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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.

5290   Tue Aug 23 17:21:45 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSfree swinging test for ETMY

Excited ETMY

Tue Aug 23 17:20:45 PDT 2011
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5289   Tue Aug 23 16:23:33 2011 JenneUpdateVACAccess connector in place

[Steve, Bob, Jamie, Kiwamu, Valera, Jenne]

The access connector is now in place, in preparation for pump-down.  Tomorrow (hopefully) we will do all the other doors.

5288   Tue Aug 23 14:49:14 2011 jamie, jenne, kiwamu, suresh, keikoUpdateSUSAdjustment of ETMY, issue with ITMY whitening

Before lunch we took a closer look at two of the suspensions that were most problematic: ITMY and ETMY.  Over lunch we took new free swinging data.  Results below:

• For ITMY we discovered that the whitening on the UL sensor was not switching.  This was causing the UL sensor to have a different response, with a steeper roll of, which was causing all of the transfer function estimates to the other sensors to have large imaginary components.   We took new free swing data with all of the whitening turned OFF.  The result is a much improved matrix and diagnalization.  The input matrix elements are mostly the same, but the coupling is basically gone.  We'll fix the whitening after the pump down.
 ITMY       pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.157   1.311   1.213  -0.090   0.956  UR    1.749  -0.490   0.886  -0.038  -1.042  LR   -0.251  -2.000   0.787  -0.007   1.066  LL   -1.843  -0.199   1.114  -0.059  -0.936  SD   -0.973  -0.205   1.428   1.000   0.239   4.34779
• ETMY has a very problematic SIDE OSEM.  The magnet does not line up with the OSEM axis, and since there is no lateral adjustment in the side OSEMs, there's not much we can do about this.  We're using aluminum foil to wedge the OSEM over as far as possible, but it's not quite enough.  With the OSEM plates horizontal there is a lot of POS->SIDE coupling.  With the OSEM plates vertical, the magnetic sits a little too close to the rear face, which can cause the magnet to get stuck to the LED plate.  We're trying to decide where to leave it now, but the new diagnalization with the OSEM plates vertical is definitely better:
 ETMX        pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL   -0.138   1.224   1.463  -0.086   0.944   UR    0.867  -0.776   1.501  -0.072  -1.051   LR   -0.995  -0.896   0.537  -0.045   0.754   LL   -2.000   1.104   0.499  -0.059  -1.251   SD    0.011   0.220   1.917   1.000   0.224   4.42482
5287   Tue Aug 23 11:57:22 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSfree swinging test during lunch time

excited all the optics. (with ITMY WTF OFF)

Tue Aug 23 11:52:52 PDT 2011
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5286   Tue Aug 23 10:38:27 2011 jamieUpdateSUSSUS update

SUS update before closing up:

• MC1, MC2, ITMX look good
• MC3, PRM look ok
• SRM pos and side peaks are too close together to distinguish, so the matrix is not diagnalizable.  I think with more data it should be ok, though.
• all ITMY elements have imaginary components
• ITMY, ETMX, ETMY appear to have modest that swapped position:
• ITMY: pit/yaw
• ETMX: yaw/side
• ETMY: pos/side
• MC3, ETMX, ETMY have some very large/small elements

Not particularly good.  We're going to work on ETMY at least, since that one is clearly bad.

 OPTIC M cond(B) MC1       pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.733   1.198   1.168   0.050   1.057  UR    1.165  -0.802   0.896   0.015  -0.925  LR   -0.835  -1.278   0.832  -0.002   0.954  LL   -1.267   0.722   1.104   0.032  -1.064  SD    0.115   0.153  -0.436   1.000  -0.044  4.02107 MC2        pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.051   0.765   1.027   0.128   0.952   UR    0.641  -1.235   1.089  -0.089  -0.942   LR   -1.359  -0.677   0.973  -0.097   1.011   LL   -0.949   1.323   0.911   0.121  -1.096   SD   -0.091  -0.147  -0.792   1.000  -0.066   4.02254 MC3        pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.589   0.353   1.148   0.170   1.099   UR    0.039  -1.647   1.145   0.207  -1.010   LR   -1.961  -0.000   0.852   0.113   0.896   LL   -0.411   2.000   0.855   0.076  -0.994   SD   -0.418   0.396  -1.624   1.000   0.019 3.60876 PRM       pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.532   1.424   1.808  -0.334   0.839   UR    1.355  -0.576   0.546  -0.052  -0.890   LR   -0.645  -0.979   0.192   0.015   0.881   LL   -1.468   1.021   1.454  -0.267  -1.391   SD    0.679  -0.546  -0.674   1.000   0.590   5.54281 BS        pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.596   0.666   0.416   0.277   1.037   UR    0.201  -1.334   1.679  -0.047  -0.934   LR   -1.799  -0.203   1.584  -0.077   0.952   LL   -0.404   1.797   0.321   0.247  -1.077   SD    0.711   0.301  -3.397   1.000   0.034   5.46234 SRM NA NA NA ITMX        pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.458   1.025   1.060  -0.065   0.753   UR    0.849  -0.975   1.152  -0.199  -0.978   LR   -1.151  -1.245   0.940  -0.243   1.217   LL   -1.542   0.755   0.848  -0.109  -1.052   SD   -0.501  -0.719   2.278   1.000  -0.153 4.4212 ITMY        pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.164   1.320   1.218  -0.086   0.963   UR    1.748  -0.497   0.889  -0.034  -1.043   LR   -0.252  -2.000   0.782  -0.005   1.066   LL   -1.836  -0.183   1.111  -0.058  -0.929   SD   -0.961  -0.194   1.385   1.000   0.239   4.33051 ETMX        pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.623   1.552   1.596  -0.033   1.027   UR    0.194  -0.448   1.841   0.491  -1.170   LR   -1.806  -0.478   0.404   0.520   0.943   LL   -1.377   1.522   0.159  -0.005  -0.860   SD    1.425   3.638  -0.762   1.000  -0.132   4.89418 ETMY        pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.856   0.007   1.799   0.241   1.005   UR   -0.082  -1.914  -0.201  -0.352  -1.128   LR   -2.000   0.079  -0.104  -0.162   0.748   LL   -1.063   2.000   1.896   0.432  -1.119   SD   -0.491  -1.546   2.926   1.000   0.169   9.11516

5285   Tue Aug 23 09:40:37 2011 kiwamuUpdateGeneralRe: AS clipping fixed

Indeed it was suspenseful.

We tried finding where the clipping happened, but we couldn't find any obvious clippings.

So we checked centering of the beams on all the optics associated with the AS path, starting from BS, SR3,... to the AS optical bench.

And during the work some of them were recentered.

At the end we found no clipping. To make sure we tested the available range (no clipping range) by exciting the angular motion of BS with AWG (f ~ 1Hz, a ~ 1000).

The beam looked successfully coming out at the most of the angular oscillation point.

 Quote from #5284 Where was the AS clipping?! Ah, the suspense...

5284   Tue Aug 23 06:49:24 2011 AnamariaUpdateGeneralmore in-vac work : AS clipping fixed and OSEM/oplev adjustment

Where was the AS clipping?! Ah, the suspense...

Quote:

+ fixed the AS clipping issue

 Quote from #5275 We need to check/fix the AS beam clipping and once it's done we will readjust the OSEM mid range and the oplevs.

5283   Tue Aug 23 02:03:04 2011 SureshUpdateIOOMC realigned and spot positions recentered

After the MC1 and MC3 OSEMs were  repositioned  MC had to be realigned and the beam spots had to be recentered on the actuation nodes.

To do that I had to change the input beam direction into the MC  and the coil offsets.

I also measured the resultant spot positions

spot positions in mm (MC1,2,3 pit MC1,2,3 yaw):
0.1354   -0.2522   -0.1383   -1.0893    0.7122   -1.5587

The MC1 and MC3 yaw can be improved further after the chambers are closed and evacuated.  The PZT adjustments needed to realign the input beam pointing are quite small and should not pose a problem.

5282   Tue Aug 23 01:09:44 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSfree swinging test

excited all the optics ---

Tue Aug 23 01:08:00 PDT 2011
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5281   Tue Aug 23 01:05:40 2011 JenneUpdateTreasureAll Hands on Deck, 9am!

We will begin drag wiping and putting on doors at 9am tomorrow (Tuesday).

We need to get started on time so that we can finish at least the 4 test masses before lunch (if possible).

We will have a ~2 hour break for LIGOX + Valera's talk.

I propose the following teams:

(Team 1: 2 people, one clean, one dirty) Open light doors, clamp EQ stops, move optic close to door.  ETMX, ITMX, ITMY, ETMY

(Team 2: K&J) Drag wipe optic, and put back against rails. Follow Team 1 around.

(Team 3 = Team 1, redux: 2 people, one clean, one dirty) Put earthquake stops at correct 2mm distance. Follow Team 2 around.

(Team 4: 3 people, Steve + 2) Close doors.  Follow Team 3 around.

Later, we'll do BS door and Access Connector.  BS, SRM, PRM already have the EQ stops at proper distances.

5280   Tue Aug 23 00:55:13 2011 JenneUpdateGeneralIFO ready for doors

[Kiwamu, Jenne]

After the IFO was aligned in air one final time, we tapped on a few OSEMs until we were happy with all of the centering of all of the optics' OSEMs.  All are within 0.05 of their halfway values, with the exception of one each on MC1 and MC3, one of which is within 0.06, and the other 0.08.  Because of the realignment pain of dealing with MC OSEMs, we elected to leave these alone.  Also, since we obviously didn't open the MC2 tank, we don't know how they are, although the numbers look reasonable.

Also, we took photos (to be posted on Picasa in a day or two) of all the main IFO magnet-in-OSEM centering, as best we could.  SRM, BS, PRM all caused trouble, due to their tight optical layouts.  We got what we could.  Various people have been looking at these for the past 2 weeks, and I think they're all fine, even if we didn't get stellar photos.

We are now prepared for pumping.  For real this time.

5279   Mon Aug 22 21:32:10 2011 kiwamuUpdateGeneralmore in-vac work : AS clipping fixed and OSEM/oplev adjustment

[Keiko / Jenne / Jamie / Kiwamu]

We did the following things today :

+ fixed the AS clipping issue

+ realigned all the oplevs

+ checked and adjusted the all OSEM DC values, including PRM, SRM, BS, ITMs, ETMs, MC1 and MC3

Since we touched the OSEMs the alignment has changed somewhat.

Right now Jenne, Suresh and I are working on the "confirmation alignment".

Once we find the alignment is still good (steerable by the PZTs and the DC coil bias), tomorrow we will do the drag&wipe and door closing.

 Quote from #5275 We need to check/fix the AS beam clipping and once it's done we will readjust the OSEM mid range and the oplevs.

5278   Mon Aug 22 20:37:43 2011 AnamariaConfigurationRF SystemPlan for install of 3f PDs

I made a quick sketch of how to include two more RF PDs on the REFL beam, given the space we have on the table. We want to install REFL33 and REFL165, 3f signals for the the two modulation frequencies we are using. The point is to make the distance from first beam splitter the same to all PDs so that we can use only one lens before this BS to make the beam the right size. Currently there are 2 PDs on the refl beam, REFL11 and REFL55, predictably. So the drawing shows 4 PDs. Drawing is to scale but is a bit coarse. Hopefully we'll take pictures once we're done.

Reference from current BS splitting beam to the existing PDs.

Attachment 1: 40m3fReflPdLayout.pdf
5277   Mon Aug 22 16:28:44 2011 SureshUpdateGeneralSRM tower shifted on Friday

[Kiwamu, Suresh]   This is a belated elog entry from last Friday night + Saturday morning!

We shifted the SRM tower across the beam and away from the door by about 5mm.

After the input beam from MC was aligned to the Y-arm,  Kiwamu noticed that the AS beam was being clipped and that the correction had to start from SRM onwards as the beam had become offcentered on the SRM.  So we shifted the SRM tower by about 5mm away from the door and transverse to the beam and rotated it by a few degrees to center the OSEM offsets.  After this we aligned all optics along the AS beam path to extract the AS beam from the chamber.    We then aligned each optic in the vertex so that their beams overlap at the AS port with the reflection from ITMY.  Then we aligned BS to center the beam on ETMX and then looked for flashes from the Y arm.

At this point Kiwamu checked and found that the input beam from the MC had shifted.  It was landing on the ITMY about 5mm below the center.  And (inexplicably) it was still centered on ETMY!  The Y- green which traced the cavity axis (since this was still flashing) was not coincident with the IR beam.   So all the work we did in aligning the AS beam and the vertex optics work was lost..... and had to be done again.

5276   Mon Aug 22 11:40:08 2011 steveUpdateVACcranes checked

Cranes are  checked and they are ready for lifting. At the east end will use the manual Genei-lift to put door on.

5275   Mon Aug 22 02:43:28 2011 kiwamuUpdateGeneralin-vac work

[Kieko / Kiwamu]

The AS beam shows a little bit of clipping and right now this is the only concern for the alignment of the interferometer.

Other than that everything is okay including :

+ Beam centering on all the suspended optics

+ Arm cavity alignments. The Fabry-Perot fringes from both arm cavity were found on the AS camera.

+ POX/POY/POP, they are still successfully coming out from the chambers

+ IPPOS/ANG

+ Alignment of the green beams and the associated optics. Both green are reaching to the PSL table

We need to check/fix the AS beam clipping and once it's done we will readjust the OSEM mid range and the oplevs.

Then it will be ready for the drag/wipe and door closing.

5274   Sat Aug 20 23:01:39 2011 JennyUpdatePSLTaking temperature step-response data: successes and tribulations

After finishing my last elog entry, I monitored the digital loop's error signal (the control signal for the fast loop) and the output to the laser heater remotely, (from West Bridge), using dataviewer. The ref cav surrounding can temperature was set to 36 degrees C.

With the loop closed and a gain of 0.008, after seeing the output voltage to the laser heater (TMP_OUTPUT) remain fairly constant and the error signal (TMP_INMON) stay close to zero for ~3 hours, I tried to step the temperature. (This was at 2am last night). I was working remotely from West Bridge. To step the temperature I used the following command:

ezcawrite C1:PSL-FSS_RCPID_SETPOINT 35.5

Rather than change the can temperature to 35.5 C, it outputted:

C1:PSL-FSS_RCPID_SETPOINT=0.

It had set the setpoint to 0 degrees C, which was essentially turning the heater off. I tried resetting it back to 36 and had no luck. I tried changing the syntax slightly.: ezcawrite C1:PSL-FSS_RCPID_SETPOINT=36 and ezcawrite C1:PSL-FSS_RCPID_SETPOINT (36). No success.

I ran over to the 40m and changed the temperature back to 36 manually. The in-loop temp sensor had decreased to 31.5 degrees C before I was able to step the setpoint back up. The system seems to have recovered from this large impulse though, and the laser has remained locked.

(5 hours of minute-trend data)

From left to right:

Top: Out-of-loop can temp sensor; Voltage sent to heat can

Middle: signal sent to heat the laser (TMP_OUTPUT); room temp

Bottom: Error signal for slow loop (sampled control signal from fast loop); In-loop can temp sensor

At 9:30 this morning (7 and a half hours after accidentally setting the setpoint to zero), I came in to the 40m. TMP_OUTPUT was still decreasing but was slowing somewhat, so I decided to step the can temperature up half a decree to 36.5 C.

TMP_OUTPUT responded to the step, but it is also oscillating slowly with room-temperature changes, and these oscillations are on the same order as the step response. The oscillations look like the room-temp oscilations, but inverted. (TMP_OUTPUT reaches maxima when RMTEMP reaches minima). Oddly, there does not appear to be much of a time delay between the room temperature and TMP_OUTPUT signals. I would expect a time delay since there's a time constant for a room-temperature change to propagate into the cavity. Perhaps the laser itself is susceptible to room-temperature changes and those propagate into the laser cavity on a much faster time scale. I don't know the thermal coupling of ambient temperature changes into the laser.

(24-hours of second-trend data)

Options are:

--If the system can handle it, do a larger temperature step (3 degrees, say), so that I can more clearly distinguish the oscillations with room temp from the step response.

--Insulate the cavity with foam (will in principle make the temperature over the can surrounding the ref cav more uniform and less affected by room temperature changes).

--Insulate the laser? Is this possible?

--Leave the system as is and, as a first approximation, fit the room-temp data to a sine wave and subtract it off somehow from my data to just see the step response.

--Don't bother with steps and just try to get the transfer function from out-of-loop temperature (RCTEMP, which is affected by temperature noise from the room) to TMP_OUTPUT via taking the Fourier transforms of both signals.

I'm flying out tomorrow morning, so I'll either need to figure out how to step the temperature set point of the can remotely, successfully, or I'll need someone to manually enter in the temperature steps for me in the control room.

5273   Sat Aug 20 00:42:22 2011 KeikoUpdateLSCTolerance of PRC, SRC, MICH length = 2 mm ?

Keiko, Kiwamu

I have run Kiwamu's length tolerance code (in CVS iscmodeling, ArmTolerance.m & analyseArmTorelance.m ) for the vertex ifo.

In his previous post, he monte-carlo-ed the arm lengths and saw the histogram of the sensing matrix and the demodulation phase between POP55 MICH and POP55 SRCL. From these plots, he roughly estimated that the tolerance is about 1 cm (sigma of the rondom gaussian) and in that case POP55 MICH and SRCL is separated by the demodulation phase 60-150 degrees.

This time I put the length displacements of random gaussian on PRC, SRC, MICH lengths at the same time (Fig.1).

Fig. 1. History of random walk in PRC, SRC, MICH lengths parameter space. Same as Kiwamu's previous post, The position of the three degrees are randomly chosen with a Gaussian distribution function in every simulaton. This example was generated when \sigma = 1 cm for all the three lengths, where \sigma is the standard deviation of  the Gaussian function. The number of simulation is 1000 times.

When the sigma is 1 cm, we found that the sensing matrix is quite bad if you look at Fig. 2. In Fig.2 row POP55, although the desired degrees of freedoms are MICH and SRCL, they have quite a bit of variety. Their separation in the demodulation phase is plotted in Fig.3. The separation in the demodulation phase varies from 40 degrees to 140 degrees, and around 270 degrees. It is not good as ideally we want it to be 90.

Fig. 2 Histgram of the sensing signal power in the matrix when 1 cm sigma rondom gaussian is applied on PRC, SRC, MICH lengths. x axis it the signal power in log10.

Fig.3 POP55 MICH and POP55 SRCL separation with the displacement sigma 1 cm.

Kiwamu suspected that PRC length as more strict tolerance than other two (SRC, MICH) for POP55, as 55MHz is fast and can be sensitive to the arm length change. So I ran the same monte-carlo with SRC, MICH displacements but no PRC displacements when sigma is the same, 1cm. The results were almost same as above, nothing obvious difference.

With 2mm sigma, the signal power matrix and the POP55 MICH and POP55 SRCL separation in the demodulation phase look good (Fig. 4 and Fig. 5).

Fig.4 Signal power matrix when PRC, SRC, MICH lengths fractuate with random gaussian distribution with 2mm sigma. The signal powers are shown in log10 in x axis, and they do not vary very much in this case.

Fig.5 POP55 MICH and POP55 SRCL separation with the displacement sigma 2 mm. The separation of the two signal is 60-90 degrees, much better than when sigma is 1 cm. We may need to check 60 degree separation is really ok or not.

PRC SRC MICH lengths tolerances of 2 mm in the real world will be very difficult !

Next I will check what happens on 3f signals.

 Quote: Required arm length = 37.7974 +/- 0.02 [m] This is a preliminary result of the estimation of the Arm length tolerance. This number was obtained from a simulation based on Optickle. Note that the simulation was done by considering misplacements in only the arm lengths while keeping PRCL, SRCL and MICH at the ideal lengths. Therefore the tolerance will be somewhat tighter if misplacements in the central part are taken into account. Next : check 3f signals, and include misplacements in PRCL, SRCL and MICH.         Figure.2  A sensing matrix of the 40-m DRFPMI while changing the position of ETMX/Y by \sigma = 2 cm. For convenience,  only REFL11, AS55, POP11 and POP55 are shown. They are the designed signal ports that mentioned in the aLIGO LSC document (T1000298). In all the histograms, x-axis represents the optical gain in log scale in units of [W/m]. The y-axis is the number of events. The diagonal ports are surrounded by red rectangular window.         (Results2 : demodulation phase of MICH and SRCL on POP55) Now a special attention should be payed on the MICH and SRCL signals on POP55. Since MICH and SRCL are designed to be taken from POP55, they must be nicely separated in their demodulation phases. Therefore the demodulation phase of MICH and SRCL has to be carefully examined. The plot in Figure.3 is the resultant phase difference between MICH and SRCL on POP55 when \sigma_x = \sigma_y = 2 cm. As shown in the plot the phase are always within a range of 60 - 120 deg, which satisfies my requirement (2) mentioned in the last section.          Figure.3 Difference in the demodulation phase of MICH and SRCL on POP55. x-axis is the difference in the demodulation phase of MICH and SRCL, and y-axis the number of events.

5272   Fri Aug 19 23:41:20 2011 JennyUpdatePSLRelocking NPRO to reference cavity.

 Quote: I am trying again to measure a temperature step response on the reference cavity on the PSL table. I have been working to relock the NPRO to the cavity. I unblocked the laser beam, reassembled the setup described in my previous elog entry: 5202. I then did the following: 1) Monitored error signal (from LB1005 PDH servo), transmitted signal, and control signal sent to drive PZT on oscilloscope. 2) With loop open, swept through 0,0-mode resonance, saw a peak in the transmission, saw an accompanying error signal similar to the signal shown in 5202. 3) Tried to lock. Swept the gain on the LB1005 and could not find a gain that would make it lock. Tried changing the PI-corner freq. from 10 kHz to 30 kHz and back and still could not lock. 4) Noticed that the open loop error signal displayed on the scope was DC-offset from zero. Changed the offset to zero the error signal. 5) Tried to lock again and succeeded. 6) Noticed that upon closing the loop, the error signal became offset from zero again. Turning on the integrator on the LB1005 increased DC-offset. 7) Reduced the gain on the SR560 being used as a low pass filter from 5 to 1. Readjusted the open loop error signal offset on the LB1005. 8) Closed the loop and locked. Closing the loop then caused a much smaller DC change in the signal than I had seen with the larger gain (now around 3mV). RMS fluctuations in error signal are now 1 mV (well within the linear region of the error signal). 9) Noticed transmission has a strange distorted harmonic oscillation in it a 1MHz. (Modulation freq is 230kHz, so it's not that). Checked reflected signal and also saw a strange oscillation--in a sawtooth-like pattern.   I intend to 1) Post oscilloscope traces here showing transmitted and reflected signal when locked. 2) Look upstream to see if the sawtooth-like oscillation is in the laser beam before it enters the cavity: Sweep the temperature of the laser so that the beam is no longer resonating in the cavity. Compare the reflected signal off the cavity to the signal detected before being directed into the cavity (using the PDA255 that I used for measuring the AM response of the PZT) both with and and without the frequency modulation. 3) At some point, try to close the slow digital loop, perhaps readjusting the gain. 4) Try to measure a temperature step response.

I decided to go forward and try to close the digital loop in spite of the unexplained oscillations in the transmission.

1) Plugged the 20dB attenuator into the slow port on the laser drive. This pushed the laser out of lock and, for some reason, made the laser temperature stop responding to sweeping the set point manually with the knob.

2) Plugged the output from the digital system into the slow port (with the attenuator still in place).

3) Displayed the beam seen by the camera on a monitor in the control room

4) Stepped the laser temperature using MEDM until finding the 0,1 mode. Locked to that mode.

5) Closed the digital loop (input to slow laser drive attenuated 20dB attenuator). Gain 0.010

6) Loop appeared stable for 30 minutes, then temperature began shooting off. I opened the loop, cleared history, reduced the gain to 0.008, and started it again. Loop appears stable after 15 minutes of watching. I'm going to leave it for a few hours, then come back to check on it and, if it's stable, step the can temperature.

5271   Fri Aug 19 19:08:40 2011 JennyUpdatePSLRelocking NPRO to reference cavity.

I am trying again to measure a temperature step response on the reference cavity on the PSL table.

I have been working to relock the NPRO to the cavity. I unblocked the laser beam, reassembled the setup described in my previous elog entry: 5202. I then did the following:

1) Monitored error signal (from LB1005 PDH servo), transmitted signal, and control signal sent to drive PZT on oscilloscope.

2) With loop open, swept through 0,0-mode resonance, saw a peak in the transmission, saw an accompanying error signal similar to the signal shown in 5202.

3) Tried to lock. Swept the gain on the LB1005 and could not find a gain that would make it lock. Tried changing the PI-corner freq. from 10 kHz to 30 kHz and back and still could not lock.

4) Noticed that the open loop error signal displayed on the scope was DC-offset from zero. Changed the offset to zero the error signal.

5) Tried to lock again and succeeded.

6) Noticed that upon closing the loop, the error signal became offset from zero again. Turning on the integrator on the LB1005 increased DC-offset.

7) Reduced the gain on the SR560 being used as a low pass filter from 5 to 1. Readjusted the open loop error signal offset on the LB1005.

8) Closed the loop and locked. Closing the loop then caused a much smaller DC change in the signal than I had seen with the larger gain (now around 3mV). RMS fluctuations in error signal are now 1 mV (well within the linear region of the error signal).

9) Noticed transmission has a strange distorted harmonic oscillation in it a 1MHz. (Modulation freq is 230kHz, so it's not that). Checked reflected signal and also saw a strange oscillation--in a sawtooth-like pattern.

I intend to

1) Post oscilloscope traces here showing transmitted and reflected signal when locked.

2) Look upstream to see if the sawtooth-like oscillation is in the laser beam before it enters the cavity:

• Sweep the temperature of the laser so that the beam is no longer resonating in the cavity.
• Compare the reflected signal off the cavity to the signal detected before being directed into the cavity (using the PDA255 that I used for measuring the AM response of the PZT) both with and and without the frequency modulation.

3) At some point, try to close the slow digital loop, perhaps readjusting the gain.

4) Try to measure a temperature step response.

5270   Fri Aug 19 15:31:53 2011 steveUpdateGeneralpower interruption rescheduled to 10-1-2011

UTILITY & SERVICE INTERRUPTION

Building:               Central Engineering Services (C.E.S.)

LIGO Gravitational Physics building adjacent to C.E.S. 40M- Lab

Steele House

Keck Lab

Date:                   Saturday, October 1, 2011

Time:                   8:00 a.m. To 9:00 a.m.

Interruption:   Electricity

Contact:                Mike Anchondo ext. 4999  Tom Brennan 4984

*This interruption is required for maintenance of high voltage switchgear in Campus Sub Station.

(If there is a problem with this Interruption, please notify

the Service Center X-4717 or the above Contact as soon as possible.

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Director, Campus Operations & Maintenance

5269   Fri Aug 19 10:26:53 2011 steveUpdateSUSOSEM sensor spectra

Free swingging OSEM sensors LL at atm

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5268   Fri Aug 19 09:14:56 2011 steveUpdateIOOdegrading laser power at atm

Light into the MC is 20 mW at atm, MC_Transmitted ~10 MW = 400 count

The PMC_T is OK but something else is drifting.

Attachment 1: power@atm.jpg
5267   Fri Aug 19 01:46:06 2011 SureshUpdateGeneralIFO alignment

[Keiko, Jamie, Kiwamu, Anamaria,

We followed the procedure that we laid-out in our elog of yesterday.  We completed the first six steps and we now have the y-arm well aligned to the green beam which passes through the center of of both ETMY and ITMY.

The IR beam was steered with the PZTs to coincide with the green beam.  The BS was adjusted to see IR beam scatter on a target placed near the center of the ETMX.  And then the AS IR beam was steered to the AS camera by adjusting several components along OM path ( we touched OM1, OM2, OM3, OM4, OM5, OMPO and OM6).  We then looked for IR fringes in the AS port from the Y-arm. But no luck there.  We need to realign the IR beam into the Y-arm cavity axis using the pzts.

We aligned ITMX and PRM to get power recycled Michelson fringes at the AS.

5266   Fri Aug 19 01:15:22 2011 SureshUpdateSUSFreeSwing all optics

I ran "freeswing all" at Fri Aug 19 01:09:28 PDT 2011 (997776583)  and "opticshutdown"  as well.

5265   Thu Aug 18 22:24:08 2011 jamieOmnistructureVIDEOUpdated 'videoswitch' script

I have updated the 'videoswitch' program that controls the video MUX.  It now includes the ability to query the video mux for the channel mapping:

controls@pianosa:~ 0$/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general/videoswitch -h Usage: videoswitch [options] [OUT] List current output/input mapping [for OUT] videoswitch [options] OUT IN Set output OUT to be input IN Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -i, --inputs List input channels and exit -o, --outputs List output channels and exit -l, --list List all input and output channels and exit -H HOST, --host=HOST IP address/Host name controls@pianosa:~ 0$ 

5264   Thu Aug 18 15:54:35 2011 steveUpdateSUSdamped and undamped OSEMs

damped sus at atm1 and freeswingging sus at atm2

Attachment 1: 5susLL.jpg
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5263   Thu Aug 18 12:22:37 2011 jamieUpdateSUSsuspension update

Most of the suspension look ok, with "badness" levels between 4 and 5.  I'm just posting the ones that look slightly less ideal below.

• PRM, SRM, and BS in particular show a lot of little peaks that look like some sort of intermodulations.
• ITMY has a lot of elements with imaginary components
• The ETMY POS and SIDE modes are *very* close together, which is severely adversely affecting the diagonalization
 PRM        pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.466   1.420   1.795  -0.322   0.866   UR    1.383  -0.580   0.516  -0.046  -0.861   LR   -0.617  -0.978   0.205   0.011   0.867   LL   -1.534   1.022   1.484  -0.265  -1.407   SD    0.846  -0.632  -0.651   1.000   0.555 5.62863 SRM       pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.783   1.046   1.115  -0.149   1.029  UR    1.042  -0.954   1.109  -0.060  -1.051  LR   -0.958  -0.926   0.885  -0.035   0.856  LL   -1.217   1.074   0.891  -0.125  -1.063  SD    0.242   0.052   1.544   1.000   0.029   4.0198 BS        pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.536   0.714   0.371   0.283   1.042   UR    0.225  -1.286   1.715  -0.084  -0.927   LR   -1.775  -0.286   1.629  -0.117   0.960   LL   -0.464   1.714   0.285   0.250  -1.070   SD    0.705   0.299  -3.239   1.000   0.023   5.5501 ITMY        pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.335   0.209   1.232  -0.071   0.976   UR   -0.537   1.732   0.940  -0.025  -1.068   LR   -2.000  -0.268   0.768   0.004   1.046   LL   -0.129  -1.791   1.060  -0.043  -0.911   SD   -0.069  -0.885   1.196   1.000   0.239   4.28384 ETMY       pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.103   0.286   1.194  -0.039   0.994  UR   -0.196  -1.643  -0.806  -0.466  -1.113  LR   -2.000   0.071  -0.373  -0.209   0.744  LL   -0.701   2.000   1.627   0.217  -1.149  SD    0.105  -1.007   3.893   1.000   0.290   9.25346

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5262   Thu Aug 18 10:59:04 2011 steveUpdateTreasurePrepared for drag wiping

 Quote: While waiting for the IFO team to align things (there were already ~5 people working on a ~1 person job...), I got all of our supplies prepped for drag wiping in the morning.  The syringes are still on the flow bench down the Xarm.  I put fresh alcohol from unopened spectrometer-grade bottles into our alcohol drag wiping bottles. The ITMs already had rails for marking their position in place from the last time we drag wiped.  I placed marker-rails for both ETMs.

We should use the deionizer before drag wiping with isopropanol.

5261   Thu Aug 18 10:17:04 2011 kiwamu, steveUpdateSUSoplevs reestablished at Vertex

Kiwamu and Steve, from yesterday

PRM and BS oplev paths were relaid after setting 1/2 OSEM voltages. The incident beam on suspended optics are centered  within  ~ +- 2 mm

I noticed many unvected ss screws are used on the big Al table tops. The SS 1/4-20 screws

used on the optical tables in vacuum MUST be VENTED!

Also, please use  SS clamps. Replace aluminum ones when you can. We have plenty baked ones.

5260   Thu Aug 18 00:58:40 2011 jamieUpdateSUSoptics kicked and left free swinging

ALL optics (including MC) were kicked and left free swinging at:

997689421

The "opticshutdown" script was also run, which should turn the watchdogs back on in 5 hours (at 6am).

5259   Thu Aug 18 00:53:48 2011 jamie, kiwamu, suresh, jenneUpdateGeneralPUMP PLAN ABORTED; need to work more on IFO alignment

### We have decided that the IFO alignment is bad enough that we're not ready to pump down.  PUMP ABORTED.

The IFO alignment is somewhat OK, in that the green and IR beams are flashing in the arms, and the return beams are overlapping at the BS.  However the beams appear to be not centered on any of the optics at the moment.  They are all displaced in yaw by ~0.5 to 1 cm or so in various directions.

From this we have decided that we need to step back and reattack the IFO alignment from square one.  Here is our current suggested procedure:

1. check ETM positions relative to what we think they should be on the drawings.  This is to verify that the ETMs were not placed in the wrong places laterally.
2. translate Y green axis north, centering green on ETMY and ITMY (by looking at cards).  North is the opposite direction from how the beams are displaced from the TM centers.
3. steer input pointing to overlap IR on green beam at BS, ITMY, and ETMY.  IR should visibly overlap green at both BS and ITMY, and we should be able to see IR on target in front of ETMY with ETMY face camera, and in ETMY trans camera.
4. center IR on ETMX by steering BS with DC bias.
5. align Y arm cavity for green resonance by adjusting ITMY.
6. adjust ITMX to achieve michelson fringes at AS
7. adjust PRM lateral translation to center beam on PRM, if needed
8. adjust SRM lateral translation to center beam on SRM, if needed
9. align PRC to see fringes
10. align SRC to see fringes
11. extract AS (no clipping)

Once this is done, we will need to check the following:

• IPANG/IPPOS extraction
• pick-off extraction
• OPLEVs
• OSEMs
• green periscopes and green beam extraction at PSL

We've decided to stop for the night, get a good nights rest, and attack all of this tomorrow morning.

5258   Wed Aug 17 20:14:49 2011 jamie, kiwamu, suresh, jenne, keiko, anamariaUpdateGeneralin-vacuum work status, prep for pump

This afternoon's work:

• OSEMs were adjusted on all suspended optics.
• X and Y-arms were aligned to green.
• Once that was done, the input pointing was adjusted with the PZTs to get the IR beam centered on ITMY and ETMY.
• Once the input pointing was ok we extracted IPANG and IPPOS.
• BS, ITMY, PRM, SRM optical levers (oplevs) were extracted.
• Prepared rails and stops for TMs for morning drag wiping.

TODO before drag wiping:

• Check full IFO alignment.
• Extract ITMX oplev.
5257   Wed Aug 17 17:51:54 2011 JenneUpdateTreasurePrepared for drag wiping

While waiting for the IFO team to align things (there were already ~5 people working on a ~1 person job...), I got all of our supplies prepped for drag wiping in the morning.

The syringes are still on the flow bench down the Xarm.  I put fresh alcohol from unopened spectrometer-grade bottles into our alcohol drag wiping bottles.

The ITMs already had rails for marking their position in place from the last time we drag wiped.  I placed marker-rails for both ETMs.

5256   Wed Aug 17 15:55:01 2011 JenneUpdateGeneralin-vac work : the end is near

 Quote: We will pump down the chambers on Thursday Friday morning.

All hands on deck at 9am Thursday for drag wiping and doors.  We'll do the 5 doors first (including drag wiping), then put on the access connector last.  Steve will then begin pumping early Friday morning.

5255   Wed Aug 17 15:47:18 2011 AnamariaUpdateSUSETMX Side Sensor slow channel down for a long time

Jenne, Anamaria

We aligned the ETMX OSEMs and ran into this issue. Looking at the SENSOR_SIDE channel, we pulled out the OSEM and determined that the open light voltage is 874 counts, so we centered it around 440 as well as we could. This is same channel as its slow counterpart SDSEN_OUTPUT (grey number immediately to the right on SUS medms).

 Quote: The slow signal from the side sensor on ETMX was last seen in action sometime in May 2010!  And then the frame builder has no data for a while on this channel.  After that the channel shows some bistability starting Sept 2010 but has not been working.  The fast channel of this sensor  (C1:SUS-ETMX_SDSEN_OUTPUT) does work so the sensor is working.  Probably is a loose contact... needs to be fixed.

5254   Wed Aug 17 12:14:27 2011 Josh SmithOmnistructureComputer Scripts / Programs40m summary page plans

Josh Smith, Fabian Magana-Sandoval, Jackie Lee (Fullerton)

Thanks to Jamie and Jenne for the tour and the input on the pages.

We had a look at the GEO summary pages and thought about how best to make a 40m summary page that would eventually become and aligo summary page. Here's a rough plan:

- First we'll check that we can access the 40m NDS2 server to get data from the 40m lab in Fullerton.

- We'll make a first draft of a 40m summary page in python, using pynds, and base the layout on the current geo summary pages.

- When this takes shape we'll iterate with Jamie, Jenne, Rana to get more ideas for measurements, layout.

Other suggestions: Jenne is working on an automated noisebudget and suggests having a placeholder for it on the page. We can also incorporate some of the features of Aidan's 40m overview medm screen that's in progress, possibly with different plots corresponding to different parts of the drawing, etc. Jenne also will email us the link of once per hour medm screenshots.

5253   Wed Aug 17 06:42:38 2011 kiwamuUpdateGeneralin-vac work : the end is near

We will pump down the chambers on Thursday morning.

Today will be a day of the OSEM and oplev party.

-- to do list for today --

+ oplev realignment

+ placement of beam traps

+ extraction of IPPOS

+ table leveling

+ interferometer alignment

+ AM-PM mystery

+ preparation for drag and wipe

5252   Wed Aug 17 03:10:06 2011 kiwamuUpdateGeneralcurrent status of in-vac work

[Jamie / Suresh / Kiwamu]

The in-vac work is ongoing.

Before we run out our energy we are posting this entry to briefly report the current status.

- (done) BS earthquake stop adjustment.

- (done) PRM earthquake stop adjustment

- (done) MC spot position check => They are almost the same within 10 %.

- (done) Injection and alignment of the ABSL laser to make the beam brighter in the vertex region.

- (done) POY => We repositioned an in-vac steering mirror to get the POY beam hitting the center of the steering mirror.

It's now coming out from the chamber.

(done)  IPANG => realigned two mirrors on the ETMY table to get the IPANG out from the chamber. Now it's reaching the ETMY optical table.

It needs a final touch before we pump down.  We revisited it later in the night after realigning the IFO and it is well aligned now.

- (done)  POP => We have aligned the ABSL laser injected from the AS port to reach the REFL camera.  We turned it up to max power of 300mW and used it as a substitute for the PRC beam.

Even this was not enough to see anything in the POP beam path after the PR2 (tip-tilt).  So we used a green beam from the Y-arm as a guide of the POP beam path because the ABSL (POP) beam was too dim to work with.

We placed a lens and a CCD camera to detect the green and then blocked the Y-green.  It was then possible to see the ABSL-POP beam in the CCD camera.  The lens and the CCD are markers for this beam.

Do not remove these markers unless absolutely necessary.

-(done) POX => We located the ABSL (mimicking POX) beam on the POXM1 mirror and adjusted the mirror to ensure that the beam exits at the right height and a convenient location on the POX table.

- (0%) IPPOS

- (0%) oplev re-alignment

5251   Wed Aug 17 02:48:56 2011 kiwamuUpdateRF SystemRe: AM in the PM

[Keiko / Suresh / Anamaria / Kiwamu]

The AM components do exist also on the beam after the EOM.

The peaks were found at 11, 29 and 55 MHz, where the PM are supposed to be imposed.

Suresh and Keiko minimized them by rotating the HWP, which is in front of the EOM.

Also Anamaria and I tried minimizing them by adjusting the EOM crystal alignment.

However everytime after we minimized the AM peaks, they grew back in a time scale of ~ 1 min.

Potentially it could be a problem of the HWP and/or EOM alignment.

Since we wanted to proceed the in-vac work anyways, we stopped investigating it and decided to postpone it for tomorrow.

We again adjusted the incident power to 20 mW.

-- P.S.

The incident power going to MC went down to 7 mW for some reasons. This was found after ~ 6 hours from our works on the PSL table.

We haven't touched anything on the PSL table since the daytime work.

Possibly the angle of the HWP is drifting (why?) and changed the amount of the P-polarizing beam power.

Suresh locked the angles of two HWPs, which are the one just after the EOM and the one after the attenuation PBS.

 Quote from #5249 So first check is beam out of PSL EOM, to make sure the input beam is aligned to the crystal axis and is not giving AM modulation in adition to PM.

5250   Tue Aug 16 17:09:55 2011 JenneUpdateGeneraltoday's work to do

 Quote: + Rotate the SRM tower to get the SRMI fringes on the AS CCD camera.         => This is because the required amount of the YAW correction on SRM is currently beyond the range of the DC bias.

Kiwamu aligned things for me, and I rotated the SRM tower so that the reflected beam was pretty much totally overlapping the incident beam.  The SRC was aligned to make sure things were good.  Now the DC bias for SRM Yaw is ~1.4, so we're totally good.

To rotate SRM, Jamie had the idea of using 2 screws so I could push the tower on one side, and back off the screw an equal amount on the other side and push the tower to be touching both screws again, to ensure that I was rotating about the center of the tower and wasn't introducing any Pos action.

While I was at it, I also moved the OSEM connector tower back to its normal place on the table, so it's not in the way of oplev beams.  It had been moved previously to accommodate ITMY near the door.

5249   Tue Aug 16 16:59:20 2011 AnamariaUpdateRF SystemAM in the PM

Kiwamu, Keiko, Anamaria

Looking at the I and Q signals coming from REFL11 and REFL55 we saw large offsets, which would mean we have amplitude modulation, especially at 11MHz. We checked the PD themselves with RF spectrum analyzer, and at their frequencies we see stationary peaks (even if we look only at direct reflection from PRM). We changed the attenuation of the PSL EOM, and saw the peak go down. So first check is beam out of PSL EOM, to make sure the input beam is aligned to the crystal axis and is not giving AM modulation in adition to PM.

5248   Tue Aug 16 11:49:17 2011 jamie, jenneUpdateGeneraltoday's work to do

>If necessary steer ETMs and ITMs to make the X and Y green beam flashing.

Green is now flashing in both X and Y arms

>Open the IOO and OMC chamber and lock MC.

Open, and cover in place. MC is flashing and locking.

5247   Tue Aug 16 10:59:06 2011 jamieUpdateSUSSUS update

Data taken from: 997530498+120

Things are actually looking ok at the moment.  "Badness" (cond(B)) is below 6 for all optics.

• We don't have results from PRM since its spectra looked bad, as if it's being clamped by the earthquake stops.
• The SRM matrix definitely looks the nicest, followed by ITMX.  All the other matrices have some abnormally high or low elements.
• cond(B) for ETMY is better than that for SRM, even though the ETMY matrix doesn't look as nice.  Does this mean that cond(B) is not necessarily the best figure of merit, or is there something else that our naive expectation for the matrix doesn't catch?

We still need to go through and adjust all the OSEM ranges once the IFO is aligned and we know what our DC biases are.  We'll repeat this one last time after that.

 TM M cond(B) BS       pit     yaw     pos     side    butt  UL    1.456   0.770   0.296   0.303   1.035    UR    0.285  -1.230   1.773  -0.077  -0.945  LR   -1.715  -0.340   1.704  -0.115   0.951  LL   -0.544   1.660   0.227   0.265  -1.070  SD    0.612   0.275  -3.459   1.000   0.046  5.61948 SRM       pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.891   1.125   0.950  -0.077   0.984  UR    0.934  -0.875   0.987  -0.011  -0.933  LR   -1.066  -1.020   1.050   0.010   1.084  LL   -1.109   0.980   1.013  -0.056  -0.999  SD    0.257  -0.021   0.304   1.000   0.006   4.0291 ITMX       pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.436   1.035   1.042  -0.068   0.728  UR    0.855  -0.965   1.137  -0.211  -0.969  LR   -1.145  -1.228   0.958  -0.263   1.224  LL   -1.564   0.772   0.863  -0.120  -1.079  SD   -0.522  -0.763   2.495   1.000  -0.156  4.55925 ITMY       pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.375   0.095   1.245  -0.058   0.989  UR   -0.411   1.778   0.975  -0.022  -1.065  LR   -2.000  -0.222   0.755   0.006   1.001  LL   -0.214  -1.905   1.025  -0.030  -0.945  SD    0.011  -0.686   0.804   1.000   0.240   4.14139 ETMX       pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.714   0.191   1.640   0.404   1.052  UR    0.197  -1.809   1.758  -0.120  -1.133  LR   -1.803  -1.889   0.360  -0.109   0.913  LL   -1.286   0.111   0.242   0.415  -0.902  SD    1.823  -3.738  -0.714   1.000  -0.130   5.19482 ETMY       pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.104   0.384   1.417   0.351   1.013  UR   -0.287  -1.501   1.310  -0.074  -1.032  LR   -2.000   0.115   0.583  -0.045   0.777  LL   -0.609   2.000   0.690   0.380  -1.179  SD    0.043  -0.742  -0.941   1.000   0.338   3.57032

5246   Tue Aug 16 04:50:17 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSfree swinging again

Since Suresh and I changed the DC biases on most of the suspension, the free swingning spectra will be different from the past.

- -

EXcited ETMX ETMY ITMX ITMY PRM SRM BS

Tue Aug 16 04:48:02 PDT 2011
997530498

5245   Tue Aug 16 04:28:09 2011 kiwamuUpdateGeneraltoday's work to do

The main goal of today is to extract the pick-off beams

+ If necessary steer ETMs and ITMs to make the X and Y green beam flashing.

+ Open the IOO and OMC chamber and lock MC.

=> cover the place of the access connector by a large piece of aluminum foil. It will give a robust lock of MC.

+ Check the beam pointing down to Y arm by looking at the ETMY face camera.

=> If it's necessary align PZT1 and PZT2 from EPICS to make the IR beam flashing in the X arm.

+ Align BS and let the beam hit the center of ETMX to make the X arm flashing.

=> These alignment procedure will automatically gives us the MICH fringes on the AS CCD camera.

+ Rotate the SRM tower to get the SRMI fringes on the AS CCD camera.

=> This is because the required amount of the YAW correction on SRM is currently beyond the range of the DC bias.

+ Align PRM to get the PRMI fringes on AS CCD camera. Also make sure the beam comes back to the REFL CCD camera.

+ Lock the PRC to make POP/POX/POY bright enough.

=> Probably the REFL11 RFPD needs more power. To increase the power, just rotate the HWP, which is sitting before the RFPDs on the AS table.

=> If the signal on AS55 is too small, we can use REFL11_Q or REFL55 for the MICH lock.

+ OR inject and align the ABSL laser to make those pick-off beams bright enough.

=> This case we don't have to make the DRMI exactly on the resonance, what we need is just the DRMI flashing.

+ Align necessary optics for those pick-off beams.

=> In our definition (aLIGO definition) POP is the beam propagating from BS to PRM. Don't be confused by another one, which propagates from PRM to BS.

+ Steer two mirrors on the ETMY table for aligning IPANG. Also, steer some mirrors on the BS table for IPPOS.

=> IPANG has already reached the ETMY table, so ideally we don't have to steer a mirror on the BS table.

=> IPPOS/ANG are very visible with a sensor card.

+ Align some oplevs.

=> This work is relatively independent from the other tasks. Steve can take care of it.

+ Adjust the OSEM to their mid-range.

=> This work can be done anytime, but everytime we have to recover the alignment of the interferometer.

5244   Tue Aug 16 04:25:34 2011 Suresh, KiwamuUpdateSUSalignment of MC output to Y-arm using PZTs

We did several things today+night.  The final goal was to lock the PRC so that we could obtain the POX, POY and POP beams.  However there were large number of steps to get there.

1) We moved the ITMY into its place and balanced the table

2) We then aligned the Y-arm cavity to the green beam which was set up as a reference before we moved the ETMY and ITMY to adjust the OSEMS.  We had the green flashing in Y-arm

3) We checked the beam position on PR2. It was okay. This confirmed that we were ready to send the beam onto the Y arm.

4) We then roughly aligned the IR beam on ETMY where Jamie had placed an Al foil with a hole.  We got the arm flashing in both IR and green.

5) We used the PZTs to make the green and IR beams co-incident and flashing in the Y arm.  This completed the alignment of the IR beam into the Y-arm.

6) The IPPO (pick-off) window had to be repositioned to avoid clipping.  The IPANG beam was aligned such that it exits the ETMY chamber onto the ETMY table.  It can now be easily sent to the IPANG QPD.

7) Then BS was aligned to direct the IR beam into the X-arm and had the X-arm flashing.  It had already been aligned to its green.

8) It was now the turn of the SRC.  The beam spots on all the SRC related optics were off centered.  We aligned all the optics in the AS path to get the AS beam on to the AP table.

9) The AS beam was very faint so we repositioned the AS camera to the place intended for AS11 PD, since there was a brighter beam available there.

10) We could then obtain reflections from ITMY, ITMX and PRM at the AS camera.

11) Problems:

a) ITMY osems need to be readjusted to make sure that they are in mid-range.  Several are out of range and so the damping is not effective.

b) When we tried to align SRC the yaw OSEM had to be pushed to its full range.  We therefore have to turn the SRM tower to get it back into range.

12)  We stopped here since moving the SRM is not something to be attempted at the end of a rather long day. Kiwamu is posting a plan for the rest of the day.

5243   Mon Aug 15 21:43:29 2011 Anamaria and KeikoSummaryLockingcentral part ifo locking project

REFL33 and REFL165 cables were connected from the AP table to the rack.  Cables on the rack for REFL33I, 33Q, 165I, 165Q ports were connected, too. Connections were confirmed by the data viewer. Two SMA cables which will be used for the two PDs on the AP tabl were built. We will be able to place the two PDs tomorrow. The beamsplitters to split the laser to REFL33 and REFL165 ports were mounted and ready to be placed.

5242   Mon Aug 15 17:38:07 2011 jamieUpdateGeneralFoil aperture placed in front of ETMY

We have placed a foil aperture in front of ETMY, to aid in aligning the Y-arm, and then the PRC.  It obviously needs to be removed before we close up.

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