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12661   Fri Dec 2 18:02:37 2016 KojiUpdateIOOIMC WFS Demod board measurement & analysis

ELOG of the Wednesday work.

It turned out that the IMC WFS demod boards have the PCB board that has a different pattern for each of 8ch.
In addition, AD831 has a quite narrow leg pitch with legs that are not easily accessible.
Because of these, we (Koji and Rana) decided to leave the demodulator chip untouched.

I have plugged in the board with the WFS2-Q1 channel modified in order to check the significance of the modification.

WFS performance before the modification

Attachment 1 shows the PSD of WFS2-I1_OUT calibrated to be referred to the demodulator output. (i.e. Measured PSDs (cnt/rtHz) were divided by 8.9*2^16/20)
There are three curves: One is the output with the MC locked (WFS servos not engaged). The second is the PSD with the PSL beam blocked (i.e. dark noise). The third is the electronics noise with the RF input terminated and the nominal LO supplied.

This tells us that the measured PSD was dominated by the demodulator noise in the dark condition. And the WFS signal was also dominated by the demod noise below 0.1Hz and above 20Hz. There are annoying features at 0.7, 1.4, 2.1, ... Hz. They basically impose these noise peaks on the stabilized mirror motion.

WFS performance after the modification

Attachment 2 shows the PSD of WFS2-Q1_OUT calibrated to be referred to the demodulator output. (i.e. Measured PSDs (cnt/rtHz) were divided by 21.4*2^16/20)
There are three same curves as the other plot. In addition to these, the PSD of WFS2-I1_OUT with the MC locked is also shown as a red curve for comparison.

This figure tells us that the measured PSD below 20Hz was dominated by the demodulator noise in the dark condition. And the WFS signal is no longer dominated by the electronics noise. However, there still are the peaks at the harmonics of 0.7, 1.4, 2.1, ... Hz. I need further inspection of the FWS demod and whtening boards to track down the cause of these peaks.

12662   Sat Dec 3 13:27:35 2016 KojiUpdateIOOIMC WFS Demod board measurement & analysis

ELOG of the work on Thursday

Gautam suggested looking at the preamplifier noise by shorting the input to the first stage. I thought it was a great idea.

To my surprise, the noise of the 2nd stage was really high compared to the model. I proceeded to investigate what was wrong.

It turned out that the resistors used in this sallen-key LPF were thick film resistors. I swapped them with thin film resistors and this gave the huge improvement of the preamplifier noise in the low frequency band.

Attachment 1 shows the summary of the results. Previously the input referred noise of the preamp was the curve in red. We the resistors replaced, it became the curve in magenta, which is pretty close to the expected noise level by LISO model above 3Hz (dashed curves). Unfortunately, the output of the unit with the demodulator connected showed no improvement (blue vs green), because the output is still limited by the demodulator noise. There were harmonic noise peaks at n x 10Hz before the resistor replacement. I wonder if this modification also removed the harmonic noise seen in the CDS signals. I will check this next week.

Attachment 2 shows the current schematic diagram of the demodulator board. The Q of the sallen key filter was adjusted by the gain to have 0.7 (butter worth). We can adjust the Q by the ratio of the capacitance. We can short 3.83K and remove 6.65K next to it. And use 22nF and 47nF for the capacitors at the positive input and the feedback, respectively. This reduces the number of the resistors.

12668   Tue Dec 6 13:37:02 2016 KojiUpdateIOOIMC WFS Demod board measurement & analysis

I have implemented the modification to the demod boards (Attachment 1).
Now, I am looking at the noise in the whitening board. Attachment 2 shows the comparison of the error signal with the input of the whitening filter shorted and with the 50ohm terminator on the demodulator board. The message is that the whitening filter dominates the noise below 3Hz.

I am looking at the schematic of the whitening board D990196-B. It has an VGA AD602 at the input. I could not find the gain setting for this chip.
If the gain input is fixed at 0V, AD602 has the gain of 10dB. The later stages are the filters. I presume they have the thick film resistors.
Then they may also cause the noise. Not sure which is the case yet.

Also it seems that 0.7Hz noise is still present. We can say that this is coming from the demod board but not on the work bench but in the eurocard crate.

12669   Tue Dec 6 16:47:40 2016 KojiUpdateIOOIMC WFS whitening filter investigation

The whitening board saids it is Rev B, but the actual component values are more like Rev. C.

The input stage (AD602) has an input resistor of 909 Ohm.
This is causing a big attenuation of the signal (x1/10) because the input impedance of AD602 is not high. And this screws up the logarithm of the gain.
I don't think this is a right approach.

12670   Tue Dec 6 17:54:08 2016 KojiUpdateIOOIMC WFS whitening filter investigation

The input resistor 909Ohm of AD602 was shorted. I've confirmed that the gain (= attenuation by voltage division) was increased by a factor of 10.
This modification was done for WFS2-I1 and WFS2-Q1. Also the thick film resistors for the WFS2-I1 channel was all replaced with thin film resistors.

Attachment 1 shows the comparison of the noise levels. The curves were all calibrated referred to the response of the original whitening filter configuration.
(i.e. measurement done after the gain change was compensated by the factor of 10.)

Now the AF chain is not limited by the noise in the whitening filter board. (Brown)
In fact, this noise level was completely identical between I1 and Q1. Therefore, I don't think we need this resistor replacement for the whitening filter board.

We can observe the improvement of the overall noise level below 10Hz. (Comparison between green and red/blue)
As the signal level goes up, the noise above 100Hz was also improved.

Now we need to take care of the n x 0.7Hz feature which is in the demod board...

12671   Tue Dec 6 22:41:49 2016 KojiUpdateIOOIMC WFS whitening filter investigation

I have implemented the same modification (shorting the input resistor of AD602) to the two whitening boards.

12676   Tue Dec 13 17:26:42 2016 KojiUpdateIOOIMC WFS whitening filter investigation

Rana pointed out that this modification (removal of 900Ohm) leave the input impedance as low as 100Ohm.
As OP284 can drive up to 10mA, the input can span only +/-1V with some nonlinearity.

Rather than reinstalling the 900Ohms, Rana will investigate the old-days fix for the whitening filter that may involve the removal of AD602s.
Until the solution is supplied, the IMC WFS project is suspended.

12679   Mon Dec 19 22:05:09 2016 KojiSummaryIOOPMC, IMC aligned. The ringdown PD/Lens removed.

PMC and IMC were aligned on Friday (16th) and Today (19th).

The PD and lens for the ringdown experiment were removed as they were blocking the WFS.

12680   Wed Dec 21 21:03:06 2016 KojiSummaryIOOIMC WFS tuning

- Updated the circuit diagrams:

IMC WFS Demodulator Board, Rev. 40m https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-D1600503

IMC WFS Whitening Board, Rev. 40m https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-D1600504

- Measured the noise levels of the whitening board, demodboard, and nominal free running WFS signals.

- IMC WFS demod phases for 8ch adjusted

Injected an IMC PDH error point offset (@1kHz, 10mV, 10dB gain) and adjusted the phase to have no signal in the Q phase signals.

- The WFS2 PITCH/YAW matrix was fixed

It was found that the WFS heads were rotated by 45 deg (->OK) in CW and CCW for WFS1 and 2, respectively (oh!), while the input matrices were identical! This made the pitch and yaw swapped for WFS2. (See attachment)

- Measured the TFs MC1/2/3 P/Y actuation to the error signals

12682   Thu Dec 22 18:39:09 2016 KojiSummaryIOOIMC WFS tuning

Noise analysis of the WFS error signals.

Attachment 1: All error signals compared with the noise contribution measured with the RF inputs or the whitening inputs terminated.

Attachment 2: Same plot for all the 16 channels. The first plot (WFS1 I1) shows the comparison of the current noise contributions and the original noise level measured with the RF terminated with the gain adjusted along with the circuit modification for the fair comparison. This plot is telling us that the electronics noise was really close to the error signal.

I wonder if we have the calibration of the IMC suspensions somewhere so that I can convert these plots in to rad/sqrtHz...?

12683   Fri Dec 23 20:53:44 2016 KojiSummaryIOOIMC WFS tuning

WFS1 / WFS2 demod phases and WFS signal matrix

12684   Fri Dec 23 21:05:56 2016 KojiSummaryIOOIMC WFS tuning

Signal transfer function measurements

C1:SUS-MC*_ASCPIT_EXC channels were excited for swept sine measurements.

The TFs to WFS1-I1~4, Q1~4, WFS1/2_PIT/YAW, MC2TRANS_PIT/YAW signals were recorded.

The MC1 and MC3 actuation seems to have ~30Hz elliptic LPF somewhere in the electronics chain.
This effect was compensated by subtracting the approximated time delay of 0.022sec.

The TFs were devided by freq^2 to make the response flat and averaged between 7Hz to 15Hz.
The results have been summarized in Attachment 3&4.

Attachment 4 has the signal sensing matrix. Note that this matrix was measured with the input gain of 0.1.

Input matrix for diagonalizing the actuation/sensor response

Pitch

$\begin{pmatrix} -1.58983 & -0.901533 & -5592.53 \\ 0.961632 & -0.569662 & 1715.12 \\ 0.424609 & 1.60783 & -5157.38 \end{pmatrix}$

e.g. To produce pure WFS1P reaction, => -1.59 MC1P + 0.962 MC2P + 0.425 MC3P

Yaw

$\begin{pmatrix} 1.461 & -0.895191 & -4647.9 \\ 0.0797164 & 0.0127339 & -1684.11 \\ 0.223054 & -1.31518 & -4101.14 \end{pmatrix}$

12685   Sun Dec 25 14:39:59 2016 KojiSummaryIOOIMC WFS tuning

Now, the output matrices in the previous entry were implemented.
The WFS servo loops have been engaged for several hours.
So far the REFL and TRANS look straight. Let's see how it goes.

12686   Mon Dec 26 12:45:31 2016 KojiSummaryIOOIMC WFS tuning

It didn't go crazy at least for the past 24hours.

12689   Thu Dec 29 16:52:51 2016 KojiSummaryIOOIMC WFS tuning

Koji responding to Rana

> For the rough calibration below 10 Hz, we can use the SUS OSEM cal: the SUSPIT and SUSYAW error signals are in units of micro-radians.

I can believe the calibration for the individual OSEMs. But the input matrix looked pretty random, and I was not sure how it was normalized.
If we accept errors by a factor of 2~3, I can just naively believe the calibration factors.

> If the RF signals at the demod input are low enough, we can consider either increasing the light power on the WFS or increasing the IMC mod. depth.

The demod chip has the conversion factor of about the unity. We increased the gains of the AF stages in the demod and whitening boards. However, we only have the RMS of 1~20 counts. This means that we have really small RF signals. We should check what's happening at the RF outputs of the WFS units. Do we have any attenuators in the RF chain? Can we skip them without making the WFS units unstable?

12715   Fri Jan 13 21:41:23 2017 KojiUpdateCDSDC errors

I think I fixed the DC error issue

1. I added the leap second (leapsecond ?) entry for 2016/12/31, 23:60:00 UTC to daqdrc

[OLD]
set gps_leaps = 820108813 914803214 1119744016;
[NEW]
set gps_leaps = 820108813 914803214 1119744016 1167264018;

2. Restarted FB and all realtime models

Now I don't see any RED light.

12756   Wed Jan 25 17:30:03 2017 KojiUpdateIMC29.5 MHz modulation depth measurement plan

I'm afraid that the bidirectional coupler, designed to be 50ohm in/out, disturbs the resonant circuit designed for the EOM which is almost purely capacitive.

One possible way could be to measure the transfer function using the active FET probe from the triple resonant input to the output with the EOM attached.

Another way: How about to measure the reflection before the resonant circuit? Then, of course, there is the triple resonant interface circuit between the power combiner and the EOM. This case, we will see how much power is consumed in EOM and the resonant circuit. Then we can use the previous measurement to see the conversion factor between the power consumption to the modulation depth. Kiwamu may give us his measurement.

12757   Wed Jan 25 18:18:08 2017 KojiSummaryIOOMCL / MCF / Calibration

jiSome notes on the FSS configuration: ELOG 10321

12761   Fri Jan 27 15:36:17 2017 KojiUpdateSUS wire standoffs update

Very nice! I got excited.

• Don't you ask Calum and co to check the groove size with their microscopes? Just give the samples and the wire.
• Do we want to make a simple "guitar" setup to measure the vibration Qs with Al piece, glass prism, ungrooved Sapphire, this grooved sapphire, grooved ruby, etc?
12783   Wed Feb 1 11:51:19 2017 KojiUpdateIMCRF AM stabilization box pulled out

For a comparison: OMC ELOG 238

12805   Mon Feb 6 18:20:08 2017 KojiUpdateIMCMCL Feedback - simulink model updated

It is more accurate to model the physical frequency noises at various places.

cf. See also 40m ALS paper or Shigeo Nagano PDH thesis on https://wiki-40m.ligo.caltech.edu/40m_Library

- The output 4 should be "Laser frequency"

- Seismic path should be excluded from the summing node

- The output after the PMC: "Laser frequency after the PMC"

- "Laser frequency after the PMC" is compared (diffed) with the output 1 "mirror motion in Hz"

- The comparator output goes to the cav pole, the PD, and the PDH gain: This is the output named "PDH Error"

- Tap a new path from "Laser frequency after the PMC" and multiply with the cav pole (C_IMC)
- Tap a new path from "Mirror motion" and multiply with the cavity high pass  (s C_IMC/omega)
- Add these two: This is the output named "Frequency noise transmitted by IMC"

12821   Fri Feb 10 19:32:15 2017 KojiUpdateIMCIMC Demod board

The input impedance of the mixer is not constant. As the diode switches, it changes dynamically. Because of this, the waveform of the LO at the mixer input (i.e. the amplifier output) is not sinusoidal. Some of the power goes away to harmonic frequencies. Also, your active probe is calibrated to measure the power across the exact 50Ohm load, which is not in this case. The real confirmation can be done by swapping the mixer with a 50Ohm resistor. But it is too much. Just confirm the power BEFORE the amp is fine. +/-1dB does not change the mixer function much.

- Orthogonality
- Gain imbalance
of the I/Q output. This can be checked by supplying an RF signal that is 100~1kHz away from the LO frequency and observe I&Q outputs.

12837   Fri Feb 17 20:04:43 2017 KojiUpdateGeneralProjector not functional / Zita partially working

Koji, Gautam, Johannes

We quickly checked the situation of the projector in the control room.

- We found that the proejctor was indicating "lamp error".
==> Steve, could you remove the projector from the ceiling and check if it still does not work?
If it still does not work, send it back to the vender. It should be covered by the previous service.

- Zita seemed happy with the DVI output. We tried the dual display configration and  VGA and DVI are active right now.
The DVI output (from RADEON something video card) is somewhat strange. We probably need to look into the video display situation.

12846   Thu Feb 23 09:32:20 2017 KojiUpdateSUS wire standoffs update

Kyle took high quality images of  the three sapphire prisms using the microscope @Downs. He analyzed the images to see the radius of the groove.

They all look sufficiently sharp for a 46um steel wire. Thumbs up.
I am curious to see how the wire Q is with grooved sapphires, ungrooved sapphires, grooved ruby, grooved aluminum stand off, and so on.

12875   Thu Mar 9 15:25:12 2017 KojiUpdateGeneralIMC/XYarms aligned/locked

As per Steve's request, I've checked the alignment of the IMC and the arms. These three cavities are locked and aligned.

12877   Thu Mar 9 20:11:04 2017 KojiUpdateGeneralattempted ETMY picture taking

The attached is the ETMY image with the single arm locked. This was the best I could do. Here is the recipe

• Turn on SP570UZ
• Switch to "M" mode (Manual aperture and exposure)
• Set the aperture to be the widest (smallest F number) and the exposure to be maximum (15 second).
• Switch to AF mode by the lens side switch
• Use the lens dial to adjust the zoom until the OSEMs fill the central 1/3 box (i.e. 1/9 area of the field of view). If you zoom more, you can't focus the spot later.
• Use menu button to switch to ISO1600 (You are now capable to see the beam spot)
• Switch to MF mode by the lens side switch
• Use the lens dial to adjust the focus to have the sharpest image of the spot. This can be achieved at the focal distance of ~1m
• Use menu button to switch back to ISO64
• Push the shutter (I didn't use it, but you should be able to use 2sec timer)
12912   Mon Mar 27 22:40:44 2017 KojiSummaryIOOMCL / MCF / Calibration

In http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/11793 I posted the calibrated PMC free-running displcament with/without IMC locked. Unfortunately, this measurement was done with a part of the IMC electronics not perfect (https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/40m/11794). I did the same measurement after the fix, but there is no low freq data http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/11795.

Assuming we have the similar error signal leve in the low freq band as The entry 11793, the IMC is considered to be noisier than the PMC between 0.8 and 4Hz. But we should do the same measurement with the current electronics.

The PMC calibration can be found in this entry http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/11780

12966   Wed May 3 16:46:18 2017 KojiConfigurationComputerscatastrophic multiple monitor failures

- Is there any machine that can handle 4K? I have one 4K LCD for no use.
- I also can donate one 24" Dell

12967   Wed May 3 16:47:45 2017 KojiUpdateGeneralPI pzt inventory check

I also have a functional one on my desk, which has one of the wires repaired.

 Quote: One is broken, two are ready to steer green and 3 available in un known condition

12992   Mon May 15 19:21:04 2017 KojiUpdateComputer Scripts / ProgramsFSSslow / MCautolocker restarted

It seems that FSS slow servo stopped working.

I found that megatron was restarted (by Rana, to finish an apt-get upgrade) on ~18:47 PDT today.

controls@megatron|~> last -5 controls pts/0        192.168.113.216  Mon May 15 19:15   still logged in    controls pts/0        192.168.113.216  Mon May 15 19:14 - 19:15  (00:01)     reboot   system boot  3.2.0-126-generi Mon May 15 18:50 - 19:19  (00:29)     controls pts/0        192.168.113.200  Mon May 15 18:43 - down   (00:04)     controls pts/0        192.168.113.200  Mon May 15 15:25 - 17:38  (02:12) 

FSSslow / MCautolocker were restarted on megatron.

13032   Fri Jun 2 00:54:08 2017 KojiUpdateASSXarm ASS restoration work

While Gautam is working the restoration of Yarm ASS, I worked on Xarm.

Basically, I have changed the oscillator freqs and amps so as to have linear signals to the misalignment of the mirrors.
Also reduced the complexity of the input/output matrices to avoid any confusion.

Now the ITM dither takes care of the ITM alignment, and the ETM dither takes care of the ETM alignment.
The cavity alignment servos (4dofs) are running fine although the control band widths are still low (<0.1Hz).
The ETM spot positions should be controlled by the BS alignment, but it seems that these loops have suspicion about the signal quality.

While Gautam wa stouching the input TTs, we occasionally saw anomalously high transmission of the arm cavities (~1.2).
We decided to use this beam as this could have indicated partial clipping of the beam somewhere in the input optics chain.

Then the arm cavity was aligned to have reasonably high transmission for the green beam. i.e. Use the green power mon PD as a part of the alignment reference.

This resulted very stable transmission of both the IR and green beams. We liked them. We decide to use this a reference beam at least for now.

Attachment1: GTRX image at the end of the work.

Attachment2: ASSX screen shot

Attachment3: ASSX servo screen shot

Attachment4: Green ASX servo screen shot

Attachment 5: Screen shot of the ASS X strip tool

Attachment 6: Screen shot of the ASS X input matrix

Attachment 7: Screen shot of the ASS X output matrix

13081   Mon Jun 26 22:01:08 2017 KojiUpdateGeneralc1iscex timing troubles

I tried a couple of things, but no fundamental improvement of the missing LED light on the timing board.

- The power supply cable to the timing board at c1iscex indicated +12.3V

- I swapped the timing fiber to the new one (orange) in the digital cabinet. It didn't help.

- I swapped the opto-electronic I/F for the timing fiber with the Y-end one. The X-end one worked at Y-end, and Y-end one didn't work at X-end.

- I suspected the timing board itself -> I brought a "spare" timing board from the digital cabinet and tried to swap the board. This didn't help.

Some ideas:

- Bring the X-end fiber to C1SUS or C1IOO to see if the fiber is OK or not.

- We checked the opto-electronic I/F is OK

- Try to swap the IO chassis with the Y-end one.

- If this helps, swap the timing board only to see this is the problem or not.

13094   Sat Jul 1 14:27:00 2017 KojiUpdateGeneralDRMI re-locked

Basically we use the arm cavities as the reference of the beam alignment. The incident beam is aligned such that the ITMY angle dither is minimized (at least at the dither freq).
This means that we have no capability to adjust the spot poisitions on the PRM, SRM, BS, ITMX optics.

We are still able to minimize A2L by adding intentional asymmetry to the coil actuators.

13110   Mon Jul 10 22:07:35 2017 KojiUpdateGeneralAll FEs down

I think this is the boot disk failure. I put the spare 2.5 inch disk into the slot #1. The OK indicator of the disk became solid green almost immediately, and it was recognized on the BIOS in the boot section as "Hard Disk". On the contrary, the original disk in the slot #0 has the "OK" indicator kept flashing and the BIOS can't find the harddisk.

13112   Tue Jul 11 15:12:57 2017 KojiUpdateGeneralAll FEs down

If we have a SATA/USB adapter, we can test if the disk is still responding or not. If it is still responding, can we probably salvage the files?
Chiara used to have a 2.5" disk that is connected via USB3. As far as I know, we have remote and local backup scripts running (TBC), we can borrow the USB/SATA interface from Chiara.

If the disk is completely gone, we need to rebuilt the disk according to Jamie, and I don't know how to do it. (Don't we have any spare copy?)

13154   Mon Jul 31 20:35:42 2017 KojiSummaryComputersChiara backup situation summary

Summary
- CDS Shared files system: backed up
- Chiara system itself: not backed up

controls@chiara|~> df -m Filesystem     1M-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1         450420   11039    416501   3% / udev               15543       1     15543   1% /dev tmpfs               3111       1      3110   1% /run none                   5       0         5   0% /run/lock none               15554       1     15554   1% /run/shm /dev/sdb1        2064245 1718929    240459  88% /home/cds /dev/sdd1        1877792 1426378    356028  81% /media/fb9bba0d-7024-41a6-9d29-b14e631a2628 /dev/sdc1        1877764 1686420     95960  95% /media/40mBackup

/dev/sda1 : System boot disk
/dev/sdb1 : main cds disk file system 2TB partition of 3TB disk (1TB vacant)
/dev/sdc1 : Daily backup of /dev/sdb1 via a cron job (/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/backup/localbackup)

/dev/sdd1 : 2014 snap shot of cds. Not actively used. USB

https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/40m/11640

13159   Wed Aug 2 14:47:20 2017 KojiSummaryComputersChiara backup situation summary

I further made the burt snapshot directories compressed along with ELOG 11640. This freed up additional ~130GB. This will eventually help to give more space to the local backup (/dev/sdc1)

controls@chiara|~> df -m Filesystem     1M-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1         450420   11039    416501   3% / udev               15543       1     15543   1% /dev tmpfs               3111       1      3110   1% /run none                   5       0         5   0% /run/lock none               15554       1     15554   1% /run/shm /dev/sdb1        2064245 1581871    377517  81% /home/cds /dev/sdd1        1877792 1426378    356028  81% /media/fb9bba0d-7024-41a6-9d29-b14e631a2628 /dev/sdc1        1877764 1698489     83891  96% /media/40mBackup

13170   Mon Aug 7 22:50:57 2017 KojiUpdateGeneralNew wifi router for the GC network installed

I have replaced the old 11n wifi router (CISCO / Linksys) for the GC network with a new one with 11ac technology.

The new one is a 3band wifi router. Thus it has one 2.4GHz (11n) SSID and two 5GHz (11ac) SSIDs. All these have been set to be hidden. Just come to the 40m and find the necessary info for the connection.

Note that the user id / password for the admin tool have been changed from the default values.

13201   Sun Aug 13 01:35:09 2017 KojiUpdateSUSGlitches stay on MC1

We used to have similar suspension excursion at ETMX. This was the motivation to replace the stand-offs from Al ones to ruby ones. Did the replacement solve the issue at ETMX?

13216   Wed Aug 16 17:14:02 2017 KojiUpdateCDSfront-end/DAQ network down for kernel upgrade, and timing errors

What's the current backup situation?

13218   Wed Aug 16 18:06:01 2017 KojiUpdateCDSfront-end/DAQ network down for kernel upgrade, and timing errors

We also need to copy chiara's root. What is the best way to get the full image of the root FS?
We may need to restore these root images to a different disk with a different capacity.

Is the dump command good for this?

13251   Thu Aug 24 18:51:57 2017 KojiSummaryLSCFirst cavity length reconstruction with a neural network

Phenomenal!

13368   Mon Oct 9 11:55:01 2017 KojiUpdateLSCDRMI Nosie Budget v3.0

My last characterization of the AS55 PD was on Feb 2013. ELOG 8100

There I said the dark noise at the PD output was 16nV/rtHz. I don't have the measurement of the Voltage noise at the output of the demod board.

Note that the PD can only be limited by shot noise when the DC current is larger then 4mA.

13440   Tue Nov 21 17:51:01 2017 KojiConfigurationComputersnodus post OS migration admin

The post OS migration admin for nodusa bout apache, elogd, svn, iptables, etc can be found in https://wiki-40m.ligo.caltech.edu/NodusUpgradeNov2017

Update: The svn dump from the old svn was done, and it was imported to the new svn repository structure. Now the svn command line and (simple) web interface is running. And "websvn" was also implemented.

13449   Wed Nov 22 16:40:00 2017 KojiUpdateOptical LeversOplev "noise budget"

You may want to consult with the cryo Q people (Brittany, Aaron) for a Si QPD. If you want the same QPD architecture, I can look at my QPD circuit stock.

13462   Sun Dec 3 17:01:08 2017 KojiConfigurationComputerssendmail installed on nodus

An email has come at 5PM on Dec 3rd.

13465   Thu Dec 7 15:02:37 2017 KojiHowToComputer Scripts / ProgramsLots of red on the FE status screen

Once a realtime machine was rebooted, it did not come back. I suspect that the diskless hosts have a difficulty to boot up.

13467   Thu Dec 7 16:28:06 2017 KojiUpdateIOOLots of red on the FE status screen

Once the RT machines were back, we launched only the five IOPs. They had bunch of red lights, but we continued to run essential models for the IFO. SOme of the lights were fixed by "global diag reset" and "mxstream restart".

The suspension were damped. We could restore the IMC lock. The locking became OK and the IMC was aligned. The REFL spot came back.

At least, I could confirm that the WFS ASC signals were not transmitted to c1mcs. There must be some disconneted links of IPC.

13512   Sun Jan 7 03:22:24 2018 KojiUpdatePonderSqueezeDisplacement requirements for short-term squeezing

Interesting. My understanding is that this is close to signal recycling, rather than resonant sideband extraction. Is that correct?

For signal recycling, we need to change the resonant condition of the carrier in the SRC. Thus the macroscopic SRC length needs to be changed from ~5.4m to 9.5m, 6.8m, or 4.1m.
In the case of 6.8m, SRC legnth= PRC length. This means that we can use the PRM (T=5%) as the new SRM.

Does this T(SRM)=5% change the squeezing level?

13515   Sun Jan 7 20:11:54 2018 KojiUpdatePonderSqueezeDisplacement requirements for short-term squeezing

In fact, that is my point. If we use signal recycling instead of resonant sideband extraction, the "tuning" of the SRC is opposite to the current setup. We need to change the macro length of the SRC to make 55MHz resonant with this tuning. And if we make the SRC macro length together with the PRC macro length for this reason, we need to thing again about the mode matching. Fortunately, we have the spare PRM (T=5%) which matches with this curvature. This was the motivation of my question. We may also choose to keep the current SRM because of its higher T and may want to evaluate the effect of expected mode mismatch.

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