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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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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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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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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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190
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Wed Oct 11 20:19:06 2017 |
Jon Richardson | Lab Infrastructure | Hartmann sensor | Initial Characterization of the SRM Adaptive Wavefront Control | Today I made the first characterization
measurements of the mocked-up adaptive wavefront
control system planned for the signal recycling |
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193
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Mon Oct 23 19:02:42 2017 |
Jon Richardson | Laser | Hartmann sensor | Mitigated Heating Beam Losses | There were known to be huge (65%) heating
beam power losses on the SRM AWC table, somewhere
between the CO2 laser and the test optic. |
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200
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Mon Oct 30 17:13:32 2017 |
Jon Richardson | Laser | Hartmann sensor | Write-Up of CO2 Projector Measurements | For archive purposes, attached is a write-up
of all the HWS measurements I've made
to date for the SRM CO2 projector mock-up. |
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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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224
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Tue Dec 4 16:57:08 2018 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Updated GIT version of HWS code | I changed the HWS code to the new git.ligo
HWS version.
Object files are in ~/hws
scripts |
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66
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Tue Jul 20 15:45:51 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | General | Add fixed IP addresses to local machines in TCS lab | http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/AdhikariLab/859 |
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67
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Tue Jul 20 18:13:06 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | General | Added TCS channels to frame builder | http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/AdhikariLab/860
contents of tcs_daq: /target/TCS_westbridge.db |
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Thu Jul 22 11:02:59 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | General | Restarted hartmann machine | hartmann had started responding
to requests to log-in with the a request
to change the password. Attempts to change |
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91
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Tue Aug 17 22:34:14 2010 |
rana | Misc | General | ETM temperature after a 1W step | This attachment is a Shockwave Flash animation
of the iLIGO ETM getting a 1 W beam with
a 3.5 cm radius getting fully absorbed onto |
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102
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Tue Nov 30 11:01:19 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | General | New workstation added in TCS Lab. New Static IP | I added a workstation at 10.0.1.26 in the
TCS lab. |
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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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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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204
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Thu Jan 18 10:09:50 2018 |
Jon Richardson | Laser | General | RIN Measurement of 400 mW CO2 Laser in Progress | The 400 mW CO2 laser on the Hartmann table
is currently configured for a measurement
of its relative intensity noise. It is aligned |
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205
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Mon Jan 22 10:39:32 2018 |
Jon Richardson | Laser | General | RIN Measurement of 400 mW CO2 Laser in Progress | Attached for reference is the RIN measurement
from the initial data.
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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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217
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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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225
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Fri Feb 8 10:48:33 2019 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | General | Water damage repair work in the TCS Lab | Caltech Facilities has determined that
the walls in the SE corner of the TCS Lab
in West Bridge were water damaged during |
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226
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Fri Apr 12 17:40:58 2019 |
aaron | Lab Infrastructure | General | Measurements for Bake Station | I drew up one way we could set up the three
available bake ovens in the TCS lab on the
single oil pump. |
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227
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Mon Apr 15 08:12:58 2019 |
aaron | Lab Infrastructure | General | Measurements for Bake Station | My preference is to have tubes back towards
the wall where possible. We might be able
to drill a large diameter hole in the table |
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230
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Tue Jun 18 19:05:16 2019 |
Jon | Lab Infrastructure | General | Large optical table cleared and set up for point absorbers | Aidan and I continued the lab clean-up
today. There's still more to do, but
we did fully clear the large optical table |
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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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235
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Thu Jul 25 09:13:36 2019 |
Jon | Things to Buy | General | Need to Order Gloves | New gloves are ordered for the TCS and
QIL labs. They arrive tomorrow (Friday).
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242
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Tue Sep 3 10:49:57 2019 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | General | Exhaust duct added for new bake area in TCS lab | Facilities came in on Friday and teed off
a new duct to provide exhaust for the proposed
new vacuum bake area in the TCS Lab. Photos |
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244
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Tue Jun 15 08:47:27 2021 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | General | Cleaned up HWS table in preparation for lab move | I cleaned up the HWS table in preparation
for replacement with the 4x10 table. We still
need to move the cabinet and get the enclosure |
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Wed Apr 21 06:49:51 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Frame Grabber | Installing CentOS 5.3 and the EDT frame-grabber - Part 1 | Yesterday, I installed CentOS 5.3 on the
Gateway GT5482 machine that housed the EDT
frame-grabber. |
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Thu Apr 22 01:48:33 2010 |
Won Kim | Computing | Frame Grabber | from the manual install.pdf |
Regarding the installation of EDT
software, I overlooked a note from the install.pdf |
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Thu Apr 22 08:22:18 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Frame Grabber | from the manual install.pdf |
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26
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Mon May 3 17:43:48 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Frame Grabber | Successful image capture with EDT frame grabber | I noticed that when i ran /opt/EDTpdv/camconfig
and selected camera 331, which appeared to |
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Mon May 17 19:41:13 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Frame Grabber | C code that calls MATLAB engine and centroiding algorithms | This is an amended version of simple_take.c.
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103
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Tue Nov 30 11:03:19 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Frame Grabber | EDT frame grabber works under Ubuntu | The new machine in the TCS lab is running
Ubuntu. I installed the frame-grabber into
it and, after loading the configuration file |
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196
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Wed Oct 25 15:34:14 2017 |
Jon Richardson | Computing | Frame Grabber | Mako CCD Camera Code is Fixed | I fixed a bug in how the raw Mako CCD camera
images are being read into memory. The bmp
files turn out to have a block memory layout |
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245
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Mon Jul 26 16:23:03 2021 |
Aidan | Misc | Flood | Lab flooded from broken pipe leading to sump room |
Koji: QIL/TCS entrance flooding. |
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246
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Tue Jul 27 08:39:33 2021 |
Aidan | Misc | Flood | Tuesday (27-Jul) morning check - lab looks okay | I checked the lab this morning. It was
dry and there wall was in the same state
as yesterday. |
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247
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Thu Aug 12 16:13:44 2021 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | Flood | Carpentry shop removed wet plaster sections from the wall - it's drying for a few days | The carpentry shop removed wet plaster
sections from the wall following the flood
(process was gentle scraping of wet plaster |
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248
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Wed Aug 25 11:28:56 2021 |
Aidan | Misc | Flood | Lab flooded from broken pipe leading to sump room | 11:29AM - Lab has flooded again this morning.
I'm calling PMA. Looks to be the same
issue as before. |
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Thu Aug 26 09:00:39 2021 |
Aidan | Misc | Flood | Lab flooded from broken pipe leading to sump room | Some photos of water and clean-up.
Summary: I came into the lab around
11:30AM and found water on the floor in the |
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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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