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8862
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Wed Jul 17 11:13:36 2013 |
Alex Cole | Configuration | Electronics | AS Table Additions | [Eric, Alex]
For the RFPD frequency response project,
we routed the fiber that will connect our |
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8863
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Wed Jul 17 16:15:42 2013 |
Alex Cole | Configuration | Electronics | AS Table Additions | [Eric, Alex]
We decided that the POY Table would
be a better home for our REF DET (Newport |
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8870
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Thu Jul 18 15:34:15 2013 |
Alex Cole | Update | Electronics | PD Frequency Response Update | [Eric, Alex]
Our RF Switch arrived today, and
we mounted it in rack 1Y1 (1st attachment). |
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8940
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Tue Jul 30 16:21:46 2013 |
Alex Cole | Update | Electronics | Photodetector Input Modulation | [Eric, Alex]
We successfully used our system to
modulate the input to a single photodetector. |
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8947
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Wed Jul 31 17:02:17 2013 |
Alex Cole | Update | Electronics | Preliminary Photodetector Frequency Reponse Measurements | [Eric, Alex]
We used our setup from yesterday
(elog #8940) to measure transimpedance measurements |
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8955
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Thu Aug 1 18:55:20 2013 |
Alex Cole | Update | Electronics | Preliminary Photodetector Frequency Reponse Measurements |
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8971
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Tue Aug 6 12:43:23 2013 |
Alex Cole | Configuration | Electronics | AS Table and Rack 1Y1 Additions | For the photodetector frequency response
project, I finished the construction of our
baluns chassis and mounted it in rack 1Y1 |
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8979
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Wed Aug 7 15:51:53 2013 |
Alex Cole | Configuration | Electronics | RF Switch Change | For the photodetector frequency response
project, our new RF Switch Chassis (NI pxie-1071)
arrived today. I took the switches out of |
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8990
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Fri Aug 9 16:49:35 2013 |
Jenne, manasa | Update | Electronics | Post-vent alignment cont'd - RFPDs | Notes to the fiber team:
I am aligning beam onto the RFPDs
(I have finished all 4 REFL diodes, and AS55), |
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9004
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Tue Aug 13 11:40:19 2013 |
Alex Cole | Summary | Electronics | RFPD Demod Filter Frequency Response Measurement | For the RF PD Frequency Response
Measurement project, we get each PD signal
from the "PD RF Mon" output of |
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9005
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Tue Aug 13 11:54:40 2013 |
Alex Cole | HowTo | Electronics | RF PD Fiber-Coupled Laser Operation | This post pertains to the fiber-coupled
diode laser mounted in rack 1Y1.
To turn the laser on, first turn |
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9006
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Tue Aug 13 13:30:41 2013 |
Alex Cole | Configuration | Electronics | Cable Routing | I routed cables (RG405 SMA-SMA) from
several demodulator boards in rack 1Y2 to
the RF Switch in rack 1Y1 using the overhead |
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9059
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Fri Aug 23 21:01:38 2013 |
Alex Cole | HowTo | Electronics | Automated Photodetector Frequency Response System | This post describes how to use the
Automated Photodetector Frequency Response
System. |
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9062
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Mon Aug 26 18:55:18 2013 |
Jenne | Configuration | Electronics | putting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board for AS | I have modified one of the spare demod
boards that was sitting above the electronics
bench (the one which was unlabeled - the |
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9067
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Mon Aug 26 20:13:17 2013 |
rana | Configuration | Electronics | putting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board for AS |
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9069
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Tue Aug 27 15:31:48 2013 |
Jenne | Configuration | Electronics | putting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board for AS |
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9071
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Tue Aug 27 17:32:52 2013 |
Jenne | Configuration | Electronics | putting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board for AS | I measured the phase split between the
I and Q signals of my AS110 board.
To do so, I plugged the board into an empty |
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9072
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Tue Aug 27 18:21:35 2013 |
Jenne | Configuration | Electronics | 110 MHz LO options | As I see it, we have a few options for
getting the 110 MHz LO to both the POP110
and AS110 demod boards. |
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9073
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Tue Aug 27 18:58:52 2013 |
Koji | Configuration | Electronics | 110 MHz LO options | - Do we have an appropriate amplifier?
- True challenge could be to find
a feedthrough for the new port. (or to find |
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9095
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Mon Sep 2 16:46:32 2013 |
Jenne | Update | Electronics | RF distribution box is on the bench | I have pulled the RF distribution box out
of the rack, so I can look at it, and modify
it to have 2 110 MHz spigots. I'm going to |
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9096
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Mon Sep 2 18:06:21 2013 |
Jenne | Update | Electronics | RF distribution box: 110 MHz LO options | After scrounging for parts, and opening
up the box, I have modified my proposal to
the following: |
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9099
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Tue Sep 3 21:08:13 2013 |
Jenne | Update | Electronics | RF distribution box: 110 MHz LO options | The RF distribution box is still on the
bench, so again, don't |
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9100
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Tue Sep 3 21:10:36 2013 |
Jenne | Configuration | Electronics | putting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board for AS |
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9101
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Wed Sep 4 16:06:40 2013 |
Jenne | Update | Electronics | RF distribution box: Reinstalled | I have reinstalled the RF distribution
box, as well put in the AS110 demod board.
I plugged everything back in, and turned |
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9106
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Wed Sep 4 21:44:54 2013 |
Not Jenne | Update | Electronics | RF distribution box: Reinstalled | Temporary fix for the switch: give a bit
of oil to the button
Permanent fix: buy better switches. |
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9208
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Sun Oct 6 22:27:35 2013 |
rana | Frogs | Electronics | MC3 LL sensor cable was loose | I noticed that the MC3 LL sensor was apparently
dead according to its suspension screen.
Since it was only the fast ADC channel and |
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9350
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Tue Nov 5 19:50:07 2013 |
manasa | Update | Electronics | IOO rack +/-5V power supplies | The power supply to the ADC box on the
IOO rack (that reads the beat I & Q signals)
was pulled out because it did not run through |
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9356
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Wed Nov 6 15:59:41 2013 |
manasa | Update | Electronics | IOO rack +/-5V power supplies |
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9377
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Wed Nov 13 18:37:19 2013 |
rana | Configuration | Electronics | DAC available in c1lsc IO chassis for DAFI | |
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9563
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Tue Jan 21 19:41:59 2014 |
Jenne | Update | Electronics | RF distribution box power button fail | Rana, Gabriele and I are trying to measure
the FSR of the PRC (elog about that later),
and we turned off the power to the RF generation |
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9566
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Wed Jan 22 16:36:45 2014 |
ericq | Update | Electronics | RF distribution box power button fail |
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9637
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Fri Feb 14 02:09:55 2014 |
ericq | Update | Electronics | Transmon QPD whitening | [Quick post, will follow up with
further detail later. Excuse my sleepy ELOG
writing] |
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9642
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Mon Feb 17 20:35:19 2014 |
ericq | Update | Electronics | Transmon QPD whitening | My apologies for all of that crap I left
at the Y-end... I cleaned the rest of it
up today. |
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9661
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Mon Feb 24 13:21:00 2014 |
Jenne | Update | Electronics | Measured REFL165 demod board | I measured the REFL 165 demod board's
I/Q separation.
Our 11MHz signal is currently 11.066092 |
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9666
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Mon Feb 24 17:59:31 2014 |
RANA | Update | Electronics | Measured REFL165 demod board |
Demod boards should be at 90
deg, not 82.7 or 12 or |
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9716
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Tue Mar 11 15:19:45 2014 |
Jenne | Update | Electronics | High gain Trans PD electronics change | As
part of our CESAR testing last night, we
had a look at the noise of the 1/sqrt(TR) |
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9720
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Tue Mar 11 19:07:24 2014 |
ericq | Update | Electronics | High gain Trans PD electronics change | Speaking of the whitening board, I had
neglected to post details showing the the
whitening was at least having a positive |
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9823
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Thu Apr 17 16:04:40 2014 |
Jenne | Update | Electronics | High gain Trans PD electronics change |
I have made the same modification
to the Yarm trans PD whitening board as was |
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9828
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Fri Apr 18 09:40:28 2014 |
Steve | Update | Electronics | it is a kick | 10 days of on-off glitching?
It is a kick. The LSC is off, so it must
be the ALS |
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9991
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Sat May 24 22:56:57 2014 |
Jenne | Update | Electronics | Amplifier removed from BeatX path | I just realized that I forgot to elog this,
but yesterday afternoon I bypassed the amplifier
in the BeatX path, and now the X beatnote |
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9992
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Mon May 26 07:59:23 2014 |
Koji | Update | Electronics | Amplifier removed from BeatX path | And the out-of-loop level of the ALSX compared
with the previous measurement is ...?
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9995
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Tue May 27 11:58:45 2014 |
Jenne | Update | Electronics | Amplifier removed from BeatX path | Sorry, I had been in a hurry when I worked
on this last week, and again when I wrote
the elog, but I wanted to at least put in |
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10008
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Mon Jun 9 09:51:11 2014 |
Sai Akhil | Update | Electronics | Frequency Error Measurement of UFC-6000 RF Frequency Counter | Motivation:
To test the
precision of Mini-Circuits Model UFC-6000 |
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10009
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Mon Jun 9 10:55:48 2014 |
Nichin | Summary | Electronics | BBPD D1002969-v8 transimpedence measurement | My SURF
week-1 work...
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10012
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Mon Jun 9 16:55:31 2014 |
Koji | Summary | Electronics | BBPD D1002969-v8 transimpedence measurement | How is the modulation depth assumed in
the calculation?
If you don't know the modulation |
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10034
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Thu Jun 12 16:56:31 2014 |
Nichin | Update | Electronics | PD Inspection |
Normal
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10036
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Fri Jun 13 11:33:55 2014 |
Akhil | Update | Electronics | Characterization of UFC-6000 RF Frequency Counter | Goal:
To characterize the Mini-Circuits
RF FC (Model UFC-6000) and plot Bode Plots |
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10037
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Fri Jun 13 18:16:00 2014 |
Nichin | Update | Electronics | Changes to the PD frequency response measurement system |
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10058
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Wed Jun 18 15:25:06 2014 |
Nichin | Update | Electronics | BBPD Transimepedence plot | Motivation: |
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10059
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Wed Jun 18 16:44:55 2014 |
Manasa | Update | Electronics | BBPD installed for BEATX detection | This BBPD is the spare that we pulled out
and is installed for ALSX-PSL beat note detection. |
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