ELOG 40m

Changes to Dataviewer channels (XARM)

1) Good news. I added a chanel "C1:SUS-ETMX_POS" to Dataviewer.

I followed the instructions from WIKI-40:

modify the file "C1SUS_EX.ini" in /cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq,
then telnet to fb40m,
then "click the appropriate blue button on the DAQ MEDM screen".

So, I can now read a signal from the channel "C1:SUS-ETMX_POS" in Dataviewer,

and this allows me to measure Q-factors of ETMX this evening (make similar work for what I did on Tuesday for ITMX).

2) BAD NEWS. While "clicking the appropriate blue button" on the DAQ MEDM screen,
namely CODAQ_DETAIL,adl screen, I obviously clicked some blue button that I should not have clicked,
and as a result the signal in Dataviewer from the channel "C1:SUS-ITMX_POS" has disappeared (it is now a straight line).

Description of what has happened and of my wrong actions:
I had two channels opened in Dataviewer simultaneously (both "C1:SUS-ETMX_POS" and "C1:SUS-ITMX_POS"),
and after clicking some blue button on CODAQ_DETAIL,adl screen, the signal from "C1:SUS-ITMX_POS" became
a straight line, while signal from "C1:SUS_ETMX_POS" continued to be a random noise.

I was scared that I made worse for the channels and for Dataviewer, and I started clicking random blue buttons chaotically hoping that it will restore the signal from "C1:SUS-ITMX_POS". Random clicking on arbitrary blue buttons did not return the signal.

As the channel "C1:SUS-ETMX_POS" works normally, I will be measuring Q-factors of ETMX tonight,
but it is obvious that someone else (Rana, Robert,Steve?) needs to restore the correct settings for "C1:SUS-ITMX_POS".

Moreover, as I was clicking chaotically all the blue buttons on CODAQ_DETAIL,adl screen, someone else (Rana, Robert, Steve?) will need to check somehow that I did not destroy signals from some other channels.

I apologize for the negative consequences of my channel adding,

but Rana asked me in the very beginning in September to let others know if I spoil something, so that others would be aware of it and could fix the problem.

Again, I apologize and hope that the problem is not very serious.

265

Fri Jan 25 10:14:35 2008

Changes to Dataviewer channels (XARM)

Quote:

2) BAD NEWS. While "clicking the appropriate blue button" on the DAQ MEDM screen,
namely CODAQ_DETAIL,adl screen, I obviously clicked some blue button that I should not have clicked,
and as a result the signal in Dataviewer from the channel "C1:SUS-ITMX_POS" has disappeared (it is now a straight line).

Description of what has happened and of my wrong actions:
I had two channels opened in Dataviewer simultaneously (both "C1:SUS-ETMX_POS" and "C1:SUS-ITMX_POS"),
and after clicking some blue button on CODAQ_DETAIL,adl screen, the signal from "C1:SUS-ITMX_POS" became
a straight line, while signal from "C1:SUS_ETMX_POS" continued to be a random noise.

I was scared that I made worse for the channels and for Dataviewer, and I started clicking random blue buttons chaotically hoping that it will restore the signal from "C1:SUS-ITMX_POS". Random clicking on arbitrary blue buttons did not return the signal.

As the channel "C1:SUS-ETMX_POS" works normally, I will be measuring Q-factors of ETMX tonight,
but it is obvious that someone else (Rana, Robert,Steve?) needs to restore the correct settings for "C1:SUS-ITMX_POS".

Moreover, as I was clicking chaotically all the blue buttons on CODAQ_DETAIL,adl screen, someone else (Rana, Robert, Steve?) will need to check somehow that I did not destroy signals from some other channels.

I apologize for the negative consequences of my channel adding,

but Rana asked me in the very beginning in September to let others know if I spoil something, so that others would be aware of it and could fix the problem.

I eventually resolved the situation by restarting the c1susvme1 processor, which had somehow got confused by the clicking random blue buttons chaotically. The data acquisition should be working again.

286

Wed Jan 30 13:09:55 2008

New results for XARM (pdf)

See attachments: pdf-presentation with plots in "true" axes Q_ETMX and Q_ITMX, and seismic backgound measurement.

Results that were shown a week ago turned out to be not sad at all!

Attachment 1: New_Results_XARM.pdf

Attachment 2: Accel-Seismic_10AM.pdf

305

Sat Feb 9 13:32:07 2008

John

All watchdogs tripped

When I arrived this afternoon the watchdogs had tripped on all optics. I reset them and enabled the coil currents.

I had to adjust the alignment of the mode cleaner to get it to lock.

306

Sun Feb 10 20:47:01 2008

Alan

All watchdogs tripped

A moderate earthquake occurred at 11:12:06 PM (PST) on Friday, February 8, 2008.
The magnitude 5.1 event occurred 21 km (13 miles) NW of Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci14346868.html

323

Tue Feb 19 15:21:47 2008

Earthquake tripped watchdogs in ETMY, ITMY

According to the web-page http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci14351140.php ,

there was a 5.0 earthquake in northern Baja California in Mexico at 02.41PM earlier today.

This earthquake made an effect on our watchdogs for ETMY and ITMY (their currents exceeded maximal values).
Watchdogs for ITMY are now restored back,
and it is taking more time for a "side degree" for ETMY to calm down,
it is still (40 minutes after the kick) swinging a lot with amplitude ~ 200mV.

404

Wed Mar 26 13:41:53 2008

HowTo

Modification of ''C1DRIFT_MONITOR''

I learned how to modify the drift-monitor in MEDM so that values on it change colors from green to yellow to red depending how much is the fluctuatioin (deviation) of the value from its mean nominal value.

In order to do this, I used the following eight commands:

tdswrite CHANNEL_NAME.HIHI VALUE
tdswrite CHANNEL_NAME.HIGH VALUE
tdswrite CHANNEL_NAME.LOW VALUE
tdswrite CHANNEL_NAME.LOLO VALUE
tdswrite CHANNEL_NAME.HHSV 2
tdswrite CHANNEL_NAME HSV 1
tdswrite CHANNEL_NAME LSV 1
tdswrite CHANNEL_NAME LLSV 2

where CHANNEL_MAME is the name of the channel the value of which is indicated on the MEDM screen C1DRIFT_MONITOR, for example
C1:SUS-MC1_SUSPOS_INMON, and VALUE is numerical value that I assigned to the channel parameters.

By now I modified nine mode-cleaner channels (POS, PITCH and YAW channels for MC1, MC2 and MC3) and 6 channels for ITMX and ITMY.

Note that as we have problems this week with computer C1SUSVM, namely ''c1susvme2'' is not working, indicators for MC2 in the drift-monitor do not change colors today although they should.

In order to judge which values should be established as reasonable deviations from the average nominal values, I was looking into Dataviewer trends for the channels that are in the drift-monitor.

In the future indicators for channels ETMX and ETMY, BS, PRM, SRM should be modified in complete analogy with what I did already for MC and for ITM. So, I have modified 3*5 = 15 channels, and 3*5 = 15 channels are left for the future.

Note that (as far as I understand) instead of commands "tdswrite" it is absolutely legitimate to use commands "ezcawrite".

425

Fri Apr 18 16:02:58 2008

alex

end station sus front-end bug fix

installed and started new susEtmx.o and susEtmy.o to fix a problem with ETMY optical lever variables.

426

Fri Apr 18 16:27:04 2008

end station sus front-end bug fix

Quote:

installed and started new susEtmx.o and susEtmy.o to fix a problem with ETMY optical lever variables.

But where is the code?

431

Sun Apr 20 23:39:57 2008

MC1 electronics busted

I spent some time trying to fix the utter programming fiasco which was our MCWFS diagonalization script.

However, it still didn't work. Loops unstable. Using the matrix in the screen snapshot is OK, however.

Finally, I realized from looking at the imaginary part of the output matrix that there was something
wrong with the MC1 drive. The attached JPG shows TFs from pit-drives of the MC mirrors to WFS1.

MC1 & MC3 are supposed to have 28 elliptic low pass filters in hardware for dewhitening. The MC2
hardware is different and so we have given it a software 28 Hz ELP to compensate. But it looks like
MC1 doesn't have the low pass (no phase lag). I tried switching its COIL FM10 filters to make it
switch but no luck.

We'll have to engage the filters to make the McWFS work right and to get the MC noise down. This
needs someone to go check out the hardware I think.

I have turned the gain way down and this has stabilized the MC REFL signal as you can see from the StripTool screen.

Attachment 1: mcwfs.jpg

435

Tue Apr 22 10:59:24 2008

MC1 electronics busted

Quote:

This was just because the XYCOM was set to switch the "dewhites" based on FM9 rather than FM10. To check whether the hardware ellipDW filters were engaged, I drove MC1 & MC3 in position (using the MCL bank), and looked at the transfer functions MC2_MCL/MC1_MCL and MC2_MCL/MC3_MCL. This method uses the mode cleaner length servo to enable a relatively clear transfer function measurement of the ellipDW, modulo the loop gain of MCL and the fact that it's really hard to measure an ELP cascaded with a suspension. The hardware and the switching appear to be working fine.

It's now set up such that the hardware is ENGAGED when the coil FM10 filters are OFF, and I deleted all the FM10 filters from the coils of MC1 and MC3. Since we don't switch these filters on and off regularly, I see no need to waste precious SUS processor power on filters that just calculate "1".

436

Tue Apr 22 16:17:48 2008

end station sus front-end bug fix

Quote:

installed and started new susEtmx.o and susEtmy.o to fix a problem with ETMY optical lever variables.

What Alex means is that the EPICS values for the ETMY optical levers were being clobbered in the RFM. The calculations were being done correctly in the FE, so the DAQ/testpoints were working--it was just the EPICS/RFM communication via c1losepics that was bugged. This was a result of the recent SUS code changes to accept inputs from the ASS for adaptive feedforward.

462

Thu May 1 08:31:51 2008

earthquake trips etmy & mc1

Earthquake at Lake Isabel magnitude 4.4 at 1am today shakes the 40m
ETMY and MC1 watchdogs tripped.
Sus damping restored.

472

Fri May 9 08:40:24 2008

ETMY sus damping restored

ETMY lost damping at 19:10 last night.
There was no seismic event than.
Sus damping was restored this morning.

474

Tue May 13 10:15:52 2008

restored damping of BS & PRM

I think our janitor was cleaning too heavy handedly.
The BS and PRM sus damping were lost.
They were restored.

485

Sun May 18 18:44:48 2008

Optical Lever SUM Trend - 80 days

I used the OL-Trend.xml dataviewer template to make this plot. Looks like the ETMY optical lever
slowly degraded over the last few months and then finally died 10 days ago. Would someone please
replace this laser and tune the lens position to minimize the spot size on the quad?

Attachment 1: e.pdf

487

Mon May 19 11:49:57 2008

etmy oplev laser replaced

The 9 years old Uniphase HeNe was replaced by a new JDSU 1103P
Power output ~3.5 mW, reflected light back on qpd ~140 microW, 12,800 counts
Andrey will get the ~2.5 mm od spot on the qpd smaller by replacing
the f1000 lens

499

Sun May 25 22:33:00 2008

I found the ETMY table in disarray and put the panels back on and put the ETMY OL laser back on the quad.

The next thing to do is clean up the table (there's a lot of junk on it) and then put in a lens within
6" of the laser to focus the beam on the quad (no metal diving boards and the lens should be either
uncoated (from our Edmunds collection) or a red lens, not 1064).

Then we have to put the beam cover back on between the viewport and the table.

504

Thu May 29 16:32:09 2008

I relayed the optics for ETMY-oplev as shown in pictures below.
The reflected beam goes directly to the qpd

Attachment 1: P1020417.png

Attachment 2: P1020420.png

507

Fri May 30 12:37:45 2008

Quote:

I relayed the optics for ETMY-oplev as shown in pictures below.
The reflected beam goes directly to the qpd

I turned on the servo. UGFs in PIT and YAW are ~3Hz. I had to flip the sign of the YAW.

629

Thu Jul 3 12:36:05 2008

ETMY watchdog was tripped. I turned it off and re-enabled the outputs.

676

Tue Jul 15 19:15:57 2008

ETMX Dewhitening characterization

Since the boys found that the ETM dewhitening transient was kicking the IFO out of lock we
decided to investigate.

First, we wrote a script to diagnose and then tune the DC gain of the dewhitening filters'
digital compensation filter (a.k.a. FM9 or SimDW). It is in the scripts/SUS/ directory
and is called dwgaintuner. It puts in an offset on each coil's DAC channel and
then reads back the Vmon on the coil driver with the DWF on and off. It reports the ratio of these
voltages which you can then type into the FM9/SimDW filter's gain field. We learned that the
difference between the analog DWF path and the bypass path was ~3% (which is consistent with
what you expect from the use of 1% resistors). We need to repeat this for all of the rest of
the suspended optics except for MC1 and MC3.

This Vmon method is better than what's used at the sites so we will export this new technology.

The attached plot shows some switching transients with only the local damping on:

BLUE:   Output of filter bank during an FM9 turn off. This is the transient which goes to the DAC.
        The transients are mostly of the same magnitude as this.
RED:    This is the input of the filter module during another such transient.
GREEN:  Tried another switch; this time I filtered the time series in DTT by typing the SimDW into
        the Triggered Time Series filter field. This should be simulating what comes out of the
        output of the DW board - to convert to volts multiply by 15/32768.
PURPLE: Same kind of filtering as the GREEN, but with also a double 30 Hz highpass to remove the low
        frequency damping control signals. You can see that the total transient is only ~5 counts
        or ~1 mV at the coil driver output. This is comparable to the relative offset in the bypass
        and filter paths.

Attachment 1: etmx-dw-transient.pdf

755

Tue Jul 29 13:54:08 2008

ETMY and PRM have EQ related problems

The attached trend shows that ETMY and PRM both had large steps in their sensors
around the time of the EQ and didn't return afterwards. The calibration of the
OSEM sensors is ~0.5 mm/V. The PRM sensors respond when we give it huge biases
but there is very little change in the ETMY. Almost certainly true that the
optics have shifted in their wire slings and that we will have to vent to
examine and repair at least ETMY.

Jenne is looking at the spectra of the other suspensions to see if there is
other more subtle issues.

Attachment 1: Untitled.png

756

Tue Jul 29 14:38:02 2008

ETMY and PRM have EQ related problems

Quote:

Some additional notes/update:

ETMY, PRM, & MC2 had OSEM signals at a rail (indicating stuck optics). Driving the optics with full scale DAC output freed ETMY and MC2, so while these may have shifted in their slings it may be possible to avoid a repair vent. PRM is still stuck. One OSEM appears to respond with full range to large drives, but the other three face OSEMS remain disturbingly near the rail (HIGH, which is what would happen if a magnet fell off).

759

Tue Jul 29 19:53:19 2008

Koji

PRM photos from the south window

Steve and Koji

We took some photos of PRM from the south window.
You can see one of the side magnets, a wire stand-off, and the wire itself from the round hole.
So, the wire looks OK.

For the coils, we could see only one coil. The magnet is apparently too high.

Attachment 1: PRM_from_South_Window1.jpg

Attachment 2: PRM_from_South_Window2.jpg

762

Wed Jul 30 00:42:04 2008

Trends and file formats

I propose that we do not use .eps format but .pdf instead. For images like the plots Sharon
has below we should use only .png and for pictures like what Steve posted, use JPG or PNG.

PDF is a standard and light weight. PNG is very good for plots/lines and is lossless. JPG does
a good job with regular camera pictures because we don't really care about the compression
loss on those.

Here's a trend of the UL sensors for all the optics - conversion is 32768 cts / mm. You can see
that the quake was just before 19:00 UTC (noon our time). The events an hour after are when
Rob, Jenne, and I start exciting the optics to shake them loose - wanging the pit/yaw sliders
around is not violent enough and so I injected a 130000 count sine wave at 0.5 Hz so as to
create a high force square wave. This seems to have worked for ETMY but no such luck yet with
the others.

Attachment 1: Untitled.png

763

Wed Jul 30 01:08:50 2008

This is a snap of the SUS Drift screen with all of the optics biases set back to their nominal
values except for the MC which Rob aligned and I didn't feel like mis-aligning. The reference
on the screen is from 3/25 when Andrey felt that Rob had a good IFO alignment.

Anything more than a few thousand is significant and more than 10k means something is wrong:

I wailed on the PRM for awhile and was able to loosen it up a little. The LL & LR sensors now
show some life one the dataviewer. The UL & UR are still railed ~1.6 V so that means that the
optic is pitched back. With aggressive pitch wailing I can see the PRM's ULR/UR sensors go
rail to rail so that means that the magnets are still on - although they may be half busted.
If they're OK we should be able to just re-sling this guy.

Did the same on SRM. The OSEM values have shifted on these, but not disastorously. The SIDE,
however, is completely unresponsive. The little signal I see when driving is is probably just
capacitive pickup in the cables. Have to vent to fix this one.

ITMX Has good life in all but the LR & UR channels. They respond, but the signal is very weak.
Seems like these magnets have not fallen off but that they are not between the LED/PD anymore.

ITMY seems ok. Check the spectra to be sure.

BS seems ok as well. Swings freely and no kinks in the swinging sensor waveforms. Check the spectra.

Attachment 1: infection-2.png

773

Wed Jul 30 18:45:01 2008

New SUS Drift Technology

I updated the SUS DRIFT screen again, this time with a new feature.

I used Rolf's idea for the AdvLIGO status system and just made the nominals be an
unused sub-field (.SVAL) of the main INMON record. Then I wrote a .csh script to
use tdsavg to average the current INMON vals and insert that as the .SVAL. The next
script should read the .SVAL and set the HIHI and LOLO based on this.

Of course, the values I have just entered are no good because our suspensions are in
a bad state but we can run this script (SUS/setDriftNoms) next time things are good.

And...even better would be if someone were to do the same but used mDV to grab the
minute trend in the past good times instead of the tdsavg (which can't go in the past).

785

Sat Aug 2 18:37:41 2008

The attached PDF file is from the .xml files that I found from 7/30. Looks like someone
took some free swinging data and even made nice plots but didn't elog it. Raspberry for you.
The data files are saved in Templates/FreeSwinging/{ETMX,ETMY,etc.}/2008_07_30.xml

The top left plot on the multi-page file all have the same scale so you can see what's happened.
The peaks should all be as measured by Busby in Sep '06
but instead they are as you see here.

Attachment 1: free_080730.pdf

797

Tue Aug 5 10:23:00 2008

earthquake and venting effects

atm 1, EQ
atm 2, vent 7 days later: venting kicks optic into place to be free,
PRM: LR magnet gets pushed in and it is stocked, side in free

Attachment 1: eq4h.jpg

Attachment 2: vent4hr.jpg

799

Tue Aug 5 12:52:28 2008

ITMX, SRM OSEM spectra

Free swinging spectra of ITMX and SRM.
ITMX seems to be ok after yesterday's work, though the OSEM DC values are still a bit off from the normal value of 0.9.
(ITMX OSEM values: UL=1.12, UR=1.38, LR=0.66, LL=0.41, SIDE=0.66)
SRM is still clearly wrong.

Attachment 1: ITMX-2008_08_05-morning.pdf

Attachment 2: SRM-2008_08_05-morning.pdf

803

Wed Aug 6 13:15:57 2008

SRM ETMX freeswing spectra

After yesterday's work on the SRM, I took free swinging spectra of SRM.
The eigen modes look ok. But there are many other peaks which were not present in vacuum.
Some of those peaks may be resonances of the air inside the chambers and the pipes.
However, the peaks around 0.2Hz are too low frequency for those air compression modes.
I took the ETMX spectra at roughly the same time. I chose ETMX because we have not touched it after the vent.
ETMX also shows some extra peaks but the frequencies are different.

Attachment 1: SRM-ETMX-freeswing.pdf

806

Wed Aug 6 22:19:07 2008

Koji, Yoichi

We realized that we did not pay attention to the BS alignment while working on the alignment of the ITMX today. Because we were injecting the ALM laser (absolute length measurement laser) from the AS port, the ITMX alignment depends on the BS alignment.
The BS optical lever was not centered and the sum was about 2000cnt, which is low compared, for example, to the SRM oplev.
So we were not sure if the BS was in a good alignment or not.
So we decided to move the BS to center the QPD.
In doing so, we also moved the ITMX so that we do not lose the ALM laser beam coming back to the AS port.
When the BS oplev was centered, the sum of the QPD was still about 2000. So it was not far off centered.
After the tweaking, we were able to see some interference between the light reflected by the ITMY and ITMX at the AS port (actually this is the bright port for the ALM laser). By tweaking the ITMY, we were able to see Michelson fringes at the AS port.
If we believe the ALM laser alignment is still good after the vent, the ITMX, ITMY, BS and SRM should be now in a good alignment condition.
The OSEM values for the ITMX, BS, SRM seem to be ok (0.9+/-0.2). The ITMY LL is a bit low (~ 0.45).

807

Thu Aug 7 10:07:13 2008

Free swinging OSEM spectra

Looks like there are more extra peaks in the SRM than other optics.
Maybe because it is closer to the door ?

Attachment 1: FreeSwingSpectra.pdf

808

Thu Aug 7 10:27:59 2008

Free swinging OSEM spectra

Sometimes we see extra peaks in the OSEM spectra coming from a beat between the regular eigenmodes.
This probably comes from the OSEM shadow sensor not being entirely linear - the nonlinearity is
greatly increased if the magnet is not perfectly centered in the LED beam. So the beats are
probably there at some level in all of them; usually below the noise.

810

Thu Aug 7 12:20:52 2008

PRM stand-offs and wire

We removed the side OSEM of the PRM so that we can see the stand-off on the farther side.

Attachment 1: Farther side stand-off from an angle before removing the OSEM
Attachment 2: Farther side stand-off through the empty OSEM hole.
Attachment 3: Near side stand-off

The wire is definitely in the near side stand-off groove.
Probably the wire is in the groove also on the farther side.

Attachment 1: IMG_1456.JPG

Attachment 2: IMG_1478.JPG

Attachment 3: IMG_1470.JPG

811

Thu Aug 7 17:32:23 2008

Afternoon PRM activities

Rana, Jenne, Yoichi, Dmass

After Yoichi confirmed this morning that the wire was in both grooves, Rana attempted to lift the PRM a tiny bit, and twist it around (very gently of course) to see if we could make the wire slip back to its nominal position underneath the optic. On the first attempt, the wire ended up slipping the wrong way, causing slightly more tilt. On another attempt, the wire came out of the groove nearest the chamber door by about 0.5mm. We got the wire back in the groove by slightly lifting the optic, and pushing the wire back in. Then, on further attempts at making the wire slip back to its nominal position, the wire came out of the groove farthest from the chamber door. It is very difficult to get at that side of the PRM, because the table is crowded, and it is on the far side of the optical table from the chamber door. We decided to pull the PRM out of the chamber. Rana clamped the mirror into its cage using the earthquake stops and removed the OSEMS, and then we pulled the mirror out. We put it on a cart that was covered with foil and had a little foil house for the optic cage. We rolled the mirror+cage over to the flow bench at the end of the y-arm.

We saw that the wire is no longer even on the standoff (~3mm away from the groove) on the side that was farthest from the chamber door.

Since we have not confirmed that we have spare wire and spare magnets (and due to the time of day), we have decided to cover the cage with some foil, while it is sitting on the flow bench, and we'll fix the wire in the morning.

816

Fri Aug 8 13:29:54 2008

No groove in the stand-off ... wait, it is not even a stand-off !

Yoichi, Steve, Seiji

We took magnified pictures of the stand-offs of the PRM.
Attm1: North side stand-off.
Attm2: South side stand-off.
Attm3: Zipped file of the full pictures.

We found no groove in the south side stand-off.
After some discussion, we concluded that it is actually a guide rod. You can see it from the size difference (the magnification is the same for the two pictures).
The stand off on the south side is missing (fell off, ran away, evaporated or whatever ...).
Also we noticed that the guide rod on the north side is missing.

We have to find a stand-off and place it on the south side.
Seiji suggested that it is better to put a guide rod next to the north side stand-off, otherwise the stand-off itself is too weak to hold the load.
He also said that the PRM was installed after he left, so it was not his fault.

Attachment 1: north-standoff-preview.jpg

Attachment 2: south-standoff-preview.jpg

Attachment 3: No-groove.zip

817

Fri Aug 8 15:10:35 2008

No groove in the stand-off ... wait, it is not even a stand-off !

I tried to find the missing stand-off and the guide rod in the BS chamber, but I couldn't.

818

Fri Aug 8 17:54:52 2008

Standoffs and Guide Rods

After closer inspection of other small optics, it is clear that the guide rods should be above the standoffs on our small optics. Yoichi took a picture of the SRM that shows this clearly. This makes sense since the tension of the wire will make the standoff 'want' to go up during pre-epoxy adjustment, so the guide rod prevents the standoff from popping up and out.

Looking at the side of the PRM without the groove, it looks like there is lots of space between the guide rod and the alignment etch in the glass, so we can just place a standoff directly under the guide rod that is present.

A spare standoff is being shipped tomorrow morning, so we should have it by Monday for installation on the PRM.

Attachment 1: SRM_Standoff_and_guide.JPG

831

Wed Aug 13 17:00:59 2008

The PRM sat amp is broken. Ben is working on it.
The BS sat amp was removed from the BS sus and it is used with the PRM in
order to damp it for wire stand-off alignment.

832

Wed Aug 13 20:13:35 2008

PRM stand-off is glued

Steve, Janne, Rob, Bob, Koji, Yoichi

We finally managed to balance the PRM and the stand-off is now glued.

The whole procedure was something like this:

(1) Measure the levelness of the optical table. It was done by a bubble level claiming that
the sensitivity is 60 arcsec (roughly 0.3 mrad).
There was no noticeable tilt along the longitudinal direction of the table.

(2) We put a He-Ne laser on one end of the table. Mounted a QPD on a X-Y-Z stage. Put the QPD very
close to the laser and centered it by moving the QPD.
Then we moved the QPD far away from the laser and centered the beam spot in vertical direction
by changing the tilt of the laser mount.
We then moved the QPD close to the laser again and adjusted the height to center it. By repeating
the centering at two locations (near and far) several times, we aligned the laser beam parallel to
the table.

(3) The PRM suspension tower was put on the other end of the optical table, i.e. far from the laser.
The QPD was moved next to the laser to form an optical lever. The height of the QPD is preserved from
the previous step.

(4) A stand-off was picked by a pair of tweezers. By gently lifting the mirror by the bottom earthquake stops,
the tension of the wire was relieved. Then the stand off was slid in below the guide rod.

(5) Using the microscope, it was confirmed that the wire is in the grooves on both sides.

(6) Without damping, it was too much pain to balance the mirror. So we put spare OSEMs in the suspension and
pulled a long cable from the suspension rack to the clean room with a satellite amp.

(7) It turned out that the pinout of the cable is flipped because of the vacuum feed through. So we asked Ben for help.
He made conversion cables. We also found UR OSEM was not responding. Ben opened the satellite box, and we found an op-amp was burnt.
Probably it was because we connected OSEMs wrongly at first and the LED current driver was shorted. We switched the satellite box
from the PRM one to the BS one. Ben will fix the PRM box.
Bob cleaned up some D-Sub converters for the interface with the clean OSEM pigtails.

(8) While waiting for Ben, we also tried to short the OSEM coils for inductive damping. We saw no noticeable change in the Q.

(9) After the OSEMs were connected to the digital control system, Rob tweaked the damping gains a bit to make it work efficiently.

(10) I pushed the stand-off back and forth to make the reflected beam spot centered on the QPD. I used the PZT buzzer to gently move the stand-off.
For fine tune, just touching it is enough. I found it useful to touch it without clamping the mirror, because if it is clamped, we can easily push
it too hard. When the mirror is freely hanging, once the tip of the buzzer touches the stand-off, the mirror escapes immediately. If the mirror
swings wildly by your touch, you pushed it too hard.

(11) After about an hour of struggle, I was able to level the mirror. We used about 1.5m optical lever arm. A rough calibration tells us that the
beam spot is within 0.6mm of the center of the QPD. So the reflected light is deflected by 0.4mrad. That means the mirror
is rotated by 0.2mrad. The OSEMs should have about 30mrad of actuation range. So this should be fine.

(12) We mixed the Vac Seal epoxy and put it under vacuum for 15min to remove bubbles. Actually 15min was not enough for removing bubbles completely. But
stopped there because we did not want the epoxy to be too stiff.
I dipped a thin copper wire into the epoxy and applied it on the top of the stand-off. I found the epoxy is already not fluid enough, so Steve made
another Vac Seal mixture. This time we put it under vacuum for only 3 min.
I also applied the epoxy to the sides of the stand-off.
While working on this, I accidentally touched the side of the PRM. Now there is a drop of epoxy sitting there (upper left of the attached picture).
We decided not to wipe it out because we did not want to screw up the levelness.

(13) We put an incandescent light about 1m away from the suspension to gently warm up the epoxy but not too much. We will leave it overnight to cure the
epoxy.

Attachment 1: img1.jpg

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Thu Aug 14 10:26:45 2008

HowTo

sus cable pin cheater for out of vac damping

The 40m D25 vacuum feed troughs give you a mirror image pin count.

Sus damping outside of the vacuum envelope require this cheater cable where
on the male D pin 1 is connected to female D 13 and so on
and male D pin 14 is connected to female D 25 and so on

Attachment 1: suscabmin.png

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Thu Aug 14 19:08:14 2008

Free swing measurement going on

I started free swinging spectra measurement of all the suspensions now Aug 14 19:05 (PDT).
The watch dogs are all shutdown. Please do not turn them back on until tomorrow morning.

842

Fri Aug 15 17:38:41 2008

OSEM free swinging spectra before the pump down

I ran an overnight measurement of the free swinging OSEM spectra.
The attm1 shows the results. Everything look ok except for the ITMY UL OSEM.
The time series from that OSEM was very noisy and had many spikes.
We suspected the cable from the satellite box to the computer rack because we disconnected the cable
when we tested a spare cable which was used to connect the spare OSEMs to the PRM suspension in the clean room.
Janne remembered when she put the cable back, she trusted the latch on the connector and did not push it in too hard.
However, Rob suggested the latch does not work well. So she pushed the connector again. Then the signal from
the ITMY UL OSEM got back to normal.
The second attachment shows the ITMY spectra after the cable push.
We decided to pump down after confirming this.

There are still a lot of extra peaks especially in the suspensions in the BS chamber.
These may be inter modulations (by the non-linearities of the OSEMs) of the modes of the multiple
suspensions sitting on the same stack.

Attachment 1: 2008-8-15.pdf

Attachment 2: ITMY2.pdf

844

Mon Aug 18 08:07:10 2008

Suspension free swinging

I've started a free swinging measurement of OSEM spectra now. Please leave the watchdogs untouched.

846

Mon Aug 18 11:50:29 2008

In vacuum free swinging results

The first attachment is the results of the free swinging spectra measurement performed in vacuum this morning.
They are freely swinging, but the suspensions in the BS chamber got even more extra peaks.
Especially, the SRM spectrum looks like a forest.
If those extra peaks are inter-modulations of the primary suspension modes, the heights of them should be
enhanced (compared to the in-the-air case) by the increased quality factors of the primary modes (due to the less air friction).
This might explain the observed increase in the extra peaks.

While doing the free swinging, we had two big spikes in the OSEM signals of the ETMs and only in ETMs.
Those spikes screwed up the spectra of the ETMs. So the ETM spectra were calculated using the time series
after the spikes.
The second attachment shows one of those spikes. It looks like a computer glitch.

Attachment 1: 2008-8-18.pdf

Attachment 2: spike.pdf

851

Tue Aug 19 13:12:55 2008

Diagonalized PRM Input Matrix

NOTE: Use the values in elog #860 instead (20Aug2008)

Using the method described in LIGO-T040054-03-R (Shihori's "Diagonalization of the Input Matrix of the Suspension System"), I have diagonalized the input matrices for the PRM.

Notes about the method in the document:

Must define the peak-to-peak voltage (measured via DataViewer) to be NEGATIVE for PitLR, PitLL, YawUR, YawLR, and POSITIVE for all others
As Osamu noted in his 3 Aug 2005 elog entry, all of the negative signs in equations 4-9 should all be plus.

New PRM Input Matrices:

	POS	PIT	YAW
UL	1.000	1.000	1.000
UR	1.1877	1.0075	-1.0135
LR	0.8439	-0.9425	-0.9653
LL	0.9684	-1.0500	1.0216

860

Wed Aug 20 12:04:47 2008

Better diagonalization of PRM input matrix

The values here should replace those in entry #851 from yesterday.

After checking the results of the input matrix diagonalization, I have determined that Sonia's method (described in LIGO-T070168) is more effective at isolating the eigenmodes than Shihori's method (LIGO-T040054).

So, the actual new PRM input matrices are as follows:

	POS	PIT	YAW
UL	0.9678	1.000	0.7321
UR	1.000	0.8025	-0.9993
LR	0.7235	-1.1230	-1.0129
LL	0.6648	-1.0452	1.0000

Attached are plots of the spectra of the eigenmodes, using both Shihori's and Sonia's methods. Note that there isn't a good way to get the side peak out of the eigenmodes.

I've put these into the SUS-PRM MEDM screen.

Attachment 1: PRM_Eigmodes_shihori.png

Attachment 2: PRM_Eigmodes_sonia.png

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Fri Aug 22 10:39:41 2008