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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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121
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Tue Mar 8 11:30:26 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Hartmann sensor code changes and NTP server | I've made the following changes to the
Hartmann sensor code and to the machine running
the HWS. |
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122
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Tue Mar 8 18:28:14 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | General | TO DO notes |
Write a Wiki page that describes
how to add channels to the Athena Box
Write a Wiki page that describes how |
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123
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Tue Mar 8 18:48:00 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | HWS code is running and recording centroids | The Hartmann sensor is running continuously
and is now recording data to file. The formatting
has changed slightly with the data now stored |
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124
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Tue Mar 8 18:57:50 2011 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Delivery Note | Fiber optics cable and Bosch Fastener | |
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126
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Fri Mar 11 13:11:33 2011 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | Delivery Note | More Bosch connectors have arrived | See attached delivery note ... |
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127
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Wed Mar 16 15:05:47 2011 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | Delivery Note | More Bosch equipment has arrived | 30mm T-junctions, grounding straps and
T-slot covers have arrived
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128
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Mon Mar 28 13:00:50 2011 |
Aidan | Laser | Hartmann sensor | To do: Check the polarization from the SLED | |
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129
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Wed Mar 30 12:55:54 2011 |
Aidan | Laser | Hartmann sensor | Prism modulation experiment | I've set up a quick experiment to modulate
the angle of the Hartmann sensor probe beam
at 10mHz and to monitor the measured prism. |
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130
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Thu Mar 31 11:27:02 2011 |
Aidan | Laser | Hartmann sensor | Prism modulation experiment | I changed the drive amplitude on the function
generator to 0.05Vpp and have measured the
angle of deflection by bouncing a laser off |
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132
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Fri Apr 1 09:51:45 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Prism measurement | I analyzed the results from the prism
experiment. The time series and spectra of
the prism are attached. |
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133
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Mon Apr 4 13:13:23 2011 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Delivery Note | Newfocus 5102 mirrors and Firewire extension cable have arrived | See attached delivery note ... |
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134
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Tue Apr 12 22:30:59 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | Installed the thermistor on the Hartmann plate/created MEDM ADC Input screen | I restarted the Athena box and created
an MEDM screen that shows the 8 differential
input voltages next to their corresponding |
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135
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Tue Apr 12 22:46:27 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | Added temperature sensor channels to the frame builder and restarted fb1 | Added the following to the frame builder
in /cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C4HWS.ini
and restarted daqd as per instructions |
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136
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Sun Apr 17 14:59:36 2011 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Delivery Note | L-Com patch panel, Newport lenses, Thorlabs fibers delivery notes | |
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137
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Sun Apr 17 21:55:51 2011 |
Aidan | Laser | Hartmann sensor | Hartmann sensor prism/displacement test | I've set up an experiment to test the HWS
intensity distribution displacement measurement
code. Basically the beam from a SLED is just |
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138
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Mon Apr 18 15:03:49 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | Athena DAC channels hooked up to BNC patch panel | I added the four Athena DAC channels
to the second BNC patch panel in the rack.
At the moment there are only two EPICS channels |
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139
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Mon Apr 18 15:06:53 2011 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Hartmann sensor | Ordered 2" optics from Newport | Given that the HWS requires several
2" optics to handle the big beam size,
I've ordered the following items from Newport: |
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140
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Fri Apr 22 19:51:37 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | pyepics installed on princess_sparkle | I installed the pyepics
package on princess_sparkle since this is
much easier under Ubuntu than under CentOS. |
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141
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Sun Apr 24 18:31:18 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | Network architecture | Added hosts and network drives on TCS machines | Under
edit ...
I added the names of the network |
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143
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Thu Apr 28 22:48:47 2011 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | Electronics | BNC Cables from HWS table to rack | I labelled and strung 8 of the 16
custom 40' BNC cables from L-Com between
the HWS table and the BNC feed-through on |
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145
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Wed May 11 09:07:03 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Changed ownership of /opt/EDTpdv | I changed the ownership of /opt/EDTpdv
to controls with the command:
controls@princess_sparkle:/opt/EDTpdv$ |
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146
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Wed May 11 18:38:47 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | test_HS binary | From Won: (the zip file is also on
the SVN /users/won/compiled_code/test_HS.zip)
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147
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Wed May 11 18:44:54 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Matlab Compiler and Matlab Compiler Runtime | Installing MCR
I located the MCRInstaller on our
distribution of MATLAB on the Ubuntu machine |
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148
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Tue May 17 16:08:02 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Write speed of the frame grabber to file | The attached file shows the output
of the command. The maximum average frame
rate is 57.2Hz when the nominal frame rate |
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149
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Wed May 18 18:52:12 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Test of position modulation algorithm | I measured the prism and displacement
of the Gaussian beam on the Hartmann sensor.
The beam pointing was modulated at 10mHz |
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150
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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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151
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Mon May 30 10:53:00 2011 |
Aidan | Laser | Hartmann sensor | Defocus vs time | I've had the output from a fiber
projected about 400mm onto the Hartmann sensor
for around 5 days now. (The divergence angle |
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152
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Mon May 30 20:11:27 2011 |
Aidan | Laser | Hartmann sensor | Hartmann sensor lever arm calibration | I ran through the procedure to calibrate
the lever arm of the Hartmann sensor. The
beam from a 632.8nm HeNe laser was expanded |
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153
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Thu Sep 1 15:51:38 2011 |
Aidan | Laser | Ordering | Access Lasy50 50W laser arrived. | The 50W Access Laser is now in the
lab. We need to wire up the interlock to
the laser, plumb the chiller lines to the |
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154
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Fri Sep 2 14:41:48 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | QFLD-950-3S long term test finished | I ran a test of the HWS with the QFLD-950-3S
for 5 days. The test was terminated as we
need to disconnect all the cabling and tidy |
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155
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Fri Sep 2 21:41:01 2011 |
Aidan | Electronics | Hartmann sensor | Restarting long term test of QFLD-950-3S | 9:40PM PDT - I've just restarted the long
term measurement of the Hartmann sensor noise
with the QFLD-950-3S. |
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182
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Thu Dec 15 14:02:01 2016 |
Aidan | Computing | Network architecture | Correct network settings for Ubuntu 14 in /etc/network/interfaces | These settings work to get a computer onto
the TCS/ATF network. |
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183
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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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184
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Wed Apr 26 15:29:25 2017 |
Aidan | Electronics | Hartmann sensor | Long term test of fiber launcher | I've started a long-term measurement
of the HWS fiber-launcher. I'm interested
in seeing how stable the output is. The HWS |
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185
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Wed May 24 09:58:17 2017 |
Aidan | Electronics | Electronics | Temperature sensor batteries swapped in TCS Lab | I noticed that the TCS lab temperature
sensor batteries died. Apparently they died
two days ago. I swapped in some new batteries |
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186
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Mon Jun 5 16:41:59 2017 |
Aidan | Laser | Hartmann sensor | HWS long term measurement results. | The data from the long-term measurement
of the HWS is presented here. The beam envelope
moves by, at most, about 0.3 pixels, or around |
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191
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Fri Oct 13 15:52:41 2017 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | General | Broadband mirror BB2-E03 reflectivity at 532nm | I measured the reflectivity of a possible
HWS replacement mirror at 532nm. Thorlabs
BB2-EO3 |
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197
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Thu Oct 26 10:21:28 2017 |
Aidan | Computing | | Beam size EPICS channels added to TCS-WS softIoc | I've added a softIoc to TCS-WS to capture
the beam size from the MAKO camera. The IOC
is run using ... |
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198
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Thu Oct 26 10:31:31 2017 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | Beam size EPICS channels added to TCS-WS softIoc | These are also being written to frames
on FB4.
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199
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Thu Oct 26 10:45:44 2017 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | Beam size EPICS channels added to TCS-WS softIoc | See attached photo for how data is written
to frames ...
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201
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Tue Oct 31 14:37:49 2017 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | New Acromag units for AWC experiments - XT1221 ans XT1541 | I set up an Acromag DAC today with the
fixed IP address 10.0.1.56. Last Friday Andrew
and Antonio set up an ADC unit with fixed |
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202
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Thu Nov 9 14:18:56 2017 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | FB4 ip address has changed | We've had trouble logging into FB4.
I access the computer directly in the AWC
lab and found that the IP address had changed |
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206
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Mon Feb 5 15:08:06 2018 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | Frame builder clock is totally wrong | The framebuilder on FB4 thinks the current
time is 26-Jan-2018 6:18AM UTC. The date
command on FB4 yields the correct date and |
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207
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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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208
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Fri May 11 12:32:21 2018 |
Aidan | Laser | Hartmann sensor | HWS green LED fiber launcher | [Aidan, Marie]
We tested the output of the fiber
launcher D1800125-v3. We were using a 6mm |
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209
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Fri May 11 16:18:47 2018 |
Aidan | Laser | Hartmann sensor | HWS green LED fiber launcher | And here's the output of the fiber
launcher when I fixed it at 313mm from the
camera, attached an iris to the front and |
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210
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Wed May 16 16:47:29 2018 |
Aidan | Laser | Hartmann sensor | HWS green LED fiber launcher - D1800125-v5_SN01 | Here is the output from D1800125-v5_SN01.
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211
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Fri May 18 16:32:37 2018 |
Aidan | Laser | Hartmann sensor | HWS green LED fiber launcher - D1800125-v5_SN01 | Title was wrong - this is actually config
[12,2,4,125]
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214
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Thu Jun 21 17:12:38 2018 |
Aidan | Laser | Hartmann sensor | Two inch PBS from Edmund Optics - effect on ETM HWS transmission | I'm considering the 86-711 2"
532nm PBS from Edmund Optics for the ETM
HWS at the sites. |
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221
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Thu Aug 16 11:52:27 2018 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | Added AWC thermocouple reader back to acromag1 |
Thermcouple reader is plugged into
an Acromag ADC (10.0.1.55)
acromag1
is now reading this in:
~/modbus/iocBoot/iocTest/test_acromag.cmd |
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