Conclusion: There is no need to silver plate the SS plunger at the torque level we hold the OSEMs

Mike Gerfen will be done with 50 pieces by April 4 and he will give them to Bob for cleaning. They should be cleaned and baked in a jig so the springs would be compressed for better venting.

There's a beam dump after the HeNe on the BS oplev table, since the IPPOS measurement optics (steering mirrors) are in the way of the oplev beams. 

Don't enable the BS or PRM oplevs!!!!  We'll post a notice in the elog when the oplevs are back to normal. 

Self, remember to disable the oplevs manually if they come on with any restore scripts.

I tried to figure out what can add noise below 0.5 Hz to the MC_F. I compared MC1, MC2, MC3 suspos, suspit, susyaw and susside positions with damping (black curves) and without (red curves). Local damping is fine.

Then I compared MC1, MC2, MC3 suspos, suspit, susyaw and susside positions with WFS on (black curve) and off (red curve). WFS add noise to MC1 and MC3 measured by osems (MC2 is fine though). WFS should change osem readings but is it a correct way to do this below 0.5 Hz (?) It looks like just a flat noise. Need to think about the conclusion.

    WFS servo is moving the MC mirror angles to minimise TEM01 and TEM10 modes within the MC cavity.    This means it will compensate not only for angular noise in the mirrors but also for the PSL beam pointing fluctuations.  So the extra "noise" we see when WFS loops are on is because they are active below the WFS UGF of about 2 Hz.  Also if the HEPA airflow is above 20% (of its max), the PSL beam jitter (caused by the airflow) will add broadband noise into the WFS servo loops and this will show up in the OSEM signals.  See elog 5943 for details.

It's been a while since I think anyone has done it, and several optics were pretty far from centered, so I centered all of the oplevs except for SRM.

I am confident about my arm alignment, MICH and PRC (so BS, ITMX, ITMY, PRM, ETMX and ETMY), but I wasn't sure if I was getting SRC right, so I didn't touch the SRM's oplev.

Suresh removed all of the IPPOS measurement optics, so there was nothing blocking the BS and PRM oplevs.

However, the PRM oplev was ridiculously bad, and I don't know how long it's been that way.  Some of the optics shooting the beam into the chamber weren't optimally aligned, so the beam coming out of the chamber was hitting the lowest edge of the optic mount, for the first optic the beam encountered.  I adjusted the mirror launching the beam into the chamber by a teeny bit, so that the outcoming beam was ~horizontal and hitting the center of the first steering mirror in pitch.  I had to move that steering mirror a little to the right (if you are staring at the HR face of the mirror), to get the beam to come close to the horizontal center of the optic.  Then I proceeded to do normal oplev alignment.

Also, I've noticed lately that ITMX is noisier than all the other optics.  It's kind of annoying.  The sensor RMS values reported for the ITMX watchdogs for UL and LL are rarely below 2, and are often (~70% of the time?) above 3.  The SD RMS is a normal 1-ish.

[Jenne, MikeJ]

The ETMY oplev quad sum was ~0, so we went to investigate.  The power supply was dead.  Keying it on and off didn't fix things, and it was certainly getting power since the front indicator light was flickering.  We replaced it with a different power supply, and the oplev is back.

Also, the Y-green AUX laser was off, presumably from the power outage a while back.  I turned it back on.

EDIT JD:  The first power supply we used didn't work....the oplev was on for a few minutes, then went off again.  We switched to one of the new (still JDSU) power supplies from Edmund Optics, and it's been happily working for at least an hour now.

And has the temp controller of the green been recovered too? (Push enable button)

 Just now, yes.

[Jenne/Den/Koji]

We locked Xarm/Yarm and manually alignmed ITMX/ITMY/BS/ETMX/ETMY/PZT1/PZT2.

ITMY OPLEV was largely misaligned ==> The beam was centered on the QPD.

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Then we aligned PRM using SB locking PRMI.

We noticed that OPLEV servo does not work. It made the PRM just noiser.

We went into the PRM table and found that the OPLEV beam was clipped in the vacuum chamber.
We tried to maximize the reflected beam from the window by touching the steering mirrors at the injection side.

Then the reflected beam was introduced to the center of the QPD.

After the alignment, the OPLEV QPD SUM increased to 4000ish from 200ish.
According to the OPLEV trend data, this is a nominal value of the QPD SUM.

Now the OPLEV servo does not go crazy.

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BS OPLEV beam was centered on the QPD.

I'm still not super happy with the low power level of the ETMX oplev, so I went to investigate.

This is a 3-year plot.  The first ~year in the plot, the oplev sum is ~15000 cts, and in the most recent year, it's ~1000 cts.  A new HeNe was installed in May 2011 (elog 4686), with an output of 2.6mW, after the old one had died.  When the new one was installed, Steve said that it was giving ~1400 counts, so maybe 1000 isn't too, too embarrassing.  There is, however, a lens on the injection side, which is AR coated for 1064.  The power before this lens (measured with the Ophir, set to 632nm) was ~2.6mW.  The power after this lens was ~1.5mW.  Now THAT is embarrassing.  I'm adding replacing that lens to the to-do list (elog 6595), although I don't want to do it until such a time (maybe in an hour, maybe in a few days?) when I've got the Xarm locked / aligned, so I can nicely re-center the oplev.  UPDATE:  The lens is a KBC 037 (-100) lens, and the sticker on the lens mount says coated for 1064.  We don't have any KBC037's in the visible lens kits, so we need to get one before I can do this replacement (PURCHASED 10pm).

There is an elog (elog 5004) from July 2011, which mentions that these channels have not been saved for a long time, so that's why there's the year-long gap. 

Since Den wasn't able to fix c1sus (make it talk to the framebuilder) before he left a few hours ago, I decided to do some housekeeping rather than actual locking. 

I wrote new save / misalign / restore scripts for all of the suspended optics on the C1IFO_ALIGN screen.  Adding save / restore versions for the mode cleaner optics should be quick and easy.  Now when you use the ! button for each optic, it points you to the new scripts.  I still have the burt capabilities there, but the restore script has the burt-restore line commented out.

Functionality:

SAVE:  burt-save the PIT_COMM and YAW_COMM values, as well as write those values and the date to a text file.

MISALIGN:  Turn off oplevs, move 100 steps of 0.01 in the "+" direction.

RESTORE: Move ~100 steps toward the saved value, until you're within 0.001 of the saved value (step size is "saved val" minus "current val" divided by 100).  Then just write the saved value to the slider (otherwise if the slider were touched between the last "save" and the restore, we might not be able to step precisely to the value we want). Turn oplevs back on.

Scripts are in the same place the old ones used to live:  ...../caltech/c1/medm/c1ifo/cmd/   New scripts are C1IFO_OPTIC(save/restore/misalign)_soft.cmd

I'm checking this one off of the to-do list.

Good things:  (a) I remembered / re-learned / just plain learned a lot about scripting.  (b) the optics are now walked slowly over to their misaligned state, and slowly walked back.  The past regime had the optics suddenly kicked over by a lot, sometimes enough to trip / come close to tripping watchdogs, which was never good.

Bad things: it took a long time.  Now it's bedtime.

ETMY sus damping restored.

ETMX sus damping restored

Guralp 1  is on the south side of IOO chamber

 The typical sign of a dying gas laser is that it glows for a few minutes only. The power supplies are fine.

Two new  JDS - Uniphase 1103P lasers ( NT64-104 )  arriving on Monday, May 21

 The uncoated bi-concave lens was replaced by AR coated one: KBC 037 -100 AR.14 resulting 35% count increase on qpd

 Yesterday I swapped in new He/Ne laser with output power 3.5 mW  The return spot on qpd is large ~6mm in diameter and 20,500 counts

The spot size reduction require similar layout as ETMX oplev.

I've terminated input to AA filters and measured signal to coils C1:SUS-MC3_??COIL_OUT.

I compared this noise to the signal when OSEM are connected to ADC.

I made BNC -> LEMO board such that all LEMOs have the same signal equal to BNC signal. I provided excitation of 50 mV as white noise to the input of the AA filter and measured coherence between excitation and MC3 coil driver. The path is

AA -> ICS 110 -> Pentium -> Pentek -> AI -> Univ Dewhitening -> Coil Driver

As all inputs have the same signal, matrices that recombine the signals should not affect coherence. But what I got for coherence between AA IN / Dewhitening OUT is

AA IN -> COIL DRIVER IN transfer function for MC3

I've provided excitation to the AA input, the same for all OSEM channels. In the digital domain coherence between C1:SUS-MC3_ULSEN_INMON / C1:SUS-MC3_ULCOIL_INMON and other channels OSEM -> COIL is 1 starting from 0.1Hz.

The only thing left to understand is why the coherence AA IN / COIL DRIVER IN measured in the analog domain is not 1 in the frequency range 0.1 - 1 Hz. It does not look like just SRS noise. I've connected Ch 1 and 2 to the source, coherence is close to 1.

 The oplev path is relayed and the spot size on the qpd is reduced. I still have to clean up and replace "Miki Mouse" lens holder.

There was no IP-ANG coming out of the chamber at this time!

 Flipped the sign on the ETMY oplev servo gain, since it was wrong.  (It was "-" for both, now it is "+" for both)

For some reason the state of the oplevs is completely different for almost every suspension.  They have different sets of filters in the bank, and different filters engaged.  wtf?  How did this happen?  Is this correct?  Do we expect that the state of the oplevs should be different on all the different suspensions?  I wouldn't have thought so.

I discovered this because the PRM is unstable with the oplevs engaged.  I don't think it was yesterday.  Is something hidden changing the oplev settings?

 As of February 23, 2012 when oplev PIT and YAW transfer functions were taken

 Its a good question, but the answer is yes. At some level all of the OL servos should be different to handle the different mechanical resonances of the suspension as well as the optical table's acoustic noise and the different noise requirements for the difference optical cavities.

However, it would be better to have the same basic structure and then one or two customization filters.

What not to do:

The PRM oplev servo was left on and it was driving this oscillation overnight.

 Oplev servo turned off and sus damping restored. What is kicking up the PRM?

 Late entry for Monday morning June 4, 2012

Cables were stress relieved. Cable entry - exit ports enlarged. Air gaps were minimized.

 The PRM oscillation stopped by turnig off oplev servo.

Do not turn Oplev Servo on when PRM is missaligned !

  Set the PRM OL servo gains to zero until someone can take care of this. Turning off the buttons doesn't help anything if people run the alignment scripts.

Done.

C1:SUS-PRM_OLPIT_GAIN 1.0 -> 0
C1:SUS-PRM_OLYAW_GAIN -0.7 -> 0
 

PRM oplev beam was not hitting on the QPD since Jun 1, so I centered it. I reverted the oplev servo gains and now oplev servo looks fine.

C1:SUS-PRM_OLPIT_GAIN = 1.0
C1:SUS-PRM_OLYAW_GAIN = -0.7

There's SIDE to UL/UR/LL/LR coil element in PRM TO_COIL matrix. They were 0 until Mar 31, 2012, but someone changed them to -0.160. I couldn't find elog about it.
Same thing happened to BS on Mar 13, 2012 (see elog #6409), so I think somebody did the same thing to PRM.

Yuta claims he fixed the PRM oplev by centering it the other day, but no one has left it on and watched it for a long while, to make sure it's okay.  We watched it now for ~2 min, and it was good, but we're leaving the oplevs off anyway for the night.  Tomorrow we should restore PRM (it's currently restored), turn on the oplevs, and let it sit to make sure it doesn't go crazy.

 PRM oplev servo was turned on with PITgain 0.5  and YAWgain  -0.7

Note: gain settings were PIT  1.0  and  YAW --0.5   on Jun 1, 2012 that I measured Feb 23, 2012

 It is still oscillating. Gains turned down to zero.

The MC_ IDC 64 pin cables from sat. amplifiers to junction-interface-board towards  whitening - dewhitening at the back of rack 1 X 5 are finally  clamped with

All other sus cables of the same kind have the correct short latch arm to lock them in for reliable contact.

I centetered PRM oplev, lowered gain and PRM oplev servo is not oscillating any more.
It is OK for more than a softball practice.

C1:SUS-PRM_OLPIT_GAIN = 0.15  (was 0.5)
C1:SUS-PRM_OLYAW_GAIN = -0.3  (was 0.7)

Openloop transfer function:
  Oplev Pitch: gain ~ 12 at 0.69 Hz resonance
  Oplev Yaw: gain ~ 18 at 0.83 Hz resonance


  I adjusted the gain so that oplev damps resonance as much as possible, but not introduce additional noise. I did no calculation, but just measured OSEM spectra (SUSPIT and SUSYAW). Below, you can see the noise reduces at resonance when oplev servo is on, and not increasing at other frequencies. It was introducing noise before. Someone should do more systematic adjustment of oplev servos for all the optics.


 

Below is angular spectra of every suspended core optics.
As you can see, there's a peak at 3.3 Hz for BS and PRM angular motion. Compared with other optics, they look large.

I briefly checked suspension filters and found that BounceRoll filters and f2a filters are not turned on for BS.
I checked elog and there was no reason for them to be off, so I turned them on. It didn't change angular spectra very much, though.

I'm going to check BS suspension damping and see where 3.3 Hz peak comes from.

Note that oplev quadrant sums are different for every optics, so we can't simply compare angular motion between optics from OLPIT/OLYAW. But for OSEMs, there are "cnt2um" which calibrate sensor outputs into um. and input matrix should be normalized, so we can compare SUSPIT/SUSYAW with other optics.

I centered all oplevs to do this measurement.
Quadrant sum (C1:SUS-XXX_OLSUM) for each optic now is

ITMX   ITMY   ETMX   ETMY     BS    PRM    SRM
2456  14630   1476  14885   3650   4302   2937   (counts)


  

I heard that Steve did great work on oplev in Feb 2012.
Here's summary what happened to oplev since then.
Someone changed oplev filters and gain. I couldn't find elog about it. Does anyone know?

Quadrant sum:
  Quadrant sum (C1:SUS-XXX_OLSUM) for each optic now and in Feb 2012 is

  ITMX   ITMY   ETMX   ETMY     BS    PRM    SRM
  2456  14630   1476  14885   3650   4302   2937   counts (now)
  1300  14500    900   9000   3500   4000   2600   counts (Feb 6, 2012 elog #6256)
 0.025  0.3    0.2    0.2    0.05   0.06   0.04    mW on QPD (Feb 6, 2012 elog #6256)
  1350  15000   1500  15500   3500   4000   2600   counts (Feb 23, 2012 elog #6744)

  ETMX oplev laser was replaced on May 22, 2012, and quadrant sum was 20500 counts at that time (elog #6656).


Oplev servo openloop transfer functions:
  In Feb 2012, gains were adjusted and filter settings are recorded by Steve.
  For all pitch OLTF, see elog #6309.
  For all yaw OLTF, see elog #6323.

  All the filters in Feb is listed in elog #6744.
  Filters now are messed up, as Jamie pointed out in elog #6743.
  Below is the current filter settings.

  I turned ELP and RLP filters on, which wasn't on to cut-off noises at higher frequencies.
  I left resonant gains of ETMs because I don't know what they are for.
  I put ELP35 for ITMs, BS, PRM and SRM. I put RLP80 for BS, PRM and SRM.
  I will leave ELP35 off for BS and SRM because they oscillate currently. ELP50 and ELP40 is on for a substitution. I will readjust them soon.

  I don't know who changed all gains (except for PRM, which I adjusted in elog #6952). It doen't look like it is because of change in quadrant sum.
  I also don't know who deleted 3.3 Hz resonant gain for BS.

  I put all similar filters in same place to make it organized. Now, basic fitlers are organized. We may need some resonant gains for each optics.

I tried to reduce BS 3.3 Hz motion with local damping. 3.3 Hz probably comes from the stack, but I want to reduce this because PRMI beam spot is moving in this frequency.
I tried it by putting some resonant gains to oplev servo and OSEM damping servo, but failed.

What I learned:
  1. BS OSEM input matrix diagonalization looks impressively good. Below is the spectra of oplev pitch/yaw and OSEM pos/pit/yaw/side comparing with and without damping (REF is without). You can see mechanical resonances are well separated. Also, damping servos don't look like they are adding noise at 3.3 Hz.


  2. 3.3 Hz motion is not stationary. Amplitude is sometimes high, but sometimes low. Amplitude changes in few seconds. You can even see 3.3 Hz in the dataviewer, too.

  3. I set new oplev gains. I lowered them so that UGFs will be ~ 2.5 Hz. I turned ELP35 on.

C1:SUS-BS_OLPIT_GAIN = 0.2 (was 0.6)
C1:SUS-BS_OLPIT_GAIN = -0.2 (was -0.6)

  4. All OSEM sensors feel about the same amount of 3.3 Hz motion.

  5. OLPIT and OLYAW reduces if you put 3.3 Hz resonant gain to oplev servo, but it is maybe not true since they are in-loop error signals. You can't see the difference from OSEM sensors. Below is oplev pitch/yaw and OSEM pos/pit/yaw/side comparing with and without 3.3 Hz resonant gain (REF is without).

I measured openloop transfer functions of PRM/BS/ITMX/ITMY SUSPOS servo.
They look great. They all have ~50 deg phase margin and damps only POS resonance.

Somehow we got an excitation going on BS OpLevs, and even though Yuta thought he might have accidentally started it, he couldn't find where, so we couldn't stop it.

Since we don't have anything written on the wiki, I ended up calling Joe to remind me how to clear test points:

controls@allegra:~ 0$ diag -l -z
diag> tp clear * *
test point cleared
diag> awg clear 21.*
reset succeeded

The tp clear clears all test points everywhere.  The awg clear wouldn't let me do a universal clear, so I just did #21, which is the SUS model.  So if you want to kill excitations on a specific model, you must find it's DCU ID (it's in the top right corner of the GDS status screens for each model). 

I have added a DQ block to the sus_single_control library part.  This means that all sus models will automatically generate DQ channels based on what is specified in this doc block:

#DAQ Channels

SUSPOS_IN1
SUSPIT_IN1
SUSYAW_IN1
SUSSIDE_IN1
ULSEN_OUT
URSEN_OUT
LRSEN_OUT
LLSEN_OUT
SDSEN_OUT
OLPIT_IN1
OLYAW_IN1
OLSUM_IN1

So for instance, for BS will have the following DQ channels:

C1:SUS-BS_SUSPOS_IN1_DQ
C1:SUS-BS_SUSPIT_IN1_DQ
...

etc.  The channels names modified by the activateDQ.py script after install are still modified appropriately.

This is now the place where we should be maintaining DQ channels.

SOS optics prepared to be hanged are moved from the South Flow Bench to S15 Clean Cabinet.

SRMU 03 (1-25-2010) specification summery E080460-05-D,  older vintage SRM 01 and PRM 02 (need more specification)

There was one  NOT MARKED SOS with two broken magnets on its face. This is labeled ???

This was done to prepare clean space for TIP-TILT drive- test set up.

The existing cable from 1X5 can reach only to the south end:  from whitening filter to satelite amp.  This will be good for future test of suspensions.

We need to make new cable from 1 X 1 to the south end = 40m long

 While I'm not sure what specific optic this is, I think it's an older optic.  (a) All of the new optics we got from Ramin were enscribed with their #.  (b) This optic appears to have a short arrow scribe line (about the length of the guiderod), and then no scribe line (that I could see through the glass dish) on the other side.  The new optics all have a long arrow scribe line, ~1/2 the full width of the optic, and have clear scribe lines on the opposite side.

 Earthquake test our suspensions            PRM damping restored.             Oplev servo gains turned to zero.

The SRM oplev beam is clipping.

The PRM was pointing totally the wrong way, so there was no light on the oplev PD.  I restored the PRM, turned the gains back to (0.15, -0.3) as per Yuta's elog 6952, and it seems just fine to me.

I want to check the data from last night / the weekend to see when the mispointing happened, but dataviewer can't connect to the fb, since Jamie is still working his magic.  I'm pretty sure I restored all of the optics after Eric finished playing with MICH Friday night, but it's possible that I forgot one, I suppose.  If it wasn't me, then I'm curious when it happened.

 Sanwiched wall as shown: 1" clear acrylic, 2 layers of 0.004" thick "window tint", 1 layer of  0.007" thermashield and  0.125" yellow acrylic

Visibility: 70 %,    Transmission of 1064 nm  2-3 % at 0-50 degrees incident  power density 0.7 W/mm2

Max power 100 mW

 Good. The power density and max power are not important (especially since you don't define a quantitative way to spec them). We ONLY care about the transmission.

Simplant for ETMX was left on, so I didn't have control of ETMX.  Not cool.  The IFO should be left in it's 'regular' state (all optics restored to saved alignments, no simplant, LSC/ALS/ASS loops off) if you're not actively working on it.

What this did point out, however, is that we need a big ol' indicator on the IFO_ALIGN / LSC / Watchdog / Overview screens to indicate that simplant is on for a particular optic, or whatever simplant might be controlling that takes away 'regular' control.  I probably would have continued being frustrated and confused for a lot longer if Eric didn't mention that simplant could have been left on.  Thanks Eric!

Symptoms, which perhaps would have eventually pointed me to simplant, were that there was some weird moving beam on the AS camera that was flashing fabry-perot fringes, and the POX signal looked like junk. After some looking around, I noticed that ETMX, while it claimed to have all the damping loops on, and the oplev on, was swinging a lot (rms levels of 4 - 7, rather than the usual < 2 ).  I said something out loud, and Eric suggested looking at Simplant.  After putting Simplant back to Reality, things are back to normal.