ELOG 40m

oplevs

x-arm oplev calibrations

ITMXpit 71 microrad/ct
ITMXyaw 77 microrad/ct
ETMXpit 430 microrad/ct
ETMXyaw 430 microrad/ct

As with y-arm, my ITM measurements agree with Kakeru and Royal, but my ETM measurements are not quite a factor of 2 higher. Kakeru and I are investigatin.

1250

Fri Jan 23 14:00:02 2009

PMC transmission is down

Quote:

The PMC transmission is going down.
I have not relocked the PMC yet.

I tweaked the alignment to the PMC.
The transmission got back to 2.65. But it is still not as good as it was 3 days ago (more than 3).

It is interesting that the PMC transmission is inversely proportional to the NPRO output.
My theory is that the increased NPRO power changed the heat distribution inside the power amplifier.
Thus the output mode shape changed and the coupling into the PMC got worse.
MOPA output shows a peak around Jan-21, whereas the NPRO power was still climbing up.
This could also be caused by the thermal lensing decreasing the amplification efficiency.

Attachment 1: LaserPower.png

1249

Fri Jan 23 12:48:12 2009

arm cavity oplev calibration

oplevs

I calibrated optlevs of x and y arm cavity, indipendently from Peter's work.

ITMX pit: 77 microrad/ct
ITMX yaw: 73 microrad/ct
ETMX pit: 280 microrad/ct
ETMX yaw: 263 microrad/ct

ITMY pit: 120 microrad/ct
ITMY yaw: 93 microrad/ct
ETMY pit: 280 microrad/ct
ETMY yaw: 270 microrad/ct

This result is similar to Royal's one (within 30% difference except for ETMX pit), but different from Peter's in ETMY.

The attached figure is the data and fitted curve of ITMX pit.
I took this data for 8s, with 4 Hz excitation.

Attachment 1: ITMX_pitch.png

1248

Fri Jan 23 10:00:21 2009

arm cavity oplev calibration

PMC transmission is down

The PMC transmission is going down.
I have not relocked the PMC yet.

Attachment 1: pmc4d.jpg

1247

Thu Jan 22 23:36:50 2009

pete

HowTo

oplevs

calibrated the y-arm oplevs. the procedure is contained in a matlab script. the whereabouts of this script will be revealed in a future log entry.

ITMYpit 140 microrad/ct
ITMYyaw 98 microrad/ct
ETMYpit 400 microrad/ct
ETMYyaw 440 microrad/ct (previous measurement gave 420 microrad/ct)

procedure:

1) Start with a single arm aligned and locked. Dither the mirror tilt in a DOF. Measure arm cavity power and oplev error signal. See the first attached plot.

2) Fit the plot to a gaussian and determine mu and sigma.

3) For a spherical ETM optic, the power in the cavity P(a), as a function of translational beam axis displacement a=R*sin(theta), is proportional to exp[-a^2/(2*x^2)] where x is the waist size (D. Anderson APPLIED OPTICS, Vol. 23, No. 17, 1984). The power as a function of mirror tilt in cts, P(tilt) is proportional to exp[-(tilt-mu)^2 /(2*sigma^2)]. So if R is the mirror radius then theta = arcsin(a/R) = arcsin[(1/R)*(tilt-mu)*x/sigma)].

4) Fit theta versus mirror tilt to get the calibration. See the second attached plot.

5) For a flat ITM optic, mirror tilt causes an angular displacement of the beam. The math for this case is given in Anderson.

Attachment 1: ETMYpitpower.png

Attachment 2: ETMYpitcal.png

1246

Thu Jan 22 14:38:41 2009

caryn

DAQ

MC temperature sensor

Quote:

I added a channel for the temperature sensor on the MC1/MC3 chamber: C1:PSL-MC_TEMP_SEN.
To do that I had to reboot the frame builder. The slow servo of the FSS had to get restarted, the reference cavity locked and so the PMC and MZ.

Where is this channel?

That's not the name of the channel anymore. The channel name is PEM-MC1_TEMPS. It's written in a later entry.

1245

Thu Jan 22 12:08:59 2009

Following the procedure described in Royal Reinecke's 2006 SURF report, I've calibrated the ETMY yaw oplev DOF. The idea is to sweep the mirror tilt, measuring the transmitted cavity power and the oplev error signal. The cavity power can be related to the mirror tilt in radians following D. Anderson APPLIED OPTICS, Vol. 23, No. 17, 1984.

I've made a simple matlab script which spits out the final number; it calls Royal's perl script to do the sweep. I get 420 microrad/ct for ETMY yaw. In 2006 Royal got 250 microrad/ct. Could something have changed this much, or is one of us wrong? I'll double check my procedure and do the other arm cavity oplevs, and describe it in detail when I have more confidence in it.

Kakeru and I plan to extend this to handle the PRM, SRM, and BS. One script to rule them all.

1244

Thu Jan 22 11:54:09 2009

Alberto

Mach Zehnder Output Beam QPD

I rotated by 180 degrees the 10% beam splitter that it is used to fold the beam coming from the Mach Zehnder (directed to the MC) on to the QPD.

The alignment of the beam with that QPD has so been lost. I'll adjust it later on.

The rotation of the BS had the (surprising) effect of amplifying the Absolute Length experiment's beat by 9 times. Maybe because of a polarizing effect of the Beam Splitter which could have increased the beating efficiency between the PSL and the NPRO beams?

1243

Thu Jan 22 08:34:10 2009

Kakeru received 40m safety training yesterday.

He has no authorization to work alone in the high power beam path yet.

1242

Wed Jan 21 22:53:08 2009

Just my opinion, but I think all we want out of the DD signals is something to control the DRM
and not be sensitive to the carrier and the CARM offset. So if the handoff can be done so that
the lock point is unchanged from single demod then everything is fine.

A second order concern is how the 133 & 199 MHz signals are mixed in order to minimize the
matrix cross-coupling and the SNR of the diagonal elements.

1241

Wed Jan 21 16:18:17 2009

I tuned the DD demod-pahse for SRM.
It was tuned as the error singnal is to be 0 when the cavity is locked.

The problem is that the good phase changes if MICH and PRM are handed to DD or not.
This may be a result of the demod-phase of these two signals are tuned to be maximise the error signal, not to be 0-offset.

I will tune these two demod-phases, and write a script to tune.

Quote:

I tuned the demod-phase for PRCL and SRCL hand-off, but it have not been optimized enoughly.
I continue this work tomorrow.

Quote:

After Rob's AS beam work, I centered the beam on the AS CCD.
I also optimized the ASDD demod-phase for the MICH signal.
Rob suggested to me that whenever we restart or change the frequency of the DD Marconis, we have to re-optimize the demod-phase
because the initial phase of the Marconi is random. We had the power failure, so it was time to do so.
I confirmed that MICH hand-off from REFL33Q to AS133DDQ is ok.
I will do the same thing for the PRCL, SRCL hand-offs.

1240

Tue Jan 20 15:28:42 2009

loadLIGOData a GUI for mDV

Quote:

The tool is very nice; I looked at the seismic trend for 16 days (attached).
However, it gives some kind of error when trying to get Hanford or Livingston data.

I fixed it.
You have to click "Load channels" button when you select a new site.
I plotted one minute of MC_F signals from H1, H2, L1 and 40m.
Looks like L1 MC was swinging a lot.

Attachment 1: MC_F.png

1239

Mon Jan 19 18:21:41 2009

loadLIGOData a GUI for mDV

The tool is very nice; I looked at the seismic trend for 16 days (attached).
However, it gives some kind of error when trying to get Hanford or Livingston data.

Attachment 1: a.png

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Mon Jan 19 15:10:37 2009

HowTo

loadLIGOData a GUI for mDV

I installed loadLIGOData, a product of my weekend project, in /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/loadLIGOData.
This is a Matlab GUI for getting data from nds servers. It uses a modified version of mDV to retrieve data.
You can choose and download LIGO data into Matlab quickly.
I also wrote a GUI to plot the downloaded data easily.
With this GUI, you can plot multiple channel data in a single figure, which is useful to identify the cause for a lock loss etc.
You can change the time axis labels to UTC or Local time in stead of GPS second.

You can run it by typing loadLIGOData in a terminal of a linux machine.
A brief explanation of how to use it is written here:
http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/40m/loadLIGOData

At this moment, data from test points cannot be retrieved properly (of course there is no way to go back to the past for test points.
But still we should be able to get data in real time.). I'll try to find a solution.

Attachment 1: loadLIGOData.png

Attachment 2: plotLigoData.png

1237

Mon Jan 19 13:58:53 2009

ASC

Better ditherServo.pl

Nick Smith (@LHO) tested the ditherServo.pl at Hanford.
He added options to specify exit conditions to the script. Now you can make the script exit when
a condition, such as ArmPower > 1.0, is satisfied, or let it wait until a certain condition is satisfied.

I also modified the script to use ezcastep instead of tdswrite for feedback actuation.
The script now runs ezcastep in the background while the next iteration of the tdsdmd is performed.
Instead of kicking mirrors with a big thrust each time by a single tdswrite command, ezcastep gently moves the mirrors with fine steps.
I also implemented this "background ezcastep" technique in Tobin's tdscntr.pl.

The alignment scripts run smoother now.

1236

Fri Jan 16 18:45:20 2009

MC_L gain increased by a factor of 2

IOO

Rana, Yoichi

Since we fixed the FSS AOM double-pass, which used to be a single-pass, the MC_L gain was too low for
making the cross-over at 100Hz.
Rana increased it by a factor of two. Now it seems that the cross over is ok (attachment 1).

We also noticed that the MC_F spectrum is noisier than before (attachment 2).
The reference is from 6/24/2008.

Attachment 1: MC_F-MC_L-xover.pdf

Attachment 2: MC_F.pdf

1235

Fri Jan 16 18:33:54 2009

c1lsc rebooted to fix 16Hz glitches

Kakeru, Yoichi

There were 16Hz harmonics in the PD3 and PD4 channels even when there is no light falling on it.
Actually, even when the connection to the ADC was removed, the 16Hz noise was still there.

Rob suggested that this might be digital problem, because data is sent to the daq computer very 1/16 of a second.

We restarted c1lsc and the problem went away.

1234

Fri Jan 16 18:29:08 2009

Kakeru centered ITMX and BS optical levers with the help of Jenne on the walkie-talkie.

1233

Fri Jan 16 18:25:32 2009

The single arm lock had been unstable for both arms in the past few days.

Symptoms:
When an arm was locked by itself, the transmitted power showed a lot of fluctuations (sharp drops).
The first attachment shows the arm power fluctuations in power spectrum and time series.
References are when the boost filters are off for the arm feedback.
You can see that when the boosts are off, the power fluctuates a lot.
Also it is obvious that X-arm is a lot worse than Y.

Diagnosis:
The second attachment is the comparison of the error signal spectra between boosts on and off.
(PD3_I is the error signal of X-arm, PD4_I is Y arm). References are boost on.
Since the arm power fluctuation was suppressed by the gain increase, it was suspected that the main
reason for the power fluctuation is not alignment fluctuation. Rather, it is length or frequency fluctuation.

Then I took spectra and coherences of PD3_I, PD4_I and MC_F with both arms locked independently.
You can see broadband coherence between PD3_I (Xarm) and MC_F (frequency noise). In contrast the coherence
between PD4_I and MC_F is smaller. This means X-arm is more susceptible to the frequency noise than Y.
What can make a simple Fabry-Perot cavity more susceptible to frequency noise ? An offset ?
So I canceled the X-arm offset at the X-arm filter bank. Bingo ! The arm power fluctuation of X-arm became as small as Y-arm
in the dataviewer.
But what is making this offset ?
After watching the dataviewer screen for a while, the arm power fluctuation became larger again. I had to re-adjust the artificial offset
to minimize the fluctuation. This made me think that the source of the offset must be something to do with alignment.
In this case, clipping of the beam at the PD was very suspicious.
So I checked the centering of the POX and POY PDs. As expected, POX was terribly off-centered.
POY was also not exactly at the center of the plateau of DC output.
After centering those PDs, the large offset in the arm loops went away.
Now the arm powers are stable without artificial offset in the loop filters.
The last attachment shows the comparison of arm power fluctuation before and after the PD centering.
(references are the measurements before the centering).

Attachment 1: TRXY.pdf

Attachment 2: ErrorSignals.pdf

Attachment 3: coherenceBetweenArms.pdf

Attachment 4: ArmPowersAfterPDwasCentered.pdf

1232

Fri Jan 16 11:33:59 2009

Quote:

I tried to restart the DMF using the start_all script: http://dziban.ligo.caltech.edu:40/40m/280

it didn't work Frown

It should work soon. The PATH on mafalda does not include ".", so I added a line to the start_DMF subscript, which sets up the DMF ENV, to prepend this to the path before starting the tools. I didn't put it in the primary login path (such as in the .cshrc file) because Steve objects on philosophical grounds.

Also, the epics tools in general (such as tdsread) on mafalda were not working, due to PATH shenanigans and missing caRepeaters. Yoichi is harmonizing it.

1231

Fri Jan 16 11:28:54 2009

Lab. laptop needs wireless lan driver update

One of the lab. laptops (belladonna) cannot connect to the network now.
I guess this was caused by someone clicked the update icon and unknowingly updated the kernel, which resulted in the wireless lan driver malfunctioning.
It was using a Windows driver through ndiswrapper.
Someone has to fix it.

1230

Thu Jan 15 22:30:32 2009

I tried to restart the DMF using the start_all script: http://dziban.ligo.caltech.edu:40/40m/280

it didn't work Frown

1229

Thu Jan 15 09:19:32 2009

MC2 sus damping was found tripped at the morning the second time this week.

Damping was restored, ISS gain lowered to avoid saturation, MZ manually locked
and MC locking was back.

1228

Wed Jan 14 15:53:32 2009

DAQ

MC temperature sensor

Quote:

Where is this channel?

1227

Wed Jan 14 10:59:06 2009

rga waiting to be "connected"

Bureaucracy

VAC

We have no RGA data since old Dycor passed away in the middle of Oct, 2008
New SRS-RGA200 was installed on the vac envelope on Nov 14, 2008
It is waiting to be software connected to the 40m logging

1226

Wed Jan 14 09:22:43 2009

N2 supply pressure lowered for vac valves

HowTo

VAC

Quote:

I've been replacing the N2 bottles recently.
I noticed that the consumption is too high. I had to replace them every two days.
Normally the interval is three or more days.
I suspect there is some leak in the line.

Strangely, it is always the left hand bottle which goes empty. The right hand bottle has been
there for more than a week at about 1000 psi.

We should check it when Steve is back.

All vac valves operated by N2
The two cylinders are located in entry room 103
There is an auto switch over valve between them to insure continuous supply.
The pressure regulator should be set 70 PSI on the gauge
This pressure we keep constant.
All vac valves will close in case of running out of N2 or losing ac power so
it is essential that one replaces empty N2 cylinder.

Simply disconnect large CGA580 fitting with a crescent wrench.
Swap in full cylinder from outside, reconnect fitting tightly and open cylinder valve.
Now you should be reading the full cylinder pressure.
Write each cylinder pressure and date-time on the board so one can see if there is a leak

Attachment 1: n280d.jpg

1225

Tue Jan 13 18:59:09 2009

I tuned the demod-phase for PRCL and SRCL hand-off, but it have not been optimized enoughly.
I continue this work tomorrow.

Quote:

1224

Tue Jan 13 11:10:42 2009

unknown how long it's been down.

1223

Mon Jan 12 18:53:03 2009

1222

Mon Jan 12 10:57:38 2009

The AS beam was not hitting the AS166 diode, so I aligned the last little steering mirror and adjusted the phase for MICH locking.

I turned on the HV supplies for the OMC.

Then I realigned the beam onto the AS166 diode, since the steering mirrors came on when I turned on the HV supplies.

It took awhile to find the alignment of the beam into the OMC. Once that was done, the output beam alignment was set, so I aligned onto the AS166 diode a third time.

The bottom two Sorensens in the OMC voltage supply don't look right. They have stickers that say +-24V, but each is sitting at 17.5V and showing no current draw. What's going on here?

1221

Fri Jan 9 17:30:10 2009

Snapshots of MEDM screens

I wrote a web page which shows snapshots of MEDM screens generated by Yoich's script (e-log #1206).
https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:30889/medm/screenshot.html
This page refreshes itself every 5 minutes automatically.

The .html file is generated by /cvs/cds/caltech/statScreen/bin/genHtml.pl
This script generates the .html file contains snapshots listed on /cvs/cds/caltech/statScreen/etc/medmScreens.txt every 5 minutes with cron.
When you wont to display other screens, please edit this .txt file and wait 5 minutes!

To make thumbnails, I wrote /cvs/cds/caltech/statScreen/bin/genThumbnail.pl
This script reads /cvs/cds/caltech/statScreen/etc/medmScreens.txt, too.
(Sometimes, it makes thumbnails with larger storage...)

Quote:

I wrote scripts to take snapshots of MEDM screens in the background.
These scripts work even on a computer without a physical display attached.
You don't need to have X running.
So now the scripts run on nodus every 5 minutes from cron.
The screen shots are saved in /cvs/cds/caltech/statScreen/images/

There is a wiki page for the scripts.
http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/40m/captureScreen.sh

Someone has to make a nice web page summarizing the captured images.

1220

Fri Jan 9 16:52:18 2009

tp3 forline pump replaced

VAC

Alberto took 40m vacuum 101 class as we replaced the drypump at the annulus pump line.

He is still not authorized to use the monster 2 3/8" open end wrench that is 36" long.

The fore line pressure dropped to 20 mTorr from 1 Torr as the pumps were swapped.
Bob needs to be given credit for replacing the tip seal on this Varian SH-100 drypump
The ss-hose felt dry at the tp3 exhaust end but it was some what "teflon coated-placticky-
-almost oily" at intake end of the dry pump.
We'll have to replace this metal hose next time.

This is a reminder that the 40m vacuum operation is fully manual.
It requires two people to switch a vacuum valve and one of them has to be experienced.

1219

Fri Jan 9 09:14:17 2009

ifo is recovered after eq

PEM

There is no obvious damage from last night earth quake.
All sus dampings were turned on, MC locked and the arms locked right on

Attachment 1: eq4.5sb.jpg

1218

Thu Jan 8 20:26:17 2009

rob

Omnistructure

General

Earthquake in San Bernardino

Magnitude 4.5
Date-Time

* Friday, January 09, 2009 at 03:49:46 UTC
* Thursday, January 08, 2009 at 07:49:46 PM at epicenter

Location 34.113�N, 117.294�W
Depth 13.8 km (8.6 miles)
Region GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
Distances

* 2 km (1 miles) S (183�) from San Bernardino, CA
* 6 km (4 miles) NNE (25�) from Colton, CA
* 8 km (5 miles) E (89�) from Rialto, CA
* 88 km (55 miles) E (86�) from Los Angeles Civic Center, CA

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.3 km (0.2 miles); depth +/- 0.8 km (0.5 miles)
Parameters Nph=142, Dmin=1 km, Rmss=0.38 sec, Gp= 14�,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=Q

I felt it from home.

All the watchdogs are tripped, vacuum normal. It looks like all the OSEM sensor values are swinging, so presumably no broken magnets. I'm leaving the suspensions off so we can take fine-res spectra overnight.

Watchout for crappy cables coming loose.

1217

Thu Jan 8 16:49:37 2009

HP 5550dtn (Grazia) set up on allegra

lore

Quote:

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.

It ought to be root to do that.

1216

Mon Jan 5 11:21:05 2009

Alan

Omnistructure

Computer Scripts / Programs

New 40mWebStatus

Quote:

I guess we need some kind of "official" crontab file for controls@nodus so that we know how/where to add things. So, I put one in /cvs/cds/caltech/crontab/controls@nodus.crontab

Alan and I agreed that we should edit the crontab by "crontab -e" command rather than editing the "official" crontab in /cvs/cds/caltech/crontab/.
After confirming that the new crontab works as expected, you are encouraged to make a copy of the new crontab into /cvs/cds/caltech/crontab/ as a backup.
Then do "svn ci" in the directory.

1215

Sun Jan 4 13:17:23 2009

Alan

Omnistructure

Computer Scripts / Programs

New 40mWebStatus

I have set up some code in /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/webStatus along with a cronjob on controls@nodus to generate a webStatus every half hour, at 40mWebStatus

you are welcome to add/delete lines corresponding to interesting EPICS channels, in the template /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/webStatus/webStatus_template.html . The 2nd number is the "golden" value of the EPICS channel; it can be edited by hand, or one could copy a "golden" webStatus.html to webStatus_template.html . I think it's probably premature to automate this...

I noticed that Yoichi also has a cron job posting 40m medm screen snapshots. Very nice.

controls@nodus also runs a third cronjob, which checks if the nightly backup fails, and if so, sends an email to me.

I guess we need some kind of "official" crontab file for controls@nodus so that we know how/where to add things. So, I put one in /cvs/cds/caltech/crontab/controls@nodus.crontab

1214

Fri Jan 2 18:49:54 2009

LSC modulation frequencies adjusted

I noticed that the IFO did not lock in the MICH configuration.
This was because AS166Q signal was too small.
The demodulation phase seemed not right, i.e. the I-phase signal was larger than Q.
I suspected that the 166MHz modulation frequency was not exactly on the MC FSR, since I just
recovered the number written on the Marconi after the power failure.
I measured the optimal frequency by the method explained in elog:752.
It was 165981500Hz, which is pretty close to the number Rob measured in elog:952, but significantly different from
the label on the Marconi.
I set the frequencies of all the MARCONIs accordingly and updated the labels.

After this, the AS166 demodulation phase was still not good enough (the Q and I signals were about the same).
So I rotated the phase by 45deg. In principle, this should set the demod-phase right for DARM too. Is it correct, Rob ?
I also adjusted the PD offsets. After those adjustments, MICH locks stably with a slightly increased gain (20 as compared to 10 before).

1213

Fri Jan 2 17:20:44 2009

Computer Scripts / Programs

40m GWINC

I have made a '40m' directory in the iscmodeling CVS tree which allows one to run a 40m version of GWINC.

As does the previous one, it takes the default advLIGO config file and modifies some of the struct parameters
to make it appropriate for the 40m.

To make it run, I have added susp1.m to the GWINC directory. This calculates suspension thermal noise using
the Gonzalez-Saulson method that was later extended to
mirrors by Y. Levin. This is also the code used in the LIGO Noise Budget at the sites.

The previous code was giving a much larger value for thermal noise (probably because I didn't understand how
to use it right). It was based on a SURF report from '99.

Since we will have a mixture of MOSs and SOSs in the arms, I have just used SOSs in the model. So the suspension
thermal noise is overestimated by ~sqrt(2) (and realistically its uncertain by a much larger factor).

Since the new code now uses GWINC, the mirror and coating thermal noise are now more correct and use the
coherent therm-optic noise picture.

The 2 page PDF file shows the noise for 0 deg and 90 deg tuning of the SRC.

Although it looks like, from this plot, that we could measure coating thermal noise at the 40m, in reality we would have
to fix all of the technical noise sources first. Just the coil driver noise is probably at the level of 3 x 10^-17 m/rHz
at 100 Hz.

Attachment 1: bench40.pdf

1212

Thu Jan 1 01:15:45 2009

Thu Jan 1 01:07:03 2009

Particle counts going crazy

Environment

I increased the fan speed of the PSL HEPA filter to the maximum.

Quote:

Yes it is a new year's eve, and a lot of crazy people are on Colorado to secure seats for the parade tomorrow.
They are burning woods to warm themselves. So smoky smell is floating around in the campus
and naturally the particle count is going up.

Actually at first I thought some building is on fire and called the security. Then they found
that it is the people on Colorado.

Now C1:PEM-count_half is 28400 and it is still climbing up.

1210

Thu Jan 1 00:55:39 2009

Alignment scripts for Linux

ASC

A Happy New Year.

The dither alignment scripts did not run on linux machines because tdscntr and ezcademod do not run
on linux. Tobin wrote a perl version of tdscntr and I modified it for 40m some time ago.
Today, I wrote a perl version of ezcademod. The script is called ditherServo.pl and resides in /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/.
It is not meant to be a drop-in replacement, so the command line syntax is different. Usage is explained in the comment of the script.

Using those two scripts, I wrote linux versions of the alignment scripts.
Now when you call, for example, alignX script, it calls alignX.linux or alignX.solaris depending on the OS of
your machine. alignX.solaris is the original script using the compiled ezcademod.
In principle, ezcademod is faster than my ditherServo.pl because my script suffers from the overhead of
calling tdsdmd on each iteration of the servo. But in practice ditherServo.pl is not that bad. At least, as far as
the alignment is concerned, the performances of the both commands are comparable in terms of the final arm power and the convergence.

Now the alignXXX commands from the IFO Configure MEDM screen work for X-arm, Y-arm, PRM and DRM. I did not write a script for Michelson, since
it is optional.
I confirmed that "Align Full IFO" works correctly.

1209

Wed Dec 31 22:59:40 2008

Particle counts going crazy

Environment

1208

Tue Dec 30 18:51:18 2008

rana,yoichi

Illuminator Power Supply reset

Electronics

We noticed that none of the illuminators were working.

The switches were off on all the ports. After turning them on it still didn't work.

The +24 V Sorensen power supply which powers all of the illuminators had its OVP light on.
We turned it off, ramped the voltage to zero, turned it back on, and then went back to +24 V.

We then checked the operation of the illuminators; ETMY is still MIA.

Each of the illuminators sucks ~0.6-0.7 A when the (unlabeled) rheostat knob panel is set
to the "25" setting.

It seems pretty unwise, in the EMI sense, to be sending Amps of unshielded, high current,
switching supply outputs for 40m down the arms. This creates a huge antenna for radiating
the switching noise. I hereby assign minus 5 points to whoever designed this system.

Illuminator Upgrade:

- Use LEDs of a wavelength that the OSEMs don't see. LEDs are also cool so that the
  Suspension won't drift in alignment.

- Use 2 power supplies so that the power is balanced.

- Make is +/-12 V twisted AWG 14 wire so that the EMI is contained. Should also
  be shielded cable.

1207

Mon Dec 29 21:51:02 2008

The apache on nodus has been solely serving for the svn web access.
I changed the configuration and all files under /cvs/cds/caltech/users/public_html/ can be seen under
https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:30889/

The page is not password protected, but you can add a protection by putting an appropriate .htaccess
in your directory.
For the standard LVC password, put the following in your .htaccess

AuthType Basic  
AuthName "LVC password"
AuthUserFile /cvs/cds/caltech/apache/etc/LVC.auth
Require valid-user

1206

Mon Dec 29 21:38:57 2008

Snapshots of MEDM screens

1205

Mon Dec 29 18:01:07 2008

Aidan

Updated 40m Upgrade Document T080074-00-R

Auxiliary locking

Added a paragraph to the 40m Upgrade document describing the fiber stabilization and frequency doubling proposed for auxiliary locking.

Also added a complete diagram of the fiber stabilization and a draft sketch of the frequency doubling.

Uploaded to https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:30889/svn/trunk/docs/upgrade08/ via svn.

1204

Wed Dec 24 12:46:54 2008

Rob told me how to restart the test point manager.
It runs on fb40m and actually there is an instruction on how to do that in the Wiki.
http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/40m/Computer_Restart_Procedures#fb40m

I couldn't find the page because when I put a keyword in the search box on the upper right
corner of the Wiki page and hit "enter", it only searches for titles. To do a full text
search, you have to click on the "Text" button.

Anyway, now the test points are back.

1203

Wed Dec 24 10:33:24 2008