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  12004   Tue Feb 23 09:51:34 2016 SteveUpdateSUSITMX free

Good job Q! Give us more details please or  play Rachmaninoff Piano Concernto #2

Atm2,  EQ 3.5 and 4.1 

          confirming ITMX is really free

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Taking inspiration from J. Lewis et. al, ITMX has been freed. 

Even better, I'm now seeing Green flashes in the X arm.  cool

 

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  12003   Mon Feb 22 23:00:21 2016 ericqUpdateSUSITMX free, green is flashing

Taking inspiration from J. Lewis et. al, ITMX has been freed. 

Even better, I'm now seeing Green flashes in the X arm.  cool

  12513   Thu Sep 22 20:01:47 2016 LydiaUpdateGeneralITMX freed, all optics kicked

Rana came by and freed ITMX again. I think it shouldn't be a problem for me to free it if it happens again. 

In hopes of getting better SNR on the free swing spectra, we kicked all optics at around 7pm. The damping should come back on a little after midnight. ITMX did not get stuck after this kick. 

  5199   Thu Aug 11 19:01:45 2011 SureshUpdateSUSITMX given a kick to start it freeswing' but to no avail.

We started an ITMX freeswing run at this time

Thu Aug 11 18:58:59 PDT 2011
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 But the optic did not repond to the kick.  It is possible that the earthquake stops are close to the face and/or rear of the optic and prevent it from oscillating.  We will check again and see what is up in a few hours.

 

 

  2651   Tue Mar 2 23:11:43 2010 KojiUpdateSUSITMX hung

Jenne and Koji

We successfully hung ITMX on the SOS. Side magnet is ~2mm off from the center of the OSEM. ITMX aligned using the QPD. The OSEMs changes the alignment. It looks that something magnetic is inside the OSEM PD or LED.

Reguled ITMY side magnet.

Cleaned up the lab for the safety inspection.

  2652   Wed Mar 3 02:57:29 2010 JenneUpdateSUSITMX hung

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Jenne and Koji

We successfully hung ITMX on the SOS. Side magnet is ~2mm off from the center of the OSEM.

Reguled ITMY side magnet.

Cleaned up the lab for the safety inspection.

 Some details on the side magnet situation from today: 

To glue the magnets+dumbbells to the optics, we use the magnet-dumbbell gluing fixture.  This fixture is supposed to have teflon 'pads' for the optic to sit on while you align it in the fixture, however the fixture which we received from MIT (it's Betsy's....but it came via MIT) only had one of the 4 teflon pads. 

Kiwamu and I decided (last week, when we first glued ITMX's magnets) that it would be bad news to let the AR face of the optic sit on bare metal, so we fashioned up some teflon pads using stock in a cabinet down the Yarm.  We were focused on thinking about the face magnets, and didn't think about how the thickness of the teflon affected the placement of the side magnet.  We chose some teflon that was too thin by ~1mm, so the optic sat too low in the fixture, resulting in the side magnet being glued too close to the HR side of the optic (this is all along the Z - axis, where Z is the direction of beam propagation). 

Why it ended up being 2mm off instead of only 1mm I don't really have an explanation for, other than perhaps tightening the set screws to hold the optic (by the barrel) in the fixture pushes the optic up.  I observed this happening when I didn't put any effort into keeping the optic flat on the teflon pads, but I thought that I made sure the optic was seated nicely in the fixture before starting to glue.  When I glued the new ITMY side magnet tonight I tried to make sure that the optic was seated nicely in the fixture.  We'll see what happens.

Before gluing the new ITMY side magnet (and now it's set for all future magnet gluings....), I found 4 teflon pads of all the correct thickness.  It turns out that we have a magnet gluing fixture of our own, which I found in the cabinets in the clean room.  This fixture had all 4 teflon pads, so I stole them and put them into the one that we're using for this round of upgrade / suspension hangings.  The height of all future side magnets should be correct. The thickness of the pads in the 'spare' fixture matched the one which came with the fixture from MIT as closely as I could feel by putting them on the same flat surface next to each other and feeling if there was a step. 

A side note about this magnet gluing fixture that I found:  It has the word "TOP" etched into it, to prevent exactly my problem with the ITMY side magnets in the first place.  Unfortunately the threads for the set screws which hold the optic are shot (or something is funny with them), so we can't just use this fixture. 

Gluing notes regarding the standoffs and guiderods:

There's more glue than I'd like on the guiderods / standoff for ITMX.  The glue was starting to get a little tacky when I glued the standoff in place after we balanced the optic, so it was hard to get it in the right place.  I'm confident we have a good epoxy contact, and we don't have much glue that I think it'll be a big problem.  Certainly I'll be a lot better at manuvering my glue-stick a.k.a skinny piece of wire around the suspension tower to get to the standoff for the rest of the optics that we're hanging, and I won't have glued something like ITMY side magnet immediately beforehand, which took enough time that the glue started to get tacky (not very tacky, just barely noticeably tacky).

I'd say that most gluing activities should be completed within ~10-15min of mixing the glue, after spending ~2min stirring to make sure it's nice and uniform.  It doesn't dry fast enough to be a huge rush, but you should get right on the gluing once the epoxy has been mixed. 

  2796   Mon Apr 12 22:51:31 2010 KojiUpdateSUSITMX installed and aligned

Koji

ITMX was aligned with regard to the 40m green oplev.
Now both cavities are aligned.

Next thing we are going to do is to remove PRM and SRM towers.

As well as the oplev construction for ITMs.

We anticipate the drift of the stack. So we need to revisit the alignment again.

Some tools and the level gauge were removed from the table.

Picture of the ETMX - reflection from the ITMX is hitting the mirror and Jamie's windmill.

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0. The suspension tower had been placed on the table close to the door.

1. Brought the OSEMs from the clean room. Connected the satellite box to the ITMX suspension.

2. Went into the chamber. Leveled the table.

3. Released the mirror from the clamp. Put and adjust the OSEMs.

- Note that the side OSEM is located to the south side of the tower
  so that we can still touch it after the placement of the TT suspension at the north side of the SOS tower.

4. Clamped the mirror. Moved the SOS tower according to the CAD layout.

5. Leveled the table again.

6. Released the mirror again and adjusted the OSEMs.

7. Turned on the end green laser pointer.

- The spot was slightly upside and left of the mirror. Adjusted it so that the spot is at the center.

8. Align ITMX in Pitch

- The spot was hitting the tube. Moved the pitch bias such that the beam get horizontal.

9. Align ITMX in Yaw

- Moved the SOS tower such that the approximate spot is on the ETMX. If I hit the right spot I could see the tube get grown green because of the huge scatter.

10. Adjusted the OSEMs again and check the alignment again. Repeated this process 2~3 times.

- Bias values at  the end of the work: Pitch 0.7800 / Yaw 0.270

11. Close up the chamber

- Remove the level gauge. Some of the screws are still in the Al ship in the chamber.

- Close the light door.

  7700   Tue Nov 13 00:19:51 2012 JenneUpdateCamerasITMX is just fine

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In other, semi-unrelated news, the ITMXF camera has been not working for a while.  The bottom right quad on the test mass tv has been dark for at least a week or two.  Steve, when you have a chance (after the oplevs are all taken care of), can you see if there's something obvious that's wrong?

 While helping Charles string the ethernet cable (elog 7698) for the power strip in the vertex (from 1Y1 to 1X1), I looked at the ITMX power cord.  It was connected to the same power strip as the illuminator, which, since the illuminator was turned off by turning off the power strip, meant no power was going to the camera.  Since Charles is very close to having the new power strips set up, I unplugged the ITMX illuminator and turned the power strip back on.  ITMX camera is back to normal.

  10328   Mon Aug 4 09:17:42 2014 SteveUpdateSUSITMX is still kicked

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I was investigating several issues on the IFO. As many of you noticed and not elogged, ITMX had frequent kicking without its oplev servo.
Also I had C1:LSC-TRY_OUT flatted out to zero even though I could see some fringes C1:SUS-ETMY_TRY_OUT.

Restarted all of the realtime models (no machine reboot).

Now I don't find any beam on REFL/AS/POP cameras.

If I look at BS-PRM camera, I can see big scattering, the beam is in the BS chamber.
I jiggled TT1 but cannot find neither a Michelson fringe nor POP beam.

So far I can't figure out what has happened but I'm leaving the lab now.

IMC is locked fine.
I can see some higher order mode of the Yarm green, so the Y arm alignment is no so far from the correct one.

 ITMX is kicked up periodically.  ITMX_PD_MAX_VAR is lowered to 500 from 1350

It started at Friday morning 8-1

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  7822   Thu Dec 13 04:42:32 2012 DenUpdateSUSITMX local damping

Tonight we've noticed that ITMX local damping was kicking the optics. This happened because LR shadow sensor was not working. In ~30 minutes it started to work again. Evan and I were working on installation, moving and focusing cameras and locking prcl and mich. We've installed a camera on BSC and plugged it in to PSL_SPARE input.

I'm not sure that this can be correlated to ITMX LR shadow sensor behaviour.

 

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  792   Mon Aug 4 16:20:20 2008 DmassConfigurationPhotosITMX magnet position relative to OSEMS
We have vented, and taken the following pics of the magnets to document their position before we ruin everything.
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  5308   Fri Aug 26 15:30:36 2011 JenneUpdateSUSITMX magnet reglued
The ITMX UL magnet has been reglued.

I *very carefully* using the corner of a cleaned razor blade dropped single drops of acetone onto the top of the dumbbell, and scratched off the residual glue. I didn't want to get even a sprinkle of acetone on the dumbbell-glass junction, and I managed to avoid it. Also, the dumbbell never broke off of the glass (something I've never been able to achieve before), so all I had to do was glue the magnet back onto the dumbbell.

I also scratched the glue from the magnet, after soaking in acetone. I made sure to keep track of which way the magnet had been glued by putting it in the pickle picker that I received from Betsy before getting rid of the glue. I specifically did not compare the polarity of this magnet to the others still glued, because I have seen that in the past break magnets from dumbbells. They can't really handle sideways forces. But since it's glued the same way that it was, it should be fine.

I then aligned the optic in the gluing fixture. I test-fit the pickle picker with magnet, to ensure that the axes of the dumbbell and magnet were aligned as closely as possible. I adjusted the optic to make this axial alignment as perfect as I could see with my eye. Unfortunately the fixture doesn't allow a whole lot of viewing angles of the magnet-dumbbell joint, so we'll see how well I did after I remove it from the fixture.

I put a little dab of epoxy on the end of the magnet, spread it around so it coated the whole surface, and glued it on.

I'll come in tomorrow (Saturday) to check on it, and take it out of the fixture. If it's going to break coming out of the fixture, which I hope won't happen, but has happened before, then I want to be able to fix it again asap.
  5311   Sat Aug 27 14:33:04 2011 JenneUpdateSUSITMX magnet status

As I feared, since I couldn't see the magnet-to-dumbbell joint from all angles, they ended up being off by ~1/3 of a magnet diameter. 

Because I don't want to deal with finding another failed glue joint tomorrow, I removed the magnet and dumbbell from the optic, and broke the manget off of the dumbbell.  As with yesterday, I kept track of which end of the magnet had been glued to the dumbbell. 

I got a new dumbbell, removed all the glue from the magnet, and reglued them together, in the fixture that ensures they are well aligned. 

Tomorrow I will come in and glue the magnet dumbbell assembly to the ITM.

  5314   Sun Aug 28 20:15:11 2011 JenneUpdateSUSITMX magnet status

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Tomorrow I will come in and glue the magnet dumbbell assembly to the ITM.

 Glued.

Tomorrow afternoon I'll remove the optic from the fixture, and put it in the oven.

  12491   Wed Sep 14 09:33:54 2016 SteveUpdateGeneralITMX magnets are stucked

I believe that the UR and LR magnets are stuck. There was no earth quake at 16:18 yesterday. Something had to kick it into this position. See 4days plot

Please advise  freeing details.

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[Lydia,Teng]

Something strange happened to the ITMX osem reading around 4.pm. PDT as shown below.

Also the there was no response of the reading as we adjusted the PITCH and YAW. :(

Note that we restarted the slow machine: c1susaux,c1ausex this afternoon because of the unresponced interface.

 

 

 

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  12494   Wed Sep 14 20:05:32 2016 LydiaUpdateGeneralITMX magnets are stucked

When I restarted c1susaux yesterday, I didn't know that I needed to disable the coil outputs first. So when it came back online, it attempted to damp all the vertex area optics and ITMX got stuck frown

We should make a note in the Computer Restart Procedures wiki page indicating the importance of disabling the coils before rebooting c1susaux, c1auxex, and c1auxey. Today c1auxey was rebooted properly without incident. If the slider values etc go back to their previous values on their own, is it necessary to do a BURT restore? I tried doing one for c1susaux today and there were some errors for ASC channels, but the alignment sliders went right back to the proper place after reboot yesterday.

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I believe that the UR and LR magnets are stuck. There was no earth quake at 16:18 yesterday. Something had to kick it into this position. See 4days plot

Please advise  freeing details

 

  12512   Thu Sep 22 15:44:21 2016 SteveUpdateGeneralITMX magnets are stucked again

 

 

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  11806   Tue Nov 24 14:58:40 2015 yutaroUpdateLSCITMX misaligned

I misaligned ITMX. The oplev servo for ITMX is now turned off. You can restore ITMX alignment by running "restore".

  5341   Tue Sep 6 08:05:53 2011 steveUpdateSUSITMX must be touching

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The new ITMX was aligned by changing the DC biases.

The resultant DC biases are reasonably small.

C1:SUS-ITMX_PIT_COMM = -0.2909

C1:SUS-ITMX_YAW_COMM = -0.0617

 

The alignment was done by trying to resonate the green light in the X arm cavity.

The spot position of the green light on the ITMX mirror looked good. This was confirmed by inserting a sensor card.

I did the OSEM mid-range adjustment and the rotation adjustment but at the end the OSEM DC voltage has changed due to the DC bias operation.

The OSEM rotation was approximately optimized so that all the face shadow sensors are sensitive to the POS motion but the SIDE shadow sensor is insensitive to the POS motion.

It needs a free swinging diagnosis.

 ITMX OSEMs   UL 1.8V,   UR 1.7V,   LR 0V,   LL 0V,   SD 1.3V  at the same bias setting shown above. May be a lose earth quake tip?or magnet is touching?

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  8937   Tue Jul 30 11:30:55 2013 manasaUpdateGeneralITMX oplev

Quote:

[Koji, Manasa, Sujan]

The ITMX oplev was also checked from the windows without removing the door.
The beam is actually hitting the right positions of the steering mirror and the test mass
although there are lots of stray beams because of the BS oplev and some halo assciated with the ITMX He-Ne laser(!?).

[Steve, Gautam, Manasa]

While we checked the ITMX oplev situation yesterday, we found that the beam hitting the ITM and the in-vacuum steering mirrors had  a halo around them. We used the set of irides in the path of the ingoing beam and cut the stray light around the beam. This reduced the intensity of the halo around the mirrors. We noticed that the halo accounted for 2000 counts of 6500 at the oplev QPD. We tried changing the laser and this did not make the situation any better.

Also there are a couple or more strong stray beams from the BS oplev.

Thoughts:
I suspect that the BS oplev leakage is messing with the ITMX oplev. Why?? We have been seeing the breathing of transmitted beam from the X arm cavity and the shadow sensor readings have been bigger than usual since the last vent (when we changed the BS oplev path). Also, the ingoing oplev beam is close to clipping at the PR2 stack.

I think it would be best to open the ITMX chamber and modify the in-vac steering mirror layout of the oplev.

  8938   Tue Jul 30 13:41:35 2013 KojiUpdateGeneralITMX oplev

I wonder what optics is causing the halo on the oplev beam.
It this comes from any uncoated lens (or similar) it should be identified.

  8939   Tue Jul 30 15:38:24 2013 manasaUpdateGeneralITMX oplev

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I wonder what optics is causing the halo on the oplev beam.
It this comes from any uncoated lens (or similar) it should be identified.

We identified this to be coming from the uncoated concave lens that we have right after the He-Ne laser which should also be replaced in addition to the other problems with the oplev.

  5395   Tue Sep 13 16:57:44 2011 steveUpdateLSCITMX oplev **

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I lined up the Y Arm for locking and then centered the oplevs for ETMY and ITMY.

* The ITMY OL has still got the old style laser. Steve, pleaes swap this one for a HeNe. Also the optical layout seems strange: there are two copies of the laser beam going into the chamber (??). Also, the QPD transimpedance needs to be increase by a factor of ~10. We're only getting ~500 counts per quadrant. Its worth it for someone to re-examine the whole ITMY OL beam layout.

* The ETMY OL beam was coming out but clipping on the mount for the ETMY OL HeNe. This indicates a failure on our part to do the ETMY closeout alignment properly. In fact, I get the feeling from looking around that we overlooked aligning the OL and IPPOS/ANG beams this time. If we're unlucky this could cause us to vent again. I undid part of the laser mount and changed the height on the receiving mirror to get the beam back onto the QPD.

I noticed that there is significant green light now getting into some of the IR PDs; beacuse of this there are weird offsets in the TRY QPD and perhaps elsewhere. We had better purchase some filters to tape over the front of the sensitive IR sensors to prevent the couplling from the green laser.

* There is a beam on IPPOS, but its too big for the detector (this has always been the case). We need to put a 2" lens with a weak focusing power on this path so as to halve the beam size on the detector. Right now its clipping and misleading. There is also a 0.9V offset on the SUM signal. I'm not sure if this readout is working at all.

* I couldn't find any beam on IPANG at all. Not sure what's changed since Kiwamu saw it.

 Old Coherent diode laser was replaced by Uniphase HE/NE 1125P at ITMX.

Newport 10B20NC.1 broadband beam sampler set up as beamspitter to dump 90% of the light into beam trap. Beam in to test mass  0.7 mW ,  returning to qpd 0.07 mW  = ~ 3,700 counts

f 1.5 m lens placed into ingoing beam path to reduce the spot size on the qpd.         ITMY oplev will be done in this manner tomorrow.

 

* IP-ANG is lost with the Piezo Jena PS

* IP-POS cable have to be found at the LSC rack

 

  5749   Fri Oct 28 01:13:17 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSITMX oplev : iris fully opened

I found that the sum of the ITMX oplev signals had gone down to zero yesterday.

I checked the ITMX table and found two iris on the He-Ne laser path were blocking the beam on their apertures.

I guess this is because we were working around there for installation of POP/POX and may have touched some of the oplev optics.

Then I fully opened the apertures of those two iris and the sum went back to nominal of 600 counts.

  4032   Thu Dec 9 00:34:53 2010 OsamuUpdateSUSITMX oplev Pitch OLTF

We measured Open loop TF for oplev pitch on ITMX.

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2010128_01_ITMX_oplev_pit_oltf_fine.pdf

 All feed back filter of oplev  was on as same as before. Original notch filters which notches above 10Hz resonance should be modified with some measurements of present resonant frequency. Up to 10Hz, a simple f^2 filter is used, so the notch should not affect this measurement.

Measured upper UGF is about 2Hz with gain slider 1, and lower UGF is 1.3Hz. Phase margin is 40 degree, so it is not a good idea to increase the gain drastically.

I have measured the coherence also but I could not find a way to put it on this picture. Anyway coherence below 0.6Hz was not so good like ~0.95. This can be improved if larger excitation is used next time.

During this measurement around 0.2-0.3Hz, small earthquake happened but seemed OK for the control.

We will measure the other TF, yaw, ETMX or somthing, maybe tomorrow, due to free swinging ITMX and ETMX tonight.

 

  1595   Sun May 17 21:45:40 2009 robUpdateASCITMX oplev centered
  5655   Wed Oct 12 08:43:30 2011 steveUpdateSUSITMX oplev improved a bit

 Atm2 is before optical path adjustment. The idea was to remove possible clipping in vacuum.

Coherense significantly reduced below 4 Hz

Today I will replace the He/Ne laser 1125P with 1103P

 

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  12125   Mon May 23 10:55:49 2016 steveSummarySUSITMX oplev laser replaced

 

      May 23, 2016             ITMX dead He/Ne laser sn P845648 replaced after 1062 days [2.9 yrs] by 1103P, sn P859884, with output  2.6 mW, nicely round beam quality at 15 meters.

                                                                                                                                                    Power just before viewport 1 mW,  returning light on qpd 154 microW =  7,500 counts

 

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  5437   Fri Sep 16 17:09:07 2011 PaulUpdateSUSITMX oplev plan

 I just drew a basic picture of how the ITMX oplev path could be reworked to minimise the number of optics in the path. Only possible problem with this might be the turning mirror onto the ITMX getting in the way of the collimating lenses. Should be easy to solve though. Does anyone know if there is a ITMX pick off beam I should be careful to avoid?

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  11160   Mon Mar 23 13:27:33 2015 ericqUpdateSUSITMX oplev quadrant gains unbalanced

I've been poking around the oplev situation. One thing I came across regarding ITMX was that the gain on segment 4 seems to be about higher than the other segments. I was led to believe this by steering the optic around, and looking at the counts on each quadrant when the other 3 were dark.

Putting a gain of 0.86 (the ratio of the other segments' max counts over segment 4's max counts) in the segment 4 FM flattens the 1 Hz peak in the ITMX_OL_SUM spectrum, as well as significantly reducing the sub-Hz coherence of the sum with the individual quandrant counts. This is what I would expect from reducing the coupling of angular motion due to quadrant gain mismatch into the sum. 

Here are the ITMX_OL_SUM spectra before and after (oplev servos are off).

The "burps" and control filter saturations are still unexplained. Investigations continue...

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  5660   Thu Oct 13 14:23:09 2011 steveUpdateSUSITMX oplev with 3 mm beam on qpd

 I replaced the JDSU-Uniphase 1125P by 1103P He/Ne laser. This new laser had 2.8 mW output yesterday. It degraded to 0.5 mW by this morning.

The beam size on the QPD is ~3 mm  This should give us  better sensitivity. These are not the perfect lenses at all, but we have them here.

On the other hand, there are still some coherence below 1 Hz, so the laser intensity noise or clipping dominating  this  part of the spectrum.

 

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  16843   Tue May 10 16:31:14 2022 TegaUpdateBHDITMX optlev return beam steered to QPD

Followed the steps below to complete the ITMX optlev installation. The ITMX optlev return beam now reaches its QPD without being blocked by the input steering mirror.

Although, I centered the ITMX optlev readout, this was not done when the XARM flashing is maximized bcos the IMC chamber was being worked on, so this should be done later when the IR beam is back.

Quote:

Next steps:

  • The Oplev beam paths need to be adjusted.
    • The ongoing beam steering mirror is blocking the returning beam, so the ongoing path needs to be changed.
    • First setup two irises to save ingoing path.
    • Then make space for the returning beam by changing the steering mirror positions.
    • Then recover the ingoing path to the center of irises.
    • Steer the returning beam to the QPD.
    • Then maximize the flashing on XARM and center the oplev to save this position.
  11755   Thu Nov 12 09:15:56 2015 SteveUpdateSUSITMX osems

The ITMX OSEMS are oscillating.

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  5337   Fri Sep 2 17:52:16 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSITMX realigned

The new ITMX was aligned by changing the DC biases.

The resultant DC biases are reasonably small.

C1:SUS-ITMX_PIT_COMM = -0.2909

C1:SUS-ITMX_YAW_COMM = -0.0617

 

The alignment was done by trying to resonate the green light in the X arm cavity.

The spot position of the green light on the ITMX mirror looked good. This was confirmed by inserting a sensor card.

I did the OSEM mid-range adjustment and the rotation adjustment but at the end the OSEM DC voltage has changed due to the DC bias operation.

The OSEM rotation was approximately optimized so that all the face shadow sensors are sensitive to the POS motion but the SIDE shadow sensor is insensitive to the POS motion.

It needs a free swinging diagnosis.

  5342   Tue Sep 6 11:21:33 2011 JenneUpdateSUSITMX rehung (Friday)

[Jenne, Katrin, Jamie]

I'm a bad kid, and forgot to elog my Friday morning work...

Bob gave me back ITMX after a 48hour bake at 80C + clean RGA scan Friday morning after coffee and doughnuts.  Katrin helped me put it back in the suspension wire. 

While I was leveling the optic (making sure the scribe lines on each side of the optic are at the same height off the table), Katrin cut some new viton for replacement EQ stops.  The optic was missing one lower earthquake stop (the one that Jamie noticed last week), and somehow one other rubber piece came out of the EQ stop on another lower screw while we were re-suspending the optic.  We put the new stops in, and then checked the balance of the test mass.

The oplev is still the HeNe laser that is leveled to the level optical table in the cleanroom.  The lever arm is ~1.5 meters, and over that distance the reflected beam was pointed "up" in pitch by ~1.5mm, which is less than one beam diameter of the HeNe.  This is well within our ability to correct using the OSEMs.

We then locked the test mass, and installed it in the chamber.  I approximately did the half-voltage centering of the OSEMs, leaving the fine-tuning to Kiwamu for after lunch. 

  15585   Sat Sep 19 19:14:59 2020 KojiUpdateGeneralITMX released / ETMY UR magnet knocked off

There were two SUSs which didn't look normal.

- ITMX was easily released by the bias slider -> Shake the pitch slider and while all the OSEM values are moving, turn on the damping control (with x10 large watchdog threshold)

- ETMY has UR OSEM 0V output. This means that there is no light. And this didn't change at all with the slider move.
- Went to the Y table and tried to look at the coils. It seems that the UR magnet is detached from the optic and stuck in the OSEM.

We need a vent to fix the suspension, but until then what we can do is to redistribute the POS/PIT/YAW actuations to the three coils.

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  12489   Tue Sep 13 19:02:56 2016 TengUpdateGeneralITMX sensor

[Lydia,Teng]

Something strange happened to the ITMX osem reading around 4.pm. PDT as shown below.

Also the there was no response of the reading as we adjusted the PITCH and YAW. :(

Note that we restarted the slow machine: c1susaux,c1ausex this afternoon because of the unresponced interface.

 

 

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  13182   Thu Aug 10 09:31:57 2017 SteveUpdateSUSITMX sensor voltage

There must be some bad connection

Quote:

Somewhere between CDS model restarts and the IFO venting, ITMX got stuck.

I shook it loose using the usual bias slider technique. It appears to be free now, I was able to lock the green beam on a TEM00 mode without touching the green input pointing. The ITMX Oplev spot has also returned to within its MEDM display bounds.

 

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  12520   Tue Sep 27 18:04:50 2016 LydiaUpdateSUSITMX slow channels down, ITMY diagonalization update

[Teng, Lydia]

When we plugged in the back cables yesterday on the whitening boxes after switching them, two of the ITMX PDMon channels (UR and LR) got stuck at 0. This caused me to believe ITMX was still stuck even when it was freed. However, it was left in a stuck state overnight and freed again today after this issue was discovered. The alignment sliders have been set to 0 as a safety net to keep ITMX from getting stuck again if c1susaux is restarted again. We switched the cables back and the problem was still there.

The ITMY UL whitening filter problem, which the cables were originally switched to diagnose, was also still there. Ericq suggested we turn off all the whitening filters in order to get diagonalization data that would not show a phase difference between coils. We ran the diagonalization again with all the dewhitening filters off and got much cleaner results, with no visible cross-coupling peaks remaining between the degrees of freedom (see attachemnt 1). We did not apply this matrix to the damping, however, because there are elements which have the wrong sign compared to the ideal matrix. Significant adjustments to the output matrix will probably need to be made if this result is to be used. We also verified that the phase problem had been solved in DTT, where we saw the same sign discrepancies as in the matrix below. 

Damping can be turned back on, using the old, non-diagonalized matrix currently in effect. There is enough free swing data to diagonalize ITMY now, so feel free to mess with it. 

Matrix (wrong signs red, suspiciously small elements orange):

           pit     yaw     pos         side    butt
UL    1.633   0.138   1.224   0.136   0.984  
UR   -0.202  -1.768   1.179   0.132  -1.028  
LR   -2.000   0.094   0.776   0.107   1.001  
LL   -0.165   2.000   0.821   0.111  -0.987  
SD    0.900   1.131  -1.708   1.000  -0.107  

 

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  13173   Tue Aug 8 20:48:06 2017 gautamUpdateSUSITMX stuck

Somewhere between CDS model restarts and the IFO venting, ITMX got stuck.

I shook it loose using the usual bias slider technique. It appears to be free now, I was able to lock the green beam on a TEM00 mode without touching the green input pointing. The ITMX Oplev spot has also returned to within its MEDM display bounds.

  12518   Mon Sep 26 19:48:09 2016 LydiaUpdateSUSITMX stuck again, ITMY whitening issue

This afternoon around 2:45, ITMX started ringing up at ~.9Hz for about a minute and then got stuck again. When I noticed this evening, I tried to free it with the alignment sliders but was unable to see any signal on UL or UR. It also looks like the damping for ITMY was turned off at the same time ITMX got stuck (not at the start of its ring up). SRM also has a spike in its motion at this time, and another one minute later that ended up with the LR OSEM at a much higher level, though the mirror does not appear to be stuck. We didn't see any strange behavior from any of the other optics.

Teng and I were working on diagnosing a problem with the ITMY UL whitening, but by the time we disconnected any applicable cables, the damping for ITMY was already off. Later we unplugged the ITMX PD whitening cables after verifying that the ITMX damping was also already off. This problem may have occured earlier, while Teng, Eric, and I were examining and pushing in the cables at 1X5 without unplugging anything.

We found that the reason for the bad phase on the ITMY free swing data is because the whitening filter for UL is not being properly turned on. We are in the process of investigating the source of this problem. Right now all the cables to the PD whitening boxes in 1X5 are switched between ITMY and ITMX.
 

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  16837   Mon May 9 18:43:03 2022 AnchalUpdateBHDITMX table layout corrected

As I went to correct the ITMX Oplev mirrors, I found that both mirrors were placed in very different positions than the design position. Part of the reason I think was to preserve outside oplev path, and party because a counterweight was in ITMXOL1 position. I had to do following steps to correct this:

  • I noted down level meter readings of the table before making any changes.
  • I removed the counter weight from near the center of the table.
  • I placed the Oplev mirrors in the nominal positions.
  • I placed the counter weight near previous position.
  • I moved a edge hanging counter weight to get back the level meter to its previous state coarsely.
  • Then I used dataviewer to find the previous OSEM PD monitor values and changed ITMX PIT and YAW to come closer to those PD values. And voila, I regained the flashing on Xarm. I nudged the ITMX pit and yaw bit more to maximize it.
  • I then went back to aligning the Oplevs properly.
  • Then I adjusted the POP mirrors to get the beam back through center of window. This was very tricky and took a lot of time.
  • Now the beam is going through near center and the oplev beams are far away enough from POP_SM5.
  • On the outside table, I noted the POP beam and the oplev beam. I corrected the pit of the returning beam to get the oplev beam at nominal height on outside table.

ITMX Sat Amp is flaky

[Anchal, Paco]

During the above work, i must have kicked the cable between the vacuum flange and the satellite amplifier box for ITMX. This disconnected all the OSEMs and Coils. We tried several things to debug this and finally found that nudging the connections on Sat Amp box brought the OSEMs and coils back online. Note that the connector was not partially out or in a state that obviously showed disconnection of the pins. I'm glad we are putting in new electronics soon for the vertex optics as well.


Next steps:

  • I showed Tega the returning oplev beam and the POP beam coming out of the ITMX chamber.
  • The Oplev beam paths need to be adjusted.
    • The ongoing beam steering mirror is blocking the returning beam, so the ongoing path needs to be changed.
    • First setup two irises to save ingoing path.
    • Then make space for the returning beam by changing the steering mirror positions.
    • Then recover the ingoing path to the center of irises.
    • Steer the returning beam to the QPD.
    • Then maximize the flashing on XARM and center the oplev to save this position.
  • POP beam needs to be directed to previous setup on far side of table.
    • The POP beam is coming out at the rising angle.
    • This is good for us if we do bit unconventional stuff and transfer the beam to other side of table at an elevated height. Given how close all the beams are coming out of the viewport, I think this is the best solution in terms of saving time.
    • Get the beam down to the old setup which was camera and photodiodes all aligned.

 

 

  5752   Fri Oct 28 03:42:50 2011 kiwamuUpdateLSCITMX table needs to be refined

(POX)

The POX beam had been 80% clipped at a black glass beam dump of the POX11 RFPD.

I steered the first mirror in the POX path to fix the clipping. Then the beam was realigned onto the RFPD.

However the beam is still very close to the black glass, because the incident angle to the second mirror is not 45 deg .

We need to refine the arrangement of the POX11 optics a bit more so that the beam will never be clipped at the black glass.

 

(POP)

 The POP optics also need to be rearranged to accommodate one more RFPD.

Additionally Rana, Suresh and I discussed the possible solutions of POP22/110 and decided to install a usual PD (PDA10A or similar) instead of a custom-made.

So a plan for the POP detectors will be something like this:

        + design an optical layout.

        + buy a 2 inch lens whose focul length is long enough (#5743)

        + rearrange the optics and install POP22/110

        + lay down a long SMA cable which sends the RF signal from POP22/110 to the LSC rack.

        + install a power splitter just before the demod board so that the signal is split into the 22MHz demoad board and 110MHz demod board.

           => make sure we have a right splitter for it.

        + install a band pass filter after the power splitter in each path.

           => A 22MHz band pass filter is already in hand. Do we have 110MHz band pass filter somewhere in the lab ?

The picture here shows the latest configuration on the ITMX table.

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Quote from #5743

RF photo diodes POP55 and POX11 are installed. The beams are aligned to the photo diodes. 

  4125   Fri Jan 7 15:17:37 2011 steveUpdateCamerasITMX video monitor has tower wide view

The Watec 902, 1/2" CCD camera got new Tamron lens: 1/2" 10-40mm F/1.4  manual iris. IR corrective lens. It is designed to have the same focal point in the IR as

in the visible light range. However, as the depth of field in the IR range is very narrow, focus adjustment should be done carefully in the IR.

Now you can see the sus tower that will make alignment easier.

 

  4916   Thu Jun 30 01:50:02 2011 JenneUpdateSUSITMX whitening, ETMX left free swinging

While closing up the whitening shop for the night, I noticed that the ITMX whitening state (Whitening "On") is opposite that of all other suspensions (they all have Whitening "Off").  I don't know which way is correct, but I assume they should all be the same.  Once all the whitening and BO testing is done, we should make sure that they're all the way we want them to be.

Also, Koji and I are leaving ETMX free swinging.  That's the way we found it, presumably from Jamie's BO testing at the end station today.  We don't know what the optic's story is, so we're leaving it the way we found it.  Jamie (or whomever left it free swinging), can you please restore it when it is okay to do so?  Thanks!

  2367   Tue Dec 8 16:27:13 2009 JenneUpdateCOCITMX wiped

Jenne, Kiwamu, Koji, Alberto, Steve, Bob

ITMX was wiped without having to move it. 
After 'practice' this morning on ETMY, Kiwamu and I successfully wiped ITMX by leaning into the chamber to get at the front face. 

Most notable (other than the not moving it) was that inspection with the fiber light before touching showed many very small particles on the coated part of the optic (this is versus ETMY, where we saw very few, but larger particles).  The after-wiping fiber light inspection showed many, many fewer particles on the optical surface.  I have high hopes for lower optical loss here!

  5297   Wed Aug 24 12:08:56 2011 jamieUpdateSUSITMX, ETMX, ETMY free swinging

ITMX: 998245556

ETMX, ETMY: 998248032

  5055   Thu Jul 28 16:26:42 2011 steveUpdateSUSITMX, ITMY & ETMY OSEM gains adjusted

 

OSEM damping gains were adjusted by observing  real time dataviewer to get Q of 5

OSEMs were kicked up one by one with 200 counts  ~1sec. The error signal was optimized to get 1/2 of exitation amplitude at the 5th sinusoid wave.

C1: SUS-ITMX_SUSPOS_N1 gain   111      ->        65,             PIT        7.2      ->    8,           YAW        12      ->     6,          SIDE     280

                  ITMY                                      277       ->     120,                        19.2     ->     7,                             24     ->     19,                        420    ->      470

                  ETMY                                       10        ->       32,                          20      ->     3,                             20     ->     10,                          50

                  ETMX                                       22        ->      25,                             3,                                                3,                                              -170  

ETMX having problems:  1, YAW can not be excited

                                             2, SIDE has no error signal in dataviewer. Sensing voltage on MEDM screen 0.142V

 

                      

 

  5291   Tue Aug 23 17:45:22 2011 jamieUpdateSUSITMX, ITMY, ETMX clamped and moved to edge of tables

In preparation for tomorrow's drag wiping and door closing, I have clamped ITMX, ITMY, and ETMX with their earthquake stops and moved the suspension cages to the door-edge of their respective tables.  They will remain clamped through drag wiping.

ETMY was left free-swinging, so we will clamp and move it directly prior to drag wiping tomorrow morning.

  16906   Fri Jun 10 13:52:22 2022 JCUpdateOPLEV TablesITMX, ITMY, and Vertex Table Beam Paths

I have at taken photos and added arrows which signify the beam paths for ITMX, ITMY, and Vertex Oplev tables.

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