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Fri Dec 16 10:41:33 2016 |
Aidan | Computing | Network architecture | Correct network settings for Ubuntu 14 in /etc/network/interfaces | Spelt out in a searchable fashion:
auto <portname>
iface <portname> inet |
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Tue Nov 14 19:08:00 2017 |
Jon Richardson | Computing | Network architecture | Rsync Server for Automatic LDAS Backups | I implemented an access point for LDAS
to pull data from the TCS lab EPICS frame
archive (fb4:/frames) via rsync. The setup |
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Fri Nov 6 20:09:47 2009 |
Aidan | Laser | Laser | Test | Does this work? |
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Thu Dec 10 22:23:47 2009 |
Not Aidan | Laser | Laser | Test | Yes.
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Tue Aug 17 16:31:55 2010 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Laser | Bought a laser diode from Thorlabs for HWS | http://www.thorlabs.com/thorProduct.cfm?partNumber=CPS180
I bought this laser diode from Thorlabs
today to try the current modulation trick |
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Mon Aug 23 08:43:16 2010 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Laser | Bought a laser diode from Thorlabs for HWS | It arrived on Friday.
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Fri Feb 18 14:53:50 2011 |
Phil | Laser | Laser | LTG laser delivering specified power | I got the LTG CO2 laser to deliver 50.02W
as measured by the Thorlabs 200W power head
today. This required running the Glassman |
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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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Thu May 26 11:56:46 2011 |
Aidan | Electronics | Laser | Green Laser Pointer beam profile | This measurement was made with the Thorlabs
DCC1545M-GL camera with an RG850 3mm long-pass
filter over the CCD. |
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Thu Feb 8 15:42:13 2018 |
Aidan | Laser | Laser | Low power CO2 laser [400mW] beam size measurement | I did a beam size/beam propagation measurement
of the low power CO2 laser (Access Laser
L3, SN:154507-154935) |
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Tue Nov 29 09:13:49 2011 |
rana | Misc | LIGO 3G | Switching from CO2 to shorter wavelength solid state laser | Around a year ago, Phil and I discussed
the possibility of using an OPO to possibly
generate our own laser beam at ~2 microns |
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Thu Jun 7 00:23:11 2012 |
Aditi Mittal | Misc | LIGO 3G | Summary June 5 and June 6, 2012 | June 5
-Discussed the actual project outline
-Installed Comsol on the system |
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Thu Jun 7 23:24:56 2012 |
Aditi Mittal | Misc | LIGO 3G | Summary June 7, 2012 | -Created a COMSOL model for variation of
temperature in two mass system.
-Used the above model for cryogenic |
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Fri Jun 8 23:51:13 2012 |
Aditi Mittal | Misc | LIGO 3G | Summary June 8, 2012 | -Created a COMSOL model for cryogenically
shielded test mass with compensation plate.
-Analyzed the behavior of the model |
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Mon Jun 11 20:53:31 2012 |
Aditi Mittal | Misc | LIGO 3G | Summary June 11, 2012 | -Continued with the same cryogenic
model created and varied the length of outer
shield and studied the temperature variation |
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Thu Jun 14 05:37:30 2012 |
Aditi Mittal | Misc | LIGO 3G | Summary June 13, 2012 | -Derived formula for manual calculation
of temperature due to total influx.
-Compared the results by COMSOL and |
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Mon Jun 18 23:42:39 2012 |
Aditi Mittal | Misc | LIGO 3G | Cryogenic Shielding | -Read about blue team design for
maximum power budget.
-Read third generation talks to get |
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Thu Jun 21 11:16:27 2012 |
Aditi Mittal | Misc | LIGO 3G | Summary June 19 and 20, 2012 | -Attented LIGO orientation meeting
and safety session.
-Prepared 3 week report |
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Thu Jun 21 18:35:44 2012 |
Aditi Mittal | Misc | LIGO 3G | Summary June 21, 2012 | -Updated 3 week progress report with
new additions and deletions.
-Attended LIGO lecture which was |
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Tue Jun 26 17:55:44 2012 |
Aditi Mittal | Misc | LIGO 3G | Summary June 26, 2012 | - Discussed the further project with Dr.
Brooks.
-Tried to derive formula for the |
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Fri Jun 29 15:51:24 2012 |
Aditi Mittal | Misc | LIGO 3G | Summary June 28 and 29, 2012 | -Discussed the project outline for
next 6 weeks.
-made a write up for the tasks. (attached) |
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Mon Apr 12 08:55:37 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | EDT frame grabber is here | The EDT PCIe4 DV C-Link frame grabber
arrived this morning. There is a CD of drivers
and software with it that I'll back up to |
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Mon Apr 12 17:25:01 2010 |
Aidan | Electronics | Hartmann sensor | Fiber-Camera Link demonstration | I installed the EDT PCIe4 DV C-Link
frame grabber in a spare Windows XP PC and
connected the Dalsa 1M60 camera directly |
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Thu Apr 15 01:47:47 2010 |
Won Kim | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Notes on installing EDT PCIe4 DV frame grabber | * EDT PCIe4 DV frame grabber: installation
notes for linux system
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Tue Apr 20 18:05:24 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Images off the Dalsa Camera in CentOS | I installed CentOS on the machine
with the EDT frame-grabber. I then installed
the frame-grabber software from the CD. |
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Thu Apr 22 08:20:51 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Installed MATLAB and Windows XP Virtualization on Hartmann machine | I installed a Windows XP virtualization
on the Hartmann machine. It can be accessed
from the desktop, or by running |
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Tue May 4 09:18:15 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Added aliases and icons for EPICS commands and dataviewer etc. to hartmann | I updated the .bashrc file in controls@hartmann
to include aliases for the ezca EPICS commands
and a few others. Details shown below: |
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Tue May 4 10:30:07 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | EPICS and MEDM screen for Hartmann sensor | I added the Dalsa 1M60 temperature measurements
to EPICS. The break down is as follows:
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Tue May 4 13:35:13 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Hartmann temperature channels in frame builder | I've added the digitizer and sensor
board temperature readings from the HWS to
the frames. This was done in the following |
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Wed May 5 09:04:01 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Added /home/controls/scripts/modules directory to PYTHONPATH on hartmann | I added the following line to ~/.bashrc
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Wed May 5 18:45:51 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Python code to interface the Dalsa1M60 and export the temperature to EPICS | Python script
I wrote a Python script, ~/scripts/dalsa_to_epics.py |
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Thu May 6 10:34:38 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | EPICS and MEDM screen for Hartmann sensor - part 2 | I added the camera parameters to EPICS
and the MEDM screen. These are available
as channels now in EPICS and eventually there |
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Thu May 6 12:32:11 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | dalsa_to_epics Python script crashed ... | Here's the error:
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Thu May 6 21:32:26 2010 |
Won Kim | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Peak detection and centroiding code |
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Tue May 11 10:32:00 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Peak detection and centroiding code - review | This looks really efficient! However, I
think there's a systematic error in the calculation.
I tested it on some simulated data and it |
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Thu May 13 16:54:46 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Running MATLAB programs in C on CentOS - only use R2008b for less hassle | After much effort trying to get a
MATLAB routine to compile in C I discovered
the following pieces of information. |
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Thu May 20 08:20:54 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Centroiding algorithm and code to generate simulated data | Here's a copy of an email I distributed
today that describes the centroid and simulation
code I wrote. |
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Mon May 24 19:17:32 2010 |
Aidan | Laser | Hartmann sensor | Replaced Brass Plate with Invar Hartmann Plate | I just replaced the brass Hartmann plate
with the Invar one. The camera was off during
the process but has been turned on again. |
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Wed May 26 14:58:04 2010 |
Aidan | Misc | Hartmann sensor | Hartmann sensor cooling fins added | 14:55 - Mindy stopped by with the
copper heater spreaders and the cooling fins
for the Hartmann sensor. We've set them all |
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Thu May 27 08:25:37 2010 |
Aidan | Electronics | Hartmann sensor | Hartmann sensor cooling fins added - base piece removed | 8:10AM - I removed the base plate
from the Hartmann sensor. I want to know
what steady-state temperature the HWS achieves |
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Thu May 27 13:18:51 2010 |
Aidan | Electronics | Hartmann sensor | Removed Cooling fins from Hartmann sensor | I removed the cooling fins from the Hartmann
sensor to see what steady-state temperature
it reached without any passive cooling elements. |
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Thu May 27 15:42:06 2010 |
Aidan | Electronics | Hartmann sensor | Hartmann sensor with just the base piece | I switched in just the base piece of the
Hartmann sensor. The cooling fins are removed.
I bolted the camera securely to the base |
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Thu May 27 17:49:02 2010 |
Aidan | Electronics | Hartmann sensor | Hartmann sensor cooling fins added - base piece added | Back to Configuration 1 again - this
time the fins were bolted very securely to
the camera. |
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Tue Jun 15 16:30:10 2010 |
Peter Veitch | Misc | Hartmann sensor | Spot displacement maps - temperate sensitivity tests | Results of initial measurement of temperature
sensitivity of Hartmann sensor
"Cold" images were taken |
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Wed Jun 16 11:47:11 2010 |
Aidan | Misc | Hartmann sensor | Spot displacement maps - temperate sensitivity tests - PRISM | I think that the second plot is just showing
PRISM and converting it to its radial components.
This is due to the fact that the sign of |
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Thu Jun 17 07:40:07 2010 |
James K | Misc | Hartmann sensor | SURF Log -- Day 1, Getting Started | For Wednesday, June 16: |
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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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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 |