-base/C1LSC_RFadjust.txt.svn-base' to 'c1/lsc/help/.svn/tmp/C1LSC_RFadjust.txt.tmp.tmp': No such file or directory

It looks like that there are some .svn files which have been checked in as if they're some kind of source code instead of just maintenance files.
We probably have to go through and clean this out and then remove these excess files somehow.

1092

Mon Oct 27 10:02:16 2008

Computer Scripts / Programs

SVN medm problem

I tried to check out medm directory both from my laptop and nodus.
I did not get the error.
Have you already fixed it ? Or maybe it is to do with the version of the svn used to checkout ?

Quote:

As we've seen in the past a few times, there's something wrong with the files in the trunk/medm area.
I get the following error message when doing a fresh checkout:

A    c1/lsc/help/C1LSC_LA_SET.txt
svn: In directory 'c1/lsc/help'
svn: Can't copy 'c1/lsc/help/.svn/tmp/text-base/C1LSC_RFadjust.txt.svn-base' to 'c1/lsc/help/.svn/tmp/C1LSC_RFadjust.txt.tmp.tmp': No such file or directory

1093

Mon Oct 27 11:16:23 2008

I implemented the calibration for the four channels of the StochMon in the ioo EPICS database. Now the output of those channels, as shown in the medm screen, gives the peak-to-peak amplitude in voltage of each frequency from the RFAMPD at the transmission of the MC, normalized by the DC output from the same photodiode.

Basically the calibration takes into account the following factors:
- two in series RF preamplifiers, currently laying on the PSL table near the RFAMPD, with gains of 19 dB and 17 dB, respectively
and, inside the StochMon blue box:
- a resonant band-pass filter with the following gains h_f(f) for each of the frequencies of interest: 33MHz -39.5 dB; 133MHz -40.8 dB; 166MHz -49.0 dB; 199MHz -45.0 dB
- a power detector that provides an output voltage linearly proportional to the input power in dBm, with a factor alpha of proportionality equal to an average value of -0.0271 V/dBm for all the frequencies

The calibration that relates the output voltage from the PD to the output voltage from the StochMon is then obtained as:

V_pd(f) = sqrt(2*R*P0)/h_f(f) * 10^( (Vo-q)/(20*alpha) )

where R=50ohm, P0=1mW and q=0.772 V, the latest being the offset in the calibration of the power detector (that is its output for a 0 dBm input).

1094

Mon Oct 27 11:23:10 2008

new Olympus camera with IR vision

Photos

The IR blocker was removed from our new Olympus camera
SP 570UZ camera.
It has image stabilization, zoom 26-520 mm (20x optical)
and 10.7 Mpixel

Attachment 1: IRisin.JPG

1095

Mon Oct 27 14:48:27 2008

EO shutter installed to the reference cavity

I'm now preparing for cavity ring down measurements of the reference cavity.
An EOM for polarization rotation is installed between the two steering mirrors for the reference cavity.
The location is before the polarized beam splitter (used to pick-up the reflected light from the cavity) and
after the half-wave plate. So we should be able to use the PBS as a polarizer.
While setting up the high voltage pulse generator, I realized that we don't have enough cables for it.
It uses special kind of connectors (Kings 1065-N) for HV connections. We need three of those but I could find
only two. I asked Bob to order a new connector.

For the moment, the EOM is left in the beam path of the reference cavity until the connectors arrive (Wed. or Thu. this week)
and the measurements are done.
The EOM distorts the beam and degrades the mode matching to the reference cavity.
I optimized the alignment of the crystal so that the RC transmission is maximum.
Even though, the transmission of the reference cavity is down from 2.8 (without EOM) to 1.7 (with EOM).
I increased the common gain of the FSS from 7dB to 10dB to compensate for this.
The mode clearner locks with this configuration.

If the EOM is really disturbing, one can just take it out.
Since I did not touch the steering mirrors, the alignment to the reference cavity should be recovered immediately.

1097

Tue Oct 28 11:10:18 2008

Higher Order Mode resonances in the X arms

LSC

Quote:

Recently we had been having some trouble locking the full IFO in the spring configuration (SRC on +166).
It was thought that an accidental higher order mode resonance in the arms may have been causing problems.

I previously calculated the locations of the resonances using rough arm cavity parameters(Elog #690). Thanks to Koji
and Alberto I have been able to update this work with measured arm length and g factors for the y arm (Elog #801,#802).
I have also included the splitting of the modes caused by the astigmatic ETM. Code is attached.

I don't see any evidence of +166MHz resonances in the y arm.

In the attached plot different colours denote different frequencies +33, -33, +166, -166 & CR.
The numbers above each line are the mn of TEMmn.
Solid black line is the carrier resonance.

I plugged the measures of the length of the X arm and radius of curvature of ETMX I made in to John's code to estimate the position of the resonances of the HOM for the sidebands in the X arm. Here's the resulting plot.

Attachment 1: HOM_resonances_Xarm.png

1098

Tue Oct 28 12:01:01 2008

Quote:

Note I still need to remove a fair bit of cabling no longer in use from the Martian network switch next to Alberto's desk. There's actually about 8-10 cables there which show no connectivity and are not being used. So there's really about 33% of the ports open in the control room hub, it just doesn't look like it.

As for linux2, I'll probably just connect it to the 1Y2 or 1Y6 Hubs when I get the chance.

1099

Wed Oct 29 12:23:04 2008

MZ alignment touched and the alarm level changed

Since the MZ reflection is alarming all the time, I tried to improve the MZ alignment by touching the folding mirror.
I locked the X-arm and monitored the transmitted light power while tweaking the mirror alignment to ensure that the output beam pointing is not changed.
I changed the alignment only a little, almost like just touching the knob.
The reflected power monitor was around 0.6 this morning and now it is about 0.525. Still large.
I changed the alarm level (HIGH) from 0.5 to 0.55.

1100

Wed Oct 29 12:54:28 2008

Jenne

Calibrated Guralp Noise compared to average ground motion

PEM

Here is a calibrated noise plot of the Guralp seismometer box. This is the same noise measured on Friday, measured at TP3 (just after the first gain stage), with the inputs shorted.

The Guralp calibration is:

                TP3 noise
noise in m/s = -------------------
                 10 * 802(V/(m/s))

The 10 is from the gain of 10 between the output of the seismometer and the input of the breakout box, and the 802 V/(m/s) is from the calibration data that came with the seismometer.

From elog 881 by Rana, in the ~1-50Hz band, the calibration of the Ranger seismometer is 488*10^6 counts/(m/s). Using DataViewer, I estimated that the nighttime ground motion measured by the Ranger is ~3500 counts, and the max daytime ground motion is ~8000 counts. This is what was used for the nighttime/daytime lines in this plot.

It seems like the noise of the Guralp box is fine just as it is, and we don't need to worry about replacing the first gain stage (differential instrumentation amp) with a lower-noise op-amp, since at even the lowest freqs, we have almost a factor of 100 at night, and better than that at higher freqs.

NOTE about the plot: the legend isn't showing the correct colors for the night and day motion - obviously the nighttime motion is the lower RED line, and the day is the higher GREEN line.

Yet another note: When I was measuring the counts on the Ranger, I forgot to subtract the mean, so these numbers are overestimating the ambient ground motion. The blue curve is correct however.

Attachment 1: GuralpVert1Noise_mPERs_Ranger.png

1101

Thu Oct 30 11:07:25 2008

Computers

Wireless bridges arrived

Five wireless bridges for the GPIB-Ethernet converters arrived.
One of them had a broken AC adapter. We have to send it back.
I configured the rest of the bridges for the 40MARS wireless network.
One of them was installed to the SR785.
I put the remaining ones in the top drawer of the cabinet, on which the label printers are sitting.
You can use those to connect any network device with a LAN port to the 40MARS network.

1102

Thu Oct 30 20:39:47 2008

We attached the temperature sensor box to the MC1/MC3 chamber with a C-clamp. We connected the temp sensor to a 2nd box with a short BNC. Bob set up a power cable coming from the X-end towards the MC1/MC3 chamber(Thanks, Bob!) We soldered the end of Bob's power cable to a plug and attached it to the 2nd box (The power supply enters through the 2nd box). A ~20ft BNC cable connects the output signal of the 2nd box to the tall thing by the PSL where all the signals go labeled 1Y2. Once we had everything connected, we put in the fuses for the power supply. So, now the temperature sensor is receiving power. We checked that the power supply was working (we measured +15.08V and -14.95V, and we wanted 15V and -15V so it's OK for now). Tomorrow we will modify C1IOOF.INI file and reboot the frame builder.

About sensor-
There is an LM34 (looks like a transistor) glued w/ epoxy and thermal paste to the inside of a Pomona box ~1"x"1.5"x2". The lid to the box is covered with a 1-2mm thick piece of copper and a little thermal paste is sandwiched between the Pomona lid and the copper piece. A C-clamp attaches the copper piece to the chamber. A BNC is connected to one side of the box (the side with less copper)

About power supply box-
There is a power regulator and an op-amp inside a Pomona box ~2.5"x4"x2". The power regulator is attached to the center of lid of the pomona box with a screw and washer. There's a power plug on the front of the box
Left:+15V:red wire
Center:GND:white wire
Right:-15V:black wire
There are 2 BNC connections on the sides of the box. The left BNC connection is for the output signal and the right BNC connection is for the temperature sensor (if the power plug is coming out of the box towards you).

Sensor location-
Chamber which contains MC1/MC3. On the door facing towards the Y-end. On the bottom-left side. Behind the door. Attached with a C-clamp.

Power supply box location-
Chamber which contains MC1/MC3. On some metal leg thing near the floor facing towards the Y-end. Attached with a zip-tie

Power supply-
Coming from the X-end from a tall thing with all the fuses labeled 1X1
Fuse 160:+15V:red wire
Fuse 171:GND:white wire
Fuse 172:-15V:black wire

Signal-
Going towards the PSL to the tall thing labeled 1Y1 on the rack labeled SN208
ICS-110B
J12 (which we believe corresponds to 50-51 and channel number 13650)
Temperature sensor is connected to J12 with a ~20ft BNC attached to a BNC2LEMO connector we found lying around

1103

Fri Oct 31 08:52:19 2008

SUS

ETMY damping restored

ETMY watchdogs were tripped yesterday morning also. This is a problem that existed some months ago.(?)
Our seimo channels are inactive.

Attachment 1: etmy2d.jpg

1104

Sun Nov 2 20:21:58 2008

HP 5550dtn (Grazia) set up on allegra

lore

I set up printing to grazia from allegra. The CUPS interface was not as straightforward as Tobin had made it seem in the Wiki. I had to type in the IP address and port number by hand.

The steps (AFAIR):

1) Goto http://localhost:631/
2) Click on "Add Printer"
3) Choose HP JetDirect
4) Use the correct address (socket://131.215.115.220:9100)
5) Choose HP and the 5550 postscript driver as the options
6) Try to only print useful stuff and not kill too many trees.

1105

Sun Nov 2 20:44:58 2008

Wiener Filter performance over 5 hours

ASS

I took one 2 hour stretch of data to calculate a MISO Wiener filter to subtract the Ranger seismometer
and the 6 Wilcoxon accelerometers from the IOO-MC_L channel. I then used that static filter to calculate
the residual of the subtraction in 10 minute increments for 5 hours. The filter was calculated based upon
the first 2 hours of the stretch.

The MC lock stretch is from Oct 31 03:00 UTC (I think that we are -8 hours from UTC, but the DST confounds me).
So its from this past Thursday night.

I wrote a script (/users/rana/mat/wiener/mcl_comp.m) which takes the static filter and does a bunch of loops
of subtraction to get a residual power spectrum for each 10 minute interval.

In the attached PNG, you can see the result. The legend is in units of minutes from the initial t0 = 03:00 UTC.

BLACK-DASHED -- MCL spectrum before subtraction

I have also used dashed lines for some of the other traces where there is an excess above the unsubtracted data.
Other than those few times, the rest are all basically the same; this indicates that we can do fine with a very
slow adaptation time for the feed-forward filters-- a few hours of a time constant is not so bad.

After making the plot I noticed that the Ranger signal was totally railed and junky during this time.
This probably explains the terrible performance below 1 Hz (where are those Guralps?)

The second attached image is the same but in spectrogram form.

Attachment 1: f.png

Attachment 2: f1.png

1106

Sun Nov 2 21:37:22 2008

The ranger signal has been bad since around 11 AM on Oct 25 (last Saturday). There are no elog
entries from that day, but I am quite sure that someone must have been working around the PSL
rack area.

It looks like what happened is that someone moved the chair with the monitor on it and/or the wooden
stool next to it. That put tension on the cable connecting the SR560 and the seismometer. The SR560
connector now seems loose and I think probably the cable ground wasn't connected. I swapped the
cable over to the "B" side of the SR560 and the ranger signal is now reasonable (very small offset
and normal seismic signal).

Please be careful when working around there. Everyone always says "I didn't do anything" or "it doesn't
effect anything".

We need to clean up the cabling around there in addition to running a new power cable for the RF amplifier
on the POY table.

I have also reduced its sample rate from 2048 to 512 Hz. The data are OK after 909640694.

I also increased the sample rate of AS_MIC from 2048 to 16384 Hz but that one seems to be broken
---->> the microphone seems to be either disconnected or broken.

1107

Mon Nov 3 09:59:47 2008

The psl enclosure HEPAs were tuned on.

Loose paper drawing was found on the psl inside shelf.
This can fall down into the beam and ignite a tragedy.

Thanks for the color coded correction. My spell checker is not reliable

1108

Mon Nov 3 19:12:27 2008

alberto

Transverse mode spacing measurement for the X arm

I know a lot of expectations have been building up on these days in the scientific community at the 40m towards a conclusive elog entry about the g-factor measurement of the X arm cavity.
The reason of the delay is that the results are still under review by the author. It turned out that the measurements of the transverse mode spacing have been performed on the beat
of the TEM02/20 and TEM00 modes between the two laser beams instead of on the beat between 00 and 01/10. However, the results posted on the elog in the last weeks seem likewise correct,
in particular my plot of the HOM of the sidebands.

Anyways, lately I have been trying to repeat the measurement on the beat of TEM01/10 with 00 but, despite all the efforts and the countless configurations tried (on the locking of
the arm, on the tilt of the mirrors, on the injection of the secondary beams, on the chopping with the blade), only the beat of TEM10 has been measured - although quite clearly -
whereas that of TEM01 has so far hidden itself.

The search continues but even if it does not succeeds, a summarizing document is going to be posted soon.

Here I attach a plot that shows the kind of difficulties trying to detect TEM10. The red neat peak is the beat of TEM01 whereas the other curves are some of the resulting
resonances after trying to couple TEM10 with 00 (or vice versa, according to whether I'm locking the cavity to the 00 mode of the main laser or to that of the secondary beam).

Attachment 1: 2008-11-02_summarizingplot.png

1109

Mon Nov 3 19:18:47 2008

Phil Ehrens kindly poured our elog's content in a CD that now is here at the 40m.
I've been trying to install the 2.7.5 version of the elog on Nodus, a Sun machine, but the installing procedure is different from linux and I dont' know it. I tried to recompile the elog from the source code but the way gcc is called must be wrong because I get this error message:

nodus:elog-2.7.5>make
gcc -DHAVE_SSL -o elog src/elog.c -lsocket -lnsl -lssl
src/elog.c:45:25: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
src/elog.c:329: error: parse error before "SSL"
src/elog.c: In function `ssl_connect':
src/elog.c:331: error: `SSL_METHOD' undeclared (first use in this function)
src/elog.c:331: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
src/elog.c:331: error: for each function it appears in.)
src/elog.c:331: error: `meth' undeclared (first use in this function)
src/elog.c:332: error: `SSL_CTX' undeclared (first use in this function)
src/elog.c:332: error: `ctx' undeclared (first use in this function)
src/elog.c:340: error: `ssl_con' undeclared (first use in this function)
src/elog.c:341: error: `sock' undeclared (first use in this function)
src/elog.c: In function `retrieve_elog':
src/elog.c:383: error: `SSL' undeclared (first use in this function)
src/elog.c:383: error: `ssl_con' undeclared (first use in this function)
src/elog.c: In function `submit_elog':
src/elog.c:631: error: `SSL' undeclared (first use in this function)
src/elog.c:631: error: `ssl_con' undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [elog] Error 1

Joe, Yoichi, anyone else knows how to do that?

1110

Mon Nov 3 21:38:32 2008

Quote:

I tried to recompile the elog from the source code but the way gcc is called must be wrong because I get this error message:

nodus:elog-2.7.5>make
gcc -DHAVE_SSL -o elog src/elog.c -lsocket -lnsl -lssl
src/elog.c:45:25: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
src/elog.c:329: error: parse error before "SSL"

The location of ssl.h is a bit strange in the sunfreeware version of OpenSSL. Since elog does not use configure script, you have to
edit Makefile and add an appropriate -I option to an appropriate variable definition (probably LIBS or CFLAGS, because the elog Makefile does
not use INCLUDES).
If you don't understand what I'm saying, just wait for me.

1111

Mon Nov 3 22:35:40 2008

Wiener Filter performance over 5 hours

ASS

To speed up the Wiener filter work I defined a 256 Hz version of the original 16kHz IOO-MC_L signal. The
attached plots show that the FE decimation code works correctly in handling the anti-aliasing and
downsampling as expected.

Attachment 1: DAQ.pdf

1112

Tue Nov 4 00:47:53 2008