Linus-1, Nodus and others  ac cords can be moved over to new blank yellow extension cord with multiple recepticals.

 Remove two red extension cords going to Smart UPS

CMG-40T handheld controller unit is missing its power supply. In order to zero the instrument one has to apply plus and minus DC voltage.

The wiring on this 10 pin Amphenol PT02E-12-10P is shown.

 Morning seconds without adjustment.

 Annual crane inspection is scheduled for 8-11am Monday, March 17, 2014

The control room Smart UPS has two red extension cords that has to be removed: Nodus and Linux1

 KroneCrane Fred inspected and certified the 3 40m cranes for 2014. The vertex crane crane was load tested at fully extended position.

Please take a look at the table top with the flashlight before removing it. If it is dusty, wipe it down with dry lint free cloth in the box.

There is one box with flash light and wiper at AP, ETMY & ETMX  optical tables.

 9:11pm closed PSL shutter, turned Innolight 2W laser on,

         turned 3 IFO air cond on,

        CC1 5.1e-5 torr, V1 is closed, Maglev has failed, valve configuration is " Vacuum Normal "  with V1 & VM1 closed, RGA not running,   c1vac1 and c1vac2   were saved by UPS,

        (Maglev is not connected to the UPS because it is running on 220V)

        reset & started Maglev.........I can not open V1 without the 40mars running...........

        Rossa is the only computer running in the control room,

        Nodus and Linux1 was saved by UPS,

        turned on IR lasers at the ends, green shutters are closed

It is safe to leave the lab as is.

 Out gassing plus leak rate   0.15  mTorr / hour

 The pressure rose to 2.5 mTorr in 17 hours

 V1 was opened at 1:56pm

 VM2 opened at 2:10 so the RGA region is back to 1e-5 torr

 Last long extension cord removed from 1Y1 to ITMX-ISCT

The AC power strip at ITMX-ISCT is coming from wall L#26

Be aware that this may affect POP QPD and POP RF Thorlabs PD

CVI broadband AR coating was measured at the PSL-enclosure table around 9-10am today. The 2W Innolight first PBS  S polarization beam was used with an other 1/2 wave plate and PBS.

W2-PW1-1004-C-633-1064-0   This 0.045" thick window has 0.7- 0.8 % reflected beam on each sides at 5 degrees of incidence, P polarization.

The specification is  R avg <0.5 % per surface at 0 degree

Rana wants The device would be useless with such a high R, but R 0.1% is OK so I will get V coating.

 Late adition: CHECK all viewport covers.

A, transparent Lexan sheet is protecting glass windows in a horizontal position

B, metal housing protection is required on each viewport except signal ports

C, signal ports should be shielded by optical table enclosure

We have to cover this window-camera with implosion proof cover or just remove it and blank it.

Question number 2: Do our vertically positioned windows with flip able covers require protective lexan ? NO 5-5-2014

 CVI V-AR coating at 1064 nm, 0 degree,  catalog item is R< 0.25% on each sides,

 R <0.1 % is custom at much higher prices.

This custom order should go with other  orders that has similar need.

From CVI: 5-6-2014

I checked the trace info on the W2-PW1-1004-C-633-1064-0, BBAR coated window that you received.  It is side 1, 0.42%R & side 2, 0.53%R @ 1064nm.  And with the shift, I’m not too surprised you ended up with 0.7%.  A V coat would start with <0.25% (and more typically coming in at ~0.1%) per surface.  As far as stock options, I have a 1”dia x 4mmT, fused silica window that is recorded as side 1, R=0.09 and Side 2, R=0.08% @ 1064.  Is this too think or will it work for you?

 Keven and Steve,

We cleaned around the Vertex chambers, PSL and MC2 floor areas.

 I put label  at the dolphin fiber end at 1X2 today.   After this I had to reset it, but it failed.

This is an effort to get rid of our ground loops  by isolating the electronic components from the optical table.

Aluminum mounting base plates of Thorlabs BA2 and Newport B-2 were replaced by plates or post made out of delrin material.

This is an insulator. DELRIN base plates were installed 6 places. The oplev-qpd has Nylon base plate.

The NPRO and HE/NE lasers are not isolated from the table. S8 and S9

I'm not sure about the doubling oven S10 

The optical table is grounded at G11  through  ~1 Mohms to the ETMY chamber.

Alignment touch up needed   at all D-marked component!

 Attachment appendix:

D: component delrin isolated

N: component nylon isolated ( or Delrin )

S: component shell is shorting to optical table (except oven)

G:  optical table ground

I failed to maximize TRY the pds.

 I worked at the ETMY-ISCT this morning and late afternoon.  I will continue the 60 Hz noise hunt tomorrow. 

Green light power decreased from 3 mW to 1 mW at the ETMX-ISCT shutter. More later.

More details about this east end  " acrylic + "   enclosure ( optical table cover ) can be found elog entry 6210, 7194 and  7106

Window tinted layer transmission plot is below.

We have a film which may meet your requirements and the values are shown below:

               Wavelength (nm)              Transmission                     Reflectance(front)            Reflectance (back)

                        1060                               .0772                               .604                                     .759

                        1070                               .0723                               .615                                     .772

These values are taken from the LBNL Optics 6 program and if you have access to that program, the NFRC ID for the film is 202.   If you do not have access to the program, I have a captured the graph which may be of some help.  I apologize for the appearance of the graph but someone at LBNL decided it would look better with a dark gray background – the yellow is the transmission curve, the blue is the reflectance (front) and the green is the reflectance (back).

 Electronic components should be ISOLATED as they are installed on the optical tables.

This is essential to avoid ground loops, 60 Hz and harmonic peaks in the spectrum. We have just got some made.

Please only use it for this reason. Earlier black delrin base plates were used up in not needed places.

The anodized Aluminum base plates with magenets certainly will conduct.

2014 surf students Nichin and Akhil received 40m specific basic safety training last week.

 Andres Medina and Andrew "Harry" Hall received 40m specific safety training. They did general safety already and their laser safety training will be this after noon.

 PSL, AP, ETMY and ETMX optical tables were scanned for stay beam.

 The PSL HEPA was running at 30VAC-variac. It is 1 degree C warmer than usual. The HEPA fan motor turned up to 60 V

                  2005              ALL oplev servos use Coherent DIODE LASERS # 31-0425-000, 670 nm, 1 mW

    Sep. 28, 2006              optical lever noise budget with DC readout in 40m,  LIGO- T060234-00-R, Reinecke & Rana

    May  22, 2007              BS, SRM & PRM  He Ne 1103P takes over from diode

    May  29, 2007              low RIN He Ne JDSU 1103P selected, 5 purchased sn: T8078254, T8078256, T8078257, T8078258 & T8077178 in Sep. 2007

    Nov  30, 2007               Uniphase 1103P divergence measured

    Nov. 30, 2007               ETMX old Uniphase 1103P  from 2002 dies: .............., running time not known......~3-5 years?

    May 19, 2008               ETMY old Uniphase 1103P from 1999 dies;.....................running time not known.....~    ?

    Oct.  2, 2008                ITMX & ITMY are still diodes, meaning others are converted to 1103P earlier

                     JDSU 1103P were replaced as follows:

   May 11, 2011                ETMX replaced, life time 1,258 days  or 3.4 years

   May 13, 2014               ETMX , LT 1,098 days or 3 y

   May 22, 2012               ETMY,  LT 1,464 days or  4 y

   Oct.  5, 2011                BS & PRM, LT 4 years,  laser in place at 1,037 days or 2.8 y

   Sep. 13, 2011               ITMY  old 1103P &    SRM    diode laser replaced by 1125P  ..........old He life time is not known, 1125P in place 1,059 days or 2.9 y

   June 26, 2013              ITMX 622 days or 1.7 y    note: we changed because of beam quality.........................laser in place 420 days or 1.2 y

  Sep. 27, 2013               purchased 3 JDSU 1103P lasers, sn: P893516, P893518, P893519 ......2 spares ( also 2 spares of 1125P of 5 mW & larger body )

      May  13, 2014             ETMX,  .............laser in place 90 d

      May  22, 2012             ETMY, 

     Oct.  7,  2013             ETMY,  LT  503 d  or  1.4 y............bad beam quality ?

     Aug. 8,  2014              ETMY,  .............laser in place   425 days  or  1.2 y

      Sept. 5, 2014              new 1103P, sn P893516  installed at SP table for aLIGO oplev use qualification

 Small oil drops were found during prevent inspection of the vertex crane. They were wiped off. It took 231 days to grow this size.

 AC maintenance is scheduled from 8am till 11am tomorrow morning.

 IFO air condition maintenance will continue tomorrow morning and it should be finished by 11:30AM

 We have new guys taking over this job: Sal and Chris so it takes longer. The units will be shut down for a bit.

They will not enter the IFO lab. The CES housed units will be worked on.

MUX input 7 to ITMXF camera cable was replaced by temporary cable labeled as 888

The problem remains to be the same black stripe at the bottom of the image The single picture is OK.

           March  19, 2015   2  new  JDSU 1103P, sn P919645 & P919639 received from Thailand through Edmond Optics. Mfg date 12/2014............as spares

Batteries replaced after 3.5 years with Amstron AP-1250F2,  8x 12V 6Ah

The laser below is dead. JDSU 1103P, SN P845655 lived for 3.5 years.

It was replaced by JDSU P/N 22037130,( It has a new name for 1103P Uniphase ) sn P919639 of mfg date 12-2014

Beam shape at 5 m nicely round. Output power 2.8 mW of 633 nm

BS spot size on qpd ~1 mm &  60 micro W

PRM spot size on qpd ~1 mm & 50 micro W

Amstron batteries replaced after 11 months with SP-12-5.5HR,  2 years warranty from replaceUPSbattery.com

Note: the replace battery LED did not go out ( well pasted 24 hrs ) till the self test bottom was hold down for 2-3 sec

      May 23, 2016             ITMX dead He/Ne laser sn P845648 replaced after 1062 days [2.9 yrs] by 1103P, sn P859884, with output  2.6 mW, nicely round beam quality at 15 meters.

                                                                                                                                                    Power just before viewport 1 mW,  returning light on qpd 154 microW =  7,500 counts

           May 23, 2016             ITMX dead laser sn P845648 replaced after 1062 days [2.9 yrs] by 1103P, sn P859884, with output output  2.6 mW, nicely round beam quality at 15 meters.

               July 27, 2016             2  new 1103P from Edmonds in: P947034 & P947039, manf. date April 2016,

South end flow bench and both clean room assembly flow benches measured zero counts for 0.3 and 0.5 micron size particales.

The counting efficiency of 0.5 micron is 100%

The PSL HEPA performance was measured at the center of the table with MET ONE #3

The two 40 mm apeture baffles at the ends were replaced by 50 mm one. ITM baffles with 50 mm apeture are baked ready for installation.