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  9902   Fri May 2 10:38:29 2014 steveUpdatePSLthin window AR measured

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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.

 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?

 

 

  9914   Tue May 6 09:46:50 2014 steveUpdatePEMcleaning day

 Keven and Steve,

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

 

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  9915   Tue May 6 10:22:28 2014 steveUpdateCDSc1ioo dolphin fiber

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Steve and I nicely routed the dolphin fiber from c1ioo in the 1X2 rack to the dolphin switch in the 1X4 rack.  I shutdown c1ioo before removing the fiber, but still all the dolphin connected models crashed.  After the fiber was run, I brought back c1ioo and restarted all wedged models.  Everything is green again:

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

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  9918   Tue May 6 18:32:14 2014 steveUpdateLSCTRY 60Hz noise hunt

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!

 

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  9921   Wed May 7 14:01:36 2014 steveUpdateLSCTRY 60Hz noise hunt

Quote:

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.

  9933   Thu May 8 17:25:17 2014 steveUpdateLSCTRY 60Hz noise hunt

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

  9937   Fri May 9 11:23:11 2014 steveUpdateGreen Lockingdecreased X green light power

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

  9941   Mon May 12 14:42:25 2014 steveUpdateendtable upgradeoptical table enclosure wall proposal and table at ETMY

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 Sanwiched wall as shown: 1" clear acrylic, 2 layers of 0.004" thick "window tint", 1 layer of  0.007" thermashield  and  0.125" yellow acrylic

Visibility: 70 %,    Transmission of 1064 nm  2-3 % at 0-50 degrees incident,   power density  ~ 0.7 W/mm2

Max power 100 mW

        

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).

 

 

The film is referred to as “Hilite 70” and has a 72% visible light transmission.  These results were obtained with the film mounted on 1/8” clear glass.

 

I

 

 

 

 

 

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics

www.solargard.com

 

Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this email.

 

 

 

Attachment 1: Hilite70.jpg
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Attachment 2: ETMY-ISCT.jpg
ETMY-ISCT.jpg
Attachment 3: RoscoThermashield.pdf
RoscoThermashield.pdf
  9965   Fri May 16 16:08:12 2014 steveUpdateLSCIsolating base plates

 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.

 

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  10007   Mon Jun 9 09:41:06 2014 steveUpdatesafetysafety training

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

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  10069   Thu Jun 19 10:39:22 2014 steveUpdatesafetysurf safety training

 

 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.

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  10071   Thu Jun 19 14:12:45 2014 steveUpdatesafetyoptical table scans

 

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

  10075   Thu Jun 19 17:11:52 2014 steveUpdatePEMit is warmer today

 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

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  10081   Fri Jun 20 14:42:57 2014 steveUpdateSUSvac illuminators turned off
  10131   Mon Jul 7 08:13:41 2014 steveUpdateGeneralyes,there was firework
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  10350   Fri Aug 8 11:22:35 2014 steveSummarySUSoplev laser summary

 

                  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 )

 

  10362   Mon Aug 11 10:23:39 2014 steveSummarySUSoplev laser summary updated

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                  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

 

  10518   Thu Sep 18 10:08:07 2014 steveSummarySUSoplev laser summary updated

 

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                  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

     

  10523   Mon Sep 22 10:18:58 2014 steveUpdatePEMlab temperatures

 

 

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  10560   Thu Oct 2 14:36:52 2014 steveUpdatePEMoil drops on vertex crane

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

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

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  10665   Tue Nov 4 10:40:46 2014 steveUpdatePEMlab temperatures and particle counts

 

 

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  10761   Mon Dec 8 09:03:49 2014 steveUpdatePEMair cond maintenance tomorrow morning

 

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

  10773   Wed Dec 10 14:26:13 2014 steveUpdatePEMair cond maintenance and particle plot

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 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.

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  11083   Fri Feb 27 10:25:24 2015 steveUpdateCamerasquad picture problem

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.

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  11148   Thu Mar 19 17:11:32 2015 steveSummarySUSoplev laser summary updated

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

  11178   Fri Mar 27 10:38:40 2015 steveUpdateVACvac rack UPS battery replaced

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

Quote:

APC Smart -UPS 2200   model: SUA2200RM2U   batteries were replaced by compatible RBC43, 8x  12V5A

 

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  11227   Mon Apr 20 16:42:48 2015 steveUpdateSUSPRM and BS oplev laser replaced

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

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JDSU 1103P died after 4 years of service. It was replaced with new identical head of 2.9 mW output. The power supply was also changed.

The return spots of 0.04 mW  2.5 mm diameter on qpds are BS  3,700 counts and PRM 4,250 counts.

 

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

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  11792   Fri Nov 20 09:45:39 2015 steveSummarySUSoplev laser summary

 

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      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

 

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  12014   Tue Mar 1 09:37:15 2016 steveUpdateVACvac rack UPS batteries replaced

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

Quote:

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

Quote:

APC Smart -UPS 2200   model: SUA2200RM2U   batteries were replaced by compatible RBC43, 8x  12V5A

 

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

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  12054   Wed Mar 30 11:35:24 2016 steveUpdatesafetyBS visitor's viewport is protected with lexan

Quote:
The four horizontal viewports of arms are protected
by 3/8" thick, 8.5" OD Lexan disk of MR10 Polycarbonate.

ITMX, ETMX, ITMY and ETMY ccd cameras are not focused now.


BS visitor's viewport glass is now covered with Lexan MR10

Note:
this Lexan cover is in vertical orientation so becomes lose when the black anodized cover is removed.
It needs to be held in place

while it's housing is taken off.
  12125   Mon May 23 10:55:49 2016 steveSummarySUSITMX oplev laser replaced

 

      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

 

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  12126   Mon May 23 15:51:32 2016 steveSummarySUSoplev laser summary updated

 

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                  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

     

           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.

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  12341   Wed Jul 27 11:40:48 2016 steveSummarySUSoplev laser summary updated

 

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                  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

     

           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,

  12498   Fri Sep 16 14:15:28 2016 steveUpdatePEMpartical counts

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%

 

  location

 

 

        0.3 micron particles / cf min

 

 

      0.5 micron particles / cf min

 

 

 counter

 MET

 ONE

 

       effect
 ITMY table  35,000  3,000   #3  
 ETMY table  35,000  3,000   #3  
 ITMX table  24,000  2,400   #3  PSL HEPA at 50V
 ITMX wall mounted  -  2,500   #1  
 ETMX work bench    5,000     600   #3   flow bench on  

 

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

 Voltage Variac particles /cf min   particles /cf min
 particle size  0.3 micron  0.5 micron
 60  0  0
 50  10  0
 40  1,400  110
 20  1,400  100
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  12553   Wed Oct 12 15:01:22 2016 steveUpdateSUSSOS ITM baffles plates are ready

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.

Quote:

 Green welding glass 7" x 9"   shade #14 with 40 mm hole and mounting fixtures are ready to reduce scatter light on SOS

PEEK 450CA shims and U-shaped clips  will keep these plates damped.

 

 

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  12656   Fri Dec 2 10:57:08 2016 steveUpdatePEM door seal replaced

The south end door leaky weather seals replaced.

The aim is here to get some overpressure inside / outside so the lab partical count would not depend on outside condition.

 

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  12753   Wed Jan 25 10:46:58 2017 steveSummarySUSoplev laser summary updated

                    Oct.  5, 2015              ETMY He/Ne replaced by 1103P, sr P919645,  made Dec 2014, after 2 years

                   Jan. 24, 2017              ETMY He/Ne replaced by 1103P,  sr P947049,  made Apr 2016,  after 477 hrs running hot

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  12811   Wed Feb 8 10:16:39 2017 steveUpdateSUSclipping ITMX oplev

The ITMX oplev beam is clipping. It will be corected with locked arm

 

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  12836   Fri Feb 17 10:56:12 2017 steveUpdatePEMparticle counter moved into PSL enclousure

The MET#1 particle counter was moved from CES wall at ITMX to PSL enclousure south west corner at 11am.

The HEPA filter speed at the Variac was turned down to 20V from 40

This counter pumps air for 1 minute in every 20 minutes. Soft foam in bags used to minimize this shaking as it is clamped.

 

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  12841   Tue Feb 21 10:08:35 2017 steveUpdatePEMnoisy morning

Our new janitor Francisco is started working in IFO room today.

Quote:

The MET#1 particle counter was moved from CES wall at ITMX to PSL enclousure south west corner at 11am.

The HEPA filter speed at the Variac was turned down to 20V from 40

This counter pumps air for 1 minute in every 20 minutes. Soft foam in bags used to minimize this shaking as it is clamped.

 

Large film crews are working just out side  the north west corner of the lab. They started around ~ 5:30am  Do not plan on working late tonight.

ETMX sus damping restored.

C1:PSL-FSS_RMTEMP, C1:PSL-PMC_PMCTRANSPD and C1:PEM-count_temp channels are not reading since Friday

 

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  12844   Wed Feb 22 08:54:17 2017 steveUpdatePEM PSL enclousure particle count

ETMX sus damping recovered.  PSL enclousure is dusty at 20V rotation speed. Rainy days as outside condition.

Quote:

The MET#1 particle counter was moved from CES wall at ITMX to PSL enclousure south west corner at 11am.

The HEPA filter speed at the Variac was turned down to 20V from 40

This counter pumps air for 1 minute in every 20 minutes. Soft foam in bags used to minimize this shaking as it is clamped.

 

 

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  12855   Tue Feb 28 08:04:48 2017 steveUpdatePEMETMX damping recovered

ETMX sus damping recovered.

Note: The giant metal garbage container was moved from the south west corner of CES months ago.

Quote:

ETMX sus damping recovered.  PSL enclousure is dusty at 20V rotation speed. Rainy days as outside condition.

 

 

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  12895   Mon Mar 20 17:12:08 2017 steveUpdatePEMparticle counter inside of PSL enclousure

The logging script is multiplying by 100 instead of 10 !

Quote:

The MET#1 particle counter was moved from CES wall at ITMX to PSL enclousure south west corner at 11am.

The HEPA filter speed at the Variac was turned down to 20V from 40

This counter pumps air for 1 minute in every 20 minutes. Soft foam in bags used to minimize this shaking as it is clamped.

 

 

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  13181   Thu Aug 10 09:10:55 2017 steveUpdateGeneraldataviewer is recovering

It can look back 7 days trends now. There is still no vacuum channels. I can bring back the channels through the restore directory, but there are no data.

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  13261   Mon Aug 28 10:51:21 2017 steveUpdateSUSETMX damping recovered
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  13695   Wed Mar 21 10:00:35 2018 steveUpdateGeneralprojector light bulb replaced

Light bulb replaced.

Quote:

Bulb went out ~10am today. Looks like the lifetime of this bulb was <100 days.

Steve: bulb is arriving next week

 

  13861   Fri May 18 07:41:01 2018 steveUpdateSUSclipping ITMX oplev

The ITMX oplev still clipping

Quote:

The ITMX oplev beam is clipping. It will be corected with locked arm

 

 

  14048   Tue Jul 10 14:20:09 2018 steveUpdateGeneralprojector light bulb replaced

Bulb replaced at day 110  We have now spare now.

 

  4963   Tue Jul 12 17:30:24 2011 steve,UpdateSUSBS oplev spectra

Quote:

Healthy BS oplev

 I repeated the BS oplev spectrum today and I do not understand why it does look different. I did it as Kiwamu describes it in entry#4948  The oplev servo was left ON!

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  4966   Thu Jul 14 09:38:50 2011 steve,UpdateSUSBS oplev spectra

Quote:

Quote:

Healthy BS oplev

 I repeated the BS oplev spectrum today and I do not understand why it does look different. I did it as Kiwamu describes it in entry#4948  The oplev servo was left ON!

 It is working today! Finally I repeated the BS spectra, that we did with Kiwamu last week

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