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1298
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Thu Feb 12 17:43:33 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | LSC | SRC strangeness solved | I found the problem with the DRMI lock I had
last night was caused by the zero gain in
the PD11_I filter.
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1297
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Thu Feb 12 14:39:07 2009 |
rana | Summary | General | Silicon Beam Dump test | Yesterday evening, Ken Mailand and I tested
the reflectivity of a piece of polished Silicon.
Since Silicon has such a high thermalconductivity |
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1296
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Thu Feb 12 11:21:54 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | LSC | Locking effort resumed | Last night, I restarted the locking work.
Quite some time was wasted by the disconnected
REFL199 by Alberto for the cavity length |
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1295
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Wed Feb 11 23:51:53 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | PSL | PA current and laser output | I attached a plot of ISS monitor PD and MOPA
output to PA current.
The both end of PA current (26.0353[A] and |
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1294
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Wed Feb 11 15:01:47 2009 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Allegra | So after having broke Allegra by updating
the kernel, I was able to get it running
again by copying the xorg.conf.backup file |
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1293
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Wed Feb 11 11:39:17 2009 |
steve | Configuration | General | vac envelope ground | The vacuum envelope was grounded from
the IOO chamber to master ground north (under
electric breaker panel L)
with |
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1292
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Wed Feb 11 10:52:22 2009 |
Yoichi | Configuration | DAQ | C1:PEM-OSA_APTEMP and C1:PEM-OSA_SPTEMP disconnected | During the cleanup of the lab. Steve found
a box with two BNCs going to the ICS DAQ
interface and an unconnected D-SUB on the |
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1291
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Wed Feb 11 07:28:25 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | PA current and laser output | I think we should also plot the laser power
at the MOPA output. The horizontal axis should
be the absolute current value read from the |
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1290
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Wed Feb 11 00:50:24 2009 |
caryn | Update | General | ants? | So, near 2 of the trashcans in the control
room and underneath a desk there are hundrends
of ants. Is this normal? |
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1289
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Tue Feb 10 23:36:25 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | PSL | PA current and laser output | I changed the PA current and measured laser
output power (monitor PD signal).
The gain of ISS is 13dB
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1288
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Tue Feb 10 10:48:48 2009 |
steve | Bureaucracy | SAFETY | safety glasses scanned | All 40m safety glasses are absorbent.
They
were scanned by 180 mW 2mm spot size
of 1064 nm beam and their transmissions |
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1287
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Mon Feb 9 19:50:48 2009 |
Yoichi | Configuration | PSL | ISS disconnected | We are doing measurements on ISS.
The ISS feedback connector is disconnected
and the beam to the MC is blocked. |
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1286
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Mon Feb 9 17:09:51 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | Computers | A bunch of updates for the network GPIB stuff. | During the work on ISS, we noticed that netgpibdata.py
is very unreliable for SR785.
The problem was caused by flakiness of the |
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1285
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Mon Feb 9 16:05:01 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | LSC | DRMI OK | After the ISS work, I aligned the IFO and
confirmed that DRMI locks with good SPOB
and AS166 values. |
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1284
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Mon Feb 9 16:02:42 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | PSL relative intensity noise | I attached the relative intensity noise of
the PSL.
There is no bump around the lower UGF (~1Hz), |
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1283
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Fri Feb 6 23:23:48 2009 |
Kakeru, Yoichi | Update | PSL | ISS is fixed | Yoichi and me found that the transfar function
of the current shunt changed with the current
of PA. |
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1282
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Fri Feb 6 16:23:54 2009 |
steve | Update | MOPA | MOPAs of 7 years | MOPAs and their settings, powers of 7 years
in the 40m |
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1281
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Fri Feb 6 16:20:52 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | MOPA current slider fixed | I fixed the broken slider to change the
current of the PA.
The problem was that the EPICS database |
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1280
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Fri Feb 6 14:49:31 2009 |
steve | Summary | SAFETY | laser inventory |
40M Laser Inventory at Feb 05,
2009
1, Lightwave PA#102 @ 77,910 |
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1279
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Fri Feb 6 10:46:40 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | PSL | ISS servo and noise | I measured the output noise of eache stage
of ISS servo, and calcurated the noise ratio
between input and
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1278
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Fri Feb 6 09:56:11 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | PSL | ISS servo transfar function | I attache the transfar function of ISS
servo.
The 4th stage and variable gain amplifier |
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1277
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Fri Feb 6 09:52:35 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | PSL | Current shunt transfar function | I attach the transfar function of the current
shunt.
There is a little gap at 10 Hz for |
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1276
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Thu Feb 5 21:42:28 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | My thoughts on ISS | Today, I worked with Kakeru on ISS.
The problem is sort of elusive. Some
time, the laser power looks fine, but after |
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1275
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Thu Feb 5 16:21:07 2009 |
Jenne | Frogs | Computers | Belladonna connects to the wireless Martian network again | Symptoms: Belladonna could
not (for a while) connect to the wireless
network, since there was a driver problem |
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1274
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Thu Feb 5 10:42:33 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | General | Do we need off-axis parabolic mirrors ? No way ! | I made a mistake in estimating the astigmatism
problem.
If we use the current MMT1 as it is, this |
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1273
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Thu Feb 5 09:12:29 2009 |
steve | Bureaucracy | SAFETY | safety updates & fire alarm test | The fire alarm test was completed at 13:30
yesterday.
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1272
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Wed Feb 4 19:22:57 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | General | Do we need off-axis parabolic mirrors ? | I also estimated the mode matching degradation
caused by the astigmatism.
Since the incident angles to the mode matching |
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1271
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Wed Feb 4 17:45:39 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | General | Mode matching of the upgraded IFO | I did mode matching calculations for the new
optical layout.
For the input mode matching, we have to change |
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1270
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Tue Feb 3 23:44:44 2009 |
Kakeru, Peter, Yoichi | Update | PSL | ISS unstability | We found that one OP-amp used in ISS servo
oscillated in 10 MHz, 100mV.
Moreover, we found another OP-amp |
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1269
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Tue Feb 3 19:24:14 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | General | New optics layout wiki page | I uploaded a slightly updated version of the
new optics layout on the 40m wiki.
http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/40m/Upgrade_08/Optical_Layout
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1268
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Tue Feb 3 15:01:38 2009 |
Alberto | Frogs | Computers | megatron slow? | I notice that Megatron is slower than any
other computer in running code that invokes
optickle or looptickle (i.e. three times |
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1267
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Mon Feb 2 19:23:53 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | General | New optical layout plan | The attached is a plan of the optical layout
in the central part for the upgrade.
I included, the folded recycling cavities, |
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1266
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Mon Feb 2 18:51:02 2009 |
Alberto | Configuration | General | New Elog 2.7.5 in Service on Nodus |
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1265
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Mon Feb 2 18:32:54 2009 |
Alberto | Configuration | General | Some little problem with the new elog |
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1264
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Mon Feb 2 17:25:44 2009 |
Alberto | Configuration | General | Some little problem with the new elog | For some reason the new elog does not look
exactly like it should.
1) Some of the
editing features are not available.
2) |
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1263
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Mon Feb 2 12:35:22 2009 |
Alberto | Configuration | General | New Elog 2.7.5 in Service on Nodus | I moved the 40m, the Adhikari Lab and the
SUS elogs from Dziban (located in Millikan's
6th floor) to our gateway server Nodus. In |
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1262
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Fri Jan 30 19:38:57 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | PSL | ISS Bad | Kakeru, Peter
We try to improve ISS bord, but there isn't |
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1261
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Fri Jan 30 17:30:31 2009 |
Alberto, Josephb | Configuration | Computers | New computer Ottavia set up | Alberto, Joseph,
Today we installed the computer that some |
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1260
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Thu Jan 29 18:10:13 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | ISS Bad | Kakeru, Yoichi
As we noted before, the ISS is unstable. |
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1259
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Thu Jan 29 17:24:41 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | oplevs | arm cavity oplev calibration | I calibrated optlevs again. My previous work
has a lot of mistakes, so ignore it.
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1258
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Thu Jan 29 16:50:53 2009 |
josephb, alberto | Configuration | Computers | Megatron fixed | The warning light on megatron and the fans
at full speed were fixed by not just power
cycling, but completely unplugging megatron |
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1257
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Thu Jan 29 13:52:34 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | Laser is back (sort of) | Here is what I think has happened to the laser.
After the chiller line to the NPRO base clogged, |
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1256
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Wed Jan 28 19:08:50 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | Laser is back (sort of) | Yoichi, Peter, Jenne
Summary:
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1255
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Wed Jan 28 12:51:32 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | Computers | Megatron is dying | For the past three days, Megatron has been
making a huge noise. Sounds like a fan is
failing.
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1254
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Wed Jan 28 12:42:51 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | MOPA dying | Yoichi, Jenne, Peter
As most of you know, the MOPA output power |
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1253
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Mon Jan 26 14:51:54 2009 |
josephb | Configuration | VAC | | We need a new RS-232 to Ethernet bridge in
order to interface properly with the new
RGA. The RGA has a fixed baud rate of 28.8k, |
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1252
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Sat Jan 24 11:50:24 2009 |
Alberto | Configuration | Electronics | Photodiode Filters' Transfer Functions | I found an elog entry by Jenne with the measurement
of the transfer functions of the filters
of some of our photodetectors. Since it might |
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1251
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Fri Jan 23 16:33:27 2009 |
pete | Update | oplevs | x-arm oplev calibrations | ITMXpit 71 microrad/ct
ITMXyaw 77 microrad/ct
ETMXpit 430 microrad/ct
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1250
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Fri Jan 23 14:00:02 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | PMC transmission is down | [quote]The PMC transmission is going down.
I have not relocked the PMC yet.[/quote]
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1249
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Fri Jan 23 12:48:12 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | oplevs | arm cavity oplev calibration | I calibrated optlevs of x and y arm cavity,
indipendently from Peter's work.
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