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Date |
Author |
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Category |
Subject |
Text |
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17077
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Fri Aug 12 02:02:31 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Power Outage Prep: nodus /home/export backup | Took the backup (snapshot) of /home/export
as of Aug 12, 2022
controls@nodus> |
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17076
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Thu Aug 11 17:15:33 2022 |
Cici | Update | General | Measuring AUX Laser UGF with Red Pitaya | TL;DR: Have successfully measured the UGF
of the AUX laser on my Red Pitaya! Attached
is one of my data runs (pdf + txt file). |
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17075
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Thu Aug 11 16:48:59 2022 |
rana | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | NDS2 updates | We had several problems with our NDS2 server
configuration. It runs on megatron, but I
think it may have had issues since perhaps |
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17074
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Wed Aug 10 20:51:14 2022 |
Tega | Update | Computers | CDS upgrade Front-end machine setup | Here is a summary of what needs doing following
the chat with Jamie today.
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17073
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Wed Aug 10 20:30:54 2022 |
Tega | Summary | SUS | Characterisation of suspension damping | [Yuta, Tega]
We diagnosed the suspension damping
of the IMC/BHD/recycling optics by kicking |
12x |
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17072
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Wed Aug 10 19:36:45 2022 |
Koji | Bureaucracy | General | Lab cleaning and discovery | During the cleaning today, we found many
legacy lab items. Here are some policies
what should be kept / what should be disposed |
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17071
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Wed Aug 10 19:24:19 2022 |
rana | Update | General | Working Red Pitaya VNA |
Boom! |
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17070
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Wed Aug 10 15:33:59 2022 |
Cici | Update | General | Working Red Pitaya VNA | TL;DR: I am now able to inject a swept
sine and measure a transfer function with
python on my Red Pitaya! Attached is |
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17069
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Tue Aug 9 19:54:31 2022 |
yuta | Summary | LSC | FPMI locking tonight | [Tega, Anchal, Yuta]
We resored FPMI locking settings. |
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17068
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Tue Aug 9 15:50:22 2022 |
Koji | Update | BHD | BHD fringe contrast improved from 43% to 74% | For both 40m/17020
and 40m/17024,
what does the contrast mean if the numbers |
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17067
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Tue Aug 9 15:33:12 2022 |
yuta | Update | BHD | BHD fringe contrast improved from 43% to 74% | [Anchal, Yehonathan, Yuta]
We did the constrast measurement with |
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17066
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Mon Aug 8 17:16:51 2022 |
Tega | Update | Computers | Front-end machine setup | Added 3 FE machines - c1ioo, c1lsc, c1sus
- to the teststand following the instructions
in elog15947. |
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17065
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Mon Aug 8 14:47:10 2022 |
rana | Update | PSL | FSSSlow/MCAutolocker issue (docker) | can't we just go back to the old python
script that was working for many years, and
tested? I imagine that as soon as someone |
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17064
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Fri Aug 5 17:03:31 2022 |
Yehonathan | Summary | General | Testing 950nm laser found in trash pile | I set out to test the actuation bandwidth
of the 950nm laser. I hooked the laser to
the output of the bias tee of PD testing |
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17063
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Fri Aug 5 12:42:12 2022 |
Koji | Update | IOO | IMC WFS: Overnight observation | The IMC lock survived overnight and the
WFS servo loops kept it aligned. The IMC
was unlocked in the morning. |
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17062
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Thu Aug 4 22:32:31 2022 |
Koji | Update | IOO | Upon leaving the lab (WFS investigation) | Upon leaving the lab:
- HEPA is ON at
the original speed (i.e. same speed at 5PM |
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17061
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Thu Aug 4 22:14:38 2022 |
Koji | Update | IOO | WFS investigation | WFS/MCTRANS_QPD Power Spectra
Attachment 1: HEPA ON
WFS1/2 PIT/YAW Spectra are stabilized |
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17060
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Thu Aug 4 22:14:20 2022 |
Koji | Update | IOO | WFS investigation | Sensing matrix measurement
MCx_ASCyyy_EXC was shaken with
the amplitude of 3000 cnt. Measure the transfer |
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17059
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Thu Aug 4 21:58:18 2022 |
Koji | Update | IOO | WFS investigation | OK... It seems that all the 6 dof of the
IMC WFS servo loops were closed with some
condition... |
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17058
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Thu Aug 4 19:01:59 2022 |
Tega | Update | Computers | Front-end machine in supermicro boxes | Koji and JC looked around the lab today
and found some supermicro boxes which I was
told to look into to see if they have any |
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17057
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Thu Aug 4 11:28:22 2022 |
Anchal | Update | PSL | FSSSlow/MCAutolocker issue (docker) | Added C1:IOO-MC_LOCK
to ALConfigMC.yml which solved the isse
with FSS Slow. We should tune the FSS Slow |
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17056
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Wed Aug 3 16:00:51 2022 |
yuta | Update | BHD | BHD fringe aligned with reduced LO and AS beam clipping | Last week, we could find an alignment which
realizes LO beam and AS beam both unclipped,
but it was not consistent with an alignment |
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17055
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Wed Aug 3 15:01:13 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Borrowed Dsub cables | Borrowed DSUB cables for
Juan's SURF project |
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17054
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Tue Aug 2 17:25:18 2022 |
Tega | Configuration | BHD | c1sus2 dolphin IPC issue solved | [Yuta, Tega, Chris]
We did |
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17053
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Tue Aug 2 01:10:26 2022 |
Koji | Update | IOO | WFS investigation | Continued to work on the WFS repair
Demod phase adjustment:
- Use the PDH signal to |
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17052
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Mon Aug 1 18:42:39 2022 |
Tega | Configuration | BHD | c1sus2 IPC dolphin issue update | [Yuta, Tega]
We decided to give the dolphin
debugging another go. Firstly, we noticed |
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17051
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Mon Aug 1 17:19:39 2022 |
Cici | Summary | General | RPitaya Data on Jupyter Notebook | Have successfully plotted data from the
Red Pitaya on Jupyter Notebook! Have
lost years of my life fighting with PyQt. |
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17050
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Sat Jul 30 12:48:18 2022 |
Koji | Update | PSL | FSSSlow/MCAutolocker issue (docker) | > it only starts working when C1:IOO-MC_LOCK
is 1 and C1:PSL-FSS_SLOWLOOP is 1.
- OK. Your new MCAutolocker does |
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17049
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Sat Jul 30 10:38:12 2022 |
Anchal | Update | PSL | FSSSlow/MCAutolocker issue (docker) | The FSSSlow script was not properly documented
and it was not working, so I had to use one
that I knew worked from CTN. This scripts |
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17048
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Fri Jul 29 22:37:54 2022 |
Koji | Update | IOO | WFS investigation | I wanted to check what's wrong with
the WFS.
I played with MC2 misalignment |
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17047
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Fri Jul 29 20:21:11 2022 |
Koji | Update | PSL | FSSSlow/MCAutolocker issue (docker) | MCAutolocker/FSSSlow are not properly documented
and not properly working.
Tidy up the script and documentation, |
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17046
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Fri Jul 29 18:24:53 2022 |
Tega | Update | BHD | LO beam power improved by factor of 6 after LO and AS beam alignment | [Yuta, Tega]
From our previous work (elog 17044) |
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17045
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Thu Jul 28 20:16:26 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Shaking test for LO beam AS beam to BHD DCPDs | Some insights from the inside vacuum situation:
The beam is an incident
near normal on PR2 close to the center of |
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17044
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Thu Jul 28 16:51:55 2022 |
Tega | Update | BHD | Shaking test for LO beam AS beam to BHD DCPDs | [Yuta, Tega, Yehonathan]
To investigate the BHD power imbalance
and clipping issues, we did some shaking |
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17043
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Thu Jul 28 15:11:59 2022 |
Koji | Update | CDS | Too huge script_archive | As a result of the following work, the
file volume of /cvs/cds
was reduced from 3.2TB to 2.2TB, |
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17042
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Thu Jul 28 14:34:40 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | LO beam power at BHD DCPDs is significantly lower than expected | {Yuta, Yehonathan}
We went to the BS table to check
the POP beam power. We first notice that |
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17041
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Thu Jul 28 13:09:28 2022 |
yehonathan | Update | BHD | Mode matching considerations | The LO beam was found to have a power of
60uW, 10% of the power expected. We are pretty
sure about the expectation because the AS |
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17040
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Wed Jul 27 18:30:50 2022 |
yuta | Update | BHD | LO beam power at BHD DCPDs is significantly lower than expected | [Paco, Yehonathan, Yuta]
We measured power and counts at
BHD DCPDs with LO beam only and ITM single |
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17039
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Wed Jul 27 14:39:04 2022 |
Deeksha | Update | Electronics | New and improved PZT TF data from the DFD | Paco and I messed around with the attenuation
of the scope and bandwidth of the IF. We
also replaced the BNC T's in the |
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17038
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Tue Jul 26 21:16:41 2022 |
Koji | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | Vector fitting | I think the fit fails as the measurement
quality is not good enough.
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17037
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Tue Jul 26 20:54:08 2022 |
Paco | Update | BHD | BHD MICH test - LO phase control | [Yuta, Paco]
TL;DR
Successfully |
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17036
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Tue Jul 26 19:50:25 2022 |
Deeksha | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | Vector fitting | Trying to vectfit to the data taken from
the DFD previously but failing horribly.
I will update this post as soon as I get |
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17035
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Mon Jul 25 18:22:30 2022 |
Deeksha | Summary | Wiki | Measured the PZT TF Successfully | Measured the PZT beatnote using the setup
mentioned in elog post 17031. Attached is
the data taken from 10kHz to 1MHz, decadewise |
6x |
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17034
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Mon Jul 25 18:09:41 2022 |
Tega | Configuration | BHD | BHD Homodyne Phase control MEDM screen | [Paco, Tega, Yuta]
Today, we made a custom MEDM screen
for the BHD Homodyne Phase Control, which |
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17033
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Mon Jul 25 17:58:10 2022 |
Tega | Configuration | BHD | c1sus2 IPC dolphin issue update | From the 40m
wiki, I was able to use the instructions
here |
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17031
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Mon Jul 25 09:37:39 2022 |
Deeksha | Update | Electronics | Using the DFD to measure PZT TF | The DFD was setup to measure the change
in beatnote when excited. A long long (128in)
cable goes from the SR785 near the DFD all |
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17030
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Mon Jul 25 09:05:50 2022 |
Paco | Summary | General | Testing 950nm laser found in trash pile | [Paco, Yehonathan]
==== Late elog from Friday ====
Koji provided us with a QFLD-950-3S |
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17029
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Sun Jul 24 08:56:01 2022 |
Hang | Update | Calibration | Error propagation to astrophysical parameters from detector calibration uncertainty | Sorry I forgot to put tc & phic in
the example.
I modified astroFisherLib.py |
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17028
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Fri Jul 22 17:46:10 2022 |
yuta | Configuration | BHD | c1sus2 watchdog update and DCPD ERR channels | [Tega, Yuta]
We have added C1:HPC-DCPD_A_ERR and |
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17027
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Fri Jul 22 17:43:19 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Obtained a functional CRT | [Koji Paco]
Koji went to Downs and found a
CRT labeled "for 40m Rana?". So |
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