I  placed an other Y2-LW-1-2050-UV-45P/AR steering mirror into the beam path of the green beam launching in order to avoid the ~30 degrees use of the 45 degrees mirror. The job is not finished.

 The alignment is finished after the realization that the 3rd steering mirror had to be adjusted too.

The input power increased from 1.2 to 1.4 mW

[Paco, Anchal]

tl;dr: Done no harm, no lasting change.

Learn burtgooey

- Use /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1psl/autoBurt.req as input to test snapshot "/users/anchal/BURTsnaps/controls_1210301_101310_0.snap" on rossa after not succeeding in donatella

- Browse /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/TODAY just to know where the snapshots are living. Will store our morning work specific snapshots in local user directories (e.g. /users/anchal/BURTsnaps)

Identifying video monitors

- Switched channels around on video controls; changed C1:VID-MON7 to 16, back to 30, then C1:VID-QUAD2_4 to 16, to 18, then 20, back to 16, to 14 (which identified as PMCT), to 1 (IMC). Anyways, looks like IMC is locked.

[Yehonathan, Paco, Anchal]

Unlocking MC

- From IOO/LockMC, MC_Servo, FSS --> closed PSL shutter, reopen it and see the lock recovers almost instantly. Try MCRFL shutter, no effect. Toggled PSL shutter one more time, lock recovered.

- From IOO/LockMC, MC_Servo, toggle OPTION (after IP2A), lose and recover lock in similar fashion. MCRFL gets most of the light.

- Looked at IFO_OVERVIEW just to get familiar with the various signals.

Pretty minor thing - but PMCT and PMCR were switched on Quad 2 for whatever reason. I switched them back because I prefer the way it was. I have saved snapshots of the preferred monitor config for locking but I guess I didn't freeze the arrangement of the individual quadrants within a quad. This would be more of a problem if the ITMs and ETMs are shuffled around or something like that.

I installed git on rossa using:

$ sudo yum install git

[temperature sensor]

git repo: https://git.ligo.org/40m/tempsensor.git

todo

Update the temp sensor channels to fit with cds format, ie. "C1:PEM-TEMP_EX", "C1:PEM-TEMP_EY", "C1:PEM-TEMP_BS"

- Use FLOAT32_LE data format for the database file (/cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1pem1/tempsensor/C1PEMaux.db) to create the new channels.

- Keep the old datadase code and channels so we can compare with new temp channels afterwards. Also we need a 1-month overlap b4 deleting the old channels.

[sus medm screen]

git repo: https://git.ligo.org/40m/susmedmscreen.git

todo (from talk with Koji)

- Link stateword display to open "C1CDS_FE_STATUS.adl"

- Damp filter and Lock filter buttons should open a 3x1 filter screen so that the 6 filters are opened by 2 buttons compared to the old screen that has 3 buttons connected to 2X1 filter screen

- Make the LOCKIN signla modulation flow diagramlook more like the old 40m screen since that is a better layout

- Move load coefficient button to top of sus medm screen (beside stateword)

- The rectangular red outline around the oplev display is confusing and needs to be modified for clarity

- COMM tag block should not be 3D as this suggests it is a button. Make it flat and change tag name to indicate individual watchdog control as this better reflect its functionality. Rename current watchdog switch to watchdog master is it does what the 5 COMM switches do at once.

- Macro pass need to be better documented so that when we call the sus screens from locations other than sitemap, we should know what macro variables to pass in, like DCU_ID etc.

- Edit sitemap.adl to point only to the new screens. Then create a button on the new screen that points to the old screen. This way, we can still access the old screen without clogging sitemap.

- Move the new screen location to a subfolder of where the current sus screens reside, /opt/rtcds/userapps/trunk/sus/c1/medm/templates

- Rename the overview screen (SUS_CUST_HSSS_OVERVIEW.adl) to use the SUS_SINGLE nomenclature, i.e. SUS_SINGLE_OVERVIEW.adl

- Keep an eye of the cpu usage of c1pem as we add BLRMS block for other optics. 

[Temperature sensor]

Added new temp EPICs channels to database file (/cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1pem1/tempsensor/C1PEMaux.db)

Added new temp EPICs channels to slow channels ini file (/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/chans/daq/C0EDCU.ini)

[SUS medm screen]

Moved new SUS screen to location : /opt/rtcds/userapps/trunk/sus/c1/medm/templates/NEW_SUS_SCREENS

Place button on the new screen to link to the old screen and replace old screens link on sitemap.

Fixed Load Coefficient button location issue

Fixed LOCKIN flow diagram issue

Fixed watchdog labelling issue

Linked STATE WORD block to FrontEnd STATUS screen

Replaced the 2x1 pit/yaw filter screens for LOCK and DAMP fliters with 3x1 LPY filter screen

*Need some more time to figure out the OPTLEV red indicator

I went through various IFO configurations to see if there are glitches or not.

Here is a summary table of the glitch investigation tonight. Some of the cells in the table are still not yet checked and they are just left blank.

        Low finesse PRMI      

The low finesse PRMI configuration is a power-recycled MIchelson with an intentional offset in MICH to let some of the cavity power go through MICH to the dark port.

To lock this configuration I used ASDC plus an offset for MICH and REFL33 for PRCL.

The MICH offset was chosen so that the ASDC power becomes the half of the maximum.

In this configuration NO glitches ( a high speed signal with an amplitude of more than 4 or 5 sigma) were found when it was locked.

Is it because I didn't use AS55 ?? or because the finesse is low ??

Also, as we have already known, the up conversion noise (#6212) showed up -- the level of the high frequency noise are sensitive to the 3 Hz motion.

A very strange thing is going on.

The REFL11 and REFL55 demod signals show high frequency noise depending on how big signals go to the POS actuator of PRM.

This noise shows up even when the beam is single-bounced back from PRM ( the rest of the suspensions are misaligned) and it's very repeatable.

Any idea ?? Am I crazy ?? Is PRM making some fringes with some other optics ??

(background)

(Glitch is related to the PRM POS actuation)

(Possible scenario)

 Another possibility is that there is some beam clipping of the REFL beam before it gets to the PD. Then there could be a partial reflection from that creating a spurious interference. Then it would only show the fringe wrapping if you excite the scatterer or the PRM.

Indeed the glitches show up in the analog demodulated signals. So it is not an issue of the digital processing.

With an oscilloscope I looked at the I/Q monitor outputs of the LSC demodulators, including REFL11, REFL33, REFL55, POY11, AS55 while keep locking the carrier-resonant PRMI.

I saw some glitches in REFL11, REFL55 and AS55. But I didn't see any obvious glitches in REFL33 and PO11 because the SNR of those signals weren't good enough.

(some example glitches)

The attached plot below is an example shot of the actual signals when the carrier resonant PRMI was locked.

The first upper row is the spectrogram of REFL11_I, REFL55_I, REFL33_I and AS55_Q in linear-linear scale.

The second row shows the actual time series of those data in unit of counts.

The bottom row is for some DC signals, including REFLDC, ASDC and POYDC.

You can see that there are so many glitches in the actual time series of the demod signals (actually I picked up the worst time chunk).

It seems that  most of the glitches in REFL11, REFL33 and AS55  coincide.

The typical time scale of the glitches was about 20 msec or so.

Note that the PRMI was locked by REFL33 and AS55 as usual.

I updated the table which I posted some time ago (#6231). The latest table is shown below.

It seems that the glitches show up only when multiple DOFs are locked.

Interesting thing is that when the low finesse PRMI is locked with a big MICH offset (corresponding to a very low finesse) it doesn't show the glitches.

Qualitatively speaking, the glitch rate becomes higher as the finesse increases.

I will try SRMI tomorrow as this is the last one which I haven't checked the presence of the glitches.

 Koji cleaned up very nicely.

Last night I took a closer look at the LSC analog signals to find which components are making the glitches.

I monitored the RFPD output signals and the demodulated signals at the same time with an oscilloscope when the PRMI was kept locked.

Indeed the RFPD outputs have some corresponding fast signals although I only looked at the RELL11 I and Q signals.

(REFL33 didn't have sufficiently a high SNR to see the glitches with the oscilloscope.)

I will check the rest of channels.

SUS-MC1_SENSOR_SIDE and SUS-MC2_SENSOR_UL are glitching

Yesterday's 4.8mag earthquake at Salton Sea is shown on Channel 1

The noise floor of the Rga scan is glitching less today

{Yehonathan, Anchal, Paco}

In the cleanroom, we removed AS1 and AS4 from their SOS towers. We removed the mirrors from the adapters and put them in their boxes. The broken magnets were collected from the towers and their surfaces were cleaned as well as the magnet sockets on the two adapters and on the side block from where the magnets were knocked off.

We prepared our last batch of glue (more glue was ordered three days ago) and glue 2 side magnets and 2 face magnets. We also took the chance and apply glue on the counterweights on the thick optic adapters so there is no need to look for alternatives for now.

The peek screws and nuts were assembled on the thick optics SOS towers instead of the metal screws and nuts that were used as upper back EQ stops.

- elogd itself is a sort of web server which has no freedom to put our own file, we can not put robots.txt

- If we include elog using proxy in the usual web tree of Apache, we can put robots.txt at the root.

- So far, if we prevent "page0" browse by google, we will be saved for a while.

- It seems that the indexing is set to be refused by the following meta tags. But it does not prohibit googlebot to use "page0" URL, of course.

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

Peter King came over to the 40m with a laser controller and gave it to us.

We will test it out with the LightWave NPRO, which was used for MOPA.

(Rana, Suresh, Jenne, Kiwamu, Kevin, Yuta)

Summary:
  Last night we locked MC by feeding back the signal to NPRO PZT.
  But it was not so stable.
  We wanted more gain to lower the seismic motion, but we don't need high gain in high frequency part(>~1kHz) because it may cause something bad(NRPO PZT oscilatting, PMC not able to catch up with the NPRO frequency change, etc).
  So, we put DC gain boost today.
  It successfully made MC locking stable!

What we did:
1. Lowered the main laser temperature from 32.2° C to 31.8° C.
  When we increased the laser temperature, PMC transmission get lower.  32.2° C was on the cliff, so we put it to plateau region.

2. Lowered the gain of PMC servo (2dB instead of 8dB last night), because PMC was oscillating.
  We got 5.3V OMC transmission.

3. Made 3Hz pole, 30Hz zero filter and put in NPRO PZT servo loop.
  0dB at DC, -20dB at high frequency (see Kevin's elog #3802)

4. Put more gain to NPRO PZT servo loop to compensate -20dB at high frequency.
  In a word, we put DC gain boost.
  Attachment #1 is the MEDM screen screenshot for MC servo.

5. Aligned the beam into QPD at MC2 trans.
  We put lens in front of the QPD.
  Now, we can see the actual motion of the beam, and resonance peaks(Attachment #2; not locked at the highest).
    (We added 30Hz LPF after each 4 quadrant inputs to reduce noise)

Plan:
 - optimize MC suspension alignments
 - activate OL DAQ channels
 - reduce RFAM
 - install tri-mod box
 - QPD signal at MC2 should be more high(currently, ~7counts which equals to ~4mV)
 - change temperature of X-end laser to get green beat

Using the modulation frequency suggested here, I hooked up the PDH setup at the X-end and succeeded in locking the green to the X arm. I then rotated the HWP after the green Faraday to maximize TRX output, which after a cursory alignment optimization is ~0.2 (I believe we were used to seeing ~0.3 before the end laser went wonky). Obviously much optimization/characterization remains to be done. But for tonight, I am closing the PSL and EX laser shutters and applying first contact to the window once more courtesy more PEEK from Koji's lab in W Bridge. Once this is taken care of, I can install the Oplev tomorrow, and then set about optimizing various things in a systematic way.. MC autolocker has also been disabled...

Side note: for the IR Transmon QPD, we'd like a post that is ~0.75" taller given the difference in beam height from the arm cavity and on the endtable. I will put together a drawing for Steve tomorrow..

YES ! We got the green light coming out from the OMC chamber to the PSL table !

 (Koji, Kiwamu, Yuta)

Background

As a result of the work in the chambers, the green beam reached the OMC chamber yesterday.
Today's mission was to let the green beam coming out from the chambers to the PSL table.

What we did:
1. Installed the last three steering mirrors.
  The mirrors were 532 HR mirror with AR and 1deg wedge (CVI Y2-LW-1-2050-UV-45-P/AR).
  Two of them are placed to the MC chamber. Another one was to the OMC chamber

During putting the mirrors to the MC chamber, we found that a cable tower was sitting on a position exactly where we wanted to put one of the mirrors.

So we moved the tower to the very south west corner. 

2. Installed a periscope to the MC chamber

The function of this periscope is to lower the beam height of the green light which is risen up by another periscope in the BS chamber.

We aligned it to the green beam, so that the beam hits the center of the mirrors on the periscope.  

3. Aligned the optics

We aligned the green mirrors so that we can let the green beam go out from the chamber.

Actually the inside of the OMC chamber didn't look like the same as that of our optical layout.

For example there is unknown base plate, which apparently disturbs the location of our last steering mirror.

Therefore we had to change the designed position of the steering mirror.

Now the mirror is sitting near the designed position (~ 1/2 inch off), but it's fine because it doesn't clip any 1064 beam.

 
Result:

The green beam is now hitting the north wall of the PSL table.

Notes:

The green beam looks having some fringes, it may be caused by a multiple reflection from a TT when the green beam goes through it. We are going to check it. 

Next work:

- Damping of the suspended optics

- Resurrect MC and its stable lock

- Remove MCT pickoff path

- Align optics in the main path

- Recycled Michelson lock

 The X -arm fiber is in the high cable tray and it has has  coupler mounts.

 The Y -arm fiber is in the low cable tray and it has no coupler mounts.

 The fibers are only protected at entering and exiting the trays.

 We have only 68 ft spare 1.5"  ID protective plastic tubing.

 Green welding glass  is used in these Koji designed dumps (D1102375)

We have 10 pieces of hexagonal  dumps for 5.5" high beam They require 1 5/8" space.  Atm1 

Atm2, Large V traps are 3" tall only, 5 pieces

Atm3, Diamond shapes come with 2" and 1" square green glass ( after Koji's correction I removed the not needed glass ) D1102445 and D1102442

Baked green glass pieces in stock: 30 pieces of 2" x 2" ,---  30 pieces of 1" x 1",David 4-17-2014

Baked diamond holders in stock: 10 pieces of 2" and 10 pieces of 1"David 4-17-2014

PEEK shims 2" and  1"

Baked green glass pieces blank:  4 pieces of 7" x 9"

Baked green glass pieces with 40 mm hole on 7" x 9" for SUS tower:  7 pieces.

NOTE: in December 2012 we talked about 50 mm aperture need. What diameter is the right one  today? 51 mm aperture plates are cut 4-10-2014

The power of the green beam generated on the PSL table should be about 650uW in terms of the shot noise.

       One of the important parameters we should know is the power of the green beam on the PSL table because it determines the SNR.

The green beam finally goes to a photo detector together with another green beam coming from the arm cavity, and they make a beat signal and also shot noise.

So in order to obtain a good SNR toward the shot noise at the photo detector, we have to optimize the powers.

If we assume the green power from the arm is about 650uW,  a reasonable SNR can be achieved when these powers are at the same level. 

To get such power on the PSL table, a 90% partial reflector is needed for picking it off from the PSL as we expected.

  power dependency of SNR

      Suppose two lasers are going to a photo detector while they are beating (interfering).

The beat signal is roughly expressed by

      [signal]  ~ E_1^* E₂ + E₁ E_2^*,

                     ~ 2 ( P₁ P₂)^½ cos (phi), 

 where  E_{1 ^and} E₂ represent the complex fileds,  P₁ and P₂ represent their powers and phi is a phase difference.

This equation tells us that the strength of the signal is proportional to  ( P₁ P₂)^½  .

At the same time we will also have the shot noise whose noise level depends on the inverse square route of the total power;

          [noise] ~ ( P₁ + P₂)^½.

 According to the equations above, SNR is expressed by

        SNR = [signal] / [noise] ~ ( P₁ P₂)^½  / ( P₁ + P₂)^½.

If we assume P₁ is fixed,  the maximum SNR can be achieved when  P₂ goes to the infinity. But this is practically impossible.

Now let's see how the SNR grows up as the power P₂  increases. There are two kinds of the growing phase.

    (1) When P₂ <  P₁ , SNR is efficiently improved with the speed of  P₂^½.

    (2) But  when P₂ >   P₁ , the speed of growing up becomes very slow. In this regime increasing of  P₂ is highly inefficient for improvement of the SNR.

Thus practically P₁ ~ P₂  is a good condition for the SNR.

At this point the SNR already reaches about 0.7 times of the maximum, it's reasonably good.

 power estimation

         According to the fact above, we just adjust the green powers to have the same power levels on the PSL table.

 The table below shows some parameters I assume when calculating the powers.

         Attached figure shows a simplified schematic of the optical layout with some numbers. 

By using those parameters we can find that the green beam from the arm cavity is reduced to 650uW when it reaches the PSL table.

To create the green beam with the same power level on the table, the power of 1064 nm going to the doubling crystal should be about 150mW.

This amount of the power will be provided by putting a 90% partial reflector after the PMC.

GariLyn is using our green light on the west side of the PSL table. The green PDA36As were moved and the HEPA turned up to 60V

Schott, green welding glass, shade 14, 3 mm thick  was measured in the beam path of 1.2W, S polarization of 1064nm at ~1 mm diameter size as MC reflected path.

Absorption 95%, R 5% at incident angle 25-50 degrees. It looks like the perfect material for beam trap.

much grief.  somehow a burt restore of c1iscepics failed to work, and so the LSC XYCOM settings were not correct.  This meant that the LSC whitening filter states were not being correctly set and reported, making it difficult to lock for at least the last week or so.

Reinforced concrete grout plate for existing carbon steel stands at the ends.

The preparation for pouring concrete is continuing. The grout forms were removed. Half inch ribbed steel bars were epoxied into our 4" thick floor.

The concrete holding sides- forms are cut to size. They will be installed on Monday morning and pouring concrete should follow.

We can be planning for cleaning up on Tuesday

Atm1, epoxy used bars

Atm2, south west tripod feet grouted

Atm3, ribbed bars are getting ready

The 10' x 6' optical table is seating on 6 tripods. Each tripod leg has 3 feet. They are supported by jack screws against copper plates on the concrete floor.                            These set screws allowed us to set the height,  level and distribute the load of the table.

To lock this position of the table grouting is used around the jack screws and between the concrete floor and the tripod feet.

Once the grout set the load will be carried by the hole feet  of 4" x 3.25" x3 = 39 sq inches per tripod leg

These ~4" thick grouted islands of 8-9" OD will be covered by 4" concrete. The area between the legs will be filled with 8" thick concrete.

http://www.fivestarproducts.com/techinfo/GroutHandbook.pdf

Atm1, http://www.fivestarproducts.com/cementgrouts/specsheets/grout_ss.pdf

         Cement based grout, early height change 0 - 4%, hardened height change 0 - 0.3%

Atm2-3,  pouring grout

Atm4,  south west leg is done

Tomorrow: setting up ribbed bars, building frame to hold concrete and pour concrete

 Using Guralp, STS-2 and Trillium I compared Gur and STS-2 self-noise assuming that Trillium noise is not worse then STS-2 noise.

Interesting that STS-2 (or Trillium if its noise is worse) noise is not too much better then Guralp noise.

Already not for the first time I notice that GUR2 readjusts its X zero position

As a result the coherence between GUR1X and GUR2X is lost, but between GUR2X and GUR2Y shows up. It seems that these two signals mix at some point.

 Can you go back in time before the X-position jumped to plot the x1-x2 and x2-y2 coherences?  Just to see what things look like?

DAQ is not working now but ordinary the coherence between GUR1X and GUR2X is ~1 at 0.1 - 10 Hz and between GUR2X and GUR2Y is ~0.

When I've put Guralps inside the isolation box, the signal from seismometers increased and was out of AA board range. I've reduced the gain of the readout box by a factor of 2. Now R2 for channels 1-6 is (2000, 1050, 1050, 2000, 1050, 1050) Ohm.

The signal increased in the frequency range 30-50 Hz. Guralp noise become better. That's good. However, it is still worse then in the manual.

As Yuta is dancing on the isolation box, Guralp signal is most time out of the AA board range. So I calculated the noise based on 5 min data. This may be enough, but I'll repeat the experiment later with 30 min data.

I measured the frequency response of the Guralp readout box and noise by providing sin signal of amplitude 50 mV at 15 Hz for channels 1-3.

It turns out that the gain is ~250, while my liso model simulated it to be 200. This is because it is hard to approximate AD620 amplifier.

Noise of the box does not seem to be too bad at low frequencies.

GUR1_XYZ_IN1 and GUR2_XYZ_IN1 are the same and equal to GUR2_XYZ.  This is bad since GUR1_XYZ_IN1 should be equal to GUR1_XYZ.  Note that GUR#_XYZ are copies of GUR#_XYZ_OUT, so there may be (although there isn't right now) filtering between the _IN1's and the _OUT's.  But certainly GUR1 should look like GUR1, not GUR2!!!

Looks like CDS problem, maybe some channel-hopping going on? I'm trying a restart of the c1sus computer right now, to see if that helps.....

Figure:  Green and red should be the same, yellow and blue should be the same.  Note however that green matches yellow and blue, not red.  Bad.

Currently, ezca tools are flakey and fails too much.
So, I hacked ezca tools just like Yoichi did in 2009 (see elog #1368).

For now,

/ligo/apps/linux-x86_64/gds-2.15.1/bin/ezcaread
/ligo/apps/linux-x86_64/gds-2.15.1/bin/ezcastep
/ligo/apps/linux-x86_64/gds-2.15.1/bin/ezcaswitch
/ligo/apps/linux-x86_64/gds-2.15.1/bin/ezcawrite

are wrapper scripts that repeats ezca stuff until it succeeds (or fails more than 5 times).

Of course, this is just a temporary solution to do tonight's work.
To stop this hack, run /users/yuta/scripts/ezhack/stophacking.cmd. To hack, run /users/yuta/scripts/ezhack/starthacking.cmd.

Original binary files are located in /ligo/apps/linux-x86_64/gds-2.15.1/bin/ezcabackup/ directory.
Wrapper scripts live in /users/yuta/scripts/ezhack directory.

I wish I could alias ezca tools to my wrapper scripts so that I don't have to touch the original files. However, alias settings doesn't work in our scripts.
Do you have any idea?

I didn't like this solution, so I hacked up something else.  I made a new single wrapper script to handle all of the utils.  It then executes the correct command based on the zeroth argument (see below).

I think moved all the binaries to give them .bin suffixes, and the made links to the new wrapper script.  Now everything should work as expected, with this new retry feature.

controls@rosalba:/ligo/apps/linux-x86_64/gds-2.15.1/bin 0$ for pgm in ezcaread ezcawrite ezcaservo ezcastep ezcaswitch; do mv $pgm{,.bin}; ln ezcawrapper $pgm; done
controls@rosalba:/ligo/apps/linux-x86_64/gds-2.15.1/bin 0$ cat ezcawrapper
#!/bin/bash

retries=5

pgm="$0"
run="${pgm}.bin"

if ! [ -e "$run" ] ; then
    cat <&2
This is the ezca wrapper script.  It should be hardlinked in place of
the ezca commands (ezcaread, ezcawrite, etc.), and executing the
original binaries (that have been moved to *.bin) with $retries
failure retries.
EOF
    exit -1
fi

if [ -z "$@" ] || [[ "$1" == '-h' ]] ; then
    "$run"
    exit
fi

for try in $(seq 1 "$retries") ; do
    if "$run" "$@"; then
	exit
    else
	echo "retrying ($try/$retries)..." >&2
    fi
done
echo "$(basename $pgm) failed after $retries retries." >&2
exit 1

Yuta and I added a feature such that it will not retry if the environment variables EZCA_NORETRY is set, e.g.

$ EZCA_NORETRY=true ezcaread FOOBAR

Given that we're measuring different g parameters in the tangential and sagittal planes, I went back to alamode to see what astigmatism I could put into PR2 and/or PR3 to match what we're measuring.  I looked at three cases: only PR2 is astigmatic, only PR3 is, or where we split the difference.  Since the sagittal measurement matches, I left all the sagittal curvatures the same in

case 1: PR3 only

case 2: PR3 only

case 3: PR2 and PR3

From Koji's post about the scans of the G&H mirrors, it looks entirely reasonable that we could have these levels of astigmatism in the optics.

What this means for full PRC

These all make the same full PRC situation:

     g (tangential):  0.966

     g (sagittal):  0.939

     ARM mode matching:  0.988

15 hours