ID |
Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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5639
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Sun Oct 9 17:13:46 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | First attempt to estimate mode matching efficiency using interferometer | The efficiency
of the mode matching (MM) to PRC (Power-Recycling |
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5640
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Mon Oct 10 00:01:26 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | First attempt to estimate mode matching efficiency using interferometer | "^2"s are missing in the second
equation, but the calculation results seem
correct. |
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5641
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Mon Oct 10 10:14:43 2011 |
rana | Update | LSC | length fluctuations in SRCL | How does it make sense that the motion
at 0.1 Hz of PRC is 10x larger than MICH?
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5642
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Mon Oct 10 12:14:00 2011 |
Mirko | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | IMC simulations | [Mirko, Kiwamu]
I tried to answer two questions regarding
the IMC: |
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5643
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Mon Oct 10 13:52:04 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | RE: First attempt to estimate mode matching efficiency using interferometer |
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5644
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Mon Oct 10 15:41:56 2011 |
Koji | Update | PSL | PMC aligned | [Koji Suresh]
The steering mirrors for PMC were
aligned. The transmission went up from 0.779 |
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5645
|
Mon Oct 10 16:32:18 2011 |
steve | Update | SUS | UL sensor of ETMY is recovered | I lost UL osem voltage this morning
when I was checking the actual connection
at rack ETMY |
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5646
|
Mon Oct 10 18:53:04 2011 |
Katrin | Update | Green Locking | Mirrors whose angle of incidence is not 45° | The angle of incidence of light is for
some mirrors on the YARM end table different
from 45° even though the mirrors are |
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5647
|
Tue Oct 11 00:59:55 2011 |
Suresh | Update | IOO | Preliminary locking of WFS loops | [Kiwamu, Koji, Suresh]
After correcting several errors in
the WFS loops, we turned them on today and |
6x |
5648
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Tue Oct 11 03:35:16 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | BS actuator reponse at low frequency : measured | The response
of the BS actuator in a low frequency regime |
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5649
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Tue Oct 11 15:14:50 2011 |
rana | Update | LSC | BS actuator reponse at low frequency : measured |
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5650
|
Tue Oct 11 15:19:17 2011 |
rana | HowTo | Environment | 40m map | The Kinemetrics dudes are |
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5651
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Tue Oct 11 17:32:05 2011 |
jamie | HowTo | Environment | 40m google maps link | Here's another useful link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=34.13928,-118.123756 |
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5652
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Tue Oct 11 19:11:25 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | Re: BS actuator reponse at low frequency : measured | I think
the precision due to the loop gain uncertainty |
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5653
|
Tue Oct 11 21:23:51 2011 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | Arm absl lengths |
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5654
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Wed Oct 12 00:35:42 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | TRY path realigned | The
TRY (TRansmitted light from Y arm ) path
was a bit realigned because there had been |
|
5655
|
Wed Oct 12 08:43:30 2011 |
steve | Update | SUS | ITMX oplev improved a bit | Atm2 is before optical path adjustment.
The idea was to remove possible clipping
in vacuum. |
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5656
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Wed Oct 12 17:53:01 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | BS actuator response : fitting done and histroy of delays | An
update on calibration of the BS actuator
: A fitting has been done. |
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5657
|
Wed Oct 12 18:54:02 2011 |
Katrin | Update | Green Locking | 60 Hz oscillation due to broken BNC cable | There was a 60 Hz and 120 Hz oscillation
on the green PDH photo diode output. After
a long search, I could identify that |
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5658
|
Wed Oct 12 19:58:32 2011 |
Katrin | Update | Green Locking | Power splitter is unbalanced | The mini circuit power splitter ZFRSC-42S+
used at the YARM has no balanced output as
it should have according to the data sheet. |
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5659
|
Thu Oct 13 03:22:53 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | measurement of sensing matrix : just began | - status update on LSC activity :
The
measurement of the LSC sensing matrix has |
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5660
|
Thu Oct 13 14:23:09 2011 |
steve | Update | SUS | ITMX oplev with 3 mm beam on qpd | I replaced the JDSU-Uniphase 1125P
by 1103P He/Ne laser. This new laser had
2.8 mW output yesterday. It degraded to 0.5 |
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5661
|
Thu Oct 13 20:25:32 2011 |
Katrin | Update | Green Locking | LPF transfer function YARM | It is a 4th order filter with
cut of frequency of 120 kHz.
|
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5662
|
Thu Oct 13 21:40:59 2011 |
rana | Summary | VAC | Recovery from the power shutdown is completed | As it turns out Steve is not crazy
in this particular instance: the vacuum computer,
linux3 , has some issues. I can login just |
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5663
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Thu Oct 13 21:44:48 2011 |
Mirko | Update | CDS | Seismic BLRMS channels, new RMS calculation | [Rana, Koji, Mirko]
We looked into the CDS RMS block c-code |
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5664
|
Thu Oct 13 23:58:38 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | fixing REFL165 | I already have reported in
this entry that REFL165 shows too high
DC output which does not depend on the light |
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5665
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Fri Oct 14 04:35:45 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | locking tonight | The
lock of DRMI wasn't stable enough to measure
the sensing matrix. Failed. |
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5666
|
Fri Oct 14 16:20:11 2011 |
Zach | Update | SUS | C1:SUS-ETMX_SPDMon fixed | I offered to help Kiwamu with some of the
40m work. The first task was to figure out
why the ETMX side OSEM monitor was so low, |
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5667
|
Fri Oct 14 18:38:41 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | SUS | C1:SUS-ETMX_SPDMon fixed |
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5668
|
Sat Oct 15 04:53:41 2011 |
Suresh | Update | IOO | MC WFS Output Matrix determination | After we had a
rough idea of what the output matrix looks
like (see this elog), |
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5669
|
Sat Oct 15 10:58:32 2011 |
rana | Update | IOO | MC WFS Output Matrix determination | In order to save time and sanity, you
should not measure the pitch ->yaw and
yaw-> pitch. It makes things too complicated |
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5670
|
Sat Oct 15 16:01:26 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | IOO | about LOCKIN module |
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5671
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Sat Oct 15 16:42:08 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | Testing REFL165 | Test results of new REFL165 (the
first attachment)
- The resonant freq 166.2MHz, |
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5672
|
Sat Oct 15 17:06:20 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | Installation REFL165 | REFL165 was installed on the AP table last
night.
Meanwhile I found the DC power level |
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5673
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Sun Oct 16 02:30:00 2011 |
rana | Update | Electronics | Testing REFL165 | Unless the bias feedback circuit has been
tuned for the 1 mm diode, its possible that
you are seeing some C(V) effects. Its easy |
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5674
|
Sun Oct 16 05:35:18 2011 |
rana | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | Failing to set SUS summary screen values |
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5675
|
Mon Oct 17 07:57:24 2011 |
steve | Update | SUS | ETMX sus damping restored | |
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5676
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Mon Oct 17 10:43:14 2011 |
Mirko | Update | CDS | Commited changes to c1rfm | I want to make changes to c1rfm. Found
uncommited changes to it from Sept 27. Since
we recompiled it since then it should be |
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5677
|
Mon Oct 17 11:06:31 2011 |
Mirko | Update | CDS | Piping data from c1lsc to c1oaf | Changed, recompiled, installed and restarted
c1rfm and c1oaf to get the MC1-3 Pitch and
Yaw data into the c1oaf model. |
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5678
|
Mon Oct 17 11:40:44 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | REFL165 removed from the table | REFL165 removed from the table for the
C(V) test |
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5679
|
Mon Oct 17 14:26:22 2011 |
Mirko | Update | CDS | Seismic BLRMS channels, new RMS calculation |
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5680
|
Mon Oct 17 17:07:30 2011 |
steve | Update | SUS | ETMX oplev returning beam od 3 mm | ETMX oplev had 6 mm diameter beam
on the qpd. I relayed the beam path
with 2 lenses to get back 3 mm |
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5681
|
Mon Oct 17 22:20:42 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | REFL165 removed from the table |
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5682
|
Mon Oct 17 23:28:32 2011 |
rana | Update | Electronics | StochMon | To get to the bottom of the RFAM mystery,
we've got to resurrect the StochMon to trend
the RFAM after the IMC. |
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5683
|
Mon Oct 17 23:56:34 2011 |
Suresh | Update | IOO | MC WFS Integrators switched on and WFS_MASTER screen updated | [Rana, Suresh]
To see if
the loops will stay locked when the Integrators |
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5684
|
Tue Oct 18 04:04:27 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | measurement of sensing matrix : touchy SRM | I made
some attempts to measure the sensing matrix |
|
5685
|
Tue Oct 18 10:04:41 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | REFL165 removed from the table | The original REFL165 had ~50MHz/A dependence
on the DC photocurrent.
The resistr R21, which was 2670 Ohm |
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5686
|
Tue Oct 18 15:20:03 2011 |
kiwamu | Summary | IOO | RFAM plan | [Suresh / Koji / Rana / Kiwamu]
Last |
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5687
|
Tue Oct 18 20:50:19 2011 |
Suresh | Update | IOO | C1IOO and WFS associated screens | In keeping with the current protocol,
I have started to move all the user-built
medm screens associated with C1IOO into the |
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5688
|
Tue Oct 18 21:19:18 2011 |
rana | Configuration | IOO | WFS disabled in SUS | I found that the MC WFS had large offset
control signals going to the MC SUS. Even
though the input switch was off, the integrators |
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