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Date |
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Category |
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1052
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Thu Oct 16 09:47:49 2008 |
Yoichi | Configuration | PSL | FSS ref phase measurements | [quote] I fit the bottom (quadratic) portion
of this curve, and found an optimum delay
of 25.8 ns, which can be implemented as 25.81 |
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1051
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Thu Oct 16 09:44:49 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | Bad cable for FSS | Yesterday arount 1:30PM, we lost the LO signal
for the FSS.
I found it was caused by a bad cable connecting |
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1050
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Wed Oct 15 22:07:52 2008 |
pete | Configuration | PSL | FSS ref phase measurements | Optimizing the FSS LO/RF phase at 500 kHz,
above the servo band, proved to be noisy
and those measurements were useless. Today |
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1049
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Wed Oct 15 17:40:50 2008 |
rana | Update | PSL | PMC Offset adjusted | I set the PMC servo input offset: closed the
MOPA shutter, zeroed the mixer output with
the offset slider,
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1048
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Tue Oct 14 19:24:34 2008 |
Yoichi | Configuration | PSL | FSS light power reduced | Rana, Yoichi
To change the gain distribution in the FSS, |
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1047
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Tue Oct 14 19:18:18 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | Computers | BootFest | Rana, Yoichi
Most of the FE computers failed around the |
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1046
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Tue Oct 14 14:19:36 2008 |
pete | Configuration | PSL | FSS ref phase | Today I made several measurements which should
yield the optimized phase for the FSS 21.5
MHz reference. I made two sets of measurements, |
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1045
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Mon Oct 13 18:59:39 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | NPRO EMI and FSS error signal correlation | I made a simple loop antenna to measure the
electro-magnetic inteference (EMI) around
the master oscillator NPRO.
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1044
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Mon Oct 13 13:56:03 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | MOPA is not that much in trouble now | The problem was found to be all to do with
the shutter.
The shutter started to work again, after |
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1043
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Mon Oct 13 13:51:49 2008 |
pete | Configuration | PSL | attempt to measure FSS ref phase | On Friday I began a measurement of the FSS
reference phase. The setup involves the
following:
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1042
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Mon Oct 13 11:32:50 2008 |
Yoixhi | Update | PSL | MOPA is in trouble now | Steve, Alberto, Yoichi
A quick update.
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1041
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Fri Oct 10 20:03:35 2008 |
Yoichi | Configuration | Computers | medm, dataviewer, dtt on 64 bit linux | I compiled EPICS (base, medm and ezca) and
dataviewer for 64 bit linux.
These are installed in /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux64/.
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1040
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Fri Oct 10 13:57:33 2008 |
Alberto | Omnistructure | Computers | Problems in locking the X arm | This morning for some reason that I didn't
clearly understand I could not lock the Xarm.
The Y arm was not a problem and the Restore |
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1039
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Fri Oct 10 10:20:42 2008 |
Alberto | Omnistructure | Computers | FEs are down | [quote]
The front-end machines are all down. Another
cosmic-ray in the RFM, I suppose. Whoever |
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1038
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Fri Oct 10 00:34:52 2008 |
rob | Omnistructure | Computers | FEs are down |
The front-end machines are all down. Another
cosmic-ray in the RFM, I suppose. Whoever |
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1037
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Wed Oct 8 23:18:23 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | Correlation between the Sorensen switching noise and the FSS error signal | I took some spectra and coherence function
of the FSS error signal and the +24V Sorensen
power line.
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1036
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Wed Oct 8 22:23:43 2008 |
Yoichi | Configuration | Electronics | Electronics work bench cleanup | Yesterday, I cleaned up the electronics work
bench. I figured that keeping the work bench
in order has larger effect on the work efficiency |
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1035
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Wed Oct 8 21:26:20 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | Attempt to replace the DC-DC converter (aborted) | Rich, Steve, Yoichi
We opened the MOPA box and inspected our |
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1034
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Wed Oct 8 19:17:55 2008 |
Yoichi | Configuration | PSL | Laser power is slowly recovering | This afternoon we (rich, steve, yoichi) shutdown
the laser for the DC-DC converter installation.
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1033
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Wed Oct 8 12:35:56 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | New Network diagram for the 40m | Attached is a pdf of the new network diagram
for the 40m after having removed all of the
old hubs. |
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1032
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Tue Oct 7 21:19:40 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | IOO | MC_F calibrated spectrum | [COLOR=darkred]I updated the plots because
I did not take into account the double path
AOM effect, which doubles the frequency actuation |
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1031
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Tue Oct 7 12:17:57 2008 |
Alberto | Configuration | Computers | Time reset on MEDM | Yoichi, Alberto
I noticed the MEDM screen time was about |
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1030
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Tue Oct 7 10:49:29 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | Displaced Photodiode | This morning I found that the photodidode
of the PLL in the PSL table was not aligned
to the beam anymore. The PD support was not |
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1029
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Mon Oct 6 16:41:33 2008 |
Alberto | DAQ | LSC | C1LSC in coma | [quote]Alberto, Joe,
The C1LSC medm screen is frozen and the C1LSC |
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1028
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Mon Oct 6 12:45:41 2008 |
Alberto | DAQ | LSC | C1LSC in coma | Alberto, Joe,
The C1LSC medm screen is frozen and the C1LSC |
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1027
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Mon Oct 6 10:00:49 2008 |
steve | Update | MOPA | MOPA_HTEMP is up | Monday morning conditions:
The laser head temp is up to 20.5 C
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1026
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Sat Oct 4 07:23:42 2008 |
Koji | Metaphysics | Environment | The Gatekeeper | Hi, this is Koji from Japan.
I am afraid that this is a poisonous spider, |
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1025
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Fri Oct 3 19:38:02 2008 |
rob | Metaphysics | Environment | The Gatekeeper |
Found this lady outside the door of the 40m
lab a few nights ago. |
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1024
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Fri Oct 3 15:57:05 2008 |
rob | Update | Locking | last night, again | Last night was basically a repeat of the night
before--marginally better locking with the
DRMI resonating the +f2
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1023
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Fri Oct 3 15:09:58 2008 |
rob | Update | PSL | FAST/SLOW |
Last night during locking, for no apparent
reason (no common mode), the PSL FAST/SLOW |
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1022
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Fri Oct 3 12:15:21 2008 |
Alberto | Configuration | IOO | C1iool0 rebooted | This morning, in order to update the threshold
values of the alarm handler for the StochMon,
I rebooted the C1iool0 computer following |
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1021
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Thu Oct 2 18:56:19 2008 |
rana | Summary | SUS | Resistivity of Suspension Wire | Bob and Steve measured the resistance of the
suspension wire today:
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1020
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Thu Oct 2 16:44:28 2008 |
steve | Summary | oplevs | optical levers | The idea is to push the UGF to 10 Hz of the
TM oplev servos with quiet HeNe laser.
We measured good intensity noise of JDS 1103P |
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1019
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Thu Oct 2 02:45:50 2008 |
rob | Update | Locking | marginally better | Locking the DRMI with the +f2 sideband was
marginally better tonight. I was able to
get it lock stably enough to take transfer
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1018
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Wed Oct 1 23:21:03 2008 |
Yoichi | Configuration | PSL | Reference cavity reflection camera | I re-centered the reference cavity reflection
camera, which has been mis-aligned for a
while.
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1017
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Wed Oct 1 23:05:14 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | ISS RIN spectra | Stefan, Yoichi
We took relative intensity noise (RIN) spectra |
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1016
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Wed Oct 1 12:09:25 2008 |
Alberto | Configuration | Computers | "StochMon" added to the Alarm Handler | [quote]John, Alberto,
we added the four channels of the RF Amplitude |
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1015
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Wed Oct 1 12:05:58 2008 |
Alberto | Configuration | Computers | "StochMon" added to the Alarm Handler | John, Alberto,
we added the four channels of the RF Amplitude |
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1014
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Wed Oct 1 02:54:03 2008 |
rob | Update | Locking | bad |
Tried the spring-y side tonight with a discouraging
lack of progress. There were several locks |
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1013
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Wed Oct 1 02:47:53 2008 |
rana | Update | PSL | PSL ERR & LODET: Too much offset | Looks like there is an anomolous mixer offset
correlated with the increase in the LO level.
This may be leading to crazy offset locking |
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1012
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Wed Oct 1 02:10:03 2008 |
rana | Update | IOO | MZ is going bad | Here's a 2 day trend of the MZ. You can see
that there is something bad with ERR - it
should really be going to zero.
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1011
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Wed Oct 1 00:24:54 2008 |
rana | Update | Locking | last night | I had mistakenly left the MC boost off during
my FAST investigations. The script is now
restored.
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1010
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Tue Sep 30 19:50:27 2008 |
Jenne | Update | PSL | Quicky Summary - more details later | Quicky summary for now, more details later
tonight / tomorrow morning:
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1009
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Tue Sep 30 13:43:43 2008 |
rob | Update | Locking | last night | Steady progress again in locking again last
night. Initial acquisition of DRMI+2ARMs
was working well.
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1008
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Mon Sep 29 17:53:33 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | ISS update | ISS has been saturating easily.
Today I opened the PSL enclosure to inspect
the ISS box. Then I found that the sensor |
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1007
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Mon Sep 29 15:09:36 2008 |
steve | Update | PSL | almost 4 yrs plot of power & temps | The water chiller is normally running 1.5
C warmer than the laser head temp.
When control room temp is stable and PEM-count_temp |
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1006
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Mon Sep 29 13:33:39 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Gigabit network finished and conlog available on Nodus | The last 100 Mb unmounted hub has been removed
(or at least of the ones I could find).
We should be on a fully gigabit network with |
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1005
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Mon Sep 29 13:23:40 2008 |
rob | Summary | PSL | Laser chiller running a little hot | [quote]I looked at it some last night and
my suspicion was the ISS. Whenever the ISS
switch came on the FAST got a kick.
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1004
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Mon Sep 29 11:17:14 2008 |
steve | Update | SAFETY | horizontal viewports are protected with lexan | The four horizontal viewports of arms are
protected
by 3/8" thick, 8.5" OD Lexan disk of MR10 |
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1003
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Mon Sep 29 01:19:40 2008 |
rana | Summary | PSL | Laser chiller running a little hot | I looked at it some last night and my suspicion
was the ISS. Whenever the ISS switch came
on the FAST got a kick.
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