ID |
Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
 |
78
|
Sat Mar 23 16:36:15 2013 |
Koji | Electronics | Characterization | Diode QE measurement | Quantum efficiencies of the C30665GH
diodes were measured.
- The diode was biased by the FEMTO |
 |
77
|
Sat Mar 23 13:34:14 2013 |
Koji | Optics | General | PZT assembly prototype glued |
Prototype
PZT assembly |
   |
76
|
Sat Mar 23 02:41:00 2013 |
Koji | Optics | General | Black glass beam dumps for the first OMC | Received black glass beam dumps from
MIT
- gluing by EP30-2 looks pretty fine. |
  |
75
|
Sat Mar 23 02:32:23 2013 |
Koji | Facility | General | N2 cylinder delivered | Preparation for ionized N2 blow
- 99.9998% N2 cylinder delivered
(ALPHAGAZ 2 grade by AIR LIQUIDE) ALPHAGAZ |
|
74
|
Wed Mar 20 09:38:02 2013 |
Zach | Optics | Characterization | [LLO] OMC test bench modified | For various reasons, I had to switch
NPROs (from the LightWave 126 to the Innolight
Prometheus). |
|
73
|
Sun Mar 17 21:59:47 2013 |
Koji | Electronics | Characterization | Diode testing ~ DCPD | - For the dark noise measurement, the lid
of the die-cast case should also contact
to the box for better shielding. This made |
|
72
|
Fri Mar 15 02:15:45 2013 |
Koji | Electronics | Characterization | Diode testing | Diode testing
o Purpose of the measurement
- Test Si QPDs (C30845EH) for ISC |
|
71
|
Thu Mar 14 22:18:23 2013 |
Koji | General | General | New loans for the diode test | ALL
returned
Loan
from ATF: |
|
70
|
Thu Mar 14 17:06:21 2013 |
Koji | Mechanics | General | OMC SUS work @LLO | EDIT (ZK): All photos on
Picasa. Also, I discovered that |
 |
69
|
Thu Mar 7 15:53:47 2013 |
Koji | Mechanics | General | OMC Transportation fixture, OMC PD/QPD mounts | |
    |
68
|
Wed Mar 6 23:24:58 2013 |
Zach | Optics | Characterization | eLIGO OMC visibility vs. power measurement details | I found that, in fact, I had lowered
the modulation depth since when I measured
it to be 0.45 rads --> Psb = 0.1. |
   |
67
|
Tue Mar 5 19:37:00 2013 |
Zach | Optics | Characterization | eLIGO OMC visibility vs. power measurement details | EDIT (ZK): Koji points out that (1 -
Ti) should really be the non-resonant reflectivity
of the aligned cavity, which is much closer |
|
66
|
Fri Mar 1 23:52:18 2013 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Wedge measurement with the autocollimator and the rotation stage | Measurement:
E1: α =
0.672 deg, β = +0.0 arcmin (0 div up)
|
|
65
|
Fri Mar 1 23:06:15 2013 |
Koji | Optics | Configuration | More perpendicularity test final | Perpendicularity of the "E" mirror
was measured.
Mounting Prisms: |
|
64
|
Wed Feb 27 18:18:48 2013 |
Koji | Optics | Configuration | More perpendicularity test | Mounting Prisms:
(criteria: 30arcsec = 145urad =>
0.36mm spot shift) |
|
63
|
Thu Feb 21 18:44:18 2013 |
Koji | Optics | Configuration | Perpendicularity test | Perpendicularity test of the mounting
prisms:
The perpendicularity of the prism |
 |
62
|
Thu Feb 7 23:01:45 2013 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | UV epoxy gluing test | [Jeff, Yuta, Koji]
Gluing test with UV-cure epoxy
Optocast 3553-LV-UTF-HM |
|
61
|
Thu Feb 7 21:35:46 2013 |
Koji | General | General | Dmass's loan of LB1005 / A2&C2 sent to Fullerton / First Contact @40m | Dmass
borrowed the LB1005 servo amp from the OMC
lab. |
 |
60
|
Wed Feb 6 02:34:10 2013 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Wedge measurement with the autocollimator and the rotation stage | Measurement:
A6: α
= 0.665 deg, β = +3.0 arcmin (1.5 div |
|
59
|
Mon Feb 4 00:39:08 2013 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Wedge measurement with the autocollimator and the rotation stage | Method:
Mount the tombstone prism
on the prism mount. The mount is fixed on |
|
58
|
Tue Jan 22 17:56:32 2013 |
Koji | Mechanics | General | Rotary stage selection | Newport UTR80
Sensitivity: 4 arcsec
|
|
57
|
Tue Jan 22 11:10:25 2013 |
Koji | Facility | General | Eyeware storage and hooks for the face shields are installed | A carpenter has come to install the eyeware
storage and hooks for the face shields. |
|
56
|
Sat Jan 19 20:47:41 2013 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Wedge measurement with the autocollimator | The wedge angle of the prism "A1"
was measured with the autocollimator (AC).
The range of the AC is 40 arcmin. |
|
55
|
Fri Jan 18 13:25:17 2013 |
Koji | Optics | Configuration | Autocollimator calibration | An autocollimator (AC) should show (0,0)
if a retroreflector is placed in front of
the AC. |
|
54
|
Wed Jan 16 14:10:50 2013 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Autocollimator tests of optics perpendicularity/parallelism | The
items:
- Autocollimator (AC) borrowed from |
|
53
|
Thu Jan 10 18:37:50 2013 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Wedging of the PZTs | Yesterday I measured the thickness of the
PZTs in order to get an idea how much the
PZTs are wedged. |
|
52
|
Sun Jan 6 23:22:21 2013 |
Koji | Mechanics | General | SolidWorks model of the OMC suspension | |
 |
51
|
Wed Jan 2 07:45:39 2013 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | First Contact test | Conclusion:
Good. First contact did not damage the coating
surface, and reduced the loss |
 |
50
|
Wed Jan 2 07:35:55 2013 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Thickness of a curved mirror | Measured the thickness of a curved mirror:
Took three points separated by 120
degree. |
|
49
|
Mon Dec 31 03:11:45 2012 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Further more RoC measurement | Total (excluding C2, C7, C8): 2.575 +/-
0.005 [m]
New results |
|
48
|
Mon Dec 31 03:10:09 2012 |
Koji | Optics | General | SolidWorks model of the OMC breadboard | |
 |
47
|
Mon Dec 31 01:45:04 2012 |
Koji | General | General | Work completed in Nov and Dec [!] | Completed work of the previous months:
[Jul]
[Aug] |
|
46
|
Wed Dec 26 14:33:33 2012 |
Koji | Facility | General | Lase Interlock wired | Two switches are connected in series. |
  |
45
|
Wed Dec 19 18:47:03 2012 |
Koji | Clean | General | First Contact Training with Margot | Steve and I visited Margot to have a training
session for application of First Contact
on optics. |
|
44
|
Tue Dec 18 20:04:40 2012 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Prism Thickness Measurement | The thicknesses of the prism mirrors (A1-A5)
were measured with micrometer thickness gauge.
Since the thickness of the thinner |
|
43
|
Thu Nov 29 21:18:23 2012 |
Koji | Optics | General | OMC Mounting Prisms have come | |
 |
42
|
Mon Nov 26 01:40:00 2012 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | More RoC measurement | C1: RoC: 2.57845 +/− 4.2e−05m
|
|
41
|
Mon Nov 19 13:33:14 2012 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Resuming testing mirror RoCs | In order to resume testing the curvatures
of the mirrors, the same mirror as the previous
one was tested. |
|
40
|
Sat Nov 17 02:31:34 2012 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Mirror T test | Mirror T test
The mirror was misaligned to have
~2deg incident (mistakenly...) angle. |
|
39
|
Fri Nov 9 00:43:32 2012 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Further more wedge measurement | Now it's enough for the first OMC (or even
second one too).
Today's measurements all distributed |
 |
38
|
Thu Nov 8 20:12:10 2012 |
Koji | Optics | Configuration | How many glass components we need for a plate | Optical prisms 50pcs (A14+B12+C6+E18)
Curved Mirrors 25pcs (C13+D12)
|
|
37
|
Thu Nov 8 19:52:57 2012 |
Koji | Optics | General | How to apply UV epoxy | KA's question:
Do |
|
36
|
Thu Nov 8 19:47:55 2012 |
Koji | Electronics | Configuration | Solder for PZTs | Rich saids:
I |
|
35
|
Thu Nov 8 13:24:53 2012 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | More wedge measurement | A1
Horiz Wedge 0.497
+/- 0.004 deg |
|
34
|
Wed Nov 7 20:44:11 2012 |
Koji | General | General | Plan Update: November [!] | Completed work of the previous months:
[Jul]
[Aug] |
|
33
|
Wed Nov 7 20:21:42 2012 |
Koji | General | General | Work completed in October [!] | Completed work of the previous months:
[Jul]
[Aug] |
|
32
|
Wed Nov 7 01:28:20 2012 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Wedge angle test (A1) | Wedge
angle test
Result: Wedge angle of Prism A1: |
 |
31
|
Thu Oct 18 20:23:33 2012 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | Improved measurement | Significant
improvement has been achieved in the RoC |
 |
30
|
Wed Oct 17 20:36:04 2012 |
Koji | Optics | General | RoC test cavity locked | The RoC test setup has been built on
the optical table at ATF.
|
  |
29
|
Tue Oct 16 15:51:01 2012 |
Koji | General | General | Plan Update: October [!] | Completed work of the previous months:
[Jul]
[Aug] |
|