Yesterday the last steering mirror mount on the PSL was changed, Manasa recovered the MC alignment and Jenne locked the arms.

 I centered the following qpds:  ASC-IBQPD, LSC-TRY, SUS-ETMY_OPLEV, LSC-TRX, SUS_ETMX_OPLEV

 Touching the PSL pointing IOO-QPD_ANG & POS was a mistake. We lost the reference of the well refined MC input.

One and 20 days TRENDS  plot showing the PSL output drift in pitch can be power drop

However initial pointing is amazingly good. ( I wonder about the lens in front of the qpd ?)

 The qpd sees the power drop as position change.

The laser  monitoring screen shows little changes of the Innolight 2W output. See elog 9292 to compare

So why does the PMC downgrade if the laser output is stationary ?

The PMC-T power is down to 0.75V  The auto locker does maximize power output.

It needs a manual alignment touch up.

Since the pointing has gone bad again, I went to the PSL to investigate. Found some bad things and removed them:

1) There was a stopped down iris AGAIN in the main beam path, after the newly installed mirror mount. I opened it. Stop closing irises in the beam path.

2) The beam dump for the IOO QPD reflection was just some black aluminum. That is not a real dump. I removed it. We need two razor blade dumps for this.

3) There was an ND filter wheel (???) after one of the PMC steering mirrors. This is not good noise / optics practice. I removed it and dumped the beam in a real dump. No elog about this ?!#?

The attached trend shows the last 20 days. The big step ~2 weeks ago is when Steve replaced the steering mirror mount with the steel one. I don't understand the drift that comes after that.

Today I also spent ~1 hour repairing the Aldabella laptop. Whoever moved it from the PSL area to the SP table seems to have corrupted the disk by improper shutdown. Please stop shutting the lid and disconnecting it from the AC power unless you want to be fixing it. Its now running in some recovery mode. Lets leave it where it is next to the PSL and MC1.

I steered the MC suspensions back to where they were on the trends before the PSL mirror mount swap and then aligned the PSL beam into it by touching the last 2 steel mounts. Once the alignment was good without WFS, I centered the beams on the IOO QPDs. If it behaves good overnight, I will center the unlocked beams on the MC WFS.

Please stay off the PSL for a couple days if you can so that we can watch the drift. This means no opening the doors, turning on the lights, or heavy work around there.

Since I saw that the trend was good, I aligned the MC refl path to the existing IMC alignment:

1. removed a broken IRIS that was clipping the reflected beam (and its mount)
2. moved the first 1" diameter steering mirror on the high power path after the 2" diameter R=10% steering mirror. It was not centered.
3. Moved the lens just upstream of the LSC RFPD away from the PD by ~5 mm. The beam going towards the WFS was too close to this mount and I could see some glow.
4. Centered the beam on all optics in the WFS path and then the WFS DC.
5. Centered beam on LSC RFPD.

The reflected spots from the PD are not hitting the dump correctly. WE need to machine a shorter post to lower the dump by ~1 cm to catch the beams.

This is a proposal to move WFSs such way that their reflected beam can be trapped.

Later ps: Nic will take care of the Gouy phase telescopes.

Unfortunately this does not work. These WFSs are not the detectors which we can move freely.
In order to move the WFS detectors, we need the precise design of the Gouy phase for each WFS heads.
Without the design, we can't move the detectors.

 The PMC power degrading on this 3 days plot. MC2 -T = 14,200 counts. C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM can not be ploted in dataviewer. The MEDM screen has a valid number.

Initial pointing is not so bad (what does "not so bad" mean ???)

C1iscey comes and goes again.

 I felt in my bones that the MC was in trouble so I came by and noticed that it hadn't locked for a couple hours. The FSS SLOW was at -1.6V, but putting it back to zero didn't fix things. I adjusted the FSS error point offset to +1 and that took the FSS_FAST off of the +10 V rail. Relocked and seems OK.

We need to plan to make the M Evans mod to the FSS box to make the PC drive less angry.

Last 40 days of MC Alignment trends  show that the recent MC WFS tuning / offseting worked out OK. MC REFL seems low and flat.

 IOO pointing monitoring qpds received razor beam dumps on their refs.

The Pos QPD was rotated and recentered.

The Ang QPD was left untouched.

TREND plot of 23 days is attached.

 New razor beam dump installed to trap reflected beam of the input vacuum window.

Yesterday evening I inspected at IMC servo as a preparation of the CM servo recommissioning.

More details to come.

In order to accomplish CARM control with the PSL laser frequency, we use two actuators.

One is the longitudinal direction of one of the MC mirrors. The londitudinal motion of the MC induces
the laser frequency control via the MC servo. As we move the mirror, the range is sort of big,
but the BW is limited by the mechanical response.

The other is the additive offset path. We inject a signal to the additional input port of the MC.
The MC servo supresses this injection by giving the same amount but oppsite sign offset to
the error signal (before the addtion of the inputs). The bandwidth of this AO path is limited
by the bandwidth of the MC servo. Basically the BW of the AO path is about 1/10 of that of the MC servo.

In order to confirm the capability of the AO path as a frequency actuator, 1) OLTF of the MC servo
2) TF of the AO input to the servo error was measured.

Attachment 1 shows the openloop TF of the MC servo. The UGF seems just little bit higher than
100kHz. The OLTF is empirically modelled by LISO as seen in the figure.

Attachment 2 shows the TF from the additive input (In2) to the error monitor (MC Servo module Q error mon).
The gain setting of the MC servo box was: In1 +18dB, In2 0dB. The measured TF has arbitorary gain 
due to the gain setting, the measuemrent data was multiplied by 4 to mach the DC value to the unity.
This is to compare the measurement with the prediction from the OLTF.

The AO path TF is expected to show the character of -G/(1+G) where G is the OLTF. In my case,
G = 0.75*OLTF showed the best maching. There might have been some misalignment of the MC
upon the AO path measurement as I found after the measurement.

From the plot , we can see that the response is flat up to 20kHz. Above that it rapidly raises.
This should be dealt with the CM servo filter as the bump may hit the unity gain. Since we have to use
strong roll off to avoid the bump, this will eat the phase margin at low frequency.

In the case that we don't like this bump:
This bump is caused by low phase mergin of the OLTF at 30~40kHz. If the total gain
is increased, the bump is reduced. Or, we can decrease the PZT loop gain in order to
reduce the dip at the crossover ferquency between the PZT and PC loops. In both cases,
the PC path suffers more actuation. We may need to think about the HV actuation option
for the PC (Apex PA85).

Well, let's see how the CM servo can handle this.
The key point here is that we have enough data to start the design of the CM servo.

 It seems to me that current design of the common mode servo is already fine. Attached plots show common mode open and closed loop transfer function.

Frequency response of the servo is taken from the document D040180. I assumed coupled cavity pole to be ~100 Hz.

The only question is if our EOM has enough range. Boost 2 increases noise injection by 10 dB in the frequency range 20-50 kHz. Boost 3 has even higher factor.

Looks good.

Once the control cable (bakplane cable) is identified, we can install the module to the LSC analog rack.

We should be able to test the CM servo with either POX or POY and only one correspoding arm without modifying the servo TF.
Just for this test, we don't need to use MCL.

Last time we designed MCL loop with UGF ~ 30 Hz and I think, it was hard to lock the arm because of large frequency noise injected to IFO.

This time I made a low bandwidth MCL loop with UGF=8 Hz. MCL error RMS is suppressed by factor of 10 and arms lock fine.

Attached plots show MCL OL, MCL error suppression and frequency noise injection to arms.

It is interesting that spectrum of arms increases below 1 Hz meaning that IMC sensing noise dominates in this range.

I did not include the loop into the IMC autolocker. I think it is necessary to turn it on only during day time activity and when beatnote is moving too much during arm stabilization.

 The trend shows a big jolt to the MC1/3 pointing this morning at 8:30.

Was anyone working anywhere near there today? There is no elog.

If not, we will have to put a 'no janitor' sign on all of the 40m doors permanently to prevent mops misaligning our interferometer.

When I got in this morning at 9-something (9:45 maybe?), Steve was taking dust photos on the AS table, of the MC Refl path.  Other than that, I don't have any information. 

Also, Tuesday is our traditional janitor day, so I'm hesitant to put our blame there.  (I think we've kept Tuesdays, even though we're on a less-often schedule....Steve will have to correct me if I'm wrong on this).

 I was taking pictures at the AP table at the morning and ETMX optical table after noon. There was no activity on the IOO chamber.

 Look at the last 2 hours of  Rana's trend plot. MC1 and MC2 sensor voltage started increasing.

I think it was a drift action.

 NOT drift. The sudden steps are certainly the result of being kicked. The slow drift at the end of the day might be a slow strain relaxation.

It pays to be careful and not put too much weight or impulsive forces on the chambers or tables.

The MC trend for the last 2 days shows that the MC suspensions were kicked again earlier today.  Looking back at the suspension channel INMONs along with the MC trans sum shows that the suspensions get kicked everytime MC locks and unlocks. (Attch:1)

So I checked the effect of WFS on the suspensions by disabling and enabling the WFS feedback servo (Attch:2).

Since the IMC is not at it best pointing, whenever the  MC autolocker runs and enables the WFS, the suspensions look like they are getting kicked.  But really, it's just the WFS doing their job. 

Edit, JCD:  What this really means is that our DC MC pointing is bad, and we need to move the MC suspensions to offload the WFS.  (All of the WFS output numbers for MC1 and 3 were around 100, which is pretty big for those numbers).  We should resurrect the WFS offloading scripts so that we can do this more regularly, and not have to do it by hand.

 Aligned MC to offload the WFS

1. Turned OFF the WFS feedback servo.

2. Aligned the MC suspensions by moving the pit and yaw sliders. MC trans sum brought from ~11000 counts to ~15000 counts. MC RFPD DCMON reads 0.45 counts.

3. Turned ON the WFS servo. The WFS output now reads in the order of 0 to +/-15.

4. Measured the MC spot positions. The spot positions look like they moved for the better compared to what they were yesterday.

[Rana, Jenne]

We turned off the WFS servos, and looked at the MC REFL DC, and saw that it was still good, so we said that since the MC spots are pretty good, that we'll keep this alignment for now. 

Rana put the beam back on the center of the IOO QPDs on the PSL table.

We switched a steering mirror in the WFS path that was the wrong handed-ness to be the correct handed-ness, then put the beam on the centers of the WFS.  We turned on the WFS, and everything seems good.

While we were out on the table, we also changed the anodized aluminum dump for a razor dump, to catch the reflection from the 2inch lens that is the first thing the MC refl path sees out of vac.

There were no major drifts in the WFS error signals while we were gone for dinner, so the MC seems okay for now.

After locking the arms (after the MC alignment work), Manasa and I aligned IP POS, IP ANG, and both end transmission QPDs. 

We noticed that IP ANG is clipping in yaw as it comes onto the end table.  It looks to me like it's clipping on the edge of the plastic box's aperture, but I can't guarantee that it's not also clipping elsewhere. 

 The last 4 hour trend for WFS error signals show some amount of drift. We should still look at the long term trend to solve the issue.

In order to activate the slow actuator servo for the MC locking,
the threshold level for this servo (C1:PSL-FSS_LOCKEDLEVEL) was changed from 10000 to 700.

Now the servo started to move the PZT fast out to be controlled to 5V.

PSL output is stable.

The MC has been funny since yesterday. I checked the suspensions INMON channels and they seemed ok. So I went ahead and tweaked the alignment with WFS disabled (yesterday). Although the WFS PDs were cenetered at this point, the WFS servo was throwing the MC in a not-so-happy state. We worked with the WFS servo OFF all of yesterday.

This morning,

* I fine tuned the MC alignment from yesterday (TRANS_SUM > 17800 counts)

* measured the spot positions

* recentered the spots on the WFS PDs (was already quite centered)

*reset the WFS filterbank offsets.

The MC has been locked happily since then with autolocker and WFS servo enabled.

As we've been seeing a bit lately, the MC will be locked happily for several hours, but then it will start misbehaving. 

Today, I measured the spots on the MC mirrors, and found that the MC2 spot was quite far off in yaw (about -3.5 cm).  I recentered the MC2 spot, and then (with the MCWFS on), moved MC1 and 3 until their WFS outputs were close to zero (they had gone up to 100+).  In the ~15 minutes since doing that, the MC refl signal is not oscillating like it was, the transmission is up, and the MC has not unlocked. 

To reiterate, I did not touch any settings of anything, except the alignment of the MC mirrors to center the MC2 spot, and then offload the WFS.  Next time the MC starts acting up, we should measure the spots, and roughly center them, before messing with any other settings.  Note however, that this is a ~10 minute procedure (including the fact that one spot measurement takes a little less than 5 minutes).  This need not be a several hour endeavour. 

I've asked Manasa and Q to have a look at the MC in the morning.  Rana and I have found it to be slightly uncooperative in relocking after a lockloss.

We have found that just letting the autolocker go doesn't seem to work very well, and sometimes the MC just doesn't want to re-lock.  Closing the PSL shutter or disabling the autolocker for a few minutes (5ish) doesn't do anything, but leaving it closed for a long time (30 ish minutes) helps a lot.  The MC  will relock immediately after a nice long break. 

 The MC is happy (but only for this tiny snapshot in time and most probably will go dysfunctional again as it has been for several months, as of this writing)

The IMC has not been behaving well since this morning and totally not happy when Q was finishing his measurements. The WFS servo had large offsets in pitch. Looking back at the trend and using ezcaservo to restore the suspensions did not help.

I realigned the IMC and brought TRANS SUM to ~18000 and MCREFL to < 0.5. The spot positions are not very good; nearly 2 mm off in pitch on MC1 and MC3. But after the alignment of MC, the WFS servo offsets were below +/-20.

The MC has been locked stably with WFS servo ON for the last few hours.

P.S. I did not touch the WFS pointing or reset the WFS offsets.

MC remained locked with WFS enabled all through last night and this morning. Koji dropped by and looked at the MC. The MC WFS servo, though stable, was at the edge of becoming unstable. This was because I did not touch the WFS pointing on the QPDs yesterday after realigning. So I recentered the WFS, reset the WFS filterbank offsets and reenabled the servo.

I measured the spot positions on MC mirrors for reference.

Spot positions in mm (MC1,2,3 pit MC1,2,3 yaw): [1.405767579680834, 0.79369009503571208, 1.3220430681427462, -1.2937873599406551, -1.1704264340968924, -1.2518046122798692]

 Morning seconds without adjustment.

I don't know why, but as you can see in Steve's plot from earlier this morning, the PMC transmission has been going down significantly all weekend.  The PMC refl camera was very bright.  I tweaked up the alignment (mostly pitch), and now we're back to normal. 

The IMC was having trouble staying locked all morning, and I'm hoping that this PMC adjustment will help - the MC already looks better, although it's only been a few minutes.

MC spot sposition script was ran

/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/ASS/MC/mcassMCdecenter

Found no notable beam position change before and after the earthquake

I aligned MC2 suspension by 0.01 in pit and yaw to align the MC better to the PSL beam. Then I turned the WFS back on. The beams are not centered on the WFS heads.

Nic and Gabriele ought to send their SURF some example code (in April) for how to start redesigning the WFS telescopes so that we can order some optics in early June.

I've also turned on the MC2 TRANS path to gather some data over the weekend on how well or bad it works. Please turn it off on Monday.

 MC2_TRANS path in WFS servo turned OFF.

[From yesterday]

The MC had not been stable lately with WFS drifting constantly. I checked the servo and found that the MC_TRANS path was still running. It turned out that the autolocker script enables the TRANS path in the locking process. I have turned the MC_TRANS path servo inputs OFF and now it is no more a part of the WFS servo.

P.S. Jenne fixed the PMC alignment mostly in pitch to bring it up to 0.81 from 0.77. But the temperature fluctuations have still not got us to the sweet spot for optimum PMC trans.

Yesterday, MC2 alignment was slipping all day. Even when the WFS was off (i.e. there wa sno actuation), I had continual misalignment caused by MC2

I was afraid that the MC2 mirror is on a bistable position somehow. So I gave -5000 offset on the MC2 LSC. We'll see how it makes the MC happier.

Came in, and the PMC and MC needed aligning. 

PMC Trans .74->.83

I wasn't able to move the MC1&3 the right way in pitch without having a terrible MC2 position... using the move MC2 scripts to bring it back threw off the other spots.

To make the mcwfson/off scripts work from rossa (and not just Jamie's pet machine) I swapped the sh-bang line at the top of the script to use 'env bash' instead of 'env csh' in the case of mcwfsoff and 'env tcsh' in the case of mcwfson.

The script was failing to work due to $OSTYPE being defined for pianosa csh/tcsh, but not on rossa.

During debugging I also bypassed the ezcawrapper for ezcaswitch so that now when ezcaswitch is called, it directly runs the binary and not the script which calls the binary with numerous retries. In the future, all new scripts will be rewritten to use cdsutils, but until then beware of ezcaswitch failures.

WFS scripts checked into the SVN.

This was all in an effort to get Koji to allow me to upgrade pianosa to ubuntu 12 so that I can have ipython notebook on there.

Objections to upgrading pianosa? (chiara and megatron are already running ubuntu 12)

We turned on the MC2_TRANS paths for both PIT/YAW tonight.

I turned off the BLP200 and turned on the RLP7 (RLP always are better than BLP). G_PIT = -0.111, G_YAW = 0.111. On Monday, let's let Steve look at the trends and determine if this centering servo is bad or good.

I should've included this in my Thursday night ELOG... That evening, I aligned the mode cleaner with reasonable MC1/3 spot positions, and the MC2 spots very close to centered, and recentered the WFS and MC2 Trans QPDs. The mode cleaner held up very well over the course of that evening, even when actuating CARM on MC2 with WFS engaged (which previously wasn't very stable when the WFS weren't well aligned).

The MC was showing slow but periodic alignment drifts and eventually unlocked around noon. I looked up the alignment trend (Attach: 2 day trend)

MC_TRANS_PIT_ERR and MC_TRANS_Y_ERR show that the MC_TRANS servo slowly drifted the IMC alignment causing it to lose lock from time to time (mostly in yaw).

To confirm that the drift was NOT due to off-centering in the MC2_TRANS QPD, I turned off the WFS servo, moved MC2 to recenter the trans beam on the QPD, and re-enabled WFS servo.

MC_TRANS path in WFS is still left enabled.

This is a 4-day trend. I don't see any difference here which is significant. My guess is that the MC_TRANS servo gain is so low that its not really doing anything.

I'll turn it on periodically this week and then on Monday people can look at the trend again to see if they can identify when the servo is ON and when its OFF.

c1sus and c1iscey were reset. The PMC needed to be locked. MC locked instantly.

The FSS ion pump power supply was turned on.

Looks like there was some mysterious MC alignment shift around 5:30 PM today, but no elog.....?? Now things are drifting much more than this morning or yesterday. Who did what and why???

I think I'll blame Jamie since he just got back and did some computer fiber voodoo today.

http://www.lawsome.net/no-throwing-rotten-tomatoes-a-repealed-kentucky-law/

During a lull in Koji vs. The Arm, I switched on the MC2_TRANSQPD feedback path to check out its UGF. In the past months, when its been on, it has had a gain of ~0.03 - 0.1.

Today, I found that with the gain turned up to 11, it has a ~1 minute step response time (as you see in the above Strip chart). So its had a UGF of ~2 hours or so during the times when we thought it might be doing bad or good or magic.

I leave it on now to see if it behaves well over the next days. Let's see if Steve thinks its good or not based on his trend monitoring.

** also touched up the PMC pointing (using the PMC REFL image / please never align the beam into the PMC without this camera image)