Lock acquisition working well tonight.  Was able to engage CM boost (not superboost) with bandwidth of ~10kHz.  Also succeeded once in handing off DARM to DC readout.

I set the FSS slow actuator adj to -5.6 at the lunch time. It gave a little help at that time. Now max of the MC Trans is comming back somehow. I hope the MC Trans level is as good as before, if the HEPA is slowed down.

[Jenne, Sanjit]

As per Matt's instructions in his OAF document (elog 395) in the Tuning section, Sanjit and I took a transfer function measurement from the output of the OAF system, to the input.  i.e. we're trying to measure what happens out in the real world when we push on MC1, and how that is fed back to the input of our filter as MC_L.  The game plan is to measure this transfer function, and read off the phase at the nyquist frequency, and use this value to calculate the appropriate sample-and-hold delay to be used in the OAF.  The downsample rate for the OAF is 32, so that we're running at 64Hz instead of the 2048Hz of the front-end.  Thus, our Nyquist frequency is 32Hz.

                            DownSampleRate

Phase@Nyquist * ------------------------

                                    180

In the attached figure we do a swept sine from CORR_EXC to ERR_EMPH_OUT to determine the transfer function.  Here, we turn off all of the filters in both the CORR and EXC banks, because those are already matched/taken into account in the PEM filter banks. 

Using the cursor on DTT, we find that the phase at 29.85Hz is -228.8deg, and at 37.06Hz is -246.0deg.  Extrapolating, this means that at 32Hz, we expect about -234deg phase.  Using our handy-dandy formula, this means that we should try a delay of 41 or 42 (41.6 is between these two...) 

We'll give this a shot!

In the revival of the experiement length measurement for the recycling cavities, I turned the auxiliary NPRO back on. The shutter is closed.

I also recollected all the equipment of the experiment after that during the summer it had been scattered around the lab to be used for other purposes (Joe and Zach's cameras and Stephanie and Koji's work with the new EOM).

All done (for now). That wasn't so bad, was it?

I have been commissioned to take pictures of the PSL table so that it can be diagrammed. I am starting now (1:42 pm, 10/5/09).

The PSL output looks smaller than the incident. Try to FSS Slow actuator adj of -5.6 (nominal), instead of -3.5.

Alberto, Steve,

While I was moving a cart near by the PSL table I pushed the red emergency button that turns off the PSL laser. We had to unlock the button and then power cycle the laser driver to turn the laser back on.

I relocked MZ, FSS, PMC and I'm now waiting for the power to finish ramping up back to the previous value.

Working well tonight: the handoff of CARM to RF (REFL2I), successful reduction of CARM offset to zero, and transition control of MCL path to the OUT1 from the common mode board.  All that's left in lock acquisition is to try and get the common mode bandwidth up and the boost on.

Late last night after the ETMY settled down from the quake I made some more progress in locking, with the handoff to RF CARM succeeding once.  The final reduction of the CARM offset to zero didn't work, however.

quake coming through.  I've re-enabled optic damping (except ETMY), and left off the oplevs for now.  We can do a resonant-f  check over the weekend.

Looks like it was a magnitude 5 near Olancha, where they sell really good fresh jerky.  quake

Earthquake Details

• This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

latest news: there's actually been about a dozen earthquakes in Keeler in the last couple hours:   http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/special/California_Nevada_eqs.php

-Rana

I took the output of the OMC DAC and plugged it directly into an OMC ADC channel to see if I could isolate the OMC DAC weirdness I'd been seeing.  It looks like it may have something to do with DTT specifically.

Attachment 1 is a DTT transfer function of a BNC cable and some connectors (plus of course the AI and AA filters in the OMC system).  It looks like this on both linux and solaris.

Attachment 2 is a transfer function using sweepTDS (in mDV), which uses TDS tools as the driver for interfacing with testpoints and DAQ channels. 

Attachment 3 is a triggered time series, taken with DTT, of the same channels as used in the transfer functions, during a transfer function.  I think this shows that the problem lies not with awg or tpman, but with how DTT is computing transfer functions. 

I've tried soft reboots of the c1omc, which didn't work.   Since the TDS version appears to work, I suspect the problem may actually be with DTT.

Here's the gist of the requirements on the 5x frequency multiplier for the upgrade (see attachemnt - despite the preview down here in the elog, they're 3 pages).

An extended version is available on the wiki.

A more complete document is under work and will soon be available on the wiki as well.

we set the offsets for the MCWFS DC and for the MCWFS demod outputs and then turned off the lights put the MZ at half fringe and then centered the spots on the MCWFS heads.

The MCREFL beam looks symmetric again and the MC REFL power is low. 

It got worse again, starting with locking last night, but it has not recovered.  Attached is a 3-day trend of SRM cpu load showing the good spell.

The attached shows the 200 day '10-minute' trend of the CPU meters and also the room temperature.

To my eye there is no correlation between the signals. Its clear that c1susvme2 (SRM LOAD) is going up and no evidence that its temperature.

More progress with locking tonight, with initial acquisition and power ramps working.  The final handoff to RF CARM still needs work.

I found the wireless router was unplugged from the network--just plugging in the cable solved the problem.  For some reason that RJ45 connector doesn't actually latch, so the cable is prone to slipping out of the jack.

Ops. I restored the damping of the suspensions at around 16:30.

MZ work has been done. I did not change anything on the circuit.

Recently we observed that the MZ PZT output was sticking at a certain voltage. I found the reason.
Shortly to say "we must return the PZT Ramp offset to 0, after the lock"

I am going to write a MZ auto lock script someday, to do it automatically.

According to the resister values used in the circuit, the PZT HV output voltage is determined by the following formula:

V_PZT = 150 - 12 V_ctrl - 24 Vramp

Here the ramp voltage Vramp moves from -10V to +10V, the feedback control voltage V_ctrl moves from -13V to +13V.
The baseline offset of 150V is provided in the circuit board.

When V_ramp is 0, V_PZT runs from 0 to 300. This is just enough for the full scale of the actual V_PZT range,
that is 0V~280V.

If any Vramp offset is given, V_PZT rails at either side of the edges. This limits the actual range of the PZT out.

This is not nice, but is what happened recently.

Attached is a 3 day trend of SRM CPU timing info.  It clearly gets better (though still problematic) at some point, but I don't know why as it doesn't correspond with any work done.  I've labeled a reboot, which was done to try to clear out the timing issues.  It can also be seen that it gets worse during locking work, but maybe that's a coincidence.

 I've watchdogged all the suspensions while I mess around with computers.  If no one else is using the IFO, we can leave them undamped for a couple of hours to check the resonant frequencies, as long as I don't interrupt data streams with my computer hatcheting.

I will investigate the MZ board. I will unlock MZ (and MC).

 Round 3 for the day of MC2 watchdogs tripping.

 The EQ did not change the input beam pointing. All back to normal, except MC2 wachdogs tripped again.

MZ stayed unlocked. Now It was relocked.

Earthquake  of magnitude 5.0  shakes ETMY loose.

MC2 lost it's damping later.

Good progress in IFO locking tonight, with the arm powers reaching about half the full resonant maximum. 

Still to do is check out some weirdness with the OMC DAC, fix the wireless network, and look at c1susvme2 timing.

[Sanjit, Jenne]

The up and down scripts accessible from the OAF (still C1:ASS-TOP) screen are now totally functional and awesome.  They are under the blue ! button.  The up script can either be for the Seismometers, or the Accelerometers at this time.  The only difference between these 2 is which burt restore file they look at:  the seismometer version puts all 7 seismometer channels in the PEM selecting matrix, while the accelerometer version puts the 6 accelerometer channels in that matrix.  Both scripts also turn on HP_1mHz filters in the ERR_EMPH filter bank and all of the witness filter banks, and the AA32 and AI32 filters in ERR_EMPH, CORR and PEM filter banks.  This makes all of the starting filters the same between the witness paths and the error path.

If you want to use a different combination of sensors, run one of the up scripts, then change the PEM matrix by hand. 

The down script disables the output to the optics, and resets the adapted filter coefficients.  DO NOT use this script if you're trying to "pause" the filter to take some nice long averages.

I'm blaming Zach on this one, for trying to upload a pic into the ATF elog (even though he claims it was small....)  Blame assigned: check.  Elog restarted: check.

It's been a miserable week for lock acquisition, with each night worst than the last.  The nadir was around Sunday night, when I couldn't even get a PRM to lock stably, which meant that the auto-alignment scripts could not finish successfully.  It now appears that was due to some XYCOM mis-settings. 

We've also been having problems with timing for c1susvme2.  Attached is a one-hour plot of timing data for this cpu, known as SRM.  Each spike is an instance of lateness, and a potential cause of lock loss.  This has been going on for a quite a while.

Tonight we also encountered a large peak in the frequency noise around 485 Hz.  Changing the MZ lock point (the spot in the PZT range) solved this.

much grief.  somehow a burt restore of c1iscepics failed to work, and so the LSC XYCOM settings were not correct.  This meant that the LSC whitening filter states were not being correctly set and reported, making it difficult to lock for at least the last week or so.

cosmic rays in cars

We had a redo of elog entry 975 tonight.  The noisy OSEM was fixed by jiggling the rack end of the long cable.  Don't know exactly where--I also poked around the OSEM PD interface board.

In the attached PDF the reference trace is the noisy one.

Probably there is the same mistake for the PMC gain slider. Possibly on the FSS slider, too???

The previous "+15" was Vctrl = 0.25 [V]. Which was +18 dB.

Since we used to run with a gain slider setting of +15 dB on the MZ, I wanted to check that the new setting of +30dB was OK. It is.

To check it I turned it up and looked for some excess noise in the ISS or in the MC. There was none. I also set the input offset slider by unlocking the PMC and zeroing the mixer monitor readback. The new slider setting is -6.5V.

I don't know why we would need more gain on the MZ loop, but we can have some if we want it by turning up the gain before the servo (optical or RF). The attached plot shows the MC_F and ISS signals with the ISS loop on and off. There was no change in either of these spectra with the MZ gain high or low.

The MZ work completed. I replaced the bad cross connection terminal. The gain slider is working now.

I looked at the error spectrum on an FFT analyzer. I could see the lock was more tight.

Then I proceeded to the MZ epics panel.

1) C1:PSL-MZ_MZTRANSPD has no meaning (not connected). So I put  C1:PSL-ISS_INMONPD as the MZ trans monitor.

2) The EPICS setting for the MZ gain slider was totaly wrong.
    Today I learned from the circuit, the full scale of the gain slider C1:PSL-MZ_GAIN gave us +/-10V at the DAC.
    This yield +/-1V to V_ctrl of the AD602 after the internal 1/10 attenuation stage.
    This +/-1V didn't correspond to -10dB~+30dB, but does -22dB~+42dB and is beyond the spec of the chip.

    The gain of AD602 is calculated by

G [dB] = 32 V_crtl + 10,  for -0.625 [V]< V_ctrl < +0.625 [V].

    In order to fix this I used the following commands which overrode the EPICS parameters.
    The tip of EGUF/EGUL is to know how much the gain (virtually) goes for the full scale of the DAC output. 

ezcawrite C1:PSL-MZ_GAIN.EGUF 42
ezcawrite C1:PSL-MZ_GAIN.EGUL -22
ezcawrite C1:PSL-MZ_GAIN.DRVH 30
ezcawrite C1:PSL-MZ_GAIN.DRVL -10
ezcawrite C1:PSL-MZ_GAIN.HOPR 30
ezcawrite C1:PSL-MZ_GAIN.LOPR -10

   and for the permanent change I modified the db file /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1iool0/c1iooMZservo.db
   This will be active when cliool0 is rebooted.

# This yields the output limited to -6.25V ~ +6.25V, which corresponds to -10dB ~ +30dB
# modified by Koji Arai (29-Sept-2009)
grecord(ao,"C1:PSL-MZ_GAIN")
{
        field(DESC,"GAIN- overall pre-modecleaner servo loop gain")
        field(SCAN,"Passive")
        field(PINI,"YES")
        field(DISV,"1")
        field(DTYP,"VMIVME-4116")
        field(OUT,"#C3 S5 @")
        field(EGUF,"42")
        field(EGUL,"-22")
        field(PREC,"1")
        field(EGU,"dB")
        field(HOPR,"30")
        field(LOPR,"-10")
        field(DRVH,"30")
        field(DRVL,"-10")
        field(LINR,"LINEAR")
        field(OROC,"0")
        field(DOL,"0")
}

# previous code
grecord(ao,"C1:PSL-MZ_GAIN")
{
        field(DESC,"GAIN- overall pre-modecleaner servo loop gain")
        field(SCAN,"Passive")
        field(PINI,"YES")
        field(DISV,"1")
        field(DTYP,"VMIVME-4116")
        field(OUT,"#C3 S5 @")
        field(EGUF,"30")
        field(EGUL,"-10")
        field(PREC,"4")
        field(EGU,"Volts")
        field(HOPR,"30")
        field(LOPR,"-10")
        field(LINR,"LINEAR")
        field(OROC,"0")
        field(DOL,"0")
}

This happened when I plugged the cards into a crate with computers, which apparently is a no-no.  The extender cards only go in VME crates full of in-house, LIGO-designed electronics.

12:45 I started the work on MZ. Thus the MZ was unlocked.

Found the bad connection on the FLKM 64pin cross connection board. We need a replacement.

I went to Wilson and got the replacement, two VME extender boards, three 7815, and three 7915. Thanks, Ben!

Rana, Jenne, Koji

Last night we checked MZ. The apparent thing we found was the gain slider does not work.
The slider actually changes the voltage at the cross connection of 1Y2 (31 pin4?), the gain does not change.
The error spectrum didn't change at all even when the slider was moved.

Rana poked the flat cable at the bottom of 1Y2, we had no imporvement.

We coudn't find the VME extender board, so we just replaced AD602 (=VGA) and LT1125 (=Buffer for the ctrl voltage).
Even after the replacement, the gain slider is not working yet.

Today, I will put a lead or probe to the board to see whether the slider changes the voltage on the board or not.

Somehow the gain is sitting at a intermediate place that is not to low not to high. So I still don't know the gain slider
is the cause of the MZ instability or not.

Mode cleaner length measured tonight.

33196198

132784792

165980990

199177188

[Tag by KA: modulation frequency, MC length]

Jenne, Koji

Tonight we found that the wireless for Martian network was down.
We inspected the router and found the power was down. The power of the weather station was also down.

By touching the power outlet which they are connected, the power changes on and off.
This problematic power outlet has a label "L#17" just below the photograph of the mk I (1989).
The plug was connected to the left one.

As it was scary, we moved the power plug to the next one (L#19).
The wireless router and the weather station were powered now,
though the weather station is showing a wrong time in its clock.

Koji and I were looking for an extender card to aid with MZ board testing.  Rob went off on a quest to find one.  He found 2 (in addition to the one in the drawer near the electronics bench which says "15V shorted"), and put them in some empty slots in 1X1 to test them out.  Somehow, this burned a few pins on each board (1 pin on one of them, and 3 pins on the other). We now have 0 functioning extender cards: unfortunately, both extender cards now need fixing.  The 2 slots that were used in 1X1 now have yellow electrical tape covering the connectors so that they do not get used, because the ends of the burnt-off pins may still be in there. 

In other, not-Rob's-fault news, the Martian network is down...we're going to try to reset it so that we have use of the laptops again.

The PSL/IOO combo has not been behaving responsibly recently. 

The first attachment is a 15 day trend of the MZ REFL, ISS INMON, and MC REFL power.  These show two separate problems--recurring MZ flakiness, which may actually be a loose cable somewhere which makes the servo disengage.  Such disengagement is not as obvious with the MZ as it is with other systems, because the MZ is relatively stable on its own.  The second problem is more recent, just starting in the last few days.  The MC is drifting off the fringe, either in alignment, length, or both.  This is unacceptable.

The second attachment is a two-day trend of the MC REFL power.  Last night I carefully put the beam on the center of the MC-WFS quads.  This appears to have lessened the problem, but it has not eliminated it. 

It's probably worth trying to re-measure the MCWFS system to make sure the control matrix is not degenerate. 

I used Kakeru's instructions in elog 1221 to add the C1OAF screen (still called C1ASS_TOP) to the medm screenshots webpage.  The tricky part of this is figuring out that the file that needs editing is in fact in /cvs/cds/projects/statScreen, not /cvs/cds/caltech/statScreen, as claimed in the entry. 

While trying to make the OAF work, I found that the XYCOM switches for MC1/3 have been set in the bad way for awhile. This means that the hardware filters were bypassed and that MC1 & MC3 were moving around too much at high frequency and possibly causing trouble with the locking. I have put them back into the default position.

On Friday, Jenne and I were playing around with turning the dewhitening off/on to see if it efffected the OAF stability. At the time, I didn't pay too much attention to what the state was. Looks like it was in the wrong state (hardware bypassed) when we found it. For the OAF work, we generally want it in that bypassed state, but its bad because it makes noise in the interferometer. The bits in question are bits 16-23 on the XYCOM screen.

I have updated the snapshot and set the screen in the appropriate settings. I used a swept sine measurement to verify the filter state. In the attached plot, green corresponds to XYCOM green and red corresponds to red.

 I think that the AMPMON ND problem was just that the responsivity changes with angle. So when I aligned it a little we got some few% improvement in the signal which is not a real power increase.

I don't think we can adjust any of the MOPA parameters because the controller is broken, but we can try the NPRO crystal temperature.

I ran (script dir)/PSL/FSS/SLOWscan on op440m from 11:30 to 12:30 on 27th. Although Rana and later I myself set "timed bombs" for the scan, they did not work as they have probably been ran on Linux. After the scan I relocked PMC, FSS, and MZ . MC locked automatically.

Observation:

1. To keep away from the mode hop, FSS_SLOWDC is to be at around 0. The values -5 ~ -6 is the place for the power, which is my preference for now. BTW, the mode hop only appears to the PSL output (=AMPMON) is this normal?

2. The PSL output looks dependent on the NPRO wavelength. The NPRO output and the PSL output tends to be high when the FSS_SLOWDC is low (= LTMP: Laser Crystal Temp is low). Also there is a step at the LTMP where we think the mode hop is present. This may cause the daily PSL output variation which induced by the daily change of the reference cavity length.

My naive speculation is that the NPRO wavelength is too long (= hot side) for the MOPA absorption as the MOPA heads are cooled to 19deg.

3. Scanning of -10 to +10 changes the LTMP from 42-49deg. This is almost 1/10 of the NPRO capability. The manual told us that we should be able to scan the crystal temperature +/-16deg (about 30deg to 60deg).

What I like to try:
a) Change the NPRO temp to more cold side.
b) Change the MOPA head temp to a bit hot side.
c) Tweak the MOPA current (is it difficult?)

This is a trend of the last 20 days. After our work with the NPRO, we have recovered only 5% in PMC trans power, although there's an apparent 15% increase in AMPMON.

The AMPMON increase is partly fake; the AMPMON PD has too much of an ND filter in front of it and it has a strong angle dependence. In the future, we should not use this filter in a permanent setup. This is not a humidity dependence.

The recovery of the refcav power mainly came from tweaking the two steering mirrors just before and just after the 21.5 MHz PC. I used those knobs because that is the part of the refcav path closest to the initial disturbance (NPRO).

BTW, the cost of a 1W Innolight NPRO is $35k and a 2W Innolight NPRO is $53k. Since Jenne is on fellowship this year, we can afford the 2W laser, but she has to be given priority in naming the laser.