ID |
Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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9688
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Mon Mar 3 23:16:06 2014 |
rana | Update | LSC | Y Arm Loop Shape found to be weird: changed now | I was getting the Y Arm ready for
Eric Q's loss measurements and so I looked
at the noise and loop shape. The loop shape |
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9691
|
Wed Mar 5 11:33:10 2014 |
Koji | Summary | LSC | 2 arm ALS->LSC transition - road map | Step by step description of transition
from 2arm ALS to Common/Differential LSC
for FPMI |
|
9692
|
Wed Mar 5 16:27:51 2014 |
ericq | Update | LSC | Preliminary Arm Loss Measurements | I measured the arm cavity losses as Kiwamu
did way back in ELOG
5074. |
|
9693
|
Wed Mar 5 18:04:36 2014 |
ericq | Update | LSC | Equivalent Displacement Noise from QPD Dark Noise in SQRTINV | At today's meeting, it was suspected that
these noise levels were far too low. (ELOG |
   |
9694
|
Wed Mar 5 19:15:39 2014 |
Jenne | Summary | LSC | ALS offset moving script modified |
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9696
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Wed Mar 5 22:32:21 2014 |
manasa | Update | LSC | Stuck at step 2 |
|
|
9698
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Thu Mar 6 11:15:32 2014 |
Koji | Summary | LSC | Stuck at step 2 | You don't need to make transition from
ALS X/Y to ALS C/D. Just stabilize the arms
with ALS C/D from the beginning. |
|
9702
|
Fri Mar 7 00:43:34 2014 |
manasa | Update | LSC | ALS C&D locked (on MC2 and ETMs) and IR resonance obtained | [EricQ, Manasa]
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9708
|
Mon Mar 10 21:12:30 2014 |
Koji | Summary | LSC | Composite Error Signal for ARms (1) | The ALS error (i.e. phase tracker output)
is linear everywhere, but noisy.
The 1/sqrt(TR) is linear and less |
|
9709
|
Mon Mar 10 21:13:43 2014 |
nicolas | Summary | LSC | Composite Error Signal for ARms (2) | In order to better understand how the composite
signal would behave in the presence of noise,
I decided to do a simple analysis of the |
   |
9710
|
Mon Mar 10 21:14:58 2014 |
ericq | Summary | LSC | Composite Error Signal for ARms (3) | Using Koji's mathematica notebook, and
Nic's python work, I set out to run a time
domain simulation of the error signal, with |
  |
9711
|
Mon Mar 10 21:16:13 2014 |
Koji | Summary | LSC | Composite Error Signal for ARms (4) | The LSC model was modified for CESAR.
A block called ALSX_COMBINE was made
in the LSC block. This block receives the |
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9712
|
Mon Mar 10 21:16:56 2014 |
Koji | Summary | LSC | Composite Error Signal for ARms (5) | After making the CDS modification, CESAR
was tested with ALS.
First of all, we run CESAR with threshold |
|
9713
|
Tue Mar 11 14:49:01 2014 |
Koji | Summary | LSC | Important notice on the XARM servo | The nominal gain
of the XARM for the POX11 error signal is |
|
9715
|
Tue Mar 11 15:14:34 2014 |
den | Summary | LSC | Composite Error Signal for ARms (1) |
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|
9717
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Tue Mar 11 15:21:08 2014 |
Koji | Summary | LSC | Composite Error Signal for ARms (1) | True. But we first want to realize this
for a single arm, then move onto the two
arms case. |
|
9718
|
Tue Mar 11 18:33:21 2014 |
Koji | Update | LSC | Composite Error Signal for ARms (6) | Today we modified the CESAR block.
- Now the sign(X) function is in
a block. |
|
9719
|
Tue Mar 11 18:34:11 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | Composite Error Signal for ARms (7) | [Nic, Jenne, EricQ, and Koji]
We
have used CESAR successfully to bring the |
   |
9724
|
Thu Mar 13 01:18:00 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | Composite Error Signal for ARms (8) | [Jenne, EricQ]
As Koji suggested in his email this
afternoon, we looked at how much actuator |
7x |
9726
|
Fri Mar 14 09:44:34 2014 |
Steve | Update | LSC | morning lock | |
|
9728
|
Fri Mar 14 12:18:55 2014 |
Koji | Update | LSC | Composite Error Signal for ARms (9) | Asymptotic cooling of the mirror motion
with CESAR was tested.
With ALS and the full control bandwidth |
|
9740
|
Wed Mar 19 21:37:45 2014 |
manasa | Summary | LSC | Attempt to lock PRMIsb with REFL165I&Q | I tried to
repeat Koji's PRMI lock using REFL165I/Q.
I was not able to lock PRMI stably. All I |
|
9742
|
Fri Mar 21 01:54:32 2014 |
ericq | Update | LSC | Some early CARM modeling | I've been getting a simulation going
with the eventual goal of simulating CESAR-type
signals for CARM. So for I've only been using |
7x |
9744
|
Sun Mar 23 14:20:07 2014 |
rana | HowTo | LSC | BLRMS screens | We should make screens like this
for the LSC signals, errors, ALS, etc. |
|
9751
|
Wed Mar 26 11:16:59 2014 |
ericq | Summary | LSC | Composite Error Signal for ARms (3) | Extending the previous model, I've closed
a rudimentary CESAR loop in simulink. Error
signals with varying noise levels are combined |
 |
9753
|
Wed Mar 26 14:54:32 2014 |
Koji | Summary | LSC | PRMIsb locked with REFL165I&Q again | [Manasa, Eric, Koji]
PRMIsb
was locked with REFL165I&Q. |
|
9754
|
Wed Mar 26 21:51:42 2014 |
ericq | Summary | LSC | PRMIsb locked with REFL165I&Q again | Incidentally, while messing around with
transfer functions and sensing matrix elements
this evening, I was able to sideband lock |
|
9758
|
Fri Mar 28 17:22:55 2014 |
Koji | Summary | LSC | PRMIsb locked with REFL165I&Q again | While I'm looking at the PRM ASC servo
model, I tried to use the current servo
filters for the ASC |
|
9765
|
Mon Mar 31 13:15:55 2014 |
manasa | Summary | LSC | Alignment update |
|
|
9766
|
Mon Mar 31 13:26:23 2014 |
manasa | Update | LSC | LSC model modified | I have included Yarm CESAR to the LSC model.
It was just a copy paste of the Xarm CESAR.
Since we are now meditating about implementing |
|
9767
|
Mon Mar 31 17:47:57 2014 |
ericq | Summary | LSC | MICH sensing oddities in REFL 3F | Last week, while I had the PRMI locked
on REFL33, I did some poking around with
mirror excitation to RFPD quadrature transfer |
 |
9768
|
Mon Mar 31 21:23:30 2014 |
Gabriele | Summary | LSC | MICH sensing oddities in REFL 3F |
|
|
9772
|
Tue Apr 1 21:45:01 2014 |
Jenne | Summary | LSC | PRM violin notch not at correct freq? | Koji and I have the PRMI locked right now,
and we hear a very strong violin mode ringing
up, at 628Hz. This is, according to |
|
9774
|
Wed Apr 2 01:18:30 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | Attempt at PRMI+2 arms | I was trying to lock PRMI+2 arms, but I'm
losing patience with the MC losing lock.
It's mostly well-behaved, but every now and |
|
9780
|
Thu Apr 3 00:30:52 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | Attempt at PRMI+2 arms | [EricQ, Jenne]
We started out this evening by
locking the PRMI, on different REFL PDs, |
|
9781
|
Thu Apr 3 03:06:34 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | Attempt at PRMI+2 arms | [EricQ, Jenne]
Much more success later!
We've had the arms locked on ALS |
|
9783
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Thu Apr 3 18:09:54 2014 |
ericq | Update | LSC | Attempt at PRMI+2 arms | So, here's the basic: "We reduced
the CARM offset and saw more TRY" plot.
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  |
9784
|
Thu Apr 3 18:55:10 2014 |
ericq | Summary | LSC | Some CARM related modeling | The other day, Jenne and I were comparing
my MIST simulation to her Optickle simulation
for the CARM transfer functions I posted |
  |
9785
|
Fri Apr 4 18:51:29 2014 |
ericq | Summary | LSC | MORE CARM related modeling | In today's ISC call, Kiwamu was comparing
two ways to approach resonance:
"C-Type": The |
9x |
9787
|
Tue Apr 8 01:58:53 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | Playing with PRMI + 2 arms | I played around with the PRMI + 2 arms
situation again this evening. (I'm
not ready to call it "PRFPMI" until |
|
9788
|
Tue Apr 8 10:44:53 2014 |
Koji | Update | LSC | Playing with PRMI + 2 arms | I vaguely remember that the ALS count (Phase
Tracker output) is converted to Hz@532nm
by a factor ~20kHz/cnt. |
|
9789
|
Tue Apr 8 19:10:39 2014 |
rana | Update | LSC | arm length measurements | Since we don't have an arm length
precision measurement (i.e. better than centimeters),
why not just do as Koji suggests and use |
|
9790
|
Tue Apr 8 23:04:14 2014 |
manasa | Update | LSC | arm length measurements |
|
|
9791
|
Wed Apr 9 02:34:20 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | Jumping over the CARM resonance point | Koji was right, and I was using much too
large of a CARM offset. |
   |
9792
|
Wed Apr 9 16:08:33 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | CARM loop gains vs. CARM offset | I have taken EricQ's simulation results
for the CARM plant change vs. CARM offset,
and put that together with the CM and CARM |
8x |
9793
|
Thu Apr 10 01:56:05 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | CARM transitioned to IR error signals! | [Jenne, EricQ]
This |
|
9796
|
Fri Apr 11 01:02:07 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | CARM and DARM both on IR signals!!!!!!!!! | [EricQ, Jenne]
We're still working, but I'm really
excited, so here's our news: |
|
9797
|
Fri Apr 11 02:09:31 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | CARM and DARM both on IR signals!!!!!!!!! | [EricQ, Jenne]
A few more details on our work for
the evening, of |
|
9798
|
Fri Apr 11 10:30:48 2014 |
jamie | Update | LSC | CARM and DARM both on IR signals!!!!!!!!! |
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9799
|
Fri Apr 11 11:58:24 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | CARM and DARM both on IR signals!!!!!!!!! | A few time series from last night's
data.
300 seconds, starting from 1081240100, |
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