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12068
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Fri Apr 8 09:13:20 2016 |
Steve | Update | endtable upgrade | ETMX-T beam height | X arm resonating after alignment, beam
height on ETMX optical table ~4.75"
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12073
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Wed Apr 13 00:56:07 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | X endtable repopulation | Over the last couple of days, I've
been working on restoring the optical layout
on the X-endtable. Some notes about the status |
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12074
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Wed Apr 13 11:00:28 2016 |
Steve | Update | endtable upgrade | X endtable repopulation | ETMX optical table is grounded to ETMX
chamber through 1 Mohms
The doubling oven temp controller |
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12075
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Wed Apr 13 18:25:07 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | Lightwave health check | [Koji,gautam]
Lightwave NPRO information:
Model: 126-1064-700 |
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12079
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Fri Apr 15 18:38:12 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | Lightwave health check - NO IMPROVEMENT | I re-measured the power levels today.
We have ~205mW out of the NPRO,
and ~190mW after the Faraday. It doesn't |
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12083
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Tue Apr 19 18:37:29 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | Laser swap + optical layout | Summary of work done over the last
two days
Lightwave NPRO |
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12085
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Thu Apr 21 14:25:52 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | Green light recovered | I've made progress on the new layout
up to the doubling oven. After doing the
coarse alignment with the diode current to |
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12089
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Tue Apr 26 15:22:35 2016 |
Steve | Update | endtable upgrade | Cleaning ETMX vacuum dirty window | Gautom is progressing with the layout nicely.
The X-arm transmission window have not seen
cleaning for decades. This should be the |
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12090
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Tue Apr 26 23:19:42 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | Green aligned to arm - high order mode flashes seen | Attachment #1
Layout as of today. Most of the
green path is done. The Green REFL PD + PZT |
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12094
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Wed Apr 27 15:04:47 2016 |
Steve | Update | endtable upgrade | Cleaning ETMX vacuum dirty window | It looks very promising.
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12095
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Thu Apr 28 00:41:08 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | more progress - Transmon PD installed | The IR Transmon system is almost completely
laid out, only the QPD remains to be installed.
Some notes: |
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12099
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Fri Apr 29 00:55:46 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | green PDH locked to Xarm | Using the modulation frequency suggested
here,
I hooked up the PDH setup at the X-end and |
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12100
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Fri Apr 29 16:05:23 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | Cleaning ETMX vacuum dirty window | After a second round of F.C. application,
I think the window is clean enough and there
are no residual F.C. pieces anywhere near |
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12104
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Mon May 2 19:14:18 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | Optical layout almost complete | With Steve's help, I installed the
Oplev earlier today. I adjusted the positions
of the two lenses until I deemed the spot |
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12105
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Thu May 5 03:05:37 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | ALS status update | [ericQ, gautam]
Today we spent some time looking
into the PDH situation at the X end. A summary |
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12108
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Thu May 5 14:05:01 2016 |
rana | Update | endtable upgrade | ALS status update | All seems very fishy. Its not good to put
attenuators and filters in nilly-willy.
Once the post-PD bandpass |
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12109
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Thu May 5 21:28:44 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | Innolight PZT capacitance | I suggested
in an earlier elog that after the repair |
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12122
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Thu May 19 16:29:20 2016 |
Steve | Update | endtable upgrade | Optical layout almost complete |
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12526
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Fri Sep 30 19:53:07 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | X end IR pickoff fiber coupled | [johannes, gautam]
Today we re-installed the fiber
coupler on the X-endtable to couple some |
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12532
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Wed Oct 5 16:28:10 2016 |
gautam | Update | endtable upgrade | EX laser power monitor PD installed | I installed a 10% BS to pick off some of
the light going to the IR fiber, and have
added a Thorlabs PDA55 PD to the EX table |
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438
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Tue Apr 22 22:19:02 2008 |
rob | Metaphysics | lore | jiggling sliders |
In the interests of tacit communication of
scientific knowledge, I here reveal a nugget |
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1104
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Sun Nov 2 20:21:58 2008 |
rana | Configuration | lore | HP 5550dtn (Grazia) set up on allegra | I set up printing to grazia from allegra.
The CUPS interface was not as straightforward
as Tobin had made it seem in the Wiki. I |
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1217
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Thu Jan 8 16:49:37 2009 |
rana | Configuration | lore | HP 5550dtn (Grazia) set up on allegra | [quote]I set up printing to grazia from allegra.
The CUPS interface was not as straightforward
as Tobin had made it seem in the Wiki. I |
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1579
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Wed May 13 02:53:12 2009 |
rob | Summary | lore | Channel Hopping: That ancient enemy (MC problems) | We were stymied tonight by a problem which
began late this afternoon. The MC would
periodically go angularly unstable, breaking |
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1582
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Wed May 13 14:43:29 2009 |
rob | Summary | lore | Channel Hopping: That ancient enemy (MC problems) |
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2138
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Fri Oct 23 15:02:00 2009 |
rob | Update | lore | marconi phase | So, it appears that one doesn't even have
to change the Marconi set frequency to alter
the phase of the output signal. It |
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2139
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Sat Oct 24 04:57:33 2009 |
rana | Update | lore | marconi phase |
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2414
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Mon Dec 14 15:18:18 2009 |
Jenne | Update | lore | armLoss script ran....results confidential | I ran the armLoss script for both Xarm
and Yarm. The results are confidential,
pending the completion of Alberto's cavity |
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2566
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Wed Feb 3 09:01:42 2010 |
rob | Update | lore | IFO isn't playing nice tonight |
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2598
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Fri Feb 12 14:19:28 2010 |
rana, steve | HowTo | lore | International Fax | Steve showed me how to send an international
fax today:
Load paper.
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3660
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Wed Oct 6 14:49:54 2010 |
rana | Summary | lore | Steve on the sea | |
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4960
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Mon Jul 11 14:03:37 2011 |
steve | HowTo | lore | how to visit your old lab | Alberto is visiting us from Australia.
He brought some terrific presents. It is
going to be very demanding task to wait for |
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6694
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Sun May 27 17:19:27 2012 |
rana | Summary | lore | Strawberries | We have placed some sweet giant strawberries
in the fridge; free for eating for anyone
working in the lab today or tomorrow: |
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8887
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Mon Jul 22 03:10:41 2013 |
rana | Summary | lore | Angel of the Y End Table? | Trying to take an image or movie
of the ETMY Transmon cam, we got instead
this attached image. |
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8888
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Mon Jul 22 06:58:17 2013 |
Lisa | Summary | lore | Angel of the Y End Table? |
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9966
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Fri May 16 20:55:18 2014 |
Jamie | Frogs | lore | un-full-screening Ubuntu windows with F11 | Last week Rana and I struggled to figure
out how to un-full-screen windows on the
Ubuntu workstations that appeared to be stuck |
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12915
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Wed Mar 29 09:24:28 2017 |
Steve | Update | lore | summery pages | The summery pages are working at a slow
motion speed. It's response time 12 minutes. |
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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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1245
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Thu Jan 22 12:08:59 2009 |
pete | Update | oplevs | oplev calibration | Following the procedure described in Royal
Reinecke's 2006 SURF report, I've calibrated
the ETMY yaw oplev DOF. The idea is to sweep |
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1247
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Thu Jan 22 23:36:50 2009 |
pete | HowTo | oplevs | arm cavity oplev calibration | calibrated the y-arm oplevs. the procedure
is contained in a matlab script. the whereabouts
of this script will be revealed in a future |
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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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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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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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1377
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Mon Mar 9 17:11:38 2009 |
Alberto | Configuration | oplevs | optical levers centering | Yoichi, Alberto
this afternoon we centered the optical
levers for all the optics. |
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1403
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Sat Mar 14 22:53:12 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | oplevs | arm cavity oplev calibration | I finished a calibration of optical levers.
To calibrate oplevs, I locked appropriate |
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1413
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Fri Mar 20 15:37:58 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | oplevs | arm cavity oplev calibration |
I calibrated several oplevs with OSEM signal
as a confirmation of my fitting method the |
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1434
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Thu Mar 26 09:08:18 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | oplevs | arm cavity oplev calibration | I uploaded a document about my oplev calibration.
/cvs/cds/caltech/users/kakeru/oplev_calibration/oplev.pdf
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1563
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Fri May 8 04:46:01 2009 |
rana, yoichi | Summary | oplevs | BS/PRM/SRM table bad! | We went to center the oplevs because they
were far off and found that (as usual) the
numbers changed
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1578
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Tue May 12 17:26:56 2009 |
pete | Update | oplevs | etmy oplev quad was bad | Pete, Rob
After looking at some oplev noise
spectra in DTT, we discovered that the ETMY |
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1580
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Wed May 13 03:05:13 2009 |
pete | Update | oplevs | etmy oplev quad was bad |
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