ID |
Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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639
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Mon Jul 7 13:49:27 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | PSL | MZ offset, gain tips | John, Yoichi
This morning John found that MZ servo is |
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642
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Mon Jul 7 16:30:08 2008 |
steve | Update | PSL | PSL-PEM 16 days trend | This morning the laser head temp was up to
20.3C because the laser chiller was overflowing.
I removed 700 cc water.
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645
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Tue Jul 8 08:16:56 2008 |
steve | Update | PSL | PMC problem | The PMC is unhappy. PMC auto locker is not
working.
DC output slider adjust has to be moved from |
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648
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Tue Jul 8 12:25:54 2008 |
John | Summary | PSL | ISS gain set to 2dB | |
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649
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Tue Jul 8 21:46:38 2008 |
Yoichi | Configuration | PSL | GC650M moved to the PMC transmission | I moved a GC650M, which was monitoring the
light coming out of the PSL, to the transmission
port of the PMC to see the transmitted mode |
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659
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Fri Jul 11 09:29:02 2008 |
steve | Update | PSL | the PMC still hangs up | Morning alarms:
PMC high voltage is railing, it's auto locker |
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662
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Sat Jul 12 23:28:31 2008 |
rana | Update | PSL | PMC needs help | As everyone has noticed recently, the PMC
seems to have a PZT problem. It often zooms
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663
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Sun Jul 13 17:19:29 2008 |
rana | Summary | PSL | MOPA SLOWM Calibration | John, Rana
We first unlocked the FSS and ramped the |
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665
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Mon Jul 14 00:36:19 2008 |
John | Summary | PSL | Slow sweep of laser temp - PMC PZT response | John, Rana
Follow up to # 663
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672
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Tue Jul 15 10:24:57 2008 |
steve | Update | PSL | PMC temp & pzt voltage | The PMC pzt HV was happy with no HEPA temp
stability.
Can we thermally insulate the pmc ? |
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684
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Wed Jul 16 17:36:51 2008 |
John | DAQ | PSL | FSS input offset | I changed the nominal FSS input offset to
0 from 0.3. Tolerance remains unchanged at
+/-0.05. |
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688
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Thu Jul 17 08:30:15 2008 |
steve | Update | PSL | PMC relocked manually | The PMC pzt HV and the servo gain adj. are
railing at max this morning
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689
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Thu Jul 17 12:15:21 2008 |
Eric | Update | PSL | Swept PMC PZT voltage range | I unlocked the PMC and swept over C1:PSL-PMC_RAMP's
full range a couple of times this morning.
The PMC should now be relocked and returned |
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692
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Thu Jul 17 20:13:34 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | PMC alignment/mode matching effort | I'm working to improve the mode matching of
PMC.
Because I noticed that the beam was hitting |
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699
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Fri Jul 18 19:41:09 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | PMC PZT investigation | I measured the HV coming to the PMC PZT by
plugging it off from the PZT and hooking
it up to a DVM.
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701
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Fri Jul 18 23:24:24 2008 |
rob | Update | PSL | PMC PZT investigation | [quote]I measured the HV coming to the PMC
PZT by plugging it off from the PZT and hooking
it up to a DVM.
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702
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Sat Jul 19 19:39:44 2008 |
rob | Update | PSL | PMC PZT investigation | [quote][quote] The 64k is the series resistor
after the PA85, not the modeled resistance
of the PZT itself.[/quote]
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703
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Sat Jul 19 19:41:56 2008 |
Yoichi | AoG | PSL | The author of the entry 702 is Yoichi not Rob | I made a mistake. |
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711
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Tue Jul 22 03:03:22 2008 |
John, Rob | Update | PSL | FSS open loop transfer function | With the common gain slider maxed out the
unity gain frequency is 58kHz.
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712
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Tue Jul 22 09:24:17 2008 |
steve | Update | PSL | laser power | Laser power reality of 120 days |
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713
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Tue Jul 22 11:55:22 2008 |
rana | Update | PSL | Note from R. Abbott re: the PMC | an email from Rich:
[CODE]Your PZT is broken.
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714
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Tue Jul 22 13:15:14 2008 |
rob | Update | PSL | Note from R. Abbott re: the PMC | [quote]an email from Rich:
[CODE]Your PZT is broken.
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715
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Tue Jul 22 13:16:09 2008 |
John, Rob | Update | PSL | FSS open loop transfer function | [quote]With the common gain slider maxed out
the unity gain frequency is 58kHz.
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719
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Wed Jul 23 01:42:26 2008 |
rana | Configuration | PSL | FSS RFPD: Examined, "repaired", and re-installed | [U]Rob said that there might be something
wrong with the FSS RFPD since the loop gain
is so low.[/U]
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726
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Wed Jul 23 18:42:18 2008 |
Jenne | Update | PSL | Alignment of AOM | [Rana, Yoichi, Jenne]
Short Version: We are selecting the wrong |
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735
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Thu Jul 24 19:29:26 2008 |
Yoichi | Configuration | PSL | C1:PSL-STAT_FSS_NOM_C_GAIN is changed from 30 to -0.7 | Koji, Yoichi
Since the light power going to the ref. cavity |
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736
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Thu Jul 24 21:04:58 2008 |
rana | Update | PSL | FSS | Since Jenne and Yoichi are going to finish
up their refcav/FSS work in the morning I
decided to
|
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741
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Fri Jul 25 19:57:18 2008 |
Jenne | Update | PSL | Ref Cav & PMC | "PMC is in, but is still being worked on.
Leave it alone." ---Rana
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745
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Sun Jul 27 23:06:17 2008 |
rana | Update | PSL | PMC, MZ, MC-MMT, etc. | With the new PMC now in I aligned the MZ to
the new beam (there is sadly no steering
between the PMC and the MZ).
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746
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Mon Jul 28 11:20:13 2008 |
Jenne | Update | PSL | Work on the FSS and Reference Cavity | [Yoichi, Jenne, Koji]
The Reference Cavity's saga continues....
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749
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Mon Jul 28 17:44:07 2008 |
rana | Update | PSL | PMC PZT v. temperature | This plot shows that the PMC [COLOR=darkblue]PZT
has ~20 Vpp fluctuations on a 24 hour timescale[/COLOR]
which is correlated to the 24 hour temperature |
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751
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Mon Jul 28 23:41:07 2008 |
rob | Configuration | PSL | FSS/MC gains twiddled |
I found the FSS and MC gain settings in a
weird state. The FSS was showing excess |
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758
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Tue Jul 29 19:41:38 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | FSS loop transfer functions | Last night I measured a bunch of transfer
functions on the FSS loop.
All the loop gains were measured with the |
7x |
761
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Tue Jul 29 23:04:34 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | FSS loop transfer functions | [quote]
The measurement of the PZT open loop TF is
very suspicious. According to this, the PC |
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767
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Wed Jul 30 13:09:40 2008 |
josephb, Eric | Configuration | PSL | PMC scan experiment | We turned the PSL power down by a factor of
4, blocked one half of the Mach Zehnder and
scanned the PMC by applying a ramp signal |
|
772
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Wed Jul 30 16:35:56 2008 |
Eric | Update | PSL | PMC Scan Graphs | Graphs of the PMC scan data that I got earlier
today.
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775
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Thu Jul 31 10:27:17 2008 |
rana | Update | PSL | PMC Scan Graphs | [quote]Graphs of the PMC scan data that I
got earlier today.
[/quote]
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778
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Fri Aug 1 01:13:32 2008 |
rana | Configuration | PSL | PSL Quad change and new script | Koji and I changed a few optics so that now
~60% of the beam that went to the PSL POS
QPD
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781
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Fri Aug 1 16:33:52 2008 |
rana | Configuration | PSL | PSL Quad change and new script | Here's the sensor ringdown trend from the
kick. |
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791
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Mon Aug 4 13:43:02 2008 |
Yoichi | Summary | PSL | FSS loop calibration | As a part of the effort to repair the FSS
loop bandwidth, I tried to calibrate the
FSS loop.
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873
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Sat Aug 23 09:39:51 2008 |
rana, jenne | Update | PSL | PMC Survey | Jenne, Rana
We scoped out the PMC situation yesterday. |
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874
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Mon Aug 25 10:07:35 2008 |
Jenne | Update | PSL | Numbers for the PMC servo board (Re: entry # 873) | Jenne, Rana
These are the numbers that go along with |
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876
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Mon Aug 25 10:51:06 2008 |
steve | Update | PSL | psl headtemp is coming down | The laser water cooler was overflowing this
morning.
I removed 500 cc water from the chiller.
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878
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Mon Aug 25 12:13:49 2008 |
Jenne | Update | PSL | Broken PMC Servo Board | [SIZE=3]I broke the PMC servo board[/SIZE]
(on accident).
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879
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Mon Aug 25 14:18:36 2008 |
Jenne | Update | PSL | PMC servo board is fixed | The PMC servo board is back in place, all
fixed up with a shiny new resistor. The
PMC locks, and the MC locks (I'm not saying |
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884
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Tue Aug 26 09:04:59 2008 |
rana | Configuration | PSL | PMC Servo Board: Out for Repairs | I've started modifying our PMC board to bring
it up to the 21st century - [B][COLOR=blue]leave
the screen alone[/COLOR][/B] or else you |
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892
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Wed Aug 27 13:55:43 2008 |
rana,jenne | Update | PSL | PMC Servo Board | Board is back in. PMC is locked.
Nominal gain is now 15 dB with brick. We |
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893
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Thu Aug 28 18:56:14 2008 |
rana | Configuration | PSL | beam block distorted | There was a beam block after the Mach Zender.
Who or what put this there?
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895
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Fri Aug 29 02:40:43 2008 |
rana,jenne | Update | PSL | PMC Servo Board | [quote]Board is back in. PMC is locked.
[/quote]
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896
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Fri Aug 29 10:20:32 2008 |
Yoichi | Configuration | PSL | beam block distorted | [quote]There was a beam block after the Mach
Zender. Who or what put this there?
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