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  14813   Thu Jul 25 20:08:36 2019 gautamUpdateComputersSolidworks machineI brought one CPU (Dell T3500) and one
28" monitor from Mike Pedraza's
office in Downs to the 40m. It is on Steve's
  
  2003   Fri Sep 25 17:51:51 2009 KojiUpdateMOPASolved (Re: Total MOPA power is constant, but the NPRO's power has decreased after last night's activities?)Jenne, Koji
The cause of the decrease was found
and the problem was solved. We found this
  
  15232   Thu Feb 27 17:59:02 2020 gautamUpdateLSCSome AO thoughtsWhile my checks of the AO signal path have
thrown up some unanswered questions, I don't
think there's any evidence in those measurements
  
  9784   Thu Apr 3 18:55:10 2014 ericqSummaryLSCSome 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
 asIsPRCRes.pdfidealPRCRes.pdf3fPrclAnglesCarm.pdf 
  15017   Wed Nov 6 19:26:57 2019 gautamUpdatePSLSome PSL cable adminKoji and I taked about cleaning up some
of the flaky cable situation on the PSL table
a while ago. The changes were implemented
 PSLcableAdmin.jpg 
  4034   Thu Dec 9 01:54:15 2010 JenneUpdateElectronicsSome Refl 11 fixesThe
Backstory:
Kevin was working on characterizing
  
  10656   Fri Oct 31 02:19:37 2014 ericqUpdateLSCSome SRMI progressEarlier today, I did some simulations that
suggested that PRC lengths on the order of
a cm from our current estimated one could
  
  9654   Wed Feb 19 11:00:16 2014 ericqUpdateLSCSome Simulation Efforts Q EDIT: THIS
IS WRONG. I LOCKED PRC ON THE CARRIER
 As
Koji measured the other day: MICH and
 PRMISensingAsIs.pdfPRMISensingCoinc.pdfMICHvPRCLangle.pdfArmLengthChoice.pdf 
  9656   Wed Feb 19 14:14:46 2014 ericqUpdateLSCSome Simulation Efforts Q EDIT: THIS
IS WRONG. I LOCKED PRC ON THE CARRIER
Koji
noted oddities in the sensing matrix results
 PRMISensingAsIs.pdfPRMISensingCoinc.pdfMICHvPRCLangle.pdf 
  9657   Wed Feb 19 16:42:08 2014 ericqUpdateLSCSome Simulation EffortsDisregard previous
ELOGs, I had the PRC locked on carrier 
 SBLOCK_PRMISensingAsIs.pdfSBLOCK_MICHvPRCLangle.pdf 
  3249   Tue Jul 20 11:49:31 2010 JenneUpdateSUSSome Suspensions not damping[Jenne, Koji]
I moseyed into the control room this
morning, to find ITMX and ITMY both with
  
  14397   Fri Jan 11 16:38:57 2019 gautamUpdateGeneralSome alignment checksThe pumpdown seems to be progressing smoothly,
so I think we are going to stick with the
plan decided on Wednesday, and vent the IFO
 pd82.pngLSC_X.png 
  15620   Thu Oct 8 15:08:25 2020 gautamUpdateGeneralSome boxes moved from 40m entry hallway
UPS batteries
2x HEPA
filters
VWR chemicals (methanol)


These
boxes were moved from the 40m hallway to
  
  3172   Wed Jul 7 22:22:49 2010 JenneUpdateComputersSome channels not being recorded!!![Rana, Jenne]
We discovered
  
  3176   Thu Jul 8 14:11:16 2010 josephbUpdateComputersSome channels not being recorded!!!This has been fixed,
thanks to some help from Alex.  It doesn't
  
  3179   Thu Jul 8 15:43:58 2010 ranaUpdateComputersSome channels not being recorded!!!

    
        
 3-monkeys-ComicPosition.gif 
  314   Wed Feb 13 11:41:00 2008 AlbertoUpdateElectronicsSome characterization of the RF Monitor Box (StocMon)I'm attaching a table with some measurements
and the power spectrum from the pd to help
evaluate the numbers.
 CircuitCharacterization.pngalberto.spectrum3.png 
  9613   Fri Feb 7 17:52:41 2014 KojiSummaryGeneralSome cleaning up
    Adjusted the PMC alignment

   Adjusted the IMC length offsets for
the MC servo and the FSS servo
   
  
  3221   Wed Jul 14 18:09:50 2010 josephb, razibUpdatePhase CameraSome cleanup behind 1Y2 rack of phasecamera electronicsWe made an attempt at cleaning up the phase
camera setup electronics.
We have moved a portion of the electronics
  
  17170   Mon Oct 3 13:11:22 2022 YehonathanUpdateBHDSome comparison of LO phase lock schemesI pushed a notebook and a Finesse model
for comparing different LO phase locking
schemes. Notebook is on https://git.ligo.org/40m/bhd/-/blob/master/controls/compare_LO_phase_locking_schemes.ipynb,
 MICH_sens_vs_LO_phase.pdfLO_phase_sens_vs_LO_phase_RF.pdfLO_phase_sens_vs_LO_phase_double_audio.pdf 
  1404   Sun Mar 15 21:50:29 2009 Kakeru, Kiwamu, OsamuUpdateComputersSome computers are rebooted We found c1lsc, c1iscex, c1iscey, c1susvme,
c1asc and c1sosvme are dead.
We  turned off all watchdogs
  
  6105   Mon Dec 12 11:34:40 2011 Leo SingerSummaryGeneralSome design parameters for a Stewart platformAt the suggestion of Rana and Koji, I have
worked out some design parameters for a Stewart
platform to be used as a vibration isolation
 stewart.pdfstewart.nb 
  9742   Fri Mar 21 01:54:32 2014 ericqUpdateLSCSome 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 
  15347   Tue May 26 01:58:57 2020 gautamUpdateElectronicsSome electronics thoughtsA big factor in how much IFO locking activities
can take place is how cooperative the IMC
is.
 IMCsensingNoise.pdfIMCsensingNoise.pdf 
  15514   Tue Aug 11 23:20:29 2020 gautamUpdateBHDSome first tests with air BHD setupSome tests done today:

All of these tests were done with
the PRMI locked with carrier resonant in
 PRMI_RFlock.pdfPRMI_RFlock_fullscale.pdf 
  11998   Thu Feb 18 02:52:27 2016 ericqUpdateIOOSome housekeepingI manually aligned the IMC. Spot positions
are all < 1.5mm. PMC trans of ~0.74, MC2
Trans of ~15400, MC Refl ~0.4, which is better
  
  15308   Mon Apr 20 17:49:58 2020 gautamUpdateGeneralSome housekeeping

Empty
N2 replaced. 


Logged back into zita and started
 fDomainWF_Apr06.pdffDomainWF_Apr20.pdf 
  15606   Thu Oct 1 17:44:48 2020 gautamUpdateGeneralSome inventory notesThe optomechanics stock in the lab was
in a sad state. We have obtained the following
from Thorlabs in the last two months:
  
  5980   Tue Nov 22 18:42:10 2011 kiwamuSummaryGreen LockingSome issues on the Y end green PDH locking[Rana / Kiwamu]
 As
a part of the ALS noise budgeting we took
  
  5983   Wed Nov 23 00:00:53 2011 ZachSummaryGreen LockingSome issues on the Y end green PDH locking

    

       
            
  
  1264   Mon Feb 2 17:25:44 2009 AlbertoConfigurationGeneralSome little problem with the new elogFor some reason the new elog does not look
exactly like it should. 

1) Some of the
editing features are not available.

2)
  
  1265   Mon Feb 2 18:32:54 2009 AlbertoConfigurationGeneralSome little problem with the new elog


   
        
            
  
  1969   Mon Sep 7 23:18:01 2009 AlbertoUpdateLockingSome locking attemptsTried
to lock the interferometer but arm power
didn't get over 65.
  
  15245   Tue Mar 3 19:11:48 2020 gautamUpdateLSCSome locking prep
Re-aligned and locked the arm cavities
for IR and green.
Re-set trans
normalization because after the c1iscex
  
  10992   Tue Feb 10 02:40:54 2015 JenneUpdateLSCSome locking thoughts on PRMI[EricQ, Jenne]

We wanted to make the PRMI lock
more stable tonight, which would hopefully
  
  10994   Tue Feb 10 03:09:02 2015 ericqUpdateLSCSome locking thoughts on PRMIUnfortunately, we only had one good CARM
offset reduction to powers of about 25, but
then my QPD loop blew it. We spent the vast
  
  10659   Fri Oct 31 19:59:26 2014 KojiUpdateGeneralSome locking work / PRMI analysisPreparations
- According to Diego's report, the
MC WFS gains were too high. We'll fix this
 PRMIsb_PRCL_OLTF.pdfPRMIsb_MICH_OLTF.pdfPRMIsb_PRCL_SPE.pdfPRMIsb_MICH_SPE.pdf 
  10917   Sat Jan 17 01:10:36 2015 JenneUpdateLSCSome locking, may need to modify UGF part againI have been playing with the IFO tonight. 
Mostly, I wanted to make sure that all of
the scripts for the carm_cm_up sequence were
  
  10926   Tue Jan 20 21:58:04 2015 diegoUpdateLSCSome locking, may need to modify UGF part again 




 UGF_SERVO_MDL.png 
  10725   Tue Nov 18 15:20:58 2014 JenneUpdateLSCSome lockloss plots from PRFPMIElog from ~5am last night:
Tonight was just several trials
of PRFPMI locking, while trying to pay more
 8x 
  10726   Tue Nov 18 17:11:30 2014 JenneUpdateLSCSome lockloss plots from PRFPMII am still staring at / trying to figure
out the latter 4 locklosses posted earlier. 
But, I have just included the transmission
  
  11182   Tue Mar 31 02:51:39 2015 ericqUpdateLSCSome locksI had a handful of ~10 minute locks tonight.
I intended to work on the 1f PRMI transition,
but ended just familiarizing myself with
  
  11183   Tue Mar 31 03:02:44 2015 KojiUpdateLSCSome locksAssuming the carrier mode in PRC is stable
and the SB is the one moving, can we just
use the POP DC QPD to control PRM?
  
  11185   Tue Mar 31 18:27:58 2015 ericqUpdateLSCSome locks


 qpdSwitch.pngqpdAlways.png 
  3115   Thu Jun 24 13:02:59 2010 JenneUpdateComputersSome lunchtime reboots[Jenne, Megan, Frank]
We rebooted c1iovme, c1susvme1, and
c1susvme2 during lunch.  Frank is going
  
  11171   Wed Mar 25 18:27:34 2015 KojiSummaryGeneralSome maintainance- I found that the cable for the AS55 LO
signal had the shielding 90% broken. It was
fixed.
  
  11286   Tue May 12 12:04:41 2015 manasaUpdateGeneralSome maintenance* Relocked IMC. I guess
it was stuck somewhere in the autlocker loop.
I disabled autolocker and locked it manually.
  
  1541   Sun May 3 22:48:12 2009 YoichiUpdateLockingSome measurements at the lock pointI attached some measurement results at when
the IFO is at the full lock point.
 ArmPowerTrend.pngCARMSweep.pngCM-AO-Loop-SB1.png 
  11063   Wed Feb 25 04:21:58 2015 ericqUpdateCDSSome model updatesI changed the suspension library block
to acquire the SUS_[optic]_LSC_OUT channels
at 16k for sensing matrix investigations.
  
  10499   Fri Sep 12 03:49:57 2014 ericqUpdateLSCSome more PRFPMI efforts Since DRMI didn't get fully commissioned,
I tried my hand at PRFPMI locking with the
newly improved ALS performance. 
  
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