The feedback signal going to the laser PZT at the X end station was measured in the daytime and the nighttime.

It's been measured while the laser frequency was locked to the arm cavity with the green light.

The red curve was measured at 3pm of 8/July Friday. And the blue curve was measured at 12am of 9/July Saturday. 

As we can see on the plot, the peak-peak values are followers

              daytime:  ~ 4Vpp

       nighttime:  ~1.8Vpp

It is obvious that the arm cavity is louder in the daytime by a factor of about 2.

Note: the feedback signal is sent to the PZT only above 1Hz because the low frequency part is stabilized mostly by the crystal temperature (see this entry)

The optimum temperature for the doubling crystal on the PSL table was found to be 36.8 deg.

I scanned the temperature of the crystal from 44 deg to 29 deg, in order to find the optimum temperature where the frequency doubled power is maximized. 

(method) 

The method I performed is essentially the same as that Koji did before (see this entry).

(1) First of all, I enabled the PID control on the temperature controller TC200 and set the temperature to 44 deg.

(2) After it got 44 deg, I disabled the PID control.

(3) Due to the passive cooling of the oven, the temperature gradually and slowly decreased. So it automatically scans the temperature down to the room temperature.

(4) I recorded the power readout of the power meter: New Port 840 together with the temperature readout of TC200. The power meter was surely configured for 532 nm.

(result)

The measured data are shown in the attachment. 

The peak was found at T=36.8 deg where the power readout of  532 nm was 605 uW.

Compared with Koji's past data (see this entry), there are no big side lobes in this data. I am not sure about the reason, but the side lobes are not critical for our operation of the green locking.

 (to be done)

 Adjustment of the PID parameters

[Joe, Kiwamu]

 The timing slave in the IO chassis on the new X end was not working with symptoms of no front "OK" green light, no "PPS" light, 3.3V testpoint not working and  ERROR testpoint bouncing between 5-6V.

We took out the timing slave from the X end IO chassis put in to the new Y end IO chassis .

It worked perfectly there. We took the working one from Y end put in the X end IO chassis.

We slowly added cables. First we added power , it worked fine and we saw green "OK" light. Then we added 1PPS signal by a fiber and it also worked.

We turned everything off and then we added 40pin IPC cable from the chassis and infiniband cable from the  computer.

When we turned ON it we didn't see the green light.

This means something in the computer configuration might be wrong not in the timing card, we now are trying to make contact with Alex.

We are comparing the setup of the C1SCX  machine and the working C1ISCEX machine.

The vent is still going on. At this moment the pressure inside of the chambers is about 630 Torr.

Koji and I have replaced the 2nd instrument grade compressed air cylinder by the 3rd cylinder around 9 pm.

So far the vent speed has been nicely kept at about 1 Torr / min.

The vent has been finished successfully in this morning.

_{The vent was finished successfully this morning.}

It looks like something wrong happened around the PSL front end.  One of the PSL channel, C1:PSL-PMC_LOCALC, got crazy. 

We found it by the donkey alarm 10 minutes ago.

The attached picture is a screen shot of the PMC medm screen.

The value of C1:PSL-PMC_LOCALC ( middle left on the picture ) shows wired characters. It returns "nan" when we do ezcaread.

Joe went to the rack and powered off / on the crate, but it still remains the same. It might be an analog issue (?)

[ Jenne, Koji and Kiwamu]

 We have installed the PRM and the tip-tilt (TT) in the BS chamber.

We have started the in-vac work which takes about a week.

Today's mission was dedicated to installing the PRM and two TTs, one for the PRC and the other for the SRC, on the BS table in the chamber.

The work has been smoothly performed and we succeeded in installation of the PRM and a TT for the PRC.

But unfortunately the other TT got broken during its transportation from Bob's clean room.

 (what we did)

 (1) opened the light door of the BS chamber.

 (2) moved the BS tower to the right position according to Koji's layout drawing.

    - Prior to this work we screwed down the earthquake stops so that the mirror is fixed to the tower. Also we disabled the watchdog.

    - When moving it we used an allen key as a lever with an screw as a fulcrum. This idea was suggested by Jenne and it really worked well.

     The reason why we used this technique is that if we slide the tower by hands the tower can't go smoothly and it may sometimes skips.

     After that we checked the postion from some reference screw holes by using a caliper and we made sure that it was on the right position.

 (3) removed all of the square-shaped mirrors.

    - After this removal the mirrors were wrapped by aluminum foils and put in a usual clear box.

 (4) removed some optics because they had made the chamber space crowded.

    - These were also wrapped by aluminum foils and put in the box. Later we will put them back to the BS table.

 (5) brought the PRM tower from the Bob's clean room  and put it on the BS table.

   - The position of the PRM were coarsely aligned since we still don't have any 1064 beam going through the PRM.

 (6) brought two TTs also from Bob's clean room and put one of the TTs on the table.  

   - The position of the installed TT was coarsely adjusted. 

   - After we brought them we removed the aluminum foils covering the TTs and we found the wire of a TT got broken.

     It may have been damaged during its transportation from Bob's room because it was fine before the transportation.

 (7) closed the door

(the next things to do)

  * Installation of the OSEMs to the PRM

  * Installation of the pick off mirror and its associated optics

  * Arrangement of  the pzt mirror

I updated the last entry.

A brief report about the new front end machine "C1ISCEX" installed on the X end (old Y end).

Still the DAC is not working.

- Timing card

It's working correctly.

The 1PPS clock signal is supplied by the vertex clock distributer via a 40m long fiber.

- ADC

All 16 channels are working well.

We can see the signals in the medm screen while injecting some signals to the ADC by using a function generator.

-DAC

All 16 channels do NOT work.

We can not see any signals at the DAC SCSI cable while digitally injecting a signal on the medm screen.

 [Alberto and Kiwamu]

We installed the OSEMs to the new PRM.

As I wrote down on the elog (see here)  today's mission was to install the OSEMs to the PRM.

After putting them on the tower we adjusted the readout offsets by sliding the OSEMs so that they can stay in the linear sensing ranges. 

Now all of the OSEMs have almost good separation distances from the PRM.

In the attached picture you can see the OSEMs installed on the PRM tower ( middle: PRM tower, left: BS tower)

(what we did)

 1. moved the PRM tower close to the door so that we could easily access the PRM.

 2. leveled the table by putting some weights and confirmed the level by a  bubble level tool.

     - We must level the table every time when we set / adjust any OSEMs,  otherwise the readout voltages of  the OSEMs vary every time due to the tilted table.

 3. released the PRM by loosing the earthquake stops

 4. put the OSEMs with approximately right separation distances from the PRM.

      -  At this phase we can see the readout of the OSEMs, which were oscillating freely because we still didn't enable the damping.

        -  The OSEM positions were checked by looking at useful notes on the wiki (see here).

 5. turned on the damping servo of the OSEMs

       - Without changing any gains, it worked well. 

      - Then we could see stable readouts of the OSEMs which didn't show any oscillations in turn because of the damping.

 6. checked the level of the table again

 7. set each of the OSEM readouts to the half of its maximum value by sliding their positions slightly.

      - The readout offsets were at almost the half value within +/- 100 mV accuracy (this was the best accuracy we could adjust by our hands)

 8. screwed down the earthquake stops to lock the PRM.

      - Now the damping is off.

 9. closed the door

(to be done)

 *  Putting the PRM tower back to the designed place

 *  Installation of the pick off mirror

 *  Arrangement of the PZT mirror

[Alberto and Kiwamu] 

We put the PRM back approximately on the right place.

Also we installed the pick off mirrors and the PZT mirror.

Since the main beam after the MMT still has not been well aligned , we put those optics approximately on the right place. A fine alignment of those will be performed later

The offsets of the PRM OSEMs are still kind of okay.

The next things we have to do are

(1) installation of a tip-tilt for the SRC, (2) alignement of those optics by using the main laser and (3) installation of the green optics.

what we did

 1. put the PRM back to the designed place.

     - After this, we released the PRM from the earthquake stops and turned on the damping servo.

      - Now the earthquake stops are at a distance of approximately 1mm from the PRM. These separation distances were tuned by counting the turn number when we screwed them off.

 2. leveled the table

 3. adjusted the separation distances from the PRM to the OSEMs.

    - The table below summarize the current OSEM offsets. LL may still need to be adjusted.

 4. put the PZT mirror on the right place.

      -  This PZT mirror is going to be used for beam steering after the MMT.

 5. put the pick off mirror and its associated optics.

     -  This pick off mirror provides with the beam eventually going to IP_ANG and IP_POS.

current status

The table below shows the current status of the installed optics.

Red letters represent the incomplete states which still need further adjustment.

Blue letters represent the complete status which don't need any further adjustment.

[Jenne, Koji and Kiwamu]

We have installed two steering mirrors and the green periscope.

Also we took the tip-tilt out from the chamber for characterization.

1. installed two steering mirrors

     - We installed IPPOSSM2 and IPPOSSM3.

    - Because IPPOSSM2 is a new 0 deg mirror so we newly engraved "Y1-LW1-2037-1064-0-AR" on the mount and deleted  the previous enegravement.

      For the 0 deg mirror itself, it had already been engraved by Koji. The wedge was horizontally aligned.

      Now IPPOSSM2 is off from the right place by 5 inch for convenience because it may touch our stomachs when we try to lean further into the chamber.

    - IPPOSSM3 is a 45 deg mirror which used to be in the chamber and had been already correctly engraved, so we didn't have to newly engrave on it. Now it's on the right place approximately.

 2. put three oplev mirrors

      - Two of them are approximately on the place, but one which is going to be on the center of the table is not on the place because there is a cable distributer sitting exactly there.

 3. installed the green periscope

      - Both the mirrors and the periscope were correctly engraved.

     - Now it's sitting on the right place approximately.

 4. removed the tip-tilt 

      -  This tip-tilt is now in the clean room and the mechanical mode will be characterized. 

 The next things to be done

* Cross-coupling evaluation of the PRM OSEMs

* Rearrangement of the cable distributer panel.

   - In order to do this we have to pull its cables which are attached to the stack.

* Installation of three green steering mirrors

   - All of them need to be engraved.

* Installation of two tip-tilt

  - One for the SRC and the other for the PRC

I updated the last entry about the in-vac work (see here)

 Yesterday I installed a PCI-5565 driver on new C1SUS in order to test the RFM.

Since the RFM on the new CDS is not working, we had to test it by using some softwares.

I installed a driver for PCI-5565 on C1SUS and ran a test script wich is one of the packaged test scripts in the driver.

So far the RFM card on C1SUS looked correctly mounted, but I didn't check the memory location and the sending/ receiving functions.

This test will continue sometime on August because right now the RFM test is not higher priority.

Some notes:

Driver package

      Alex suggested to use a driver package for PIC-5565 called "RFM2g Linux 32/64-bit PCIE/PCI/PMC driver for x86 kernels R7.03" , which is available on  this web site.

And the package contains some useful test scripts which exactly we want to run for RFM test.

Installation and test script

      I downloaded the driver and put it on C1SUS.  

After doing usual "unzip", "tar" and "make" things, I ran one of the test script called "rfm2g_util".

Currently it lives under /home/controls/Desktop/162-RFM2G-DRV-LNX-R07_03-000/rfm2g/diags/rfm2g_util on C1SUS.

It invokes an interactive shell and firstly it asks the mount point of the RFM card.

I eventually found the card was mounted on #1 which means the card is correctly mounted.

Some detail procedures will be summarized on the wiki later.

 [Joe and Kiwamu]

- As you said, I just calculated the waist position in the crystal because the speed of light changes in a medium and eventually the waist position also changes.

- Yes, I did. Once you get a beam with the right waist size, you just put your crystal at the waist position with the offset.

  In fact you don't have to think about the rayleigh range inside of the crystal because what we care is the waist size and it doesn't change.

Okay, I guess I understand what you want to know. I did the following steps.

1. calculated the conversion efficiency as a function of the waist size. I found w~50um was the optimum waist.

  Note: the confocal relation Zr = pi * wo^2/(lamba/n) = L/2  gives us almost the same optimum waist. 

elog #2735

  2.  Did mode matching to get w=50um

elog #2959

elog #3188

  3. calculated the offset

elog #2850

 4. Moved the ovens

I resumed the pumping down. It started from 9:55 am.

I stopped the pumping at 14:50 pm because I was going back home. I did the same procedure as Koji wrote down (see here).

The P1 pressure reached 32 Torr.

Koji will take over the pumping shift tonight. 

Current Wiring Setup for the Suspension Controls

New Wiring Plan for the Suspension Controls  with the New CDS  

Missing Stuff for the CDS test

Ideally we can reuse the existing cables, but some of them may not be long enough for the new wiring.

The diagram below shows extremely non-ideal case.

Some more information will be summarized on the wiki later.

Current status of the new CDS test (summaries can be found on the wiki)

- Cables 

  All the necessary cables are in our hands, such as SCSIs, 37 pin D-sub and 3 pin power cables.

  With a big help from Jenne and Koji, we made 37 pin F/M cables and 3 pin power cables on the last Tuesday.

  Now all the cables are connected to the machines except for the 3 pin power cables.

  To install the power cables I will switch off Sorensens at new 1X5  for a minute.

- Suspension model file 

  The model file named C1SUS was made and I succeeded in compiling and building it. So it is ready for the test.

  But some medm screens look like not correctly complied.

  For example the channel names which are listed on C1SUS_MONITOR_ADC0.adl aren't correctly assigned.

- ADCs 

 All the ADC channels are working. Also the channel assignments are correct.

 I checked all the ADC channels if it was working while I ran the front end realtime code C1SUS.

 By injecting a signal from a function generator directly to the SCSIs, I could clearly see the numbers hopping on medm screens.

- DACs 

  None of them are working although the computer can recognize that all three DAC cards are mounted.

  I think something in the IOP file and the model file may be wrong because this symptom looks similar to that of C1ISCEX we tested two weeks before ( see this entry ) 

  I have to fix it anyhow because the DACs are very necessary part for this damping test.

- Binary Outputs

  They didn't work at all. Even the computer didn't recognize the binary output cards.

  I think I should put some magical components on the model files.

- Conversion of the filter coefficients 

  The conversion of the filter coefficients has been doen yesterday.

  It looks running well because I can load and unload these filters on medm screens.

  I manually copied the filter coefficients from the current suspension filter file to that of new filter file.

 The current file can be found under /cvs/cds/caltech/chans/,  and the new one is under /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/chans

Suspended works

   - Binary Outputs

   - simlink realtime model with the new CDS PARTS ( see the notice from Joe )

 

To be done

   - let DACs work

   - damping tests

(sad story)

When I was working on a new front end machine c1sus, I found that make command didn't run and gave the following message.

      "make:warning:clock skew detected.Your build may be incomplete"

This was caused by a clock difference between the nfs (nodus) and the terminal machine (c1sus).

I had to set up ntp daemon to synchronize them. Here is a procedure to set up it

(how to)

- log in to a front end machine

              ssh c1sus

- enable the ntp daemon

              sudo ntsysv

- configure the ntpd

              vi (emacs)  /etc/ntp.conf

- below is the contents I wrote on ntp.conf

             server 192.168.113.200  minpoll 4 maxpoll 4 iburst

      driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift

Yes.  

The medm screen C1SUS_GDS_TP.adl showed some numbers which correspond to that I wrote  on the outputs.

But I still could not get any physical voltage coming from the DACs.

For the new CDS test, I turned off the watchdogs for PRM, SRM, BS, ITMs and MCs.

I will restore these watchdogs after several hours from now.

Now watchdogs are back.

The suspensions are well damped.

 {Joe, Kiwamu}

Today we did the following works in order to get ready for the new CDS test.

 - solved the DAC issue.

 - checked all the channel assignments of the ADC and the DAC.

 - preparation for modification of the AA filter chassis. 

 - checked DAC cable length.

 - connected the power cables of the BO boards to Sorensens.

Although we performed those works, we still couldn't do the actual damping tests.

To do the damping tests, we have to modify the AA chassis to let the SCSIs go in it. Now Joe and Steve are working for this issue.

 Also we found that we should make three more 37pin Dsub - 40pin IDC cables.  

But this is not a critical issue because the cables and the connectors are already in our hands. So we can make them any time later.

(Notes)

 (DAC issue)

  Now all the DAC channels are working correctly.  

There had been a combination of some issues.

  When I posted the elog entry last time, the DAC was not working at all (see here).

 But in the last week Joe found that the IO process didn't correctly run. He modified the IOP file named 'c1x02.mdl' and ran it after compiling and installing it.

 This made the situation better because we then were able to see the most of the signals coming out from the DACs.

     However we never saw any signals associated with SIDE_COILs.

 We checked the DAC cards, their slots and their timing signals. But they all were fine.

At that time we were bit confused and spent a couple of days because the DAC signals appeared at a different slot some time after we rebooted the computer. Actually this issue still remains unsolved...

Finally we found that SIDE_COILs had an input matrix which didn't show up in the medm screen.

We put 1 in the matrix and we successfully got the signal coming out from the DAC.

(channel assignments)

We checked all the channel assignments of the DACs and the ADCs.

All the channels are assigned correctly (i.e. pin number and channel name).

(AA chassis)

 We have been planning to put the SCSI cables into the AA chassis to get the ADC signals.

As Joe said in the past entry (see here) , we need a modification on the AA chassis to let the SCSIs go in it.

Joe and Steve will put an extension component so that we can make the chassis wider and eventually SCSI can go in.

(DAC cable length)

 In the default plan we are going to reuse some DAC cables which are connected to the existing systems.

To reuse them we had to make sure that the length of those cables are long enough for the new CDS.

After stopping the watchdogs, we disconnected those DAC cables and confirmed they were long enough.

Now those cables are connected to the original place where they have been before.

The same test will be performed for the binary outputs.

(power cables to Sorensens)

 Since the binary output boards need +/- 15V power, we hooked up the power cables to Sorensens sitting on the new 1X5 rack.

After cabling them, we turned on the power and successfully saw the green LEDs shining on the back panel of the boards.

Woops, I am sorry about that. I've just cleaned them up.

[Joe, Kiwamu] 

Woooo Yeaaaah ! 

With the new CDS we succeeded in damping of PRM and BS !!

 [Joe, Kiwamu]

We found that the vertex watchdogs were not correctly running.

After I powercycled c1susaux, the problem was fixed successfully.

The symptom: the watchdogs didn't disable the coil signal even when PD_VAR signals went larger than the threshold values PD_MAX_VAR.

Also we replaced the label by the correct name "C1SUSAUX" on a tag which was tied to the front end machine mounted on the new 1X5 rack.

For a futher damping test, I again turned off the vertex optics watchdogs temporarily, including BS, ITMs, SRM, PRM, MCs.

 { Joe, Kiwamu }

Yes !

We now are damping all of the vertex suspensions including PRM, BS, ITMs and MCs by the new CDS. 

( Note that we are not damping SRM because we don't have it in the chamber. )

 (things to be done)

- Make the binary outputs work.

- Make DTT work

 {Rana and Kiwamu}

Yesterday we disabled the sendmail daemon and the isdn daemon on allegra because we don't need these daemons always running.

-   How to disable/enable daemons:

sudo ntsysv

{ Joe and Kiwamu }

Today we made some efforts to get the binary outputs (BOs) working.

They still are not working but the situation is getting better.

    So far the BO cards were not recognized by any realtime codes when we ran the codes on the new front end machine C1SUS.

We put some printk commands in an initialization code like Yoichi did (see this entry) to confirm if the initialization of the BOs properly happens or not.

Then we found that we had to put the BO modules also in an IOP model file which controls all the ADCs and the DACs.

We put the BO modules in the IOP file and then BOs started being recognized by the IOP, however they still are not fully recognized by the realtime control process.

We continue this work...

[Some notes]

[front end code]

First of all we looked at the front end c-code c1sus.c living under /cvs/cds/calech/cds/advLigoRTS/src/fe/c1sus/.

It was okay because there was a proper BO statement like

CDS_CARDS cards_used[] = { {CON_32DO,0}, {CON_32DO,2}};

[initialization code]

 There is an initialization code called map.c living under /cvs/cds/calech/cds/advLigoRTS/src/fe.

This code is complied when we do the make commands as described on the wiki.

Eventually the initialization code is executed only when the IOP starts up. This happens when we type startc1x02 at /cvs/cds/rtcs/caltech/c1/script/.

[printk statments]

   We made a backup file named map_20100830.c.back for map.c. Then we added to map.c some pintk statements in a while loop which looks for available BOs.   

After running the make commands for the IOP file and startc1x02, we basically can check the results of those printk statements by using dmesg.

We found that map.c was running correctly because  map.c went in the while loop 4 times which is exactly the same number as the BOs we put in the model file.

However the code failed to install the BOs each time.

[BO modules in IOP file]

  Joe pointed out the failure in map.c was caused by lack of the BO modules in the IOP file c1x02.mdl.

Indeed putting the BO modules in the IOP fixed the problem. 

Another thing we found at this time is that there is a maximum number of BOs we can put in a model file.

The maximum number is 4, which is not enough for us because we need to put 5 of them including a 16bit BIO and four 32bit BOs.

Now Joe is asking to Alex about this issue.

Anyway now the IOP can recognize the BO cards, this fact can be found if you look at the log file /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/target/c1x02/logs/log.txt.

The log file saids "3 Contec 32ch PCIe DO cards found", which is a good sign. 

[BO modules in realtime code] 

Although the IOP started seeing the BO cards, the realtime code c1sus still didn't fully recognize the BO cards.

If we look at the log file log.txt at /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/target/c1sus/logs/, there is an evidence that the code found some cards.

The log file saids  

   Model 6 = 10

   Model 7 = 4

   Model 8 = 4

   Model 9 = 4

   Model 10 = 0.

 It looks like these corresponds to the BO cards.

So the code found some cards, but doesn't know what they are.

We need few more debugging for the BOs... 

I plugged the new CDS to the vertex suspensions. 

Now PRM, SRM, ITMs, MCs and BS are under the control of the new CDS. 

From now on we will never go back to the old system.

Though,  the watchdogs are still running on the old system.

So if you need to turn on/off the watchdogs, you can simply enable/disable them from the usual medm screens.

 { Joe and Kiwamu },

 Now we  are able to compile the model file with more than 4 binary input/outputs (BIOs).

 As I wrote in a past entry (see here), the number of the BIOs was limited to 4, which is not enough for us.

  We modified a header file called "cdsHardware.h"  in order to allow model files having more than four BIOs.

The header file lives under /cvs/cds/caltech/advLigoRTS/src/include/drv/.

There was a sentence defining the maximum number in the file:

 #define MAX_DIO_MODULES         4.

We changed this to

 #define MAX_DIO_MODULES         8.

I put some green stuff on the layout drawing.

I continue to refine the positions of these stuff.

Notes :

 1. I flipped the reference cavity. So now the cavity is sitting on the left hand side of the layout.

  2. I removed the ISS stuf. We should think about where ISS should be.

 Joe and Kiwamu

We discussed about our CDS plan for this September. The summary of the plan and "to do list" are now on the wiki page;

http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/40m/Upgrade_09/CDS/September_CDS_plan

  Basically there are three major missions that we will do in this month;

 We also try to keep updating the wiki page.

 I started mode matching of the beam going to IMC. The work is still going on.

According to Rana's calculation (see here), I put the first lens (f=200mm) in between two steering mirrors after PMC.

The distance from PMC to the first lens was adjusted by using a metal ruler.  So I believe the accuracy is something like 1mm.

I aligned the beam path going through the broadband EOM and the mode matching lenses.

  I could find the optimum position for the second lens  (f=-150mm) by sliding the position of the lens and measuring the mode after it.

But the optimum position looked a bit far from the EOM. It's off by about 3-4 inch from the designed position.

Somehow I feel that the beam before the second lens goes with a smaller divergence angle than that of designed.

So tomorrow I am going to restart the work from checking the mode before the second lens.

Maybe at first I should measure the mode without going through the EOM because it changes the waist position and makes the system not straightforward.

I have been working on the mode matching lenses which are sitting after the boradband EOM.

Last Friday I checked the mode profile after the first mode matching lens (f=-150mm). The measured mode was good.

According to the calculation done by ABCD software, the waist size is supposed to be 80.9 um after that lens.

The measured waists are 80.5 um for the vertical mode and 79.4 um for the horizontal mode.

The screenshot of the ABCD's result and the plot for the mode measurement are shown below.

I didn't  carefully check the mode after the last convex lens (f=200mm), but it must be already good because the beam looks having a long rayleigh range.

Now the beam is reflected back from MC1 and goes to the AP table since I coarsely aligned the beam axis to the MC.

/****  fitting result ****/

w0_v =  80.4615      +/- 0.1695 [um] 

w0_h =  79.4468      +/- 0.1889 [um]

z_v =  -0.115234        +/- 0.0005206  [m]

z_h =  -0.109722        +/- 0.0005753 [m]

 Elog didn't respond, so I restarted it with the script.

Before killing the process somehow two elog daemons were running at the same time. I killed those two manually. 

 I turned ON the laser at the X end station, which had been OFF for several weeks because of the crane business.

Now the green beam hits the ITMX and I got a reflection back to the end table.   

This green beam will be a nice reference when we install the green periscope in the chamber.

If it's necessary, feel free to correct the alignment of the green beam during my absence.

(Koji, Yuta, Kiwamu)

Now the pressure at P1 is 740 torr, which is close to the atmospheric pressure of 760 torr.

We changed the air cylinder twice in this evening, and the last cylinder ran out at about 23:00 pm.

We left it as it is. Steve is going to make a final touch for it tomorrow morning.

 With a help from Joe, I made a diagram of the simulated plant for green locking in order to get better understanding and consensus.

Eventually these simulated plants will help us developing (sometimes debugging) the digital control systems.

Here is the diagram which tells us how we will setup and link the control/plant models and on which machine they will be running.

Basically upper side represents the realtime control, and the lower side is the simulated plant.

The models are talking to each other via either a local shared memory (orange line) or the reflective memory network (purple line).

 Each model is stil not systematically named, at some point we have to have an absolute standard for naming the models.

- current model names -

  GCV = Green Control model at Vertex

  GCX(Y) = Green Control model at X (Y) end

  GPV = Green Plant model at Vertex

 - things to be done -

1. let the RFM work

2. revise the old plant models : SUP, SPX(Y) and LSP

 I put some optics to get the green SHG on the PSL table.

Now a green light successfully comes out from the doubling crystal.

Since the optical layout of the PSL table was dramatically changed, I had to re-setup the green SHG stuff. 

 - what I did

I put a steering mirror after the 90/10% pick off mirror, and then a half wave plate and a convex lens.

The lens is approximately on the right place.

 To get the green beam easily, temporarily I raised the current of the NPRO up to 2 A.

I connected the oven to the heat controller, set the temperature to 36.8 deg which is the set point previously used.

After putting and aligning the oven, I finally obtained the green beam.

At the end of the work I set the NPRO current back to 0.9 A and relocked the PMC.

- things to be done

 1. more precise mode matching

 2. optimization of the temperature 

Because of the in-vac work on Oct. 4th (see this entry) , ITMX's OSEM offsets were changed.

The two upper OSEMs are still fine, but LL and LR seem to be out of the OSEM's range. 

The plot below shows the trends of LL's and LR's readouts for about two weeks. (The channel name are in the old convention, i.e. ITMY)

 Some data were missing due to the upgrade of the frame builder.

 It is apparent that the offsets are changed after the in-vac work on Oct. 4th, and now they just show almost zero numbers.

The damping of ITMX can still work, if LL and LR are disabled.

At some point before pumping down, we have to check the leveling of the ITMX table again.

Solid works 2010 was installed to m3, an windows machine in the control room.

Have fun !

I improved the mode matching of the incident beam to the doubling crystal on the PSL table.

As a result it apparently got better (i.e. brighter green beam), but it's not the best because now the beam is a little too tightly focused on the crystal. 

I am going to work on it again someday after seeing the beat note signal.

- The measured waist sizes are

    41.94 [um] for vertical mode

   42.20 [um] for horizontal mode

while the optimum waist size is 50 um (see entry #3330).

The plot below shows the beam scan data which I took after improving the mode match.

[ Kevin and Kiwamu ]

 We made the setup for the green PLL stuff on the PSL table.

 Now the two green beams are happily going to the RFPD.

Tomorrow we try to catch the beat note signal 

  - - - what we did

 * took the two light doors out from the OMC and the MC chamber in order to let the green light go through there.

 * using aluminum foils we covered the space between the OMC and the MC chamber in order to protect from dust

 * aligned the steering mirrors inside of the chamber because the height of the green light coming out from the chamber had been a little bit low at the PSL table.

 * at the PSL table we put several steering mirrors and a beam splitter which combines the two green lights

 * installed Hartmut's RFPD and applied -150V bias on it.

 * put a lens on each path of the green beam in order to make the beam size approximately the same at the RFPD

 * closed the light doors

- - - Notes

 * At the beginning, an output signal from the RFPD was pretty small ( less than 1mV at DC ), so I replaced a feedback resistor that was 241 Ohm by 24 kOhm.

   As a result the signal became about 10mV when the green lights go into the PD.

* Actually the power of the green beams are so weak.

  I measured them by using a Newport power meter, it said something like 4 uW for both of the green lights. 

  One of the reasons is that the transmitted light from the PMC which generates one of the green lights is already weak. It's about 480 mW ( while more than 600 mW was reflected by the PMC ! ).

  I am going to make sure if these numbers are reasonable or not.

 The NPRO at the PSL table still can generate 2W laser !  He is still alive.

  When I reduced the temperature to  25 deg, the output power increased to 2W successfully.

  As Steve wrote down in his last entry (see here), the NPRO output was at 1.6 W currently, which is supposed to be 2W.

We were suspicious about the laser crystal's temperature because the current temperature looks a bit high.

In fact the setpoint of the temperature was 45.9 deg instead of 25 deg that is the previous setpoint.