Here is an update of how fitting the resonances is going - I've been modifying parameters by hand and seeing the effect on the fit. Still a work in progress. Magnitude is fitting pretty well, phase is very confusing. Attempted vectfit again but I can't constrain the number of poles and zeros with the code I have and I still get a nonsensical output with 20 poles and 20 zeros. Here is a plot with my fit so far, and a zip file with my moku data of the resonances and the code I'm using to plot.

The machine shop looked a mess this morning, so I cleaned it up. All power tools are now placed in the drawers in the machine shop. Let me know if there are any questions of where anything here is placed. 

Took finer measurements of the x-arm aux laser actuator tranfer function (10 kHz - 1 MHz, 1024 pts/decade) using the Moku.

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I took finer measurements using the moku by splitting the measurement into 4 sections (10 - 32 (~10^4.5) kHz, 32 - 100 kHz, 100 - 320 kHz, 320 - 1000 kHz) and then grouping them together. I took 25 measurements of each ( + a bonus in case my counting was off), plotted them in the attached notebook, and calculated/plotted the standard deviation of the magnitude (normalized for DC offset). Could not upload to the ELOG as .pdf, but the pdf's are in the .zip file.

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Next steps are to do the same stdev calculation for phase, which shouldn't take long, and to use the vectfit of this better data to create a PZT inversion filter.

Salvage these (and any other things). Wrap and double-pack nicely. Put the labels. Store them and record the location. Tell JC the location.

As marked up in the photos.

Attachment 5: The electronics units removed. Cleaning half way down. (KA)

Attachment 6: Moved most of the units to 1X3B rack ELOG 17125 (KA)

Attachment 5: RF delay line was accommodated in 1X3B. (KA)

Behind the X arm tube

The analog electronics units piled up along the wall was moved into 1X3B rack which was basically empty. (Attachments 1/2/4)

We had a couple of unused Sun Machines. I salvaged VMIC cards (RFM and Fast fiber networking? for DAQ???) and gave them to Tega.
Attachment 3 shows the eWastes collected this afternoon.

{Paco, Yehonathan}

BHD Optics box was put into the x-arm last clean cabinet. (attachment 5)

OSEMs were double bagged in a labeled box on the x-arm wire racks. (attachment 1)

SOS Parts (wire clamps, winches, suspension blocks, etc.) were put in a box on the x-arm wire rack. (attachment 3)

2"->3" optic adapter parts were put in a box and stored on the xarm wire rack. (attachment 3)

Magnet gluing parts box was labeled and stored on the xarm rack. (attachment 2)

TT SUS with the optics were stored on the flow bench at the x end. Note: one of the TT SUS was found unsuspended. (attachment 4)

InVac parts were double bagged and stored in a labeled box on the x arm wire rack. (attachment 2)

[Anchal, Radhika]

Attachment 2: The custom cables which were part of the intermediate setup between old electronics architecture and new electronics architecture were found.
These include:

• 2 DB37 cables with custom wiring at their connectors to connect between vacuum flange and new Sat amp box, marked J4-J5 and J6-J7.
• 2 DB15 to dual head DB9 (like a Hydra) cables used to interface between old coil drivers and new sat amp box.

A copy of these cables are in use for MC1 right now. These are spare cables. We put them in a cardboard box and marked the box appropriately.
The box is under the vacuum tube along Yarm near the center.

[Anchal, Radhika]

The cables in USPS open box were important cables that are part of the new electronics architecture. These are 3 ft D2100103 DB15F to DB9M Reducer Cable that go between coil driver output (DB15M on back) to satellite amplifier coil driver in (DB9F on the front). These have been placed in a separate plastic box, labeled, and kept with the rest of the D-sub cable plastic boxes that are part of the upgrade wiring behind the tube on YARM across 1Y2. I believe JC would eventually store these dsub cable boxes together somewhere later.

DB9 Cables have been assorted and placed behind the Y-Arm. Long BNC Cables and Ethernet Cables have been stored under the Y-Arm. 

Restore lab

[Paco, Tega, JC, Yehonathan]

We followed the instructions here. There were no major issues, apart from the fb1 ntp server sync taking long time after rebooting once.

ETMY damping

[Yehonathan, Paco]

We noticed that ETMY had to much RMS motion when the OpLevs were off. We played with it a bit and noticed two things: Cheby4 filter was on for SUS_POS and the limiter on ULCOIL was on at 0 limit. We turned both off.

We did some damping test and observed that the PIT and YAW motion were overdamped. We tune the gain of the filters in the following way:

SUSSIDE_GAIN 1250->50

SUSPOS_GAIN 200->150

SUSYAW_GAIN 60->30

These action seem to make things better.

[JC, Tega, Paco ]

I would like to mention that during the Vacuum startup, after the AUX pump was turned on, Tega and I were walking away while the pressure decreases. While we were, valves opened on their own. Nobody was near the VAC Desktop during this. I asked Koji if this may be an automatic startup, but he said the valves shouldn't open unless they are explicitely told to do so. Has anyone encountered this before?

I don't know what was wrong with the past setup but the 950nm laser (QPHOTONICS QFLD-950-3S) just worked fine up to ~300MHz with basically the same setup.

A 20dB coupler picks up a small amount of the driving signal from the source signal of the network analyzer. This was fed to CHR. The fiber-coupled NewFocus PD RF output was connected to CHA.
The calibration of the response was done with the thru response (connect the source signal to the CHA via all the long cables).

Attachment 1 shows the response CHA/CHR. The output is somewhat flat up to 20MHz and goes down towards 100MHz, but still active up to 500MHz as long as the normalization with the New Focus PD works.
The structure around 200MHz~300MHz changes with how the wires of the clips are arranged. I have twisted and coiled them as shown and the notch disappeared. For the permanent setup we should keep the lines as short as possible and take care of the stray capacitance and the inductance.

Attachment 2 shows the setup at the network analyzer side. Nothing special.

Attachment 3 shows the setup at the laser side. The DB9 connector on the Jenne's laser has the negative output of the LD driver connected to the coax core and the positive output connected to the shield of the coax. Therefore the coax core (red clip) has to be connected to Pin 9 and the coax shield (black clip) to PIn 5.

I am currently working on getting the driver reinstalled on Donatella for the sensoray. An issue keeps arising that will not allow me to run "make" successfully in the unzipped driver folder. Will continue to remedy this.

This is why there is no light showing up on the device while plugged in. The computer does see the device, but does not show its model due to the inability for it to communicate without the driver.

-Alex

I am borrowing the fiber illuminator / fiber tester / VisiFault for the OMC lab. It has been stored in the top drawer at the center work bench.

==> Returned

I have made little progress in getting the sensoray driver installed on Donatella. I have confirmed that it is indeed the reason why none of the hardware is working. I am now working through changes on a virtual machine that is running Scientific Linux to find something that may work. If no progress is made soon, I will ensure that software for a replacement video encoder is able to be installed before requesting we order one.

I have been looking at various replacements for the sensoray, and have found that the majority of new usb video encoders don't have drivers anymore and now just work through being embedded with video-capturing software. This means that the hardware must be used with a compatible video player such as VLC or OBS. VLC can natively be run with terminal commands, and because OBS is open source, there are packages that can be downloaded to use terminal commands to control the software as well. I am not sure to what extent the usb video encoder can then be controlled with these commands, but this seems to be the easiest method so far. I will finish picking which new unit we should purchase tomorrow, and order it through JC. 

WFS Whitening and Demod boards were scavenged. ' iLIGO WFS cards are in big plastic boxes placed on the north wall around Section Y5 or Y6 (not under the arm). The WFS head PCBs, empty WFS housing, WFS components, I/Q demod components are at SectionY10 under the arm tube. ' - Koji . I have taken pictures of the boards and will upload them to the DCC once I find a way to add a Serial Number . (I will upload this to the eLog as a HowTo) The next step is to search for at least 2 extender boards to troubleshoot these board and find if there are any issues. We may have replace some components and retune the boards. Attachment #1 is an example of the WFS Whitening Filter and Attachment #2 is and example of the the WFS Demod Board.

If you use the Camera DO NOT remove the strap. I have also purchased lens caps for the camera, so after usage PUT THE LENS CAP BACK ON. 

I have confirmed the ability to install the sensoray drivers on Debian 11 in a virtual machine environment. I will do testing with the sensoray device on this tomorrow and if all works, begin working on code for capturing images. I will then test this out on Donatella once Tega finishes installing Debian across all computers in the coming week or so. 

Electrical Shop came in today to replace the lightbulbs around 40m. I supervised the entire visit, inside and outside the lab area. I was sure to use the ladders which were already inside the lab area. Although, while I was crawling under the MC beam tube, I came up too quickly and bumped it. This may have caused MC to become misaligned. Anyways, Yehonathan and I are realigning now.

Electrical came by today to see the lights. The issue may be the switches, but they will come by tomorrow to solve the issue. A couple light bulbs were noticed to be out, but they no longer have incandescent lights. . . only LED. I figured this would be preffered because of the reduction on noise. I would prefer to go ahead and ask to change all the incandescent bulbs to LED bulbs. Are there any objections to this?

All incondescent lightsbulbs have been switched over to LED.

[Paco]

I picked up the 950 nm laser that Koji tested before and restored the Jenne laser (may long it live).

I changed a couple of things; first I took out the old laser from the hose and noted the new laser has a shorter fiber patch cable, so I replaced the hose with a flexible fiber jacket I found around the X arm storage. I also added a 14 pin DIP socket so the laser is now always showing its part no. and is easy to install/uninstall. Last but not least I replaced the black insulating material right at the output of the laser package because it was decaying badly and spread a bunch of dusty residue all over the place. I used some foam instead.  See various attachments for visual support.

I was careful, testing the connections with a cheap LED to validate the setup before I connected the laser-- this made everything smooth and I finished the work by verifying the laser is outputting light at the other end of the fiber 1x2 coupler. The PD testing with Jenne's resucitated laser should proceed normally now.

RXA: Huzzah!!

[Paco, Yuta]

We have recovered the IFO alignment (FPMI and BHD) for the first time after the power loss on Dec 15th 11:30 AM PST.

PMC and IMC transmission
~>cdsutils avg -s 10 C1:PSL-PMC_PMCTRANSPD C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUMFILT_OUT
C1:PSL-PMC_PMCTRANSPD 0.7332153499126435 0.0004376671844386436
C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUMFILT_OUT 14370.22451171875 38.87278766402092

BHDC PDs with LO beam only
~>cdsutils avg -s 10 C1:HPC-BHDC_A_OUT C1:HPC-BHDC_B_OUT
C1:HPC-BHDC_A_OUT 111.07633819580079 2.916326545853983
C1:HPC-BHDC_B_OUT 96.85788955688477 2.4419271045522506

Arm transmissions
~>cdsutils avg -s 10 C1:LSC-TRY_OUT C1:LSC-TRX_OUT
C1:LSC-TRY_OUT 1.0163812279701232 0.02008742269699207
C1:LSC-TRX_OUT 0.9274496018886567 0.027689954466601815

MICH fringe with ETM misaligned
See Attachment #1

LO-ITMX single bounce fringe with ITMY misaligned
See Attachment #2

Received the campus power outage this (Dec 30, 2022) morning.
- ELOG is still up
- 6 CDS machines are up
- Vacuum system and pressure all look good

I believe this power outage happened on the other side of the campus and did not affect the 40m.

I have been working on cleaning the large optical table next to the PSL table. I have placed the known optics along in the optical cabinets Section Y5. Post and pillars have been placed in a cabinet along X-Arm. (I will work on gathering optics and optical hardware into a single area in the future, having them separated is only temporary.) I found some optics that were chipped and/or unlabeled. These have been placed in a box. 

There were cables coming into this table from the wire rack above, I plan on removing this. If there are any issues with me doing this, please message me. 

My main purpose for cleaning this is to potentially have an open area to place OMC for the next vent. We can also move the PD Testing table here. 

During my time shadowing Anchal, we discussed the need for digital control systems on the suspension systems for the 40 meter optics. The controls and diagnostics system (CDS) allows us to develop our own feedback controls and filters for the suspension systems by taking in analog signals from the shadow sensors. The feedback control system developed in the CDS then utilizes the OSEM actuators to dampen harmonic motion and noise on the suspension lines. While improving these feedback loops is an ongoing challenge, it is a problem that is likely non-linear, meaning the system must be understood on a much higher level to make further improvements. This brings us to the new addition of a wavefront sensor in the 40m lab, which will allow for constant monitoring of the active wavefront in the interferometer. The wavefront will soon be used for gathering training data for a neural net that will help further analyze the non-linear effects within the suspension and damping system. What Anchal was working on today was an update within a CDS model for clioo to allow for the integration of the wavefront sensor such that he may use a switch to change between connections in the mode cleaner and the arm cavity. The CDS models may be edited and updated using Matlab/Simulink to arrange blocks and code in a robust and visual manner. The final system designed in Simulink can then be saved and compiled using the real-time code generator (RCG), which cross-compiles the Simulink file into C code that can be read by the CDS system to assign inputs, outputs, and various logic or algorithms for filtering.

Today while aligning optics at the xend, my knee engaged the AUX laser interlock. I spent some time trying to disable the interlock, and I'm putting the solution here for mainly my reference: pull on the red interlock button. This shorts the two pins on the back of the Mephisto controller.

[Steve, Koji, JC]

Steve Vass came by today and was loaded with information. Here are a couple things we went over:
- Removal of the large optical table.
- Disconnecting the roughing pumps to prevent oil contamination. 
- Plexiglass End Enclosures
- TP1 maintenance Information

Removal of the large optical table. 

    Steve mention to us that there will be 2 machines that have to raise and rotate the optical. The optical table is 2 ft wide when rotated and this seems to easily give us clearance to get this guy out if we set it on piano dollies. The only issue we encountered is that we may have to disconnect the small power supply rack by 1X2 to make room for one of the machines that will rotate the table. If we manage to lift the table, slide it over to a more open area, lift again, and remove the dollies, then this may give us enough space for this machine and we won’t have to disconnect the power supply rack by 1x2. Overall, turning the table over on its side and maneuvering it into the aisle to go down the aisle along Xarm is the trickiest part. From there, we just have to find out where we are going to take this monster of an optical table.

Disconnecting the roughing pumps to prevent oil contamination
    

Disconnecting the roughing pumps to prevent oil contamination. 

    Steve let us know that he would disconnect to oil vacuum pumps after getting to your nominal vacuum pressure. This prevents these pump from possibly feeding oil into the system. Each of these pumps have an intentional leak vale that keeps the pressure above 300 mtorr. If the pressure get any lower, the pumps will begin to back pressure oil into the system.

Plexiglass Enclosures

  

   I asked Steve about some information on the end enclosures and PSL Enclosure. For the end enclosures, these were custom made. The film on the enclosure was added by people who do car window tinting. This film is not as strong as the plexiglass for the PSL Table. I have to look through Steve’s physical documents to find a receipt, or information of where he purchase the custom enclosure. As for the PSL enclosure, the film is actually imbedded/ combined with the plexiglass. This can withstand much more power than the end enclosures.

TP1 Maintenance
    
    Steve has sent TP1 and the controller for maintenance before. It seems like we need to do this roughly ever 4-6 years and the last time TP1 was shipped out for maintenance was in 2018. During this, Steve said he thinks he was shipped a temporary pump to use in the mean time while TP1 was being repaired. When there is an error with the pump, it will pop up on the controller as show in [elog 14189](https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/40m/14189)Anyways, it seems like TP1 will have some issues coming up.

I sketched up the first encounter we will have when moving the optical table out. I'm assuming the table has already been turned onto its side. Next will be manuevering the table into the aisle along X-Arm. Solidworks' "Move Component" feature always me to move the table and see collisions. The feature stops the component from dragging and highlights the two faces which have made contact. I have not yet gotten to take the dimensions of the MC2 chamber and table, this will bethe tightest spot, so I want to get precise measurements. Though, it looks like we wont have any issues getting the table into the aisle. Atachment #1 is a top view that shows we have clearence, ~5 -7.5 in on both sides, and attachment #2 is a sectional view to show a clear pathway for pulling the table into the aisle.

Object that are Red are computer racks and Wood are walls.

I was able to get this accelerometer going for the next Lab tours. I want to get this guy up on a big screen to give people a nice "wow". I found this accelerometer on the Y end cabinet and there is 1 more available if anyone needs it at 40m. It is a Brüel & Kjær 8318. It contains a PZT so there is no need to input a signal. The accelerometer seemed to only put out roughly 2 mV max, so i had to amplify with an SR560 to get a good looking signal. 

RXA: link to Manual

This morning I found a helpful post in the git.ligo pages that referred to the issue that was stopping the summary pages from being submitted to the codor. In the last 3 weeks the accounting_tag ligo.dev.o3 was retired, and thus the accounting tag "ligo.dev.o3.detchar.daily.summary" which is found in both /condor/gw_daily_summary.sub and /condor/gw_daily_summary_rerun.sub was preventing the summary pages from bieng submitted.

The post referred to a running list in the nodus that points to all active accounting tags: etc/condor/accounting/valid_tags this showed that "ligo.dev.o4.detchar.daily.summary" and "ligo.dev.o5.detchar.daily.summary" were currently active tags. I then tested the files using this tag (o4) with success in starting the pages up again. I have now committed the change to the git. 

The prior 3 days of summary pages were also regenerated: 

relocate to /bin

run ./gw_daily_summary_40m --day YYYYMMDD

once finished run ./pushnodus YYYYMMDD

      (must do independently for each day)

As a test, I have replaced the PSL StripTool on the north wall of the control room with a nearly equivalent NDScope display. It is plotting the real time second trend along with min/max values. Let's try this out for awhile, and if its bad we can just close the window.

FYI, the striptool machine, zita, has a mis-configured network setup so that its not getting a useful nameserver. So for now, its running on allegra through ssh -Y. We should put the zita network thing on some sort of issue tracker. Maybe we can have tickets and issues like various companies use for tech support? This could cover all of our main lab work and help us keep track of little problems like this.

In the last two days Steve and I took some optics away from the both ETM end table.

This is because we need an enough space to set up the green locking stuff into the end table, and also need to know how much space is available.

Optics we took away are : Alberto's RF stuff, fiber stuff and some optics obviously not in used.

The picture taken after the removing is attached. Attachment1:ETMX, Attachment2:ETMY

And the pictures taken before the removing are on the wiki, so you can check how they are changed.

http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/40m/Optical_Tables

The PD Kiwamu removed from the Y table was TRY, which we still need.

My bad if he took that. By mistake I told him that was the one I installed on the table for the length measurement and we didn't need it anymore.

I'm going to ask Kiwamu if he can kindly put it back.

 I am going to put the PD back to the Y end table in this afternoon.

I put the TRY_PD back to the end table and aligned it. Now it seems to be working well.

Koji and kiwamu

The existing optics on the ETMX/ETMY end table were rearranged in this morning.

The main things we have done are -

1. relocation of the optical levers for ETMs ( as mentioned in koji's entry )

This relocation can make a space so that we can setup the green locking stuffs.

The optical path of the green locking is planed to start from the right top corner on the table, therefore we had to relocate the oplevs toward the center of the table.

2. relocation of the lens just before the tube

Because we are going to shoot the green beam into the arm cavity, we don't want to have any undesired lenses before the cavity.

For this reason we changed the position of the lens, it was standing just in front of the tube, now it's standing on the left side of the big mirror standing center top.

Since we did not find a significant change in its the spot size of the transmitted light, we did not change the position of all the TRANS_MON_PDs and its mirrors. And they are now well aligned.

Attachment1: ETMX end table

Attachment2: ETMY end table

We are leaving the PLL as it is locked in order to see the long term stability. And we will check the results in early morning of tomorrow.

DO NOT disturb our PLL !!

(what we did)

After Mott left, Matt and I started to put feedback signals to the temperature control of NPRO.

During doing some trials Matt found that NPRO temperature control input has an input resistance of 10kOhm.

Then we put a flat filter ( just a voltage divider made by a resistor of ~300kOhm and the input impedance ) with a gain of 0.03 for the temperature control to inject a relatively small signal, and we could get the lock with the pzt feedback and it.

In addition, to obtain more stable lock we then also tried to put an integration filter which can have more gain below 0.5Hz.

After some iterations we finally made a right filter which is shown in the attached picture and succeeded in obtaining stable lock.

Now some pedestals, mirrors and lenses are left on the PSL table, since we are on the middle way to construct a PLL setup which employs two NPROs instead of use of PSL laser.

So Please Don't steal any of them.

Modified one of the PD assemblies carrying a large SI-Diode (~10mm diameter).

Removed elements used for resonant operation and changed PD readout to transimpedance

configuration. The opamp is a CLC409 with 240 Ohm feedback (i.e. transimpedance) resistor.

To prevent noise peaking at very high frequencies and get some decoupling of the PD,

I added a small series resistor in line with the PD and the inverting opamp input.

It was chosen as 13 Ohm, and still allows for operation up to ~100MHz.

Perhaps it could be smaller, but much more bandwith seems not possible with this opamp anyway.

Changes are marked in the schematic, and I list affected components here.

(Numbers refer to version 'PD327.SCH' from 30-April-1997):

-removed L4

-connected L3 (now open pad) via 100 Ohm to RF opamp output. This restores the DC sognal output.

-removed c17

-connected pin 3 of opamp via 25 Ohm to GND

-connected kathode of PD via 13 Ohm to pin 2 of opamp

-removed L6, C26, L5, C18, and C27

-shorted C27 pad to get signal to the RF output

Measured the optical TF with the test laser setup.

(Note that this is at 1064nm, although the PD is meant to work with green light at 532nm!)

Essentially it looks usable out to 100MHz, where the gain dropped only by about

6dB compared to 10MHz.

Beyond 100MHz the TF falls pretty steeply then, probably dominated by the opamp.

The maximal bias used is -150V.

If the bias is 'reduced' from -150V to -50V, the response goes down by 4dB at 10MHz and

by 9dB at 100MHz.

 The average output was 30mV at the RF output, corresponding to 60mV at the opamp output (50Ohm divider chain).

With 240 Ohm transimpedance this yields 250µA photo-current used for these transfer functions.

 Can I please get the network analyzer back?

Matt checked it in this morning and he found it's been locked during the night.

In this afternoon, Mott and I tried to find a beat note between two NPROs which are going to be set onto each end table for green locking.

At first time we could not find any beats. However Koji found that the current of innolight NPRO was set to half of the nominal.

Then we increased the current to the nominal of 2A, finally we succeeded in finding a beat note.

Now we are trying to lock the PLL.

P.S. we also succeeded in acquiring the lock