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Thu Jun 17 22:03:51 2010 |
James K | Misc | Hartmann sensor | SURF Log -- Day 2, Getting Started | For Thursday, June 17:
Today I attended a basic laser safety
training orientation, the second Introduction |
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Sat Jun 19 17:31:46 2010 |
James K | Misc | Hartmann sensor | SURF Log -- Day 3, Initial Image Analysis | |
7x |
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54
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Tue Jun 22 00:21:47 2010 |
James K | Misc | Hartmann sensor | Surf Log -- Day 4, Hartmann Spot Flickering Investigation | I started out
the day by taking some images from the CCD |
7x |
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Tue Jun 22 22:30:24 2010 |
James K | Misc | Hartmann sensor | SURF Log -- Day 5, more Hartmann image preliminary analysis | Today I spoke with Dr. Brooks and
got a rough outline of what my experiment
for the next few weeks will entail. I'll |
13x |
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Wed Jun 23 22:57:22 2010 |
James K | Misc | Hartmann sensor | SURF Log -- Day 6, Centroiding | So in addition to taking steps towards
starting to set stuff up for the experiment
in the lab, I spent a good deal of the day |
10x |
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58
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Fri Jun 25 00:11:13 2010 |
James K | Misc | Hartmann sensor | SURF Log -- Day 7, SLED Beam Characterization |
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65
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Thu Jul 15 20:06:37 2010 |
James K | Misc | Hartmann sensor | SURF Log: Thermally Induced Defocus Experiments | A quick write-up on recent work can be
found at: Google
Docs |
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Mon Jul 26 18:47:12 2010 |
James K | Misc | Hartmann sensor | Hex Grid Analysis Errors and Thermal Defocus Noise | My previous eLog details how the noise
in Hartmann Sensor defocus measurements appears
to vary with ambient light. New troubleshooting |
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Tue Dec 29 16:05:09 2009 |
Frank | Computing | DAQ | booting VME crates from fb1 | http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/AdhikariLab/514 |
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232
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Mon Jul 22 18:44:53 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Things to Buy | General | Need to Order Gloves | Small/Medium size gloves need to be ordered
in order to handle the optics carefully. |
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233
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Mon Jul 22 18:46:23 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Lab Infrastructure | | Laser-Lens-HWS Setup | Today, I set up a system consisting of
the 520 nm laser, a 2'' mirror and
two lenses of focal lengths f1 = 40 cm and |
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234
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Wed Jul 24 16:25:13 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Lab Infrastructure | Optics | Updated 2-lens setup | The previous 2-lens setup focused the beam
to a tight spot, however due to the divergence
angle of the laser beam, a significant amount |
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236
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Mon Jul 29 18:53:16 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Lab Infrastructure | Optics | Mounted Reflector and Heater | Since we set up the 2-lens system focusing
the laser beam to the CCD, the next step
was to mount the spherical reflector (31 |
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237
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Thu Aug 1 15:20:39 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Lab Infrastructure | Optics | Reflector Mount and DC Supply | Yesterday, we were able to take some data
using the 120 V DC power supply. The reflectors
cut at the focal point and radius were both |
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240
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Mon Aug 12 21:15:12 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Electronics | | Determining heater/reflector focus | I took images of the heat pattern projected
on a piece of paper produced by the semi-circle
reflector. I used 108V to drive current throught |
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241
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Fri Aug 16 17:05:14 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Electronics | | FLIR Images of new reflector focusing heat | We got 11 new semi-circle cut reflectors
of radius ~3.6 cm. I glued a screw to the
back of one reflector using the same epoxy |
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110
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Thu Feb 24 10:23:31 2011 |
Christopher Guido | Laser | Laser | LTG initial noise | Cheryl Vorvick, Chris Guido, Phil Willems
Attached is a PDF with some initial
noise testing. There are 5 spectrum plots |
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215
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Tue Jul 10 17:49:13 2018 |
Aria Chaderjian | Laser | General | July 10, 2018 | Went down to the lab and showed Rana the
setup. He's fine with me being down there
as long as I let someone know. He also recommended |
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216
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Thu Jul 12 18:48:21 2018 |
Aria Chaderjian | Laser | General | July 12, 2018 | The beam reflecting off the test mirror
was clipping the lens between gold mirror
and test mirror, so I reconfigured some of |
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Fri Jul 13 16:42:50 2018 |
Aria Chaderjian | Laser | General | July 13, 2018 | The table is set up. The HWS and SLED were
moved slightly, and a minimal angle between
the test mirror and HWS was achieved. |
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218
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Mon Jul 23 10:04:19 2018 |
Aria Chaderjian | Laser | General | July 20, 2018 | With Jon's help, I changed the setup
to include a mode-matching telescope built
from the f=60mm (1 inch diameter) lens and |
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219
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Tue Jul 24 16:52:44 2018 |
Aria Chaderjian | Laser | General | July 23, 2018 and July 24, 2018 | Attached the grid array of the HWS.
Applied voltage (5V, 7V, 9.9V,
14V) to the heater pad and took measurements |
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220
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Fri Aug 3 15:46:12 2018 |
Aria Chaderjian | Laser | General | August 3, 2018 | To the best of my ability, calculated the
magnification of the plane of the test optic
relative to the HWS (2.3) and input this |
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157
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Tue Jun 5 17:25:43 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/5/12 Daily Summary | - Had a meeting to talk about the basics
of LIGO (esp. TCS) and discuss the project
- Created COMSOL model for the test |
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158
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Wed Jun 6 16:54:09 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/6/12 Daily Summary | - Got access to and started working with
SIS on Rigel1
- Fixed SVN issues |
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160
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Thu Jun 7 16:50:16 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/7/12 Daily Summary | - Created a COMSOL model with thermal deformations
- Added non-symmetrical heating to
cause astigmatism |
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162
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Fri Jun 8 16:36:47 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/8/12 Daily Summary | - Tried to fix COMSOL error using the (ts)
module, ended up emailing support as the
issue is new in 4.3 |
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164
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Mon Jun 11 17:11:01 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/11/12 Daily Summary | - Fixed the (ts) model, got strange results
that indicate that the antisymmetric heating
mode is much more prominent than previously |
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166
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Wed Jun 13 16:36:14 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/12 and 6/13 Daily Summary | - Realized that the strange deformations
that we were seeing only occur on the face
nearest the ring heater, and not on the face |
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168
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Thu Jun 14 16:51:03 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/14/12 Daily Summary | - Plugged the output of the model with
uniform heating into SIS using both modification
of the radius of curvature, and direct importation |
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169
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Mon Jun 18 16:30:36 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/18/12 Daily Summary | - Verified that the SIS output does match
satisfy the equations for Gaussian beam propagation
- Investigated how changing the amount |
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171
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Tue Jun 19 16:24:52 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/19/12 Daily Summary | - Did more modeling for different levels
of heating and different mesh densities for
the SIS input. |
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Wed Jun 20 16:44:58 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/20/12 Daily Summary | - Attended a lot of meetings (Safety, LIGO
Orientation)
- Finished draft of week 3 report |
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Thu Jun 21 16:54:45 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/21/12 Daily Summary | - Paper edits and more data generation
for the paper (lower resolution grid data)
- Attended a talk on LIGO |
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177
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Wed Jun 27 16:43:56 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/27/12 Daily Summary | Plan for building the model
- Find the fields that would be incident
on the beam splitter from each arm (This |
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178
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Thu Jun 28 16:27:37 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/28/12 Daily Summary | - Finished the MatLab code that both combines
two fields and simulates the adjustment of
the beamsplitter to minimize the power out |
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180
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Mon Jul 9 16:54:17 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 7/9/12 Summary | Made a COMSOL model that can include CO2
laser heating, self heating, and ring heating
Figured out how to run SIS out of |
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142
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Mon Apr 25 16:28:27 2011 |
Aidan, Joe | Computing | Network architecture | Fixed problem network drive fb1:/cvs on Ubuntu & CentOS machines | With Joe's help we fixed the failure of
princess_sparkle to mount the
fb1:/cvs directory when relying |
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Wed Aug 4 09:57:38 2010 |
Aidan, James | Computing | Hartmann sensor | RMS measurements with Hartmann sensor | [INCOMPLETE
ENTRY]
We set up the Hartmann sensor and |
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1
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Fri Nov 6 20:09:47 2009 |
Aidan | Laser | Laser | Test | Does this work? |
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3
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Mon Dec 28 14:48:29 2009 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | VME crate has a "new" CPU - needs to be configured | I installed a recycled VME crate in the
electronics rack. It currently has a Baja
4700E CPU card in it - and this needs to |
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5
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Tue Dec 29 17:50:57 2009 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | VME crate has proper boot settings | We fixed the start-up settings on the VME
crate to look for a TCS startup file on fb0.
The settings on the Baja 4700 are now: |
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6
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Fri Jan 29 10:02:15 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | New DAQ ordered | On the advice of Ben Abbott, I've
ordered the Diamond Systems Athena II computer
w/DAQ, as well as an I/O board, solid state |
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7
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Thu Feb 4 14:05:59 2010 |
Aidan | Electronics | Ring Heater | Ring heater transfer function measurement 240mHz-5Hz | I've been trying to measure the ring heater
transfer function (current to emitted power)
by sweeping the supply voltage and measuring |
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8
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Thu Feb 4 15:26:37 2010 |
Aidan | Electronics | Ring Heater | Ring heater transfer function measurement 240mHz-5Hz |
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9
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Thu Feb 4 19:45:56 2010 |
Aidan | Misc | Ring Heater | Ring heater transfer function - increasing collection area | I mounted the thinner Aluminium Watlow
heater inside a 14" long, 1" inner
diameter cylinder. The inner surface was |
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12
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Mon Feb 8 17:44:38 2010 |
Aidan | Electronics | Pre-amplifier | replace Pot with fixed Resistor |
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13
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Thu Feb 11 18:04:08 2010 |
Aidan | Laser | Ring Heater | Ring heater time constant | I've been looking to see what the time
constant of the ring heater is. The attached
plot shows the voltage measured by the photodiode |
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14
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Thu Feb 11 21:46:23 2010 |
Aidan | Electronics | Ring Heater | Ring heater time constant measurement - start time | After leaving the ring heater off for several
hours I turned on a 40V, 0.2A supply at a
gps time of 949 988 700 |
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Fri Feb 12 11:39:28 2010 |
Aidan | Electronics | Ring Heater | Ring heater transfer function | I applied a step function to the silver
WATLOW heater and measured the response with
the photodiode. The power spectrum of the |
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