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14653
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Tue Jun 4 10:56:31 2019 |
gautam | Update | IOO | IMC diagnostics | I briefly managed to lock the IMC today
- it stayed locked for ~10 minutes. Attachment
#1 shows spectra of a few error and control |
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14654
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Tue Jun 4 22:24:45 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Steps to interact with GigE | Figured out how to get/grab frames by looking
at the pypylon
documenation as that turned out to be |
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14655
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Tue Jun 4 23:41:13 2019 |
gautam | Update | Cameras | Steps to interact with GigE | caget/caput
probably does the job. |
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14656
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Wed Jun 5 22:30:13 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Steps to interact with GigE | Thanks! It does indeed do the trick! With
that I was able to
Obtain current exposure |
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14657
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Thu Jun 6 16:01:52 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Steps to interact with GigE | [Koji, Milind]
Today I ran into the following |
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14658
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Thu Jun 6 18:49:22 2019 |
gautam | Update | BHD | Preliminary BHD calculations | Summary:
I did some more calculations based
on our discussions at the meeting yesterday. |
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14659
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Thu Jun 6 22:11:53 2019 |
Koji | Update | IOO | IMC diagnostics | As per Gautam's request, I looked at
the IMC situation.
Locking |
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14660
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Sun Jun 9 21:24:00 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Cameras | GigE setup | I managed to fit all the parts into the
cylindrical enclosure without having to drill
a hole in the enclosure to mount the analog |
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14661
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Mon Jun 10 22:22:19 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Steps to interact with GigE | Steps to take snapshots using GigE at different
exposures [Instructions for Kruthi]:
Setup C1-CAM-ETMX.ini (/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/GigE/SnapPy_pypylon/C1-CAM-ETMX.ini) |
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14663
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Tue Jun 11 00:25:05 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Cameras | GigE setup | [Kruthi, Milind]
Today, with Milind's help,
I installed the analog camera into the MC2 |
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14665
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Wed Jun 12 02:15:50 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Cameras | GigE setup | [Koji, Kruthi]
Yesterday, Koji helped me clean
all the optics that are being used for the |
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14666
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Wed Jun 12 21:55:34 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Cameras | GigE setup | I'm attaching a picture of the screen.
I just positioned the enclosure by turning
it a bit and I suppose we can see the |
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14667
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Wed Jun 12 22:02:04 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Simulation enhancements | Today, Rana asked me to work on improving
simulations based on the ideas we discussed
last week. As of the previous elog the simulation |
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14668
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Thu Jun 13 14:28:46 2019 |
rana | Update | Cameras | GigE setup | don't
need to lock - make sure the 4 OSEMs are
centered on the camera field just as we have |
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14669
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Thu Jun 13 15:08:31 2019 |
Milind | Update | Electronics | VCO pickup by Rich | Rich dropped by at around 3:00 PM today
and picked up the VCO in Attachment #1 and
left the note in Attachment #2 on Gautam's |
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14670
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Thu Jun 13 18:01:18 2019 |
aaron | Update | IOO | IMC diagnostics | Continuing this investigation of the IMC,
today I am getting familiar with the PMC
and FSS. I'd like to measure the frequency |
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14671
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Thu Jun 13 21:29:52 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Steps to interact with GigE | As directed by Gautam, I have set up one
script- interact.py (at /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/GigE/SnapPy_pypylon/interact.py)
to perform the following two tasks: |
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14673
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Thu Jun 13 22:46:41 2019 |
Koji | Update | IOO | Left IMC at the intermediate gains | SURFS want some locking of IMC for camera
adjustment.
So I left the IMC with intermediate |
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14674
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Fri Jun 14 00:40:33 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Cameras | GigE setup | Today, I tried aligning it further; I'm
attaching a picture of it. We are not able
to see all the 4 OSEMs yet. In the reference |
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14675
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Fri Jun 14 13:10:00 2019 |
aaron | Update | IOO | IMC diagnostics | The circuit diagram for the PMC servo card
is D980352.
From this diagram, I see that I can send |
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14676
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Sat Jun 15 00:03:26 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Cameras | GigE setup | The analog camera is aligned and we are
able to see all the 4 OSEMs (pictures attached).
Due to secondary reflection from the |
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14677
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Mon Jun 17 12:37:16 2019 |
aaron | Update | IOO | IMC diagnostics | Grabbed the PMC data
I went
to set up the spectrum analyzer measurements
through GPIB, but inadvertently deleted the |
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14678
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Mon Jun 17 14:36:13 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Convolutional neural networks for beam tracking | Begun setting up an environment (as mentioned
before, on my local machine) and scripts
to run experiments with Convolutional |
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14679
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Mon Jun 17 16:02:17 2019 |
aaron | Update | Computers | keyed PSL crate | Milind pointed out that all boxes on the
medm screens were white. I didn't have
diagnostics from the medm screens, so I started |
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14680
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Mon Jun 17 22:19:04 2019 |
Milind | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | PMC autolocker | As Rana asked me to in the last meeting,
I dug through the elogs to determine what
had become of the previous autolockers. I |
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14681
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Tue Jun 18 20:35:07 2019 |
aaron | Update | IOO | IMC diagnostics | I made a script (/users/aaron/40m/GPIB/tds_dump.py)
that grabs data from a Tektronix scope and
packages into a pickled dict with the following |
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14682
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Tue Jun 18 22:54:59 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Convolutional neural networks for beam tracking | Worked further on this. I skimmed through
a few resources to look for details of what
pre-processing can be done. Here |
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14683
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Wed Jun 19 19:12:51 2019 |
aaron | Update | IOO | IMC diagnostics | Here are the results from the fit. Data
can be found on nodus in /users/aaron/40m/data/PMC/190617/.
I've put a jupyter notebook with |
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14686
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Fri Jun 21 19:36:26 2019 |
Koji | Update | IOO | IMC diagnostics | The IMC REFL error signal was measured
to compare it with the other spectra (if
we have). |
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14687
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Sun Jun 23 08:09:53 2019 |
gautam | Update | IOO | NPRO diagnostics | Summary:
Over the last few days, I've
been doing some (complementary) measurements |
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14688
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Sun Jun 23 09:36:32 2019 |
gautam | Update | IOO | IMC is locking normally again | After typing up the elog, I decided to
try locking the IMC again - now it locks
again with the "OLD" gain settings. |
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14689
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Sun Jun 23 14:43:14 2019 |
Koji | Update | IOO | IMC is locking normally again | Note that I have removed an SR785, an oscilloscope,
some SRS instruments from the PSL and PMC
last night. |
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14690
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Mon Jun 24 08:12:10 2019 |
gautam | Update | IOO | IMC is locking normally again | Over the last 24 hours, the IMC autolocker
was able to keep the MC locked ~60% of the
time. This is not particularly good, but |
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14691
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Mon Jun 24 11:48:35 2019 |
gautam | Update | IOO | IMC in-loop error spectra and OLTF | Attachment
#1 - In loop |
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14693
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Mon Jun 24 15:49:05 2019 |
aaron | Update | IOO | IMC diagnostics | aI went to repeat these measurements using
the mixer out channel from the servo box,
and with a slower sweep for the PDH calibration. |
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14694
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Tue Jun 25 00:25:47 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Convolutional neural networks for beam tracking | In the previous meeting, Koji pointed out
(once again) that I should determine if the
displacement values and frames are synchronized |
8x |
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14695
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Tue Jun 25 11:54:47 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Cameras | GigE | Turns out, focusing the GigE is actually
a bit tricky. With pylon, everytime I change
the exposure or the focus, I'm running |
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14696
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Tue Jun 25 15:32:16 2019 |
gautam | Update | IOO | PMC and IMC locked again, some MEDM maintenance | Aaron complained to me earlier that the
PMC could not be locked. Turned out to be
a classic sticky slider problem, I keyed |
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14697
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Tue Jun 25 22:14:10 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Convolutional neural networks for beam tracking | I discussed this with Gautam and he asked
me to come up with a list of signals that
I would need for my use and then design the |
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14698
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Tue Jun 25 23:52:37 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Simulation enhancements | Yesterday,
Rana asked me to look at Hiro Yamamoto's |
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14699
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Wed Jun 26 10:55:13 2019 |
aaron | Update | IOO | PMC and IMC locked again, some MEDM maintenance | The PMC was locking again after Gautam's
steps above. However, after I added the directional
coupler between the mixer I and the servo |
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14700
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Wed Jun 26 11:11:40 2019 |
Milind | Update | IOO | PMC and IMC locked again, some MEDM maintenance | After helping Aaron key the crate and do
a burt restore, I realized that it would
probably be best to record the steps that |
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14701
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Wed Jun 26 18:28:24 2019 |
rana | Update | IOO | PMC and IMC locked again, some MEDM maintenance | a
useful piece of code that we should ask one |
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14702
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Wed Jun 26 19:12:00 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Cameras | GigE | The GigE is focused now (judged by eye)
and I have closed the lid. I'm attaching
a picture of the MC2 beam spot, captured |
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14703
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Wed Jun 26 20:45:03 2019 |
gautam | Update | Cameras | Field of view options | For the beam spot position tracking, I
am wondering if there is any benefit to going
for a wider field of view and getting the |
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14704
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Wed Jun 26 21:01:26 2019 |
gautam | Update | LSC | POX and POY locking | Now that the IMC is remaining locked for
extended periods of time, the next problem
to attack is the ASS dither alignment system. |
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14705
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Thu Jun 27 14:28:12 2019 |
gautam | Update | LSC | POX and POY locking | After a more systematic alignment effort,
I was able to get the spots better centered
on the optics (judged by eye from the analog |
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14706
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Thu Jun 27 20:48:22 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Convolutional neural networks for beam tracking | And
finally, a network is trained!
Result summary (TLDR :-P) |
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14708
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Sat Jun 29 03:11:18 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Cameras | CCD Calibration | Finding the gain of the Photodiode:
The three-position rotary switch of the photodiode
being used (PDA520) wasn't working, so |
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14709
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Sun Jun 30 19:47:09 2019 |
rana | Update | IOO | IMC WFS agenda | we are thinking of doing a sprucing up
of the input mode cleaner WFS (sensors +
electronics + feedback loops) |
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