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Thu Jan 10 00:12:01 2008 |
tobin | Summary | Locking | DR | [John, Tobin, Rana]
1. We found SUS_BS_SENSOR_UL to have a ratty |
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238
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Mon Jan 14 23:11:26 2008 |
tobin | Configuration | General | fiber | John and I removed the fiber that ran from
the SP table to the cleanroom. We plan to
build a MZ interferometer with this fiber |
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239
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Tue Jan 15 13:15:27 2008 |
tobin | Update | Environment | lots of noise | They're throwing concrete around at the construction
site. |
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243
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Wed Jan 16 19:57:49 2008 |
tobin | Configuration | Photos | ISCT_EX | Here's a photo of the ISCT_EX table, for the
purpose of planning our auxiliary laser arm
locking scheme. Note the (undumped!) beam |
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247
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Thu Jan 17 20:50:55 2008 |
tobin | Update | General | fiber coupling | Sam, John, and I matched the beam from an
NPRO into a fiber on the SP table today.
In doing so we used our GigE camera for |
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250
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Fri Jan 18 20:53:56 2008 |
tobin | Configuration | General | ETMY oplev | I monkeyed around with the ETMY oplev, adding
a folding mirror and moving the HeNe so that
John, Sam, and I have more room for our auxiliary |
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253
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Tue Jan 22 13:11:03 2008 |
tobin | Update | ASC | ETMY oplev recentered | The light wasn't even on the diode. |
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277
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Sun Jan 27 13:13:21 2008 |
tobin | Metaphysics | General | departure | It's been grand. Thanks for having me!
GWAVES IN '08!
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498
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Sun May 25 21:14:14 2008 |
tobin | Configuration | Computers | EPICS proxy server | I set up an EPICS gateway server on Nodus
so that we can look at 40m MEDM screens from
off-site.
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500
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Tue May 27 16:24:54 2008 |
tobin | Configuration | Computer Scripts / Programs | ndsproxy | The NDS Proxy is a program that accepts NDS
(LIGO Network Data Server) connections from
the internet and relays them to
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508
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Fri May 30 21:30:15 2008 |
tobin | Configuration | Computers | svn on solaris | I installed svn on op440m. This involved
installing the following packages from sunfreeware:
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510
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Sun Jun 1 19:39:35 2008 |
tobin | Configuration | Computers | elog, etc | Phil Ehrens gave me a DVD of the 40m elog,
apache, and (Jamie's) SVN archive.
I copied it to nodus:/home/controls/dvd-from-ehrens. |
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513
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Tue Jun 3 10:19:45 2008 |
tobin | Configuration | Computers | big machine | Several of us transported the big new awesome
Sun box from Bridge over to
the 40m last week. If I recall correctly, |
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514
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Tue Jun 3 10:40:27 2008 |
tobin | Configuration | Computers | new dataviewer | Alex let me know the secret location of the
latest dataviewer executable for Linux.
It is:
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636
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Sun Jul 6 16:17:40 2008 |
tobin | HowTo | Computers | SVN | I was able to check out the 40m SVN here in
Livingston using this command:
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68
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Tue Nov 6 14:51:03 2007 |
tobin, rob | Update | IOO | Mode cleaner length | Using the Ward-Fricke variant* of the [url=http://ilog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/ilog/pub/ilog.cgi?group=detector&date_to_view=02/14/2004&anchor_to_scroll_to=2004:02:15:00:06:50-daniel]Sigg-Frolov
method[/url], we found the length of the
mode cleaner to be [b]27.0934020183 meters[/b], |
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16183
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Fri Jun 4 17:46:25 2021 |
unYehonathan | Update | CDS | Opto-isolator for c1auxey | I mounted the optoisolator on the DIN rail
and connected the 3 first channels
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3038
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Wed Jun 2 18:36:20 2010 |
valera | DAQ | CDS | Noise generators in LSP | Alex wrote a new code to implement LSP
noise generator. The code is based on 64
bit random number generator from Numerical |
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3048
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Thu Jun 3 22:33:31 2010 |
valera | Summary | CDS | simulated plant work | I put matlab files and a summary
into the 40m wiki for the fitting of the
40m Optickle transfer functions and generating |
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3070
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Fri Jun 11 22:09:58 2010 |
valera | HowTo | CDS | foton | It appears that foton does not like
the unstable poles, which we need to model
the transfer functions. |
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3074
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Sun Jun 13 08:28:44 2010 |
valera | Update | Locking | 40m Upgrade Optickle Model | In my calculation of the digital
filters of the optical transfer functions
the carrier light is resonant in coupled |
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3558
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Sat Sep 11 22:42:07 2010 |
valera | Update | PSL | PSL update | - The PMC REFL PD was moved from the temporary
location to the one called for by the PSL
layout (picture attached). The leakage beams |
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3560
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Sun Sep 12 23:02:53 2010 |
valera | Update | | PMC mode matching | Kiwamu and I found that the first lens
in the PMC mode matching telescope was mislabeled.
It is supposed to be PLCX-25.4-77.3-C and |
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3561
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Sun Sep 12 23:16:52 2010 |
valera | Update | | FSS mode matching | The attached plot shows the beam scans
of the beam leaking from the back mirror
of the PMC to the BS cube that first turns |
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3574
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Wed Sep 15 01:58:28 2010 |
valera | Update | PSL | FSS locking | The RefCav is locked and aligned. I changed
the fast gain sign by changing the jumper
setting on the TTFSS board. The RefCav visibility |
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3579
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Wed Sep 15 19:29:13 2010 |
valera | Summary | | PSL power budget |
Location
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3580
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Fri Sep 17 01:36:14 2010 |
valera | Update | | PMC line width | The attached plots show the PMC cavity
line width measurement with 1 mW and 160
mW into the PMC. The two curves on each plot |
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3899
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Thu Nov 11 18:05:55 2010 |
valera | Update | PSL | PMC mode matching at full laser power | The
PMC mode matching was initially done at low
power ~150 mW. It was expected and found |
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3913
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Sat Nov 13 16:57:21 2010 |
valera | Configuration | Electronics | PRM Side OSEM transimpedance change | Now that we have increased the range of
the AA to +/- 10 V I have increased the PRM
side OSEM transimpedance from 29 kV/A to |
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3915
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Sun Nov 14 11:56:59 2010 |
valera | Update | CDS | Test of ADC noise |
We missed |
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3933
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Tue Nov 16 15:32:18 2010 |
valera | Update | Electronics | OSEM noise at the output of the satellite box | I measured the SRM OSEM (no magnets
at the moment) noise out of the satellite
box with a SRS785 spectrum analyzer. I inserted |
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4335
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Tue Feb 22 00:18:47 2011 |
valera | Configuration | | c1ioo and c1ass work and related fb crashes/restarts | I have been editing and reloading the c1ioo
model last two days. I have restarted the
frame builder several times. After one of |
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4339
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Tue Feb 22 23:11:42 2011 |
valera | Update | | new medm screens: C1ASS.adl and C1MCASS.adl | |
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4345
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Wed Feb 23 16:34:42 2011 |
valera | Configuration | | pmc lens staged | I put the PMC last mode matching lens (one
between the steering mirrors) on a translation
stage to facilitate the PMC mode matching. |
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4355
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Fri Feb 25 01:48:54 2011 |
valera | Update | ASC | mc auto alignment status | I made several scripts to handle
the mcass configuration and sensing measurements:
- The scripts and data are in the |
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4625
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Wed May 4 13:51:51 2011 |
valera | Configuration | | Intermittent MC3 UL PD signal | The attached plot shows the 30 day trend
of the MC3 UL PD signal. The signal dropped
to zero at some point but now it is close |
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4629
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Wed May 4 15:56:09 2011 |
valera | Summary | General | PSL and MC trends | The attached plot shows 2 day trends of
the PMC and MC reflected and transmitted
power, the PSL POS/ANG QPD signals, and the |
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4653
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Fri May 6 15:42:55 2011 |
valera | Metaphysics | IOO | Input mode cleaner length and 11 MHz modulation frequency | After Kiwamu set the REFL11 phases
in the PRMI configuration (maximized PRM->REFL11I
reesponse) I tried to measure the MC length |
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4659
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Sat May 7 18:08:54 2011 |
valera | Update | IOO | MC beam spot centering script | I tried to run the scripts/senseMCdecentering
to check the centering of the MC beam spots
on the mirrors. The script (csh) produces |
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4660
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Sun May 8 16:32:52 2011 |
valera | Update | IOO | MC beam spot centering | Kiwamu told me that the CDS matrix
notation has changed and the 40m front end
code has changed since February. I changed |
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4663
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Mon May 9 09:37:51 2011 |
valera | Update | PSL | PSL and MC trends | The attached plot shows 7 day trends of
the MC and PMC power levels, PSL QPDs, and
temperature. The MC stayed locked for ~40 |
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4674
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Tue May 10 00:44:52 2011 |
valera | Update | IOO | MC2 centering | Kiwamu, Koji, Valera
We centered the beam on MC2 in pitch
by moving the MC1,2,3 in the following combination |
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4685
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Wed May 11 10:49:16 2011 |
valera | Configuration | Electronics | MC3 LL PD has no signal | Yesterday we found that MC3 OSEM LL PD
did not have a sensible signal - the readback
was close to zero and it was making MC move |
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4696
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Wed May 11 23:02:52 2011 |
valera | Update | ASS | Dither angular stabilizitaion system update | This is what was done in past two days:
- The ETMY and ITMY pitch and yaw
dofs are modulated at 40, 44, 42, 46 Hz respectively |
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4709
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Fri May 13 00:39:53 2011 |
valera | Update | ASS | c1ass update | Here the status of the dither alignment
or c1ass:
- Both pitch and yaw centering on |
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4769
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Mon May 30 23:14:27 2011 |
valera | Update | ASC | Y arm initial alignment | I closed all 8 dither loops for the Y arm
initial alignment: 2x2 centering servo (this
worked before) and 2x2 input beam servo for |
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4788
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Mon Jun 6 17:22:09 2011 |
valera | Configuration | LSC | Clipping in the X arm 1064 um trans path | I
changed optics in the ETMX transmon path
to remove clipping (which made a false QPD |
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4795
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Wed Jun 8 16:41:48 2011 |
valera | Update | ASS | X and Y arm dither alignment status | |
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3897
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Thu Nov 11 15:27:43 2010 |
valera, steve | Configuration | | ISS AOM installed | We installed the ISS AOM in the PSL.
The AOM was placed right after the EOM. The
beam diameter is ~600 um at the AOM. The |
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5010
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Thu Jul 21 09:04:59 2011 |
valera, steve | Update | SUS | oplev gains were not optimized |
Hi Steve,
I did |
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