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Sun May 15 19:10:12 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | Calibration of actuators : BS, ITMX and ITMY |
The AC response of the actuators on BS, ITMX and ITMY were re-measured by another technique.
Last time I estimated them by measuring the open-loop transfer functions, but this time the responses were measured in a more direct way.
The measured AC responses (60 Hz - 200 Hz) are :
BS = 1.643e-98 / f2 [m/counts] (corrected based on the plot below - Manasa)
ITMX = 3.568e-9 / f2 [m/counts]
ITMY = 3.542e-9 / f2 [m/counts]
Next : measurement of the PRM actuator response
(The technique)
This time a technique that Rana told me a week ago was used.
This technique allows us to directly measure the response of an actuator at high frequency without any loop corrections.
First of all, MICH has to be locked to keep MICH within the linear range of the error signal. So now MICH is a linear sensor to the mirror motions.
In the MICH control a steep low pass filter should be inserted in order to avoid unwanted effects from the control loop at the high frequencies.
For example I put a low pass filter composed of an elliptical filter whose cut-off frequency is at 50 Hz such that the control loop doesn't push the mirrors above the cut-off frequency.
Hence the error signal of MICH above 50 Hz directly corresponds to the motion of the mirrors including BS, ITMX and ITMY.
Taking a transfer function from an actuator to the MICH error signal directly gives the actuator response.
In my measurements MICH was locked by feeding the signal back to BS. The plot below is the expected open-loop transfer function for the MICH control.

You can see that the open loop TF suddenly drops above 50 Hz. The UGF was at about 20 Hz, confirmed by looking at the loop oscillation on DTT.
(Measurement)
In the technique the error signal has to be calibrated to [m]. This time AS55_Q was used and calibrated based on a peak-to-peak measurement.
The peak to peak value in the MICH error signal was 8 counts, which corresponds to the sensor efficiency of 4.72e+07 [counts/m].
Then I took transfer functions from each suspension (i.e. C1:SUS-XXX_LSC_EXC) to the error signal at AS55_Q over a frequency range from 60 Hz to 200Hz.
For the transfer function measurements I ran the swept sine on DTT to get the data. Note that the PD whitening filters were on.
The plot below is the results of the measurements together with the fitting lines.

In the fitting I excluded the data pints at 60 Hz, because their coherence was low due to the power line noise. |
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Tue May 17 01:05:56 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | Asymmetry measurement prep : recentering works |
I re-centered beams on several PDs and a camera including :
AS55, ETMY_QPD, TRY and ETMYT_CCD.
The most important one was AS55.
When I was locking each arm I found that the error signal from AS55 was very coupled to the angular motion of the arms.
I checked the beam on the AS55 RFPD and found the beam on the edge of the photo diode. This is possibly because Valera and I had been touching the input beam alignment.
At that time the DC signal from AS55 without aligning PRM and SRM was about 5 mV.
Adjusting the beam position by a steering mirror brought the DC signal up to 20 mV.
Then the lock of each arm became more stable.  |
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Tue May 17 22:50:00 2011 |
Jamie | Configuration | LSC | New digital lockin added to LSC model/screen |
I added a lockin to the LSC model, and added it's corresponding control to the LSC screen. Here's is what I added to the LSC model:
 
On the left are the froms from the normalized RF PD outputs. Those go into a matrix, whose single row goes into the lockin signal input. The clock output from the lockin goes into the LSC output matrix (last row).
Here is what I added to the LSC master screen:

I also modified the lockin overview screen:

I think this new screen looks a lot cleaner. Maybe we could start using this one as a template for lockin screens. |
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Wed May 18 22:11:31 2011 |
rana | Configuration | LSC | New digital lockin added to LSC model/screen |

This is OK....but, the input matrix should come from the same place as the regular input matrix: i.e. it should be just another row like CARM, DARM, etc. rather than have its own screen.
Also, I think a nice mod to all the matrices would be if the ORANGE triangle was only visible when there's a signal flowing through it. |
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Thu May 19 16:46:20 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | c1lsc model : input channels rearanged |
According to Suresh's LSC rack design I rearranged the input channels of the c1lsc model such that the analog signals and the ADC channels are nicely matched.
Also I updated the c1lsc model in the svn with a help from Joe. The picture below is a screen shot of the input channels in the model file after I edited it.

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Fri May 20 03:01:17 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | locking status |
(PRMI locking)
Since REFL11 has gone I tried locking the PRMI with combination of REFL55 and AS55.
Without any pain the lock of PRMI was achieved successfully. AS55 was used to sense MICH and REFL55 was used for PRC.
(scripting)
Additionally I was modifying several scripts which are invoked from C1IFO_CONFIGURE.adl. Some details about the scripts will be uploaded on the wiki later.
An important thing is that now we are able to use the "restore" commands for the Y arm, X arm, Michelson and PRM locking.
The scripts will automatically acquire the lock of each DOF. The image below is just a screen shot of the medm screen where you can call the scripts.

( Still to do)
* PRM actuator response measurement
* PRC noise budget
* MICH-PRC actuator decoupling |
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Sat May 21 06:19:46 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | DRMI trial : no luck |
I will try with POY55 that Koji prepared today. |
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Mon May 23 00:36:51 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | DRMI trial : sucess |
Eventually the DRMI was locked.
I was struggling to find a good signal port for SRC over the weekend and finally found AS55_I worked somehow. I used :
REFL11_I --> PRC
AS55_Q --> MICH
AS55_I --> SRC
A configuration script was prepared such that someone can try this configuration by clicking a button on the C1IFO_CONFIGURE.adl screen.
I don't think this signal extraction scheme is the best, but now we can find better signal ports by shaking each DOF and looking at each signal port.
More details will be reported in the morning.
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I will try with POY55 that Koji prepared today.
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Mon May 23 12:27:26 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | DRMI trial : details |
(PRMI locking with slightly misaligned SRM)
First I tried locking PRC and MICH with a little bit misaligned SRM. This condition allowed me to search for a good signal port for SRC.
In this locking, REFL11_I was used to lock PRC and AS55_Q was used for MICH. This is the same scheme as the current PRMI locking.
Since the alignment of SRM was close to the good alignment, I expected to see fringes from SRC in some signal ports (i.e. REFL55, POY55 and so on).
Sometimes a fringe of SRC disturbed AS55_Q and broke the MICH locking, so I had to carefully misalign SRM so that the SRC fringes are small enough to maintain the lock of MICH.
(Looking for a good signal port for SRC)
After I locked the PRMI with slightly misaligned SRM, I started looking for a good signal port for SRC.
At the beginning I tried finding a good SRC port by shaking SRM at 100 Hz and looked at the power spectra of all the available LSC signals.
I was expecting to see a 100 Hz peak in the spectra, but this technique didn't work well because SRC wasn't within the linear range and hence didn't produce linear signals.
So I didn't see any strong signals at 100 Hz and finally gave up this technique.
Then I started looking for a PDH-like signal in time series and immediately found AS55_I showed large PDH-like signals.
So I started using the AS55_I for the SRC locking and eventually succeeded.
(Two tips for the DRMI locking)
During the locking of DRMI, I found two tips that made the locking quite smooth.
- Triggered locking
Since every LSC signal ports showed large signals from PRC somehow, feeding back the signals made the suspensions crazy.
So I used triggered locking for the PRC and MICH locking to avoid unwanted kicks on BS and PRM.
If the DC of REFL goes above a certain level, the control of PRC starts. Also if the DC of AS goes below a certain level the control of MICH starts.
These triggers make the lock smoother.
- Do not use resonant gain filters
This is really a stupid tip. When I was trying to lock MICH, the lock became quite difficult for some reasons.
It looked there was an oscillation at 3 Hz every time the MICH control started. It turned out that a 3 Hz resonant gain filter had been making it difficult.
All the resonant gain filters should be off when a lock acquisition is taken place.
Quote from #4759 |
Eventually the DRMI was locked.
More details will be reported in the morning.
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Mon May 23 14:28:23 2011 |
kiwamu | Configuration | LSC | POY55 installed |
Last Saturday the POY55 RFPD (see this entry) was installed on the ITMY optical bench for the trial of the DRMI locking.
Since the amount of the light coming into the diode is tiny, the DC monitor showed ~ 3 mV even when the PRC was locked to the carrier.
In order to amplify the tiny RF signal from the photo diode a ZHL amplifier was installed next to the RFPD. The RF amp is sitting on delrin posts for insulation from the table.
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Mon May 23 18:10:41 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | f2p filters on PRM : not good |
During the DRMI trial I noticed that the f2p filters on PRM is not quite effective (i.e. pushing PRM in POS direction makes misalignments).
I checked the f2p filters in an easy way. I pushed POS at 0.01 Hz with an amplitude of 1000 counts and looked at the oplev error signals with / without the f2p filters.
The picture below is a time series of the POS excitation, the oplev's PITCH and YAW error signals.
You can see there still is a big coupling from POS to YAW after the f2p filters were enabled. (Its supposed to be like this)
I will redo the f2p measurement on PRM.

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Mon May 23 18:16:42 2011 |
Koji | Configuration | LSC | POY55 installed |
The DC Transimpedance of POP55 was increased from 50 Ohm to 10010 Ohm. There is the offset of 46mV. This should be cancelled in the CDS.
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Last Saturday the POY55 RFPD (see this entry) was installed on the ITMY optical bench for the trial of the DRMI locking.
Since the amount of the light coming into the diode is tiny, the DC monitor showed ~ 3 mV even when the PRC was locked to the carrier.
In order to amplify the tiny RF signal from the photo diode a ZHL amplifier was installed next to the RFPD. The RF amp is sitting on delrin posts for insulation from the table.
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Wed May 25 20:12:55 2011 |
Jamie | Configuration | LSC | New digital lockin added to LSC model/screen |
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This is OK....but, the input matrix should come from the same place as the regular input matrix: i.e. it should be just another row like CARM, DARM, etc. rather than have its own screen.
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You're absolutely right. That was a brain-fart oversight. I fixed the model so that the input from the lockin comes from another output row in the RFPD input matrix. I then fixed the C1LSC medm screen accordingly:

This is obviously much simpler and more straight-forward.
A future improvement would be to modify the DCPD input matrix to be able to route those signals to the lockin as well. This is actually currently possible since the DCPD input matrix is just a subset of the full input matrix, but it's not available via medm yet. |
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Thu May 26 17:10:21 2011 |
Jamie | Configuration | LSC | New digital lockin added to LSC model/screen |
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A future improvement would be to modify the DCPD input matrix to be able to route those signals to the lockin as well. This is actually currently possible since the DCPD input matrix is just a subset of the full input matrix, but it's not available via medm yet.
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I went ahead and added the lockin output to the DCPD input matrix.
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Fri May 27 17:52:53 2011 |
steve | Update | LSC | LSC rack cables strain relieved & labeled |
LSC rack 1Y2 cables are strain relieved and labeled. Spare and/or obsolete cables are laid out on the top of the beam tube and on the outside of the rack.
The POY 110 MHZ demodboard has a very touchy position in the VME crate. Watch out for it! It has to be fixed. |
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Mon Jun 6 17:22:09 2011 |
valera | Configuration | LSC | Clipping in the X arm 1064 um trans path |
I changed optics in the ETMX transmon path to remove clipping (which made a false QPD signal).
During the weekend I found that there was an offset in X arm c1ass pitch servo, which derives the signal by demodulating the arm cavity power, coming from the beam clipping in the transmon path.
The clipping was on the pair of the 1" mirrors that steer the beam after the 2" lens (see attached picture). The beam is about 5-6 mm in diameter at this distance from the lens and was not well centered.
I moved the steering mirrors downstream by about 8" where the beam is about 2-3 mm (the attached picture shows the mirrors in the new location). The Y arm layout is different from X arm and I didn't find any obvious clipping in transmon path.
The max X arm buildup went up from 1.3 to 1.5. I changed the TRX gain from -0.003 to -0.002 to obtain the normalized X arm power of 1 in this state. The MC refl DC is 1.6 out of 4.9 V and the Y arm buildup is ~0.9 so the TRX(Y) gains will have to be adjusted once the MC visibility is maximized. |
Attachment 1: XarmTransMon.pdf
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Wed Jun 8 23:17:25 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | DRMI output matrix diagonalization |
Approximately two weeks ago I diagonalized the LSC output matrix for the DRMI locking.
Since actuation on the position of BS changes not only MICH but also PRC and SRC, we needed to diagonalize the output matrix.
- What I did :
(1) The DRMI was locked. At this point PRC, MICH and SRC was controlled by PRM, BS and SRC actuators respectively.
(2) I injected excitation signal on C1:LSC-MICH_EXC by awg. The excitation was at about 200 Hz, which is above the UGF of all the LSC loops.
At this point the excitation only shakes the position of BS.
(3) I looked at spectra of REFL11_I, AS55_Q, AS55_I, that were used to sense PRC, MICH and SRC respectively.
At the beginning I was able to see the peak due to the excitation in those spectra. This means BS shakes the other DOFs (i.e. PRC and SRC) as well as MICH.
(4) To minimize the coupling from MICH to PRC (or SRC), I tuned a number on an element of the output matrix, which transfers the signal from MICH to PRM (or SRM).
This business was done by looking at the peak on REFL11_I (or AS55_I) and minimizing it. Since this technique was too naive the tuning was done only in second decimal place.

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Fri Jun 10 14:50:37 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | New LSC code installed |
[Koji Jamie]
The new c1lsc code has been installed. The LSC screens have also been updated (except for ASS screen).
The major changes are:
1. Naming of the RFPD channels. Now the PD signals were named like:
REFL11_I_IN1, REFL11_I_IN2, REFL11_I_OUT ....
instead of REFL11I_blah
2. NREFL11, etc has been removed. We now have the official error signals
named like
REFL11_I_ERR
We can't use the name "REFL11_I" for the error signal as this name is
occupied by the name of the filter module. |
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Mon Jun 13 12:34:21 2011 |
Jamie, Koji | Update | LSC | Updated LSC model installed |
After a couple of hickups, I was able to compile and install Koji's rework of the LSC model.
The main changes are that the model now use an RF_PD library part, and the channel names were tweaked to be more in line with what we expect.
I found a couple of small bugs in the model that were preventing it from compiling. Those were fixed and it compiled with no further problems.
There was also some rearrangement of signal inputs to the PD_DOF matrix. The matrix screen was updated to reflect the proper inputs. However, this also meant that the burt restore scripts for the IFO configurations were setting the wrong elements in the matrix. I fixed the settings for X and Y arm locking, and updated the burt snapshots using the burt/c1ifoconfigure/C1save{X,Y}arm scripts. NOTE: burt settings will need to be updated for the MICH, PRM, DRM, and FULL IFO configurations as well.
During the build/install process, Joe and I also found a bug in the feCodeGen that was causing the filter screens to be created with the wrong names. Joe sent out a patch that will hopefully be merged soon. Building the model with Joe's patch fixed the screen names, so the screens are currently named correctly. |
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Tue Jun 14 18:12:34 2011 |
Jamie, Kiwamu | Update | LSC | LSC seems to be fully recovered |
We are now locking the arms reliably, with reasonable transmitted power. We zeroed the LSC offsets with script, since they were apparently not being reset with either the overall burt restore or the arm restore scripts.
We have lost a bit of power through the mode cleaner. However, we have opted not to tweak it up just yet, so that we don't have to realign to the arms. |
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Wed Jun 15 01:30:38 2011 |
Jamie | Summary | LSC | Schnupp asymmetry measurement |
Measurement of Schnupp asymmetry
This was done by measuring the relative phase between the sidebands reflected from the two arms while the arm cavities are locked.
The Schnupp asymmetry is measured to be: Lsa = 3.64 ± 0.32 cm

Description:
As a phase reference we use the zero crossing of the response function for the out-of-phase control signal for the single arm cavity lock [0]. The difference in the RD rotation phase of the response zero crossings indicates the phase difference in the sideband signals reflected from the arms. Assuming the asymmetry is less than half the RF modulation wavelength [1], the asymmetry is given by the following formula:
\Delta \phi c 1
L_sa = ----------- ----- -
360 f_RSB 2
We use a LSC digital lock-in to measure the response of the arm cavity at a single-frequency drive of it's end mirror.
[0] The locations of the zero crossings in the out-of-phase components of the response can be determined to higher precision than the maxima of the in-phase components.
[1] fRSB = 55 MHz, c/fRSB/2 = 2.725 m
Procedure:
- Lock/tune the Y arm only.
- We use AS55_I to lock the arms.
- Engage the LSC lock-in.
- Tune the lock-in parameters:
lock-in freq: 103.1313 Hz
I/Q filters: 0.1 Hz low-pass
phase: 0 degrees
- Set as input to the lock-in the out-of-phase quadrature from the control RFPD. In this case AS55_Q->LOCKIN.
- Drive the arm cavity end mirror by setting the LOCKIN->Y_arm element in the control matrix.
- Note the "RD Rotation" phase between the demodulated signals from the control PD (AS55)
- For some reasonable distribution of phases around the nominal "RD Rotation" value, measure the amplitude of the lock-in I output.
- Assuming the Q output is nearly zero, it can be neglected. In this case the Q amplitude was more than a factor of 10 less than the I amplitude.
- Here we take 5 measurements, each separated by one over the measurement bandwidth (as determined by the lock-in low pass filter), in this case 10 seconds. The figure above plots the mean of these measurements, and the error bars indicate the standard deviation.
The data and python data-taking and plotting scripts are attached.
Error Analysis:
To to determine the parameters of the response (which we know to be linear) we use a weighted linear least-squares fit to the data:
y = b X
where:
X0j = 1
X1j = xj # the measurement points
y = yi # the response
b = (b0, b1) # line parameters
The weighting is given by the inverse of the measurement covariance matrix. Since we assume the measurements are independent, the matrix is diagonal and Wii = 1/\sigmai2 The
estimated parameter values are given by:
\beta = ( XT W X )-1 XT W y = ( X'T X' )-1 X'T y'
where X' = w X, y' = w y and wii = \sqrt{Wii}.
The X' and y' are calculated from the data and passed into the lstsq routine. The output is \beta.
The error on the parameters is described by the covariance matrix M\beta:
M\beta = ( XT W X)-1 = ( X'T X')-1
with correlation coefficients \rhoij = M\betaij / \sigmai / \sigmaj.
The x-axis crossing is then given by:
X(Y=0) = - \beta1 / \beta0
References:
Valera's LLO measurement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_least_squares
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_least_squares_(mathematics)#Weighted_linear_least_squares
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_propagation |
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Fri Jun 17 23:20:05 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | Some updates of the LSC screen |
Some updates of the LSC screen
- Signal amplitude monitor for the PD signals (--> glows red for more than 1000)
- Kissel Buttons for the main matrices
- Trigger display at the output of the DOF filters
- Signal amplitude monitor for the SUS LSC output (--> glows red for more than 10000)
ADC Over flow monitor is showing some unknown numbers (as ADCs are handled by IOPs).
I asked Joe for the investigation (and consideration for the policies) |
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Mon Jun 20 18:36:49 2011 |
Suresh | Update | LSC | REFL55 PD update |
[Suresh, Koji]
I used a matlab code written by Koji to analyse the transimpedance and current noise data of REFL55. The details are in the attached pdf file.
Resonance is at 55.28 MHz:
Q of 4.5, Transimpedance of 615 Ohms
shot noise intercept current = 1.59 mA
current noise =21 pA/rtHz
Notch at 110.78 MHz:
Q of 54.8 Transimpedance of 14.68 Ohms.
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[Rana, Koji]
REFL55 was modified. The noise level confirmed. The PD is now ready to be installed.
Kevin's measurement report told us that something was wrong with REFL55 PD. The transimpedance looked OK, but the noise level was terrible (equivalent to the shotnoise of 14mA DC current).
Rana and I looked at the circuit, and cleaned up the circuit, by removing unnecessary 11MHz notch, 1k shunt resister, and so on.
I made a quick characterization of the PD.
First page:
The transimpedance ws measured as a function of the frequency. The resonance was tuned at 55MHz. The notch was tuned at 110MHz in order to reject the second harmonics. The transimpedance was ~540V/A at 55MHz. (For the calibration, I believed the DC transimpedance of 50V/A and 10000V/A for the DC paths of this PD and #1611, respectively, as well as the RF impedance (700V/A0 of #1611.
Second page:
Output noise levels were measured with various amount of photocurrent using white light from a light bulb. The measurement was perforemed well above the noise level of the measurement instruments.
Third page:
The measured output noise levels were converted into the equivalent current noise on the PD. The dark noise level agrees with the shot noise level of 1.5mA (i.e. 22pA/rtHz). In deed, the noise level went up x~1.5 when the photocurrent is ~1.4mA.
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Tue Jun 21 20:35:50 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | a script to measure sensing matrix |
Last night I was making a script which will measure the sensing matrix using the realtime LOCKIN module.
The script is a kind of expansion of Jamie's one, which measure the asymmetry, to more generic purpose.
It will shake a suspended optic of interest and measure the response of each sensor by observing the demodulated I and Q signals from the LOCKIN module.
I will continue working on this.
(current status)
- made a function that drives the LOCKIN oscillator and get the data from the I and Q outputs.
- checked the function with the MICH configuration.
ITMX, ITMY and BS were shaken at 100 Hz and at different time.
Then the response of AS55_Q showed agreement with what I got before for the actuator calibration (see this entry).
It means the function is working fine. |
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Tue Jun 21 23:29:41 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | sensing matrix measurement |
I am now measuring the sensing matrix in the DRMI configuration.
A goal of tonight is to measure the sensing matrix as a test of the script.
The result will be updated later. |
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Wed Jun 22 17:42:03 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | sensing matrix measurement |
The sensing matrix was measured in the DRMI configuration for the first time.
The measurement was done by an automatic script and the realtime LOCKIN module built in the c1lsc model.
The resultant matrix is still too primitive, so I will do some further analysis.
(Measurement of sensing matrix)
The quantities we want to measure are the transfer functions (TFs) from displacement (or change in optical phase) of each DOF to sensors in unit of [counts/m].
So essentially the measurement I did is the same as the usual TF measurement. The difference is that this measurement only takes TFs at a certain frequency, in this case 283 Hz.
The measurement goes in the following order :
(1) Lock DRMI
(2) Shake an optic of interest longitudinally with an amplitude of 1000 counts at 283.103 Hz, where no prominent noise structures are present in any spectra of the sensor signals.
(3) Put a notch filter at the same frequency of 283.103 Hz in each DOF (MICH, PRC and SRC) to avoid unwanted suppression due to the control loops.
(This technique is essentially the same as this one, but this time the control loops are shut off only at a specific frequency )
The notch filter I put has a depth of 60 dB and Q of 20. The filter eats the phase of ~10 deg at 200 Hz, which still allow servos to run with a high UGF up to 200Hz.
(4) Take the output signal from a signal port of interest (i.e. REFL11_I, etc.,) and then put it into the realtime LOCKIN module.
(5) Measure the resultant I and Q signals coming out from the LOCKIN module.
(6) Repeat the procedure from (2) through (5) for each optic and sensor.
(Results)
Again, the resultant sensing matrix is still primitive, for example the optic-basis should be converted into the DOF basis.
The values listed in the matrix below is the absolute values obtained by operation of sqrt( I^2 + Q^2) plus the polarity according to the output from I and Q of LOCKIN.
Therefore they still contain the actuator response, which is not desired. i will calibrate them into [counts/m] later by using the calibration factor of the actuator responses.
All the raw data showed the relative phase between I and Q either ~ 127 deg or ~ -53 deg.
In my definition, the one has 127 deg is plus polarity and the one has -53 deg is minus polarity.
Technically speaking the polarity depends on the polarity of the actuator and also the direction of the actuator against the DOFs.
Without any excitation the absolute values fluctuated at about 10-4 - 10-5, so the excitation amplitude was big enough to observe the sensing matrix.
Though, I still need to estimate the statistical errors to make sure the SNR is reasonably big.

Fig.1 Measured sensing matrix from optic to sensors.
(Things to be done)
- convert the optic-basis (i.e. BS, ITMs, PRM and SRM) to the DOF-basis (i.e. MICH, PRC and SRC) so that the matrix is understandable from point of view of the interferometer control.
- estimate the optimum demodulation phase for each DOF at each sensor port.
- add some statistical flavors (e.g. error estimations and so on.)
- edit the script such that it will keep watching the ADC overflows and the coherence to make sure the measurement goes well.
- add some more signal ports (e.g. REFL55, POY55 and etc.)
- compare with an Optickle model
Quote from #4851 |
The result will be updated later.
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Thu Jun 23 05:22:51 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | PRMI locking : not stable enough |
I was trying to measure the sensing matrix in the PRMI configuration, but basically gave up.
It is mainly because the lock of PRMI wasn't so stable and it didn't stay locked for more than a minute.
It looked like an angular motion fluctuated a lot around 1- 3 Hz. The beam spot on the AS camera moved a lot during the lock.
I have to figure out who is the bad suspension and why. |
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Thu Jun 23 09:46:16 2011 |
rana | Update | LSC | PRMI locking : not stable enough |
All the suspensions are bad until you fix them. But, ... there is a script which can be used to diagnose them today:
Python SUStest |
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Sat Jun 25 06:09:38 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | Friday locking |
I was able to measure the sensing matrix in the PRMI configuration.
The results will be posted later. |
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Tue Jun 28 15:20:08 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | sensing matrix measurement in PRMI configuration |
Here is the result of the measurement of the sensing matrix in the PRMI configuration.
If we believe the resultant matrix, it is somewhat different from what we expected from a finesse simulation (summary of simulated sensing matrix).
(Motivation)
As a part of the DRMI test plan, we wanted to check the sensing matrices and consequently diagonalize the LSC input matrix.
The matrix of the DRMI configuration has been measured (#4857), but it was a bit too complicated as a start point.
So first in order to make sure we are doing a right measurement, we moved onto a simpler configuration, that is PRMI.
(measurement)
The technique I used was the same as before (#4857) except for the fact that SRM wasn't included this time.
- PRC was locked to the carrier resonant point. The UGF of MICH and PRC were ~ 110 Hz and 200 Hz respectively.
- Longitudinally shook BS, ITMs and PRM at 283.103 Hz with an amplitude of 1000 counts using the LOCKIN oscillator in C1LSC.
- Took the I and Q phase signals from the LOCKIN outputs.
The table below is the raw data obtained from this measurement :

(Conversion of matrix)
With the matrix shown above, we should be able to obtain the sensing matrix which gives the relation between displacements in each DOF to each signal port.
The measured matrix connects two vectors, that is,
(signal port vector) = [Measured raw matrix] (SUS actuation vector), -- eq.(1)
where
(signal port vector) = (AS55_I, AS55_Q, REFL11_I, REFL11_Q)T in unit of [counts],
(SUS actuation vector) = (BS, ITMX, ITMY, PRM)T in units of [counts].
Now we break the SUS actuation vector into two components,
(SUS actuation vector [counts]) = (actuator response matrix [m/counts])-1 * (MICH, PRM [m] )^T -- eq.(2)
where
(actuator response matrix) = 2.05x10-13 * ( [1 , 0.217, -0.216, 0 ],
[ 0.5, 0.109 -0.108, 0.862] ) in unit of [m/counts]
These values are coming from the actuator calibration measurement.
In the bracket all the values are normalized such that BS has a response of 1 for MICH actuation.
Combining eq.(1) and (2) gives,
(signal port vector) = (measured raw matrix) * (actuator response matrix)-1 * (MICH, PRM)T
And now we define the sensing matrix by
(sensing matrix) = (measured raw matrix) * (actuator response matrix)-1
The sensing matrix must be 4x2 matrix.
For convenience I then converted the I and Q signals of each port into the absolute value and phase.
ABS = sqrt((AAA_I)2 +(AAA_Q)2 ),
PHASE = atan (AAA_Q / AAA_I),
where AAA is either AS55 or REFL11.
(Resultant matrix)
The table below is the resultant sensing matrix.
ABS represents the strength of the signals in unit of [cnts/m], and PHASE represents the demodulation phases in [deg].

There are several things which I noticed :
- The demodulation phase of MICH=>AS55 and PRC=>REFL11 are close to 0 or 180 deg as we expected.
This is a good sign that the measurement is not something crazy.
- AS55 contains a big contribution from PRC with a separation angle of 152 deg in the demodulation phase.
In AS55 the signal levels of MICH and PRC were the same order of magnitude but PRC is bigger by a factor of ~4.
However the finesse simulation (see wiki page) shows a different separation angle of 57 deg and MICH is bigger by factor of ~6.
- REFL11 is dominated by PRC. The PRC signal is bigger than MICH by a factor of ~100, which agrees with the finesse simulation.
However the separation angle between PRC and MICH are different. The measurement said only 19 deg, but the simulation said ~ 90 deg.
- Woops, I forgot to calibrate the outputs from the LOCKIN module.
The whole values must be off by a certain factor due to the lack of the calibration , but fortunately it doesn't change the demodulation phases.
Quote from #4884 |
I was able to measure the sensing matrix in the PRMI configuration.
The results will be posted later.
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Wed Jun 29 00:35:36 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | new LSC overview screen 80% done |
New LSC screen is 80% completed.
It is now accessible from the LSC menu of "sitemap".
Most of the part in the screen is clickable such that it launches another screen depending on the location of the click.
The bottom part of the screen still need some work.
RFPD screen is temporary
LSC control screen is also temporary
DAC overflow indicators are still broken.
Channel assignment of the whitening filters are arbitrary so far.
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Wed Jun 29 12:20:53 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | sensing matrix measurement in PRMI configuration |
Of course I made a mistake in my calculation of the sensing matrix. I will figure out which point I mistook.
The MICH signal must have the demodulation phase of around 90 deg in AS55
because we had adjusted the demodulation phase such that the MICH signal mostly appears on AS55_Q.
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Here is the result of the measurement of the sensing matrix in the PRMI configuration.

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Wed Jun 29 14:43:12 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | LSC model updated |
LSC model has been updated and running,
- Now the power and signal recycling cavity lengths are named "PRCL" and "SRCL" in stead of three letter names without "L".
- Names for the trigger monitor were fixed. They are now "C1:LSC-DARM_TRIG_MON", etc., instead of "...NORM"
- Channel order of the DC signals for PDDC_MTRX and TRIG_MTRX were changed.
It was "TRX, TRY, REFL, AS, POP, POX, POY" but now "AS, REFL, POP, POX, POY, TRX, TRY".
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Thu Jun 30 00:58:19 2011 |
Koji | Summary | LSC | LSC whitening filter test |
[Jenne, Koji]
We have tested the LSC whitening filters. In summary, they show the transfer functions mostly as expected (15Hz zerox2, 150Hz pole x2).
Only CH26 (related to the slow channel "C1:LSC-PD9_I2_WhiteGain. VAL NMS", which has PD10I label in MEDM) showed different
phase response. Could it be an anti aliasing filter bypassed???
The 32 transfer functions obtained will be fit and summarized by the ZPK parameters.
Method:
The CDS system was used in order to get the transfer functions
- For this purpose, three filter modules ("LSC-XXX_I", "LSC-XXX_Q", "LSC-XXX_DC") were added to c1lsc
in order to allow us to access to the unused ADC channels. Those filter modules have terminated outputs.
The model was built and installed. FB was restarted in order to accomodate the new channels.
- Borrow a channel from ETMY UL coil output mon. Drag the cable from the ETMY rack to the LSC analog rack.
- Use 7 BNC Ts to split the signal in to 8 SMA cables.
- Put those 8 signals into each whitening filter module.
- The excitation signal was injected to C1:SUS-ETMY_ULCOIL_EXC by AWGGUI.
- The transfer functions were measured by DTT.
- The excitation signal was filtered by the filter zpk([150;150],[15;15],1,"n")
so that the whitened output get flat so as to ensure the S/N of the measurement.
- For the switching, we have connected the CONTEC Binary Output Test board to the BIO adapter module
in stead of the flat cable from the BIO card. This allow us to switch the individual channels manually.
- The whitening filters of 7 channels were turned on, while the last one is left turned off.
- We believe that the transfer functions are flat and equivalent if the filters are turned off.
- Use the "off" channel as the reference and measure the transfer functions of the other channels.
- This removes the effect of the anti imaging filter at ETMY.
- Once the measurement of the 7 channels are done, switch the role of the channels and take the transfer function for the remaining one channel.
Result:
- We found the following channel assignment
- The ADC channels and the PDs. This was known and just a confirmation.
- The ADC channels and the WF filter on MEDM (and name of the slow channel)
- We found that the binary IO cable at the back of the whitening filter module for ADC CH00-CH07 were not connected properly.
This was because the pins of the backplane connector were bent. We fixed the pins and the connector has been properly inserted.
- CH26 (related to the slow channel "C1:LSC-PD9_I2_WhiteGain. VAL NMS", which has PD10I label in MEDM) showed different
phase response from the others although the amplitude response is identical.
Summary of the channel assignment (THEY ARE OBSOLETE - SEPT 20, 2011)
ADC Whitening Filter
CH PD name in medm related slow channel name for gain
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00 POY11I PD1I C1:LSC-ASPD1_I_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
01 POY11Q PD1Q C1:LSC-ASPD1_Q_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
02 POX11I PD2I C1:LSC-SPD1_I_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
03 POX11Q PD2Q C1:LSC-SPD1_Q_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
04 REFL11I PD3I C1:LSC-POB1_I_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
05 REFL11Q PD3Q C1:LSC-POB1_Q_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
06 AS11I PD4I C1:LSC-ASPD2_I_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
07 AS11Q PD4Q C1:LSC-ASPD2_Q_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
08 AS55I AS55_I C1:LSC-ASPD1DC_ WhiteGain. VAL NMS
09 AS55Q AS55_Q C1:LSC-SPD1DC_ WhiteGain. VAL NMS
10 REFL55I PD3_DC C1:LSC-POB1DC_ WhiteGain. VAL NMS
11 REFL55Q PD4_DC C1:LSC-PD4DC_ WhiteGain. VAL NMS
12 POP55I PD5_DC C1:LSC-PD5DC_ WhiteGain. VAL NMS
13 POP55Q PD7_DC C1:LSC-PD7DC_ WhiteGain. VAL NMS
14 REFL165I PD9_DC C1:LSC-PD9DC_ WhiteGain. VAL NMS
15 REFL165Q PD11_DC C1:LSC-PD11DC_ WhiteGain. VAL NMS
16 NC (named XXX_I) PD5I C1:LSC-SPD2_I_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
17 NC (named XXX_Q) PD5Q C1:LSC-SPD2_Q_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
18 AS165I PD6I C1:LSC-SPD3_I_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
19 AS165Q PD6Q C1:LSC-SPD3_Q_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
20 REFL33I PD7I C1:LSC-POB2_I_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
21 REFL33Q PD7Q C1:LSC-POB2_Q_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
22 POP22I PD8I C1:LSC-ASPD3_I_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
23 POP22Q PD8Q C1:LSC-ASPD3_Q_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
24 POP110I PD9I C1:LSC-PD9_I1_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
25 POP110Q PD9Q C1:LSC-PD9_Q1_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
26 NC (named XXX_DC) PD10I C1:LSC-PD9_I2_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
27 POPDC PD10Q C1:LSC-PD9_Q2_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
28 POYDC PD11I C1:LSC-PD11_I_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
29 POXDC PD11Q C1:LSC-PD11_Q_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
30 REFLDC PD12I C1:LSC-PD12_I_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
31 ASDC ASDC C1:LSC-PD12_Q_WhiteGain. VAL NMS
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Wed Jul 6 23:03:57 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | modified locking scripts |
[Jenne / Kiwamu]
Last night we modified the locking scripts, that were called from C1IFO_CONFIGURE.adl, to adapt them to the new "PRCL" and "SRCL" convention.
So far they work fine and quitted dumping some error messages about inexistence of these channel names.
P.S. The locking scripts have been summarized on the 40m wiki
Quote from #4912 |
- Now the power and signal recycling cavity lengths are named "PRCL" and "SRCL" in stead of three letter names without "L".
We should change the locking script to accomodate these changes.
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Thu Jul 7 02:23:59 2011 |
Jenne | Summary | LSC | LSC Whitening Filters have been fit |
I have fit all of the LSC whitening filters using vectfit4.m
All the data is in my folder ..../users/jenne/LSC_WhiteningTest_29June2011/
The zpk info is saved with each plot of the fit. The pdfs are kind of huge to stitch together (or rather my computer doesn't want to do it), so I'll just post a representative one for now.

During the daytime either tomorrow or Friday I'll adjust the actual dewhitening filters to match the measured zpk values. |
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Thu Jul 7 15:34:44 2011 |
Jenne | Summary | LSC | LSC Whitening Filters have been fit |
Quote: |
During the daytime either tomorrow or Friday I'll adjust the actual dewhitening filters to match the measured zpk values.
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I made a handy-dandy table showing the zpk values for each whitening filter in the wiki: New whitening filter page
Next on the whitening filter to-do list: actually put these values into the dewhitening filters in foton. |
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Tue Jul 12 11:52:54 2011 |
Jamie, Suresh | Update | LSC | LSC model updates |
The LSC model has been updated:
Binary outputs to control whitening filter switching
We now take the filter state bit from the first filter bank in all RF PD I/Q filter banks (AS55_I, REFL11_Q, etc) as the controls for the binary analog whitening switching on the RF PD I/Q inputs. The RF_PD part was also modified to output this control bit. The bits from the individual PDs are then combined into the various words that are written to the Contec BO part.
Channel mapping updated/fixed to reflect wiring specification
Yesterday Suresh posted an updated LSC wiring diagram, with correct channel assignments for the RF PD I/Q and DC inputs. Upon inspection of the physical hardware we found that some of LSC the wiring was incorrect, with I/Q channels swapped, and some of the PDs in the wrong channels. We went through and fixed the physical wiring to reflect the diagram. This almost certainly will affect the EPICS settings for some of the input channels, such as offsets and RD rotations. We should therefore go through all of the RF inputs and make sure everything is kosher.
I also fixed all of the wiring in the LSC model to also reflect the diagram.
Once this was all done, I rebuilt and restarted the LSC model, and confirmed that the anti-whitening filter banks in the PD input filter modules were indeed switching the correct bits. I'll next put together a script to confirm that the LSC PD whitening is switching as it should.
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Mon Jul 18 20:59:19 2011 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | Big ol' mess |
[Jamie, Jenne]
We decided to take on the deceptively easy-sounding task of checking that the LSC whitening switching was happening as anticipated. We hoped to discover that when we clicked the "unwhitening" switches in FM1 of the LSC PDs, we would see the analog whitening turn on and off for the matching channel. That is what is supposed to happen.
Tragically, it is instead one big giant crazy disaster of a mess.
What we did:
Made a 24tapus (octopus like last time, except more...), with a 50kOhm resistor as our white noise source (instead of using a DAC channel and AWG).
We plugged our 24tapus into the 3 of 4 whitening boards on the LSC rack that are currently in use. One of the boards just has 8 terminators on the input, so we left that one alone for now.
We put the whitening gains to 0dB so that all the channels looked the same.
We looked at the PD _IN1 channels in DTT, and monitored which signals had whitening switching when we clicked the "unwhitening" buttons on the PD filter banks.
So far, we can find no rhyme or reason as to why some of the channels work (click unwhite on that PD, see that signal have whitening switching), and others don't. Some channels we just can't get to switch no matter what, others are just mis-mapped. There is no discernible pattern.
What we think (so far) is going on:
All of the cables from the PD demod boards are going to the Whitening board inputs, exactly as in Suresh's Diagram. The only difference is that Refl33, AS165 and Refl165 demod boards don't exist in the rack at this time.
The Whitening and AA boards in Suresh's Diagram labeled 0-7 are connected to Binary Output channels 0-7. This is a good thing.
The Whitening and AA boards in the diagram labeled 8-15 are connected to Binary Output channels 24-31. This is not so awesome.
This is all we are confident about at this time.
Next steps:
We are hoping that Ben has a secret stash (or can tell us who would) of LSC rack wiring diagrams. We would like to find out, without the pain of tracing wires and cables by hand, how the Binary I/O information gets through the cross-connect on the LSC rack up to the whitening boards.
We are leaving the 24tapus in place for now, so that we can carry on tomorrow, either with a wiring diagram in hand, or carefully tracing cables. |
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Tue Jul 19 10:18:24 2011 |
rana | Update | LSC | Big ol' mess |
Remember, as per our marker board conversation, that the resistor noise as excitation method only works if the gain of all of the channels is set to something high (like 45 dB).
At 0 dB, the resistor noise is only 30 nV/rHz, whereas the ADC noise is more like 10000 nV/rHz... |
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Tue Jul 19 23:39:11 2011 |
Jamie, Jenne | Update | LSC | Major overhaul of LSC rack; binary switching of whitening filters now working |
Yesterday we started going through the LSC binary whitening switching to make sure the new switching control in the LSC model was working. Jenne and I hooked up a fancy home-brew white noise generator [0] into all of the LSC whitening filter inputs and started switching the whitening filters to see what would happen. We found that some of the channels were switching, but the majority were not, or worse yet switching the wrong channels. Upon closer inspection, and after finally finding the LSC wiring schematic, we found that the LSC rack cross-connect/back-plane cabling was pretty much a complete mess, and didn't at all correspond to the channel layout in Suresh's diagram.
Given that the back-plane wiring had to be almost completely redone, we decided to completely redo the LSC electronics layout, to be a little more self-consistent and to use the given space more efficiently. We'll post an updated electronics drawing soon. The LSC model was also updated to reflect the new layout.
We then went through and verified that all of the whitening switching was working with the new layout. As described previously, the first filter in the PD input filter bank is used to control the switching. We did indeed verify that all the switching is working, but we noticed that switching logic was inverted, such that the whitening filter engaged when the filter was turned off. This was fixed in the model and all the switching logic was verified to be working as expected.
Everything has now been hooked back up, but we need to verify that we're getting all of the PD demodulated RF and DC outputs as expected. We need to check the RF phases, as some of the RF cable lengths have changed.
[0] a 50k resistor
Links:
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Wed Jul 20 06:52:01 2011 |
Suresh | Update | LSC | ABSL - PSL beat lock |
The ABSL locking setup to the PSL is down.
According the plan, I started to use the IR beam dumped after the doubling crystal for the IR beat lock (Sonali's project). The beat lock was disturbed when I shifted some clamps to make way for a few mirrors. So I set about fixing the beat lock. I reobtained the lock but noticed that the net beam power reaching the Newfocus 1611 detector was around 15mW. 10mW from the ABSL and 5mW from PSL.
This is much too high as the maximum allowed on 1611 is 2mW.
I therefore started to adjust the power levels by using Y1-1064-45S mirrors at non-45 deg angles. However Rana pointed out that this would lead to amplitude noise due to the mirror vibrations. I then switched to using beam splitters as pick offs. This is better than using neutral density filters since the back scatter is lower this way.
David wanted some of the ABSL beam for his SURF student. So I changed the mirror after beam expanding telescope on the ABSL route to provide this power. We also installed a pair of half wave plates and a PBS to allow us smooth power level control on this beam.
The beat lock setup is now down and needs to be completed for PRCL and SRCL measurements.
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Wed Jul 27 01:58:23 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | locking status |
Through some locking exercise I found that several things are degrading.
Remember the interferometer is like a cat, so we have to feed and take care of her everyday. (Otherwise the cat will be dead !)
Beam axis:
I guess that the beam axis has changed a lot to the horizontal direction.
The beam spots on the REFL and AS camera looked off-centered by a size of the spot.
The beam axis has to be well-aligned before the vent.
Locking of the Arms :
didn't lock at all. It could be a problem of the demodulation phase on AS55.
Also the TRY camera looked pretty much off-centered. The spot is already getting out from the field of view.
We have to fix this issue, otherwise we cannot align the beam axis.
Locking of PRM :
Sort of okay, I was able to lock both MICH and PRCL although I had to flip the sign of the MICH control gain due to the demod-phase change.
The suspensions don't look healthy. The beam spots on the REFL and AS camera move a lot even without any length feedback.
It means some of the suspensions are shaky. |
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Wed Jul 27 08:59:10 2011 |
Suresh | Update | LSC | locking status |
I had to realign PSL beam into the MC in order to reobtain the MC lock. We lost lock at sometime around 8:30 AM on Tuesday. See attached trend data for MC_RFPD_DCMON.
The is the second time this week that I had to do this when we were unable to obtain the MC lock. On both occassions the zig-zag at the end of the PSL table was tweaked to minimise the MC_RFPD_DCMON.

We have been using the MC as a Beam Axis Reference. And therefore we are adjusting the PSL beam to maximise coupling into MC. However if MC's beam axis has shifted, then would it not be best to use the pzt's to re-obtain coupling into the arm cavities?
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Beam axis:
I guess that the beam axis has changed a lot to the horizontal direction.
The beam spots on the REFL and AS camera looked off-centered by a size of the spot.
The beam axis has to be well-aligned before the vent.
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Thu Jul 28 16:10:34 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | Both arm locked |
[Nicole / Jamie / Rana / Kiwamu]
The X arm and Y arm have been locked.
The settings for the locking were stored on the usual IFO_CONFIGURE scripts, so anybody can lock the arms.
In addition to that Nicole, Jamie and Rana re-centered the beam spot on the ETMY_TRANS camera and the TRY PD.
The next step is to activate the C1ASS servo and align the both arms and beam axis.
Xarm locking notes:
* Changed TRX gain from -1 to -0.02. Without this 50x reduction the arm power was not normalized.
* Had to fix trigger matrix to use TRX for XARM and TRY for YARM. Before it was crazy and senseless.
* Lots of PZT alignment. It was off by lots.
* Yarm trans beam was clipping on the steering mirrors. Re-aligned. Needs to be iterated again. Be careful when bumping around the ETMY table.
* YARM gain was set to -2 instead of -0.2. Because the gain was too high the alignment didn't work right.
ALWAYS HAVE an OPEN DATAVIEWER with the standard ARM channels going when doing ANY INTERFEROMETER WORK.
THIS IS THE LAW. |
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Sun Jul 31 00:05:52 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | script for loss measurement : modified |
I modified the script armloss so that the channel names in the script are properly adopted to the new CDS.
Additionally I disabled the ETMX(Y)_tickle command in the script.
The tickle command puts some offsets on the LSC signal to let the arms pass through a fringe until it gets locked, but apparently we don't need it because the arms are loud enough.
A brief check showed that the script ran fine.
I will measure the loss on the X and Y arm cavity tomorrow.
Quote from #5067 |
Next : Health-check for the X arm ASS, the loss measurements.
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Sun Jul 31 17:28:34 2011 |
kiwamu | Summary | LSC | Tolerance of Arm length = 2 cm |
Required arm length = 37.7974 +/- 0.02 [m]
This is a preliminary result of the estimation of the Arm length tolerance.
This number was obtained from a simulation based on Optickle.
Note that the simulation was done by considering misplacements in only the arm lengths while keeping PRCL, SRCL and MICH at the ideal lengths.
Therefore the tolerance will be somewhat tighter if misplacements in the central part are taken into account.
Next : check 3f signals, and include misplacements in PRCL, SRCL and MICH.
(Background)
We will re-position the ETMY/Y suspensions to adjust the arm lenghts during the coming vent.
To get a reasonable sensing matrix for LSC, the arm length must be adjisted within a certain precision.
So we need to know the tolerance of the arm lengths.
(How to estimate)
Optickle, a frequency domiain interferomtere simulator, is used to model the response of the 40m interferometer.
I buit a 40m model in Optickle, and in this model every optical distance is adjusted to the perfect length.
Then some offsets are added on the macroscopic position of ETMs to see what will happen in the LSC sensing matrix.
When putting the offsets, the amount of offsets are randomly assigned with a Gaussian distribution (see Figure.1).
Therefore the calculation is a Monte-Calro style, but this doesn't have to be a Monte-Calro
because the parameter space is only 2-dimensions (i.e. X-arm and Y-arm length) and it can be done by simply scanning the 2-dimentional parameter space.
The reason why the Monte-Calro style was chosen is because I wanted to expand this simulation
to a more general simulation which can handle PRCL, SRCL and MICH misplacements as well.
This time I ran the Monte-Calro 1000 times.
Figure.1 History of random walk in X-Y arm lengths parameter space.
The position of ETMY and ETMX are randomly chosen with a Gaussian distribution function in every simulation.
This example was generated when \sigma_x = \sigma_y = 2 cm, where \sigma is the standard deviation of
the Gaussian function. The number of simulation is 1000 times.
(Criteria)
I made two criteria for the acceptable sensing matrix as follows :
(1) The decrease in the optical gain of the important signals (diagonal signals) must be within a factor of 3 (factor of ~ 0.5 in log scale).
(2) MICH and SRCL signals are separated within a range of 60 - 120 deg in their demodulation phases on POP55.
(Results1 : sensing matrix)
Figure.2 shows the resultant sensing matrix with histograms when \sigma_x = \sigma_y = 2,
where \sigma_x, \sigma_y are the given standard deviation in the position of ETMX and ETMY.
The diagonal signals (in red-rectangular window) shows variation in their optical gain within a factor of 0.5 in log scale (factor of 3 in linear scale).
This satisfies my requirement (1) mentioned in the last section.
Figure.2 A sensing matrix of the 40-m DRFPMI while changing the position of ETMX/Y by \sigma = 2 cm.
For convenience, only REFL11, AS55, POP11 and POP55 are shown. They are the designed signal ports that
mentioned in the aLIGO LSC document ( T1000298). In all the histograms, x-axis represents the optical gain in log scale in units of [W/m].
The y-axis is the number of events. The diagonal ports are surrounded by red rectangular window.
(Results2 : demodulation phase of MICH and SRCL on POP55)
Now a special attention should be payed on the MICH and SRCL signals on POP55.
Since MICH and SRCL are designed to be taken from POP55, they must be nicely separated in their demodulation phases.
Therefore the demodulation phase of MICH and SRCL has to be carefully examined.
The plot in Figure.3 is the resultant phase difference between MICH and SRCL on POP55 when \sigma_x = \sigma_y = 2 cm.
As shown in the plot the phase are always within a range of 60 - 120 deg, which satisfies my requirement (2) mentioned in the last section.
Figure.3 Difference in the demodulation phase of MICH and SRCL on POP55.
x-axis is the difference in the demodulation phase of MICH and SRCL, and y-axis the number of events.
(Notes on the Optickle model)
Optickle that I used is the one downloaded from the MIT CVS server and I believe this is the latest version.
In my current simulation I omitted some foldng mirrors including PR3, SR2 and SR3.
If those mirrors are added on the model, loss from those mirrors will affect the build up powers in all the cavities and hence changes the sensinag matrix somewhat.
I assumed that each optic has loss of 50 ppm in its HR surface.
Input power, after the MC, of 1 W is assumed.
The modulation depth are all 0.1 rad for 11MHz and 55MHz.
The model files were uploaded on the MIT CVS server and files reside under /export/cvs/iscmodeling/40m/fullIFO_Optickle.
More information about the CVS server can be found on aLIGO wiki.
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Sun Jul 31 22:35:35 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | arm loss measurement : done |
I did the measurement of the arm loss on both X and Y arm by running the armLoss script.
The results will be posted later.
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I will measure the loss on the X and Y arm cavity tomorrow.
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Mon Aug 1 11:46:56 2011 |
rana | Summary | LSC | Tolerance of Arm length = 2 cm |
wow. This Monte-Carlo matrix is one of the most advanced optical modeling things I have ever seen. We never had this for any of the interferometers before. |
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Mon Aug 1 23:26:32 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | REFL33 PD |
Old MZ PD (InGaAs 2mm, @29.5MHz) has been modified for REFL33.
There has been no choice for the 11MHz notch other than putting it on the RF preamp
as the notch in parellel to the diode eats the RF transimpedance at 33MHz.
I wait for judgement of Rana if the notch at the MAX4107 feedback is acceptable or not.

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Attachment 1: REFL33_schematic_110801_KA.pdf
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