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10036
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Fri Jun 13 11:33:55 2014 |
Akhil | Update | Electronics | Characterization of UFC-6000 RF Frequency Counter | Goal:
To characterize the Mini-Circuits
RF FC (Model UFC-6000) and plot Bode Plots |
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10070
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Thu Jun 19 12:10:18 2014 |
Akhil | Update | Electronics | Gain plots to Characterize UFC-6000 RF Frequency Counter | The
goal is to characterize the Mini-Circuits
RF FC (Model UFC-6000) by plotting |
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10096
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Wed Jun 25 01:18:24 2014 |
Akhil | Update | elog | Weekly Update | Plans
for the Week:
Phase and noise characterization |
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10104
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Wed Jun 25 19:29:19 2014 |
Akhil | Update | Electronics | Analog-to-Digital Converter | I have been trying to use an ADC
with the Raspberry Pi to be able to measure
the phase difference between FC input and |
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10107
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Fri Jun 27 12:54:13 2014 |
Akhil | Update | Electronics | Gain plots of UFC-6000 for 0.1s Sampling Rate | Finally, the 0.1s sampling rate of
the frequency counter(FC) has been achieved.
For this I had to : |
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10118
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Tue Jul 1 21:20:37 2014 |
Akhil | Update | Electronics | Gain plots of UFC-6000 for 0.1s Sampling Rate | The attached are the gain plots at
carrier frequencies of 100 MHz, 500 MHz and
1 GHz measured using IFR 2023B (Marconi). |
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10129
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Fri Jul 4 09:17:13 2014 |
Akhil | Configuration | Electronics | Setup Used for Characterization of Frequency Counter | Goal:
To |
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10137
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Mon Jul 7 13:56:13 2014 |
Akhil | Configuration | Electronics | Setup Used for Characterization of Frequency Counter | When I was trying to plot PSD of the measurements,
I still couldn't get better resolution. There
still seems to be a problem with timing and |
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10151
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Tue Jul 8 09:02:02 2014 |
Akhil | Update | Electronics | PSD Plots for different sampling times of the Frequency Counter | Although there were few timing issues
with the FC and the Raspberry Pi at the lowest
sampling time of the FC (0.1s) even after |
7x |
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10161
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Wed Jul 9 08:50:30 2014 |
Akhil | Update | General | Weekly Update |
Last
Week's Work |
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10163
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Wed Jul 9 12:01:43 2014 |
Akhil | Configuration | Electronics | Setup Plan for placing the Frequency Counter inside the lab | Today, me and Manasa went inside the lab
to figure out a place for the place for the
FC. The whole setup will be placed in a chassis |
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10178
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Thu Jul 10 17:53:19 2014 |
Akhil | Configuration | Computer Scripts / Programs | EPICS installed on Raspberry Pi | I finished the installation of EPICS |
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10193
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Mon Jul 14 13:03:23 2014 |
Akhil | Summary | Electronics | Timing Issues of Mini Circuits UFC-6000: Solved | Main
Problem:
The frequency counter (FC) takes |
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10199
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Tue Jul 15 01:31:13 2014 |
Akhil | Summary | Electronics | Timing Issues of Mini Circuits UFC-6000: Solved | The attached are the PSD plots with improved
FC timing(with the same code as in http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/10151).
More plots(Phase and PSD) to follow. |
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10215
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Wed Jul 16 07:51:52 2014 |
Akhil | Update | General | Weekly Update | Work
Done:
Solved all the timing |
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10222
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Wed Jul 16 22:17:40 2014 |
Akhil | Summary | Electronics | Bode Plots and complete Characterization of Frequency Counter | Goal:
To estimate the transfer function
and the noise in the FC that is a part of |
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10239
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Fri Jul 18 19:32:50 2014 |
Akhil | Summary | Electronics | Filters used inside the Frequency Counter |
Thanks Koji , for your hint
for the brain teasing puzzle. I was looking |
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10246
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Mon Jul 21 12:16:27 2014 |
Akhil | Summary | Electronics | Filters used inside the Frequency Counter | The expected bode plots for such
a filter with L= 4 is attached and compared |
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10257
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Tue Jul 22 23:10:12 2014 |
Akhil | Update | General | Weekly Update | Work
Done |
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10261
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Wed Jul 23 11:15:54 2014 |
Akhil | Update | Electronics | Installation of FCs in the 40m | As a part of installation of two(X-ARM
and Y-ARM) frequency counters in the 40m,
I have tested their performance when using |
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10272
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Thu Jul 24 19:28:43 2014 |
Akhil | Update | General | Thermal Actuator Transfer Functions | As a part of temperature actuator
characterization, today Eric Q and I made
some measurements for the open loop TF of |
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10274
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Sat Jul 26 10:12:19 2014 |
Akhil | Update | General | Data Acquisition from FC into EPICS Channels | I succeeded in creating a new channel
access server hosted on domenica ( R Pi)
for continuous data acquisition from the |
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10275
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Sat Jul 26 13:10:14 2014 |
Akhil | Update | General | Thermal Actuator Transfer Functions | Koji said that the method we used for X-arm
thermal actuator TF measurement was not correct
and suggested us to make measurements separately |
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10277
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Sat Jul 26 14:35:28 2014 |
Akhil | Update | General | Data Acquisition from FC into EPICS Channels |
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10281
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Mon Jul 28 16:34:02 2014 |
Akhil | Update | General | Calibration of measured Thermal Actuator TFs | To calibrate the measured TFs and
characterize the thermal actuator for the
FOL loop, we [ Me, Eric Q, Koji ] made the |
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10283
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Mon Jul 28 17:53:00 2014 |
Akhil | Update | General | Work plan for the Upcoming weeks- FOL Project | [Akhil, Harry]
Work
Completed |
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10286
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Tue Jul 29 18:00:20 2014 |
Akhil | Update | LSC | Calibration of ETMX and ETMY actuators | The ultimate goal of characterizing the
temperature actuator turned to be fruitful
in obtaining the calibration values for ETMX |
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10297
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Wed Jul 30 11:15:44 2014 |
Akhil | Update | General | Weekly Update | Plan for the week:
PID loop design and testing
with the Green laser beat note by actuating |
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10298
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Wed Jul 30 15:33:48 2014 |
Akhil | Summary | General | Calibrated Thermal Actuator TFs | The goal of the measurements we made
( my previous 3 elogs) was to characterize
the laser frequency thermal actuator that |
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10304
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Thu Jul 31 11:54:54 2014 |
Akhil | Summary | Electronics | PZT Calibration | Koji asked me to get the calibration
of the PZT counts to Volts for the the X
and Y ends. Yesterday, I went inside the |
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10307
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Thu Jul 31 14:23:28 2014 |
Akhil | Summary | Electronics | PZT Calibration |
The PZT seems to saturate at
around +/- 3500 counts. So for the Y arm, |
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10324
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Fri Aug 1 18:48:46 2014 |
Akhil | Summary | Electronics | PZT Calibration |
The PZT actuation on the laser
frequency in MHz/V ( assuming the previous |
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10333
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Tue Aug 5 19:05:41 2014 |
Akhil | Update | General | Beat Note Testing on EPICS Channels | |
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10334
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Tue Aug 5 19:20:05 2014 |
Akhil | Update | General | PID loop Design for beat note stabilization | Today I and EricQ went inside the
lab and set up the cables running from the
a DAC channel into PZT input so that |
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10352
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Fri Aug 8 14:27:18 2014 |
Akhil | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | FOL Scripts | The scripts written for interfacing
the FC with R Pi, building EPICS database,
piping data into EPICS channels,PID loop |
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10353
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Fri Aug 8 14:42:41 2014 |
Akhil | Update | General | PID loop Design for beat note stabilization | The attached in a zip file are the
Simulink feedback loop models for the FOL
for both X and Y ends. The controller PID |
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2794
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Mon Apr 12 20:48:51 2010 |
Aidan, Mott | Summary | Green Locking | Temperature sweep of the Innolight: df/dT ~ 3.3GHz/K |
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2797
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Tue Apr 13 12:39:51 2010 |
Aidan, Mott | Summary | Green Locking | Temperature sweep of the Innolight: df/dT ~ 3.3GHz/K | Please put those numbers onto wiki somewhere
at the green page or laser characterization
page. |
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4441
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Thu Mar 24 19:48:13 2011 |
Aidan, Kiwamu | Update | Green Locking | Designs for permanent electronics for ALS | Kiwamu and I looked at all the electronics
that are currently in place for the green
locking on the X-arm and have made a set |
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4471
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Wed Mar 30 21:43:31 2011 |
Aidan, Kiwamu | Summary | Green Locking | Calculation of the green contrast on the RF PD | Skip to final thought ...
Kiwamu and I have set about measuring
the contrast of the signal on the RF PD. |
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4472
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Wed Mar 30 21:46:10 2011 |
Aidan, Kiwamu | Update | Green Locking | States of the Green beat note | The attached table shows the amplitude
of the green beat note when the end laser
was in various states. We can increase the |
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3096
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Tue Jun 22 09:45:21 2010 |
Aidan, Joe, Razib | Update | Phase Camera | Current phase camera setup. Seeing Acoustic beat | We've set up a preliminary test bed
for the phase camera. It simply uses a HeNe
that is split into two beams. One is frequency |
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4213
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Thu Jan 27 17:12:02 2011 |
Aidan, Joe | Summary | Green Locking | Digital Frequency to Amplitude converter | Joe and I built a very simple digital frequency
to amplitude converter using the RCG. The
input from an ADC channel goes through a |
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4218
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Fri Jan 28 10:27:46 2011 |
Aidan, Joe | Summary | Green Locking | Digital Frequency Discriminator - calibration | One more thing ... we can calibrate
the output of the LP filter to give a result
in Hz with the following calibration: |
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4401
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Thu Mar 10 16:00:53 2011 |
Aidan, Joe | Update | Green Locking | Intensity stabilization loop using beatnote DC. | Aidan: Joe and I have added a channel that
takes the DC output from the vertex beatnote
PD and sends it, via RFM, to a DAC at the |
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2835
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Fri Apr 23 18:30:49 2010 |
Aidan, Jenne, Koji | Summary | Green Locking | Green means GO! | Jenne, Koji and I assembled the Covesion
Oven today, inserted a PPKTP crystal from
Raicol, aligned the crystal to a 50mW focus |
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4521
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Wed Apr 13 23:32:07 2011 |
Aidan, Jamie | Configuration | LSC | AS PD and Camera installed | I spent some time tracking down the AS
beam which had vanished from the AP table.
Eventually, by dramatically mis-aligning |
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4536
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Fri Apr 15 22:57:38 2011 |
Aidan, Jamie | Configuration | LSC | AS PD and Camera installed | AS port ITMX YAW range where AS beam
was visible = [-1.505, -1.225] - these extrema
put the beam just outside of some aperture |
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4534
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Fri Apr 15 22:54:20 2011 |
Aidan, Bryan | Update | Green Locking | Beat note amplitude on Vertex PD | I was investigating the beat note amplitude
on the vertex PD again yesterday. The incident
power on the PD was 150uW in the PSL green |
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742
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Sat Jul 26 15:09:57 2008 |
Aidan | Update | Computers | Reboot of op440m |
I was reviewing the PSL Overview screen this
afternoon and op440m completely froze when |
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