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15601
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Wed Sep 23 11:13:49 2020 |
anchal | Summary | ALS | ALS noise budget update | Yes, that loop was unstable. I started
using the time domain response to check for
the stability of loops now. I have been able |
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10884
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Fri Jan 9 14:13:02 2015 |
manasa | Update | General | ALS noise at ~30Hz | Before starting to move things around the
PSL table, I measured the ALS out of loop noise |
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9836
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Mon Apr 21 22:53:16 2014 |
manasa | Update | LSC | ALS noise |
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8738
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Mon Jun 24 16:06:17 2013 |
Manasa | Summary | Green Locking | ALS model | I am working on the basic
ALS servo model. The simulink model for the
same is attached. The loop is not yet complete |
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8659
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Thu May 30 18:29:21 2013 |
Manasa | Update | General | ALS medm screens edited | Renaming of the c1gcv model earlier (elog
7011) had left white boxes in most of |
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9649
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Tue Feb 18 23:55:33 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS locked with LSC! | I'm really excited, so I'm posting this,
even though I'm still working:
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9650
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Wed Feb 19 00:35:23 2014 |
Koji | Update | LSC | ALS locked with LSC! | Great. I indeed disabled all of the triggers
and the normalization during my trial but
in vain. |
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9651
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Wed Feb 19 01:33:03 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS locked with LSC! | I am also not able to lock the ALS using
the 'regular' LSC filters. To figure
out what filters were doing what, I made |
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9652
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Wed Feb 19 03:07:22 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS locked with LSC! | No more progress tonight.
I am still unable to lock the ALS using the
regular LSC filters. I went back to |
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9659
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Wed Feb 19 22:47:26 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS locked using LSC model, Common & Diff transitioned to IR transmission signals | [Jenne, Koji, Manasa, EricQ]
Today
we successfully locked the ALS using the |
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10925
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Tue Jan 20 20:03:17 2015 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS lock not staying? | The Xarm ALS has been a little funky today.
First, the green and the arm-axis
would not stay co-aligned. I'm |
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10335
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Wed Aug 6 00:14:10 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS is iffy tonight | The ALS system is iffy tonight.
After putting the cable back to the
RF spectrum analyzer (it had been taken to |
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10399
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Fri Aug 15 02:05:55 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS in-loop spectra | Not sure why, but Rana and I didn't
see the super high Xarm noise with ALS that
we reported last night (elog |
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9195
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Thu Oct 3 09:01:06 2013 |
manasa | Update | Green Locking | ALS high frequency noise | As I was trying to solve the 2 arm
ALS problem, I found the Y arm ALS not so
stable AGAIN :( . I measured the in-loop |
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8694
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Tue Jun 11 22:16:56 2013 |
Manasa | Summary | Green Locking | ALS for X arm | I discussed with Yuta about the ALS servo
and phase tracker and found that there was
a lot of information lying around from last |
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11037
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Mon Feb 16 02:49:57 2015 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS fool measured decoupling TF | I have measured very, very carefully the
transfer function from pushing on
MC2 to the Yarm ALS beatnote. |
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11038
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Mon Feb 16 03:10:42 2015 |
Koji | Update | LSC | ALS fool measured decoupling TF | Wonkey shape: Looks like a loop supression.
Your http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/11016
also suggests it too, doesn't it? |
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11039
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Mon Feb 16 15:08:26 2015 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS fool measured decoupling TF | Dang it, yes. You're right. I
should have caught that.
Since Dcpl and Srefl are both zero |
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11042
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Tue Feb 17 04:04:32 2015 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS fool math | I re-did the Mathematica notebook according
to the most current diagram (note to daytime
self: attach .nb file!!!), and found that |
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11043
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Tue Feb 17 16:36:08 2015 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS fool math | Here is an updated cartoon, with the ALS
sensor explicitly shown as the beatbox times
the closed loop response of the phase tracker |
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11030
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Sat Feb 14 20:20:24 2015 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS fool cartoon | The ALS fool scheme is now diagrammed up
in OmniGraffle, including its new official
icon. The mathematica notebook has |
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11050
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Thu Feb 19 04:16:45 2015 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS fool attempt with PRFPMI | [Jenne, EricQ]
We tried several times tonight
to engage the Fool path with the PRFPMI. |
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5888
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Mon Nov 14 17:01:14 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | Green Locking | ALS feedback on MC2 | Leaving a note on the ALS feedback before
I forget:
The |
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6154
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Wed Dec 28 14:13:16 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | Green Locking | ALS feedback on MC2 | I
added an ALS feedback path on the MC2 suspension
and this path will enable us to stabilise |
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14993
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Fri Oct 25 01:04:49 2019 |
gautam | Update | ALS | ALS electronics chain was saturating | [Koji, gautam]
Summary:
We think we got to the bottom of |
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13594
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Wed Jan 31 16:33:53 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | ALS electronics at LSC rack | [steve,
gautam]
We installed some |
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9226
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Wed Oct 9 18:45:17 2013 |
Masayuki | Update | Green Locking | ALS down script modified |
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9204
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Fri Oct 4 20:25:12 2013 |
Masayuki | Update | Green Locking | ALS down script | I wrote the down script for ALS. This script
is
(script)/ALS/ALSdown.py When |
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14468
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Wed Feb 20 23:55:51 2019 |
gautam | Update | ALS | ALS delay line electronics | Summary:
Last year, I worked
on the ALS delay line electronics, thinking |
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14475
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Thu Mar 7 01:06:38 2019 |
gautam | Update | ALS | ALS delay line electronics | Summary:
The restoration of the delay-line
electronics is complete. The chassis has |
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14477
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Tue Mar 12 22:51:25 2019 |
gautam | Update | ALS | ALS delay line electronics | This
Hanford alog may be of relevance as we
are using the aLIGO AA chassis for the IR |
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14478
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Wed Mar 13 01:27:30 2019 |
gautam | Update | ALS | ALS delay line electronics | This test was done, and I determine the
frequency discriminant to be |
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14479
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Thu Mar 14 23:26:47 2019 |
Anjali | Update | ALS | ALS delay line electronics | Attachment #1 shows the schematic of the
test setup. Signal generator (Marconi) was
used to supply the RF input. We observed |
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17384
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Wed Jan 4 12:12:57 2023 |
Paco | Summary | Calibration | ALS calibration error from DFD | [Paco, Anchal]
One of the crucial and currently
limiting calibration errors is in the ALS |
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6074
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Tue Dec 6 00:26:00 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | ALS became robust : UGF = 100 Hz | Eventually
the instability in the Y end PDH servo turned
out to be some kind of an alignment issue. |
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16956
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Tue Jun 28 16:59:35 2022 |
Paco | Summary | ALS | ALS beat allan deviation (XARM) | [Paco]
I took ~ 7 minutes of XALS beatnote
data with the XAUX laser locked to the XARM |
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16959
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Tue Jun 28 18:53:16 2022 |
rana | Summary | ALS | ALS beat allan deviation (XARM) | what's the reasoning behind using df/f_beat
instead of df/f_laser ?
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16962
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Wed Jun 29 14:28:06 2022 |
Paco | Summary | ALS | ALS beat allan deviation (XARM) | I guess it didn't make sense since
f_beat can be arbitrarily moved, but the
beat is taken around the PSL freq ~ 281.73 |
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9178
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Mon Sep 30 23:56:19 2013 |
manasa | Update | Green Locking | ALS autolocker flowchart | [Masayuki, Manasa]
Flowchart for ALS autolocker. The
error signal thresholds will be decided by |
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9179
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Tue Oct 1 09:51:10 2013 |
rana | Update | Green Locking | ALS autolocker flowchart | I think we can use the IMC
autolocker to start with getting this started.
Once Jamie fixes the NDSSERVER environment |
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9219
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Tue Oct 8 00:21:01 2013 |
manasa | HowTo | Green Locking | ALS arm stabilization | Step by
step procedure for stabilizing arms using
ALS servo |
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10331
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Mon Aug 4 22:52:03 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS alignment tweak-up | After aligning the arms to IR, I aligned
the Y green beam to the arm. Also,
the X green beatnote was very small, so I |
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8864
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Wed Jul 17 22:49:37 2013 |
Koji | Update | Green Locking | ALS Y whitening filter change | [Koji Annalisa]
We did the same mod of the beatbox
for the Y arm too. See |
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8865
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Wed Jul 17 22:51:50 2013 |
Koji | Update | Green Locking | ALS Y performance with the new whitening filter | [Manasa Koji]
Summary:
The new whitening filters improved |
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8866
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Thu Jul 18 01:10:00 2013 |
kiwamu | Update | Green Locking | ALS Y performance with the new whitening filter |
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8878
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Fri Jul 19 12:00:12 2013 |
manasa | Update | Green Locking | ALS Y performance with the new whitening filter |
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9904
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Fri May 2 13:03:30 2014 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | ALS Y beat setup aligned | I touched up the alignment of the Ygreen
on the PSL table. |
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9905
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Fri May 2 14:31:26 2014 |
Koji | Update | LSC | ALS Y beat setup aligned | Please check the X&Y ALS out-of-loop
stability. Use fine resolution (BW0.01).
Calibrate the POX/POY in Hz. |
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6318
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Fri Feb 24 19:25:43 2012 |
jamie | Update | LSC | ALS X-arm beatbox added, DAQ channels wiring normalized | I have hooked the ALS beatbox into the
c1ioo DAQ. In the process, I did some
rewiring so that the channel mapping corresponds |
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9880
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Wed Apr 30 16:07:59 2014 |
manasa | Update | LSC | ALS X noise post servo modification | I. The Y arm stayed stable through last
night and I have saved the arm lock settings
to IFOconfigure. |
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