[EricQ, Jenne]

We placed the Watek camera on the SE viewport of the ITMX chamber, and focused it on the face of PRM.  We are not able to see any scattered light transmitted through the PRM, so this camera was an ineffective way to try to check spot centering on the PRM.  Jamie placed one of the new targets on the PRM cage - see his elog for details.

To get more use of the camera, we need to mount it on something, at the 5.5 inch beam height, and then cover that something with clean foil so we can place the camera on the table, in the beamline in various places.  We also need to carefully wrap the cables in foil so the don't dirty anything inside.

I tightened as many of the dog clamps on the bottom of the BS, ITMX and ITMY chambers as I could find.  I used a torque wrench at 45 ft-lbs.  Some of the bolts of the dogs were too long, and I couldn't find an extender thing to accommodate the bolt so I could reach the nut.  None of the bolts moved that I was able to reach.

Steve, we're not doing final final alignment today (we will do it tomorrow), so please go around and double-check my work by checking all of the dogs first thing in the morning.  Thanks.

Riju, Elli

Today tried to take our first cavity scan.  We unplugged the 55MHz sideband input from the RF combiner on the PSL table, and connected a network analyser instead.  Using the network analyzer we injected a 12dBm signal (swept from 32MHz to 45MHz) through the RF combiner into the EOM to create our swept sidebands.  We measured the  MC cavity response by looking at the signal comming out of the RF photodiode on the MC2 table.  I replaced the BNC cable connected to the RF PD with a longer BNC cable that could reach our network analyzer next to the PSL table.  Riju will post a diagram of our setup.

We didn't see the expected carrier resonances when we performed a cavity scan.  The light incident on the RF PD is around 0.7micro Watts and we are still thinking about whether this is strong enough to see our signal above the noise.  We also want to work out what the strength of our swept sidebands is.  We will attempt to do a 'real' cavity scan tomorrow.

The baffle has been moved away from ETMX towards the edge of the table (in fact, it is a little beyond the edge). It is also rotated so that its long edge is horizontal. In this way it was possible to center the baffle hole with respect to the optical axis, but also make it possible that the camera looks over the baffle.

We have tried to get an alignment beam from view port -> ETMX pick-off ->ITMX-> back to EX. This work was pretty much unsuccessful though. We could see the green laser scattering around ITMX, but there was no good way to know when the beam hit ITMX. So tomorrow we will find a better way to check where the beam is hitting at ITMX and finish the alignment of the scattering pick-off mirror.

I must say that I am not at all happy with the baffle situation.  It is currently completely blocking our camera view of the ETMX face.  Here's a video capture of the ETMX face camera:

The circle is the baffle hole, through which we can see just the bottom edge of the test mass.  I don't think whatever benefit the baffle gives out weights the benefit of being able to see the spot on the mirror.

This afternoon we will try to adjust the baffle, and maybe the camera view mirror, to see if we can get a better shot of the center of the TM.  If we can see the beam spot through the hole we can probably live with it.  If not, I think we should remove the baffle.

We have done some work at ETMX today. We installed the baffle and placed two mirrors on the table.

The baffle position/orientation still needs to be checked more thoroughly to make sure that the beam will pass through the center of the baffle hole.

One of the two mirrors will stay on the table as pickoff. The other is only temporarily installed for alignment purposes. Later today we will shoot a laser into the chamber that will reflect off one of these mirrors towards the center of ITMX, then go back to the pickoff mirror next to ETMX and hopefully make it through the viewport.

To place the pickoff mirror, we had to move the "cable rack" next to ETMX a few inches towards the back of the table.

Earthquake m4.1 test for ETMX and moves ITMX.  ITMX-LR sensor 0.3V

 1,PRM spot can be viewed directly from the window south-east of ITMX chamber.  I can easy set up the mobile- Watek for this reason or you can just use an IR viewer.

   Remember, we have 2 SOS centering targets ready to use , that Rana was suggesting.

2, PR2 spot centering can be viewed directly through window north-west of ITMX.

3, We should put back the BS view pick-up mirror for the vertical camera on the BS chamber and adjust its upper pick-up.

4, The BS centering can be viewed with the mobile-Watek placed inside the BS chamber immediately.

 I think we should NOT do any adjustment of IP ANG/POS now.  We should in fact try to recover them when doing the PRM spot centering

The motivation for removing the ITMX door was so that the scatter measurement team could check alignment of the new viewing mirror next to ETMX.  After discussion today we decided that everything can be done at the X end.  They can inject a probe beam into the ETMX chamber, bounce it off of ITMX and align the viewing mirror with the reflection.  So we'll leave ITMX door on for now.

We should, however, inspect the situation ITMY and make sure we have good clearance in the Y arm part of the Michaelson.  Koji previously expressed suspicion that we might have clipping on the southern edge of the POY steering mirror, so we need to check that out.

Koji and I discussed the situation for getting camera face views of BS and PRM.  Koji said the original idea was to see if we could install something at the south-east view port of ITMX chamber.  Steve also suggested utilizing the "ceiling" camera mounted on the top of the IOO chamber.

Vertex tasks:

• check spot centering in PRM
• check that REFL is getting cleanly to the AP table
• check IPPOS and IPANG - we should be adjusting IPPOS or IPANG at this point
• check spot centering on BS
• remove ITMY north door
• check clearance of POY steering mirror
• ...

in parallel:

• Steve will inspect the situation for getting a camera view of BS and PRM face, either through IOO or ITMX.

End X tasks:

• install baffle
• install "permanent" ITMX viewing mirror, on west side of ETMX - this might require moving ETMX SUS cable bracket south
• install temporary steering mirror for probe laser on south-east side of ETMX
• at some point the scatter guys can also do transmission measurements of the ETMX view ports
• ...

[Jenne, Suresh, with support from Jamie and Koji]

MC spots measured, MC1, MC3 no change.

No clipping going through Faraday.

Beam hitting to the right of center of PZT1.  It was translated sideways so we are now hitting it on the center.  Knobs adjusted so we hit center of MMT1.

Beam totally obscured by Faraday on the way to MMT2.  MMT2 moved north, so that we clear the Faraday by more than a beam diameter.  MMT1 knobs adjusted to hit center of MMT2.

MMT2 knobs adjusted to hit center of PZT2.

PZT2 didn't have enough range with knobs, so we loosened it, pointed then adjusted with knobs so we're hitting center of PRM. 

We need to check spot centering on PRM with camera tomorrow.

Suresh checked that we're not clipped by IP ANG/POS pickoff mirrors, but we haven't done any alignment of IP ANG/POS.

Tomorrow:  Open ITMX door.  Check with Watek that we're hitting center of PRM.  Then look to see if we're hitting center of PR2.  Then, continue through the chain of optics.

The technique is based on detection of the beating between the resonant carrier and a resonant higher order mode.
This means that the beat signal is cancelled out if the transmitted beam is integrated over the entire beam.
Thus, you may want to introduce intentional clipping (or cutting a half of the beam with a razor blade). 

Ref: LIGO DCC G080467: Precise Measurements on Longitudinal and Transverse Mode Spacings of an Optical Cavity using an Auxiliary Laser

I am quite curious on the measurement as I am going to do the same measurement for the aLIGO OMC.
I am interested in seeing the statistical evaluation on the precision of the measurement.

 Riju, Elli

Today we prepared our experimental setup to take a cavity scan of the input mode cleaner, which we want to measure in the next day or so.  Attached is a diagram of our setup.

What we want to do is to inject a set of sidebands into the PSL and sweep their frequency from 32-45 MHz (a range just over one fsr of the mode cleaner- vfsr=11MHz).  We will measure the power transmitted out of the MC using a photo-diode and demodulate this signal with our input signal from the Marconi.  From this we should be able to see the resonant frequencies of the carrier and the higher order modes.

One aspect we spent some time thinking about; whether we would be able to inject a signal into an EOM given the EOM and the Marconi are not perfectly impedance matched.  Based on Kiwamu’s previous e-log entries designing the EOM, we decided that injecting a signal in 32-45 MHz region at 15dBm is similar to injecting the 29.5MHz sideband (at the same power level with very similar input impedance.) Fingers crossed we don’t blow anything up first week on the job.

The biggest reason why we could not lock the MC was that the beam was not properly hitting the MC REFL diode.

Now the MC REFL DC is about ~0.1 and 1.2 when the MC is and is not locked.

We increased the power according to the quantitative analysis of the intracavity power in this earlier entry

Autolocker script for the low power MC was modified so that the initial VCO gain is 3 in stead of 10.
The 2 steps of super boost were also enabled again.

ETMX appears to be fine.  It was stuck to its OSEMs in the usual way.  I touched it and it dislodged and is now swinging freely.  Damping loops have been re-engaged.

 The power has been increased to 20mW. We got the 10mW number from the linked elog entry above. However, after venting we were having problems locking the MC. Upon investigating past elog posts, we found that 20mW was actually the power used in the past. The MC will now autolock. 

ANTS ALERT please watch out for ants. We have them in the control room.

 [Steve, Eric]

I've been helping Steve vent this morning. The following things were done (from Steve's logbook):

• Particle counts: 0.5 micron particles, 4200 counts per cubic ft
• Vertex crane drive checked to be ok
• Optical Levers set for local damping only
• Saved some screens
• PSL shutter and green shutters closed
• HV Off checked, JAM nuts checked
• Vac: Close V1, VM1, ans - VA6, open VM3 - RGA, cond: chamber open mode
• 8AM: VV1 open to N2, regulator set  to 14 psi
• 8:23AM: 35psi Instrument grade Air

(At this point, I took over the air canisters, while Steve made preparations around the lab. 

• 9:00AM: 2nd air cylinder, 14 psi 
• 9:40AM: 3rd air cyl
• 10:20AM: 4th air cyl
• 11:00AM: 5th air cyl

With the 5th cylinder, we began approaching 1 atm, so we slowed the regulator down to 5psi. Around 750 torr, Steve opened VV1 to air.

According to Steve, we will be at atmospheric pressure at  ~12:30pm.

Ok, so the whole idea that mirror motion can explain the ripples is nonsense. At least, when you think off the ringdown with "pump off". The phase shifts that I tried to estimate from longitudinal and tilt mirror motion are defined against a non-existing reference. So I guess that I have to click on the link that Koji posted...

Just to mention, for the tilt phase shift (yes, there is one, but the exact expression has two more factors in the equation I posted), it does not matter, which mirror tilts. So even for a lower bound on the ripple time, my equation was incorrect. It should have the sum over all three initial tilt angles not only the two "shooting into the long arms" of the MC.

Laser frequency shift = longitudinal motion of the mirrors

Ringing: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-20-24-2463

Hmm. I don't know what ringing really is. Ok, let's assume it has to do with the pump... I don't see how the pump laser could produce these ripples. They have large amplitudes and so I always suspected something happening to the intracavity field. Therefore I was looking for effects that would change resonance conditions of the intracavity field during ringdown. Tilt motion seemed to be one explanation to me, but it may be a bit too slow (not sure yet). Longitudinal mirror motion is certainly too slow. What else could there be?

Isn't it just a ringing of the intracavity power as you shifted the laser frequency abruptly?

Let's see if the ripples observed in the MC ringdown can be due to tilt motion of the mirrors.

The time it takes to produce a phase shift corresponding to N multiples of 2*pi is given by:

t = sqrt(2*N*lambda/(L*omega_T^2*(alpha_1+alpha_2)))

L is the length of the MC (something like 13m), and alpha_1, alpha_2 are the DC tilt angles of the two mirrors "shooting into the long arms of the MC" produced by the MC control with respect to the mechanical equilibrium position. omega_T is the tilt eigenfrequency of the three mirrors (assumed to be identical). lambda = 1.064e-6m;

The time it takes from N=1 to N=2 (the first observable ripple) is given by: tau1 = 0.6/omega_T*sqrt(lambda/L/(alpha_1+alpha_2))

The time it takes from N=2 to N=3 is given by: tau2 = 0.77*tau1

etc

First, we also see in the measurement that later ripples are shorter than early ripples consistent with some accelerated effect. The predicted ripple durations tau seem to be a bit too high though. The measurements show something like a first 14us and a late 8us ripple. It depends somewhat on the initial tilt angles that I don't know really.

In any case, the short ripple times could also be explained if the tilt motions start a little earlier than the ringdown, or the tilt motion starts with some small initial velocity. The next step will be to program a little ringdown simulation that includes mirror tilts and see what kind of tilt motion would produce the ripples exactly as we observe them (or maybe tilt motion cannot produce ripples as observed).

I have turned of the high voltage supplies for PZT1 and PZT2.  The OMC PZT high voltage supplies were already off, since we aren't really using them currently.

I have closed the PSL shutter, but have not put in a manual extra beam dump yet.

All systems go for vent!

Steve - EricQ will be here around 8am to help with the vent.

 Before we did this, I centered PSL POS and ANG, which gives us a reference of where the PSL beam was good when the MC spots were ~centered.  There had been a beam dump blocking them, possibly from the last time we put in the power attenuator optics.  This beam dump was moved a little to be out of the way of the PSL QPDs, and the PBS placed closer to the lens after the EOM, so that the PBS reflected beam is dumped.  However, we should not remove that razor dump when we remove the attenuation optics, since it is also dumping a stray IR beam from the PSL QPD pickoff windowd.

 I stopped the regular MC autolocker and told the crontab to startup the low power Mc autolocker on op340m.  Also, since we now have the new MC2 transmission setup, the power that gets to the 'regular' MC trans PD is lower, so I've lowered the lock threshold to 50 counts, from 100 counts.

We have now reduced the power being input to the MC from 1.25W to 10mW, and changed out the MC refl BS for a mirror. 

The power was reduced via the PBS we introduced in Entry 7295.

While we were in there, we took a look at the AS beam, which was looking clipped on the monitor. Jenne felt that it appears that the clipping seems to be occurring inside the vacuum, possibly on the faraday. This will be investigated during the vent. 

I just spent the last hour checking in a bunch of uncommitted changes to stuff in the SVN.  We need to be MUCH BETTER about this.  We must commit changes after we make them.  When multiple changes get mixed together there's no way to recover from one bad one.

[Jenne, Eric]

We installed a Half Wave Plate -> Polarized Beam Splitter -> Half Wave Plate in the PSL beam line, immediately after the EOM, to be used for attenuating the beam when we vent, as in Entry 6892.

It was illuminating to discover that the optics labeled QWP0-1064-10-2 are indeed half wave plates, instead of quarter wave plates as QWP suggests. 

The PBS transmits "P"/Horizontal polarization, but the beam coming from the EOM is "S"/Vertically polarized, and we want to keep that, since we do not want the beam attenuated quite yet. 

So, we use the HWP to rotate the P from the EOM to S, so that the majority of the power passes through the PBS. The second HWP then rotates the transmitted S back into P, which continues to the mode cleaner. When we want to attenuate, we will simply rotate the first HWP to change the proportion of S polarized light that will pass straight through the PBS and towards the mode cleaner. 

After setting the proper HWP angles, we aligned the PBS via minimizing the MC reflection.

Since we have not yet attenuated the power, we have not yet changed the BS for the MC reflection, since this would damage the PD. The beam splitter will be changed out for a 100% reflectivity mirror to increase the power to the PD when we do.

By adjusting the PMC steering mirrors, Jenne and I realigned the PMC input beam. Transmission is at 0.829 now. 

RGA scan,  Maglev pumping speed at day 56

CC1 is dying. CC4 is real.

PMC transmission started going down this afternoon, around 3pm-ish.  Right now it's 0.775, which is very, very low.  The new MC locking stuff is engaged, so it's not the FSS slow servo's fault. 

EDIT: I just realized that the limit of 0 counts output of the MC2 MCL filter bank was still engaged, from a time earlier this afternoon when I had switched back to the old servo, so there was no feedback going back to keep the slow drift of the laser in check.  PMC trans isn't coming back instantly, so I'll check it again when I come in tomorrow.

I think we (Jenne, Jamie) are going to leave things for the night to give ourselves more time to prep for the vent tomorrow.

We still need to put in the PSL output beam attenuator, and then redo the MC alignment.

The AS spot is also indicating that we're clipping somewhere (see below).  We need to align things in the vertex and then check the centerings on the AP table.

So I think we're back on track and should be ready to vent by the end of the day tomorrow.

Finally!

Jamie and I have the MC spots centered.  We did the normal move the input beam, realign jazz for a while, then when we got close, used the "move MC2 spot" scripts to get the MC2 spot back to ~center.

This was way easier when the measurements were real, and not just noise.  Funny that.

The dark blue spot is the farthest from 0 in pitch, and it is 1.04mm.  The cyan and yellow we've done a pretty good job of getting them equally far from zero.  Since we aren't translating the beam, we can't get better than the point at which the cyan and yellow curves cross.

In the c1ioo model there were filter modules at the output of the WFS output matrix, right before going to the MC SUS ASCs but right after the dither line inputs, that were not exposed in the C1IOO_WFS_OVERVIEW screen (bad!).  I switched the order of these modules and the dither sums, so these output filters are now before the dither inputs.  This will allow us to turn off all the WFS feedback while still allowing the dither lines.

I updated the medm screens as well (see attached images).

 We have figured out that some of these measurements, those with the WFS off, were also not allowing the dither lines through, so no dither, so no actual measurement.

Jamie is fixing up the model so we can force the WFS to stay off, but allow the dither lines to go through.  He'll elog things later.

The "red for FB connection" issue was probably a dead mx_stream on c1lsc.  That can usually be fixed by just restarting mx_stream.

There is definitely a problem with c1oaf, though.  It crashes immediately after attempting to start.  kernel log for a crash included below.

We will leave c1oaf off until we have time to debug.

[83752.505720] c1oaf: Send Computer Number  = 0
[83752.505720] c1oaf: entering the loop
[83752.505720] c1oaf: waiting to sync 19520
[83753.207372] c1oaf: Synched 701492
[83753.207372] general protection fault: 0000 [#2] SMP 
[83753.207372] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:2e:01.0/class
[83753.207372] CPU 4 
[83753.207372] Modules linked in: c1oaf c1ass c1sup c1lsp c1cal c1lsc c1x04 open_mx dis_irm dis_dx dis_kosif mbuf [last unloaded: c1oaf]
[83753.207372] 
[83753.207372] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G      D    2.6.34.1 #5 X7DWU/X7DWU
[83753.207372] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa1bf7567>]  [<ffffffffa1bf7567>] T.2870+0x27/0xbf0 [c1oaf]
[83753.207372] RSP: 0000:ffff88023ecc1aa8  EFLAGS: 00010092
[83753.207372] RAX: ffff88023ecc1af8 RBX: ffff88023ecc1ae8 RCX: ffffffffa1c35e48
[83753.207372] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000020 RDI: ffffffffa1c21360
[83753.207372] RBP: ffff88023ecc1bb8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000175f60
[83753.207372] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffffa1c2a640 R12: ffff88023ecc1b38
[83753.207372] R13: ffffffffa1c2a640 R14: 0000000000007fff R15: 0000000000000000
[83753.207372] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880001f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[83753.207372] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[83753.207372] CR2: 000000000378a040 CR3: 0000000001a09000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
[83753.207372] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[83753.207372] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[83753.207372] Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff88023ecc0000, task ffff88023ec7eae0)
[83753.207372] Stack:
[83753.207372]  ffff88023ecc1ab8 0000000000000096 0000000000000019 ffff88023ecc1b18
[83753.207372] <0> 0000000000014729 0000000000032a0c ffff880001e12d90 000000000000000a
[83753.207372] <0> ffff88023ecc1bb8 ffffffffa1c06cad ffff88023ecc1be8 000000000000000f
[83753.207372] Call Trace:
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffffa1c06cad>] ? filterModuleD+0xd6d/0xe40 [c1oaf]
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffffa1c07ae3>] feCode+0xd63/0x129b0 [c1oaf]
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffffa1c00dc6>] ? T.2888+0x1966/0x1f10 [c1oaf]
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffffa1c1b3bf>] fe_start+0x1c8f/0x3060 [c1oaf]
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff8102ce57>] ? select_task_rq_fair+0x2c8/0x821
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff8104cd8b>] ? enqueue_hrtimer+0x65/0x72
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff8104d8f6>] ? __hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x2d6/0x2e8
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff8104d91b>] ? hrtimer_start+0x13/0x15
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff810173df>] play_dead_common+0x6e/0x70
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff810173ea>] native_play_dead+0x9/0x20
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff81001c38>] cpu_idle+0x46/0x8d
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff814ec523>] start_secondary+0x192/0x196
[83753.207372] Code: 1f 44 00 00 55 66 0f 57 c0 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 8d 9d 30 ff ff ff 48 8d 43 10 4c 8d 63 50 48 81 ec e8 00 00 00 <66> 0f 29 85 30 ff ff ff 48 89 85 18 ff ff ff 31 c0 48 8d 53 78 
[83753.207372] RIP  [<ffffffffa1bf7567>] T.2870+0x27/0xbf0 [c1oaf]
[83753.207372]  RSP <ffff88023ecc1aa8>
[83753.207372] ---[ end trace df3ef089d7e64971 ]---
[83753.207372] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
[83753.207372] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G      D    2.6.34.1 #5
[83753.207372] Call Trace:
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff814ef6f4>] panic+0x73/0xe8
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff81063c19>] ? crash_kexec+0xef/0xf9
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff8103a386>] do_exit+0x6d/0x712
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff81037311>] ? spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x9/0xb
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff81037f1b>] ? kmsg_dump+0x115/0x12f
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff81006583>] oops_end+0xb1/0xb9
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff8100674e>] die+0x55/0x5e
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff81004496>] do_general_protection+0x12a/0x132
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff814f17af>] general_protection+0x1f/0x30
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffffa1bf7567>] ? T.2870+0x27/0xbf0 [c1oaf]
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffffa1c06cad>] ? filterModuleD+0xd6d/0xe40 [c1oaf]
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffffa1c07ae3>] feCode+0xd63/0x129b0 [c1oaf]
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffffa1c00dc6>] ? T.2888+0x1966/0x1f10 [c1oaf]
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffffa1c1b3bf>] fe_start+0x1c8f/0x3060 [c1oaf]
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff8102ce57>] ? select_task_rq_fair+0x2c8/0x821
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff8104cd8b>] ? enqueue_hrtimer+0x65/0x72
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff8104d8f6>] ? __hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x2d6/0x2e8
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff8104d91b>] ? hrtimer_start+0x13/0x15
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff810173df>] play_dead_common+0x6e/0x70
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff810173ea>] native_play_dead+0x9/0x20
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff81001c38>] cpu_idle+0x46/0x8d
[83753.207372]  [<ffffffff814ec523>] start_secondary+0x192/0x196

I tried to take some photos through the window of ETMX's chamber, to see if I could see any magnets.  What we have learned is that Jenne is still not the world's best photographer.  I was holding the camera at ~max zoom inside the beam tube between the table and the window, so that's my excuse for the photos being fuzzy.  The only thing that I can really conclude is that the magnets look like they are still there, but Jamie thinks they may be stuck on the PDs/LEDs (now looking at the photos myself, I agree, especially with UL and LR). 

It looks like the best thing to do at this point, since Koji already tried jerking ETMX around in yaw a little bit, is just wait and open the door, to see what's going on in there.  I posted the photos on Picasa:

https://picasaweb.google.com/foteee/ETMX_MaybeStuck_ThroughWindow_27Aug2012

I propose that, if the magnets are broken, we pull the ETM out of the camber and fix it up in the cleanroom while we pump back down.  This would restrict us from doing any Xarm work, but will force me to focus on DRMI, and we can put the ETM back when we vent to install the tip tilts.

 Rijuparna Chakraborty and Elli Elenora King received 40m specific  basic safety training in the 40mLab

The MC REFL path was checked. ==> Some clippings were fixed. MC WFS is working now.

- MC was aligned manually

- The steering mirror for the WFS and camera was clipping the beam. => FIxed

- The WFS spots were realigned.

- There was small clipping on the MC REFL RFPD. ==> Fixed

After shaking ITMX by the alignment bias in yaw, it came back.

As ETMX seems to be largely misaligned yaw (and did not come back with the alignment impact),
the condition of the magnets are not clear. Only the side OSEM is responding nicely.

  It looks like we may lost 1 (or 3 )  magnets? Do not panic, it's not for sure

Shasky day yesterday postpones venting. We had about 11 shakes larger than mag 4.0 Mag5.5 was the largest at  13:58 Sunday, Aug 26 at  the Salton Sea area.

Atm3,  ITMX and ETMX  did not come back to it's position

I came in to the lab in the evening and found c1lsc had "red" for FB connection.
I restarted c1lsc models and it kept hung the machine everytime.

I decided to kill all of the model during the startup sequence right after the reboot.
Then run only c1x04 and c1lsc. It seems that c1oaf was the cause, but it wasn't clear.

[Koji, Jenne]

Steve, do not vent tomorrow morning!  We are still not prepared, and will not finish the preparation tonight.  Hopefully we can finish the prep tomorrow, and then vent Tues.

Things we need to do before the vent:

MC spots centered [Jenne, tonight]

Use PZT2, BS to hit ~center of ETMs.

Realign arms, measure spot positions.

Make sure BS, ITMs are good - we want a good AS spot since we'll likely have to adjust some AS optics while we're inside

Insert attenuation optics, recover MC trans by rotating PBS cube to translate beam slightly

 We are being riddled with earthquakes.  Brawley, CA (~150 miles from here) has had 9 earthquakes in the last hour, and they're getting bigger (the last 4 have been 4-point-somethings).  I may try to come back later, but right now the MC won't stay locked for the ~5 minutes it takes to measure spot positions.  Koji and Jamie said they were coming in today, so they can call me if they want help.

We need to re-look at this new MC autolocker stuff, and the new MCL filters.

MC2 is getting kicked up (sometimes the watchdog trips, sometimes it just comes close) pretty regularly.  I'm not sure yet what is causing this, but we need to deal with it since it's pretty obnoxious.

I am getting closer with the MC spot centering.  I had everything but MC1 really great, but then I tweaked MC1's pointing, and things all went to hell. 

I have to go home to let Butter out, but I'll be back tomorrow, and I'll try to get back to where I was in the 2nd to last measurement in the plot below.

I recenterd the WFS after moving the input beam, so that the beam was hitting the WFS at all.

I checked and fixed the X end green situation. Now the X green beam is locked with TEM00.

There are various reasons it did not lock nicely.

• The IR beam axis was changed by Yoichi and Rana (ELOG #7169). So the green axis also had to be changed.
• The end green optics is really "BS". Anytime I see it, I feel disgusted. Because of 3D steering mirrors, cross couplings
  between yaw and pitch are big. This makes the alignment hard.
• Even with acceptable alignment, the lock was only momentarily. I found the slow control was on. This pushed the frequency
  too much and made the lock unstable.
• The slow control screen was broken as Jamie changed the model names but did not fix the slow screens.
  
  • Jamie saids (ELOG #7011): Fix the c1sc{x,y}/master/C1SC{X,Y}_GC{X,Y}_SLOW.adl screens. 
    I need to figure out a more consistent place for those screens.

Now some action items are left:

- IR TRX is not aligned.
- X end green needs precise alignment.
- PSL GR TRX is not aligned.

These will be checked on Sunday.

- End green setup is horrible. => Manasa and I should work on this together.

as usual.