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12588   Fri Oct 28 19:13:57 2016 ranaUpdateGeneralPR gain

I don't think the loss of 25 ppm is outrageous. Its just surprisingly good. The SIS model predicted numbers more like 1 ppm / mirror taking into account just the phase map and not the coating defects.

However, we should take into account the lossed in the DRMI to be more accurate: AR coating reflectivities, scatter loss on those surfaces, as well as possible clipping around BS or some other optics.

https://chat.ligo.org/ligo/channels/40m

12593   Thu Nov 3 08:07:52 2016 SteveUpdateGeneralpower glitch

Building:         Campus Wide

Date:             Thursday 11/03/16 at Approx. 6:20 a.m.

Notification:     Unplanned City Wide Power Glitch Affecting Campus

*This is to notify you that the Caltech Campus experienced a campus wide power glitch at approx. 6:20 a.m. this morning.

The city was contacted and they do not expect any further interruptions related to this event.

The vacuum was not effected. ITM sus damping restored. IFO room air conditions on.

PSL Innolight and ETMY Lightwave lasers turned on

Attachment 1: powerGlitch.png
12594   Thu Nov 3 11:33:24 2016 gautamUpdateGeneralpower glitch - recovery

I did the following:

• Hard reboots for fb, megatron, and all the frontends, in that order
• Checked time on all FEs, ran sudo ntpdate -b -s -u pool.ntp.org where necessary
• Restarted all realtime models
• Restarted monit on all FEs
• Reset Marconi to nominal settings, fCarrier=11.066209MHz, +13dBm amplitude
• In the control room, restarted the projector and set up the usual StripTool traces
• Realigned PMC
• Slow machines did not need any touchups - interestingly, ITMX did not get stuck during this power glitch!

There was a regular beat coming from the speakers. After muting all the channels on the mixer and pulling the 3.5mm cable out, the sound persisted. It now looks like the mixer is broken

12596   Thu Nov 3 12:40:10 2016 gautamUpdateGeneral projector light bulb is out

The projector failed just now with a pretty loud 'pop' sound - I've never been present when the lamp goes out, so I don't know if this is usual. I have left the power cable unplugged for now...

Replacement is ordered Nov 4

12614   Mon Nov 14 19:15:57 2016 JohannesUpdateGeneralAchievable armloss measurement accuracy

Looking back at elog 12528, the uncertainty in the armloss number from the individual quantities in the equation for $\mathcal{L}$ can be written as:

$\delta\mathcal{L}^2=\left(\frac{T_1(1-\frac{P_L}{P_M}-2T_1)}{4\gamma}\right)^2\left(\frac{\delta T_1}{T_1}\right)^2+T_2^2\left(\frac{\delta T_2}{T_2}\right)^2+\left(\frac{T_1(1-\frac{P_L}{P_M}-T_1)}{4\gamma}\right)^2\left(\frac{\delta\gamma}{\gamma}\right )^2+\left(\frac{T_1}{4\gamma}\right )^2\left[\left(\frac{\delta P_L}{P_L}\right )^2+\left(\frac{P_L}{P_M} \right )^2\left(\frac{\delta P_M}{P_M}\right )^2\right ]$

Making some generous assumption about the individual uncertainties and filling in typical values we get in our measurements, results in the following uncertainty budget:

$\delta\mathcal{L}^2\approx\left(12\,\mathrm{ppm}\right)^2\left(\frac{\delta T_1/T_1}{5\%}\right)^2+(0.7\,\mathrm{ppm})^2\left(\frac{\delta T_2/T_2}{5\%}\right)^2+\left(2\,\mathrm{ppm}\right)^2\left(\frac{\delta\gamma/\gamma}{1\%}\right )^2+\left(140\,\mathrm{ppm}\right )^2\left(\frac{\delta P/P}{2.5\%}\right )^2$

In my recent round of measurements I had a 2.5% uncertainty in the ASDC reading, which completely dominates the armloss assessment.

The most recent numbers are 57 ppm for the YARM and 21 ppm for the XARM, but both with an uncertainty of near 150 ppm, so while these numbers fit well with Gautam's estimate of the average armloss via PRG, it's not really a confirmation.

I set the whitening gain in ASDC to 24 dB and ran LSC offsets, and now I'm getting a relative uncertainty in measured reflected power of .22%, which would be sufficient for ~25ppm accuracy according to the above formula. I'm going to start a series of measurements tonight when I leave, should be done in ~2 hours (10 pm) the latest.

If anybody wants to do some night work: I misaligned ITMY by a lot to get its reflection off ASDC. Approximate values are saved as a restore point. Also the whitening gain on ASDC will have to be rolled back (was at 0dB) and LSC offsets adjusted.

12616   Tue Nov 15 19:22:17 2016 gautamUpdateGeneralhousekeeping

PRM and SRM sat. boxes have been switched for some time now - but the PRM sat. box has one channel with a different transimpedance gain, and the damping loops for the PRM and SRM were not systematically adjusted to take this into account (I just tweaked the gain for the PRM and SRM side damping loops till the optic damped). Since both sat. boxes are nominally functioning now, I saw no reason to maintain this switched configuration so I swapped the boxes back, and restored the damping settings to their values from March 29 2016, well before either of this summer's vents. In addition, I want to collect some data to analyze the sat. box noise performance so I am leaving the SRM sat. box connected to the DAQ, but with the tester box connected to where the vacuum feedthroughs would normally go (so SRM has no actuation right now). I will collect a few hours of data and revert later tonight for locking activities....

12618   Tue Nov 15 20:35:19 2016 JohannesUpdateGeneralAchievable armloss measurement accuracy

I had a mistake in my script that reported the wrong error after averaging several datapoints, and because I hadn't looked at the individual numbers I didn't catch it so far. Thanks to Gautam it is no more.

The updated numbers are (with fresh, more trustworthy data):

XARM: 21 +/ 35 ppm
YARM: 69 +/- 45 ppm

This looks much better. I'm planning to take more data with the AS110 PD rather than AS55 when I get the chance, increase the averaging time, and also sigma filter the datapoints. That should get us to a good spot and cut down the uncertainty even further.

12621   Wed Nov 16 17:07:12 2016 AshleyUpdateGeneralPreliminary Microphone Data

I am currently looking at the acoustic noise around both arms to see if there are any frequencies from machinery around the lab that stand out and to see what we can remove/change.

• Attachment 1 is a picture of the microphone and suspension system (bungee cords) that hangs from the cable trays to isolate it from vibrations.
• To record data, I used both the microphone (attachment 1) attach it its preamp connected to a spectrum analyzer in order get a graph of power spectral density, recording from 0-10k Hz and 10-100kHz. I started recording data at the furthest end of the x arm and worked towards the center taking measurements every couple of feet (ten rungs on the cable tray).
• The second attachment is the first 5 psd I got from the furthest end of the x arm going 10 rungs on the cable tray closer each measurement.
• Going forward, I am going to take more measurements with greater resolution at the lower frequencies from 0-200 and stepping up from there by factors of 2.

Attachment 1: first_PSD_12kHz.pdf
12624   Thu Nov 17 21:54:11 2016 JohannesUpdateGeneralAchievable armloss measurement accuracy

I don't like AS110 or AS55. Neither of them are designed for DC and so the DC readout chain is hokey. How about use an actual transimpedance PD with a 100-1000 Ohm resistor and a 3 mm diode? This would eliminate the alignment sensitivity and the drifts due to electronics and room lights.

 This looks much better. I'm planning to take more data with the AS110 PD rather than AS55 when I get the chance, increase the averaging time, and also sigma filter the datapoints. That should get us to a good spot and cut down the uncertainty even further.

12626   Fri Nov 18 15:10:06 2016 SteveUpdateGeneral projector shipped out for repair

Vivitek D952HD sn2160130 was send out for warranty repair. It's hard to believe that it has a 5 year warranty...... RMA - WR16004483.....expected to be back by Friday, Dec 2

 Quote: The projector failed just now with a pretty loud 'pop' sound - I've never been present when the lamp goes out, so I don't know if this is usual. I have left the power cable unplugged for now... Replacement is ordered Nov 4

12659   Fri Dec 2 16:21:12 2016 gautamUpdateGeneralrepaired projector, new mixer arrived and installed

The most recent power outage took out our projector and mixer. The projector was sent for repair while we ordered a new mixer. Both arrived today. Steve is working on re-installing the projector right now, and I installed the mixer which was verified to be working with our DAFI system (although the 60Hz issue still remains to be sorted out). The current channel configuration is:

Ch1: 3.5mm stereo output from pianosa

Ch2: DAFI (L)

Ch3: DAFI (R)

I've set some random gains for now, but we will have audio again when locking

12695   Sun Jan 8 12:47:06 2017 ranaUpdateGeneralOptical Layout in DCC

Manasa pointed me to the CAD drawings in the 40m SVN and I've now uploaded them to the 40m DCC Tree so that EricG and SteveV can convert them into SolidWorks.

12697   Mon Jan 9 16:12:30 2017 SteveUpdateGeneralOptical Layout in DCC

Caltech Facilities promissed to email the 40m facility drawings in Cad format.

I organized the old of optical , vacuum and facility layout drawings on paper in the old cabinet.

 Quote: Manasa pointed me to the CAD drawings in the 40m SVN and I've now uploaded them to the 40m DCC Tree so that EricG and SteveV can convert them into SolidWorks.

Attachment 1: drawings_on_paper.jpg
12704   Thu Jan 12 02:45:53 2017 JohannesUpdateGeneralNext armloss steps

As stated in elog 12618, using an oscilloscope to average the reflected powers and thus circumventing all filtering yielded much better results than before:

XARM: 21 +/- 35 ppm
YARM: 69 +/- 45 ppm

We can probably decrease the measurement uncertainty further by using a larger photodiode that is more suited for DC measurements. It will be placed in the AS pathtemporarily. If we get below 10 ppm systematic errors will begin to matter. To get those under control I will have to re-determine the visibility in the arm cavities and the modulation indices. The numbers to match from an estimate via the power recycing gain are <= 50 ppm arm average from elog 12586. Once the measurement scheme is up and running, we can proceed to generate ETM lossmaps. ITM will still be tricky but let's see what we can do.

Following Yutaro's approach, we can move the beams on the optcs in a deterministic way by several mm on the ETMs. Moving the beam is achieved by introducing offsets into the ASS auto alignment. As an example, the Yaw dither for ETMY is shown:

Each of the 8 test mass rotational degrees of freedom is driven by a particular frequency, and 2 signals are digitally demodulated in the real-time system: The arm transmission ("T") and the LSC arm length feedback signal to the ETM (L). The T signal feeds back to the input pointing, aka Tip Tilts and BS. This maximizes the transmission for a given test mass orientation. The L feedback controls the beam position on the mirrors in the arms. It minimizes the coupling of the dither to the length feedback, which is achieved when the beam goes through the axis of the rotational motion. This is where we introduce the offset:

The signal C1:ASS-YARM_ETM_YAW_L_DEMOD_I_OFFSET (for this example) moves the locking point of the dither-to-length coupling and thus moves the beam around on the ETM. This is true for the PIT and YAW of all test masses except ITMX. In the current configuration the TTs optimize the alignment into the YARM, and for the X we only have the BS, which is why the beam spot on ITMX cannot be independently controlled as-is. We could, however, for the sake of this measurement, temporarily temporarily give TT authority to the XARM feedback to control the ITMX beam position. I imagine something like dither-aligning with ASS the normal way, and then run a customized script in which the XARM is treated as the YARM, feecback to the BS is cut, and the YAW signals are inverted due to the reflection on BS.

Knowing the angle of the offset gives us a way to calculate the beam spot displacement with the cavity geometry. For best results I want to make sure our OpLev calibration is still good (laser power decay, although last time this was done was only about a year ago), which would be analogous to elog 11831.

As for ITM beam position, this scheme only works partially, because it would require the beam to steer further off its axis than in the ETM case. This is problematic because of the spacing between tip tilts and ITMs. I summarize:

1. Place larger DCPD in AS path
2. Confirm mode-matching and mod-indices
3. Assess loss in center with zero offsets
4. Uncertainty low enough? If not get better.
5. Calibrate OpLevs
6. Introduce calibrated offsets in dither alignment
7. Wander beam on test masses, recording arm losses
8. ???
9. Profit
Attachment 1: ass_illustration.pdf
12710   Fri Jan 13 08:54:32 2017 JohannesUpdateGeneralDC PD installed

I installed a DC PD (Thorlabs PDA 520) in the beam path to AS55. I placed a 2" 90/10 BS on a flip mount that picks of enough light for the PD to spit out ~8V when the port is bright. Single arm continuous signal will be ~2V. While most of the light still continues towards AS55, the displacement from the BS moves the beam off AS55, so I used the flip mount in case anyone needs to use AS55. The current configuration is UP.

When we're done with loss investigations the flip mount should be removed from the bench.

I hooked the PD up to an ethernet-enabled scope and started scripting the loss map measurement (scope can receive commands via http so we can automate the data acquisition). The scope that was present at the bench and had been used for the MC ringdown measurements had a 'scrambled' screen that I couldn't fix so I had to retrieve another scope ("scope1"). I'll try to find out what's wrong with it but we may have to send it in for repair.

12716   Fri Jan 13 23:39:46 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralETMX suspension electronics problems?

[Koji,gautam]

After Koji's leap second fix, we were playing around with the X arm locking. In particular, we were playing around with the limit value on the X arm LSC filter bank - the nominal value is 4000, we wanted to see if we could increase this without kicking the optic while acquiring arm lock. We initially increased it to 8000, and then turned it off altogether. Then we rapidly turned the output of the servo ON/OFF, and looked at the arm transmission to see if it came back to the level before unlocking, as an indication of whether the optic was kicked.

These trials suggested a value of 8000 for the limiter was OK, so we left the LSC mode on with the limiter set to 8000. But just as we were about to leave for the night, I noticed on the wall Striptool that the X arm was unlocked. Investigating, we found that the green wasn't even locking to a HOM. Further investigation of the Oplev spot showed that ETMX had received a large kick (both pitch and law errors were ~200urad). ITMX was unaffected.

We initially tried lowering the LSC limit value back to 4000, then used first the Oplev spot and then the green to align the arm. But turning on LSC misaligned the arm after acquiring lock. So we decided to leave LSC off, thinking that the notorious ETMX suspension problems have resurfaced. As a diagnostic, we figured we'd leave the watchdog tripped, and use the Oplev to see if the optic was getting kicked. But the act of turning the watchdog off kicked the optic again (WHY?!).

Looking at the ETMX sus screen, turning off all the damping and LSC (but watchdog on) still leaves a non-zero offset in the "Vmon" field, between 0.02-0.05V depending on the coil. Turning the watchdog OFF takes all these to 0.009V, although I can see the LR value fluctuating between 0.004V and 0.009V. I went to the Xend and squished all the cables on the Sat. Box, but the problem persisted.

At this time, I can't think of any explanation, so I am giving up for the night. To avoid unnecessarily kicking the optic, I am going to unplug the suspension from the Sat. Box and leave one of our tester boxes plugged in, lets see if that sheds any light on the situation...

Notes:

1. The +/-20V sorensens at this end were "tripped" for a few days after the power glitch until they were reset and turned back on yesterday. But this should not affect Vmon, as these Sorensens only supply the DC voltage for the coil bias, which is a slow machine channel?
2. The X arm was staying locked and well aligned for hours on end earlier this afternon - in fact it was locked for about 2 hours 6-8 hours ago, I can still see the trace on the wall StripTool....
12729   Tue Jan 17 21:31:57 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralETMX suspension electronics problems?

Last night, I plugged the ETMX suspension coils back into the satellite box. Tonight, we turned on the damping loops for ETMX. Rana centered the Oplev so we can use that as an additional diagnostic to see if the optic gets kicked around overnight. We will re-assess the situation tomorrow.

Sometime earlier today, Lydia noticed that the +/- 5V Sorensens at the X end were not displaying their nominal voltage/current values (as per the stickers on them). She corrected this.

12730   Wed Jan 18 10:41:14 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralETMX suspension electronics problems?

Summary pages show no kicking in the ETMX watchdogs from midnight to 6 AM (0800 - 1400 UTC):

https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:30889/detcharsummary/day/20170118/sus/watchdogs/

12738   Thu Jan 19 10:21:54 2017 AshleyUpdateGeneralPreliminary Microphone Data

Brief Summary: I am currently looking at the acoustic noise around both arms to see if there are any frequencies from machinery around the lab that stand out and to see what we can remove/change. I am using a Bluebird microphone suspended with surgical tubing from the cable trays to isolate it from vibrations. I am also using a preamp and the SR875 spectrum analyzer taking 6 sets of data every 1.5 meters (0 to 200Hz, 200Hz to 400Hz, 400z to 800Hz, 800Hz to 3200Hz, 3.2kHz to 12kHz, 12kHz to 100kHz).

·                Attachment 1 is a PSD of the first 3 measurements (from 0 to 12kHz) that I took every 1.5 meters along the x arm with the preamp and spectrum analyzer

·                Attachment 2 is a blrms color map of the first 6 sets of data I took (from 2.4m to 9.9m)

·                Attachmetn 3 is a picture of the microphone set up with the surgical tubing

Problems that occurred: settings on the preamp made the first set of data I took significantly smaller than the data I took with the 0dB button off and the last problem I had was the spectrum analyzer reading only from -50 to -50 dBVpk

Attachment 1: xend_psd.png
Attachment 2: xblrms.png
Attachment 3: IMG_3734.JPG
12788   Thu Feb 2 12:17:48 2017 SteveUpdateGeneral USB microscope

This AmScope microscope would have 3.5x-180x magnification, calibratable measurement function, 5MP picture and good working distance to work on printed circuit boards.

12808   Tue Feb 7 16:23:49 2017 SteveUpdateGeneralpower interruption tomorrow

received this note: at 4:11pm Tuesday, Feb 7, 2017

Building:         Campus

Date:             Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Time:             7:30 AM – 8:30 AM

Contact:          Rick Rodriguez x-2576

Pasadena Water and Power (PWP) will be performing a switching operation of the

Caltech Electrical Distribution System that is expected to be transparent to Caltech,

but could result in a minor power anomaly that might affect very sensitive equipment.

IMPACT: Negligible impact......?

There may be temporary  power interruption tomorrow!

PS:we did not see any effect

12813   Thu Feb 9 08:03:08 2017 SteveUpdateGeneral USB microscope ordered

http://www.amscope.com/3-5x-180x-boom-stand-trinocular-zoom-stereo-microscope-with-144-led-ring-light-and-10mp-camera.html will be ordered today.

The actual unit we are getting has lockable zoom for better repeatability after calibration: SM-3NTPZZ-144

Quote: CWQ6-020817

12814   Thu Feb 9 11:22:56 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralSorensens and DIN connections at 1X1

I'd like to fix a few things at 1X1 when we plug in the new amplifier for the 29.5MHz modulation signal.

1. Split off separate +24 and ground wires to the green BBPD RF amplifiers and the AOM driver (they are sharing a single fuse at the moment)
2. Tap a new +24 GND -24V set for the FSS Fast summing box - this is currently running with a bench power supply underneath the PSL table set to +/-18V, but I checked the 7815/7915 datasheets and they accept up to 35V input for a 15V output, so it should be fine to use 24V
3. Hook up the ZHL-2A for the IMC modulation.

Steve has ordered rolls of pre-twisted wire to run from 1X1 to the PSL table, so that part can be handled later.

But at 1X1, we need to tap new paths from +/- 24V to the DIN connectors. I think it's probably fine to turn off the two Sorensens, do the wiring, and then turn them back on, but is there any procedure for how this should be done?

Attachment 1: Screen_Shot_2017-02-10_at_9.01.46_AM.png
12826   Mon Feb 13 17:39:45 2017 AshleyUpdateGeneralPreliminary Microphone Data Update
• Problems that have occurred since my last post: All of the sudden, I was getting very strange data that was very quiet and did not match the previous input range of my last locations (see attachment). After resoldering the custom bnc connection cables with Lydia, which were in disrepair, and checking almost everything we could think of, we found that the gain dial on the preamp was turned all the down. Immediately after it was fixed, the data returned to expected values (based on neighboring locations and data taken at the last location before the problem occurred).
• Updates: Since my last post, I have created a normalized blrms color map in addition to the one I already have. Additionally, I have started working on plotting the color maps next to a labeled, to-scale drawing of the lab, but have yet to complete it.
• Attachment 1: comparison of the psds
• Attachment 2: blrms color map
• Attachment 3: normalized color map
 Quote: Brief Summary: I am currently looking at the acoustic noise around both arms to see if there are any frequencies from machinery around the lab that stand out and to see what we can remove/change. I am using a Bluebird microphone suspended with surgical tubing from the cable trays to isolate it from vibrations. I am also using a preamp and the SR875 spectrum analyzer taking 6 sets of data every 1.5 meters (0 to 200Hz, 200Hz to 400Hz, 400z to 800Hz, 800Hz to 3200Hz, 3.2kHz to 12kHz, 12kHz to 100kHz).   ·                Attachment 1 is a PSD of the first 3 measurements (from 0 to 12kHz) that I took every 1.5 meters along the x arm with the preamp and spectrum analyzer ·                Attachment 2 is a blrms color map of the first 6 sets of data I took (from 2.4m to 9.9m)  ·                Attachmetn 3 is a picture of the microphone set up with the surgical tubing  Problems that occurred: settings on the preamp made the first set of data I took significantly smaller than the data I took with the 0dB button off and the last problem I had was the spectrum analyzer reading only from -50 to -50 dBVpk

Attachment 1: figure_1.png
Attachment 2: x_and_y_blrms_03.png
Attachment 3: xblrms_median.png
12834   Thu Feb 16 13:29:38 2017 gautamSummaryGeneralAlternative Calibration Scheme

Summary:

Craig and I have been trying to put together a Simulink diagram of the proposed alternative calibration scheme. Each time I talk the idea over with someone, I convince myself it makes sense, but then I try and explain it to someone else and get more confused. Probably I am not even thinking about this in the right way. So I am putting what I have here for comments/suggestions.

What's the general idea?

Suppose the PSL is locked to the MC cavity, and the AUX laser is locked to the arm cavity (with sufficiently high BW). Then by driving a line in the arm cavity length, and beating the PSL and AUX lasers, we can determine how much we are modulating the arm cavity length in metres by reading out the beat frequency between the two lasers, provided the arm cavity length is precisely known.

So we need:

1. Both lasers to be stabilized to be able to sense the line we are driving
2. A high bandwidth PDH loop for locking the AUX laser to the arm cavity such that the AUX laser frequency is able to track the line we are driving
3. An accurate and precise way to read out the beat frequency (the proposal here is to use an FPGA based readout)
4. An accurate measurement of the arm length (I think we know the arm lengths to <0.1% so this shouldn't dominate any systematic error).

To be able to sense a 1kHz line being driven at 1e-16 m amplitude, I estimate we need a beat note stability of ~1mHz/rtHz at 1kHz.

Requirements and what we have currently:

• The PSL is locked to the mode-cleaner, and the arm cavity is locked to the PSL. The former PDH loop is high BW, and so we expect the stabilized PSL to have frequency noise of ~1mHz/rtHz at about 1kHz (to be measured and confirmed)
• The AUX laser is locked to the arm cavity with a medium-BW (~10kHz UGF) PDH servo. From past out-of-loop ALS beat measurements, I estimate the expected frequency noise of the AUX laser at 1kHz to be ~1Hz/rtHz with the current PDH setup
• Rana suggested we "borrow" the stability of the PSL by locking the AUX laser and PSL in a high bandwidth PLL - if we want this loop to have ~300kHz BW, then we need to use an EOM as an actuator. The attached Simulink diagram (schematic representation only, though I think I have measurements of many of those transfer functions/gains anyways) shows the topology I had in mind. Perhaps I did not understand this correctly, but if we have such a loop with high gain at 1kHz, and the error signal being the beat between PSL and AUX, won't it squish the modulation we are applying @1kHz?
• Is it feasible to instead add a parallel path to the end PDH loop with an EOM as an actuator (similar to what we do for the IMC locking)? Ideally, what we want is an end PDH loop which squishes the free-running NPRO noise to ~1mHz/rtHz at 1kHz instead of the 1Hz/rtHz we have currently. This loop would then also have negligible tracking error at 1kHz. Then, we could have a low bandwidth PLL offloading onto the temperature of the crystal to keep the beat between the two lasers hovering around the PSL frequency.

Hardware:

On the hardware side of things, we need:

• FSS box to drive the EOM (Rana mentioned there is a spare available in the Cryo lab)

Koji and I briefly looked through the fiber inventory we have yesterday. We have some couplers (one mounted) and short (5m) patch fibers. But I think the fiber infrastructure we have in place currently is adequate - we have the AUX light brought to the PSL table, and there is a spare fiber running the other way if we want to bring the PSL IR to the end as well.

I need to also think about where we can stick the EOM in given physical constraints on the EX table and the beam diameter/aperture of EOM...

Attachment 1: AltCal.pdf
12835   Thu Feb 16 21:55:47 2017 ranaSummaryGeneralAlternative Calibration Scheme

Question for Craig: What does the SNR of our lines have to be? IF we're only trying to calibrate the actuator in the audio band over long time scales, it seems we could get by with more frequency noise. Assuming we want a 1% calibration at 50-500 Hz, what is the requirement on the frequency noise PSD curve?

12837   Fri Feb 17 20:04:43 2017 KojiUpdateGeneralProjector not functional / Zita partially working

Koji, Gautam, Johannes

We quickly checked the situation of the projector in the control room.

- We found that the proejctor was indicating "lamp error".
==> Steve, could you remove the projector from the ceiling and check if it still does not work?
If it still does not work, send it back to the vender. It should be covered by the previous service.

- Zita seemed happy with the DVI output. We tried the dual display configration and  VGA and DVI are active right now.
The DVI output (from RADEON something video card) is somewhat strange. We probably need to look into the video display situation.

12842   Tue Feb 21 13:51:35 2017 CraigSummaryGeneralAlternative Calibration Scheme

We get SNR in two ways: the amplitude of applied force and the integration time.  So we are limited in two ways: stability of the lock to applied forces and time of locklosses / calibration fluctuations.

At the sites, you probably know that we blow our spectrum out of the water with the calibration lines, with SNRs of about 100 on the scale of about 10 seconds.  For us this might be impossible, since we aren't as quiet.

If we want 1% calibration on our sweeps, we'll need  0.01 = Uncertainty = sqrt( (1 - COH^2)/(2 * Navg * COH^2) ), where COH is the coherence of the transfer function measurement and Navg is the number of measurements at a specific frequency.  This equation comes from Bendat and Piersol, and is subject to a bunch of assumptions which may not be true for us (particularly, that the plant is stationary in time).

If we let Navg = 10, then COH ~ 0.999.

Coherence = Gxy^2/(Gxx * Gyy), where x(t) and y(t) are the input signal and output signal of the transfer function measurement, Gxx and Gyy are the spectral densities of x and y, and Gxy is the cross-spectral density.

Usually SNR = P_signal / P_noise, but for us SNR = A_signal / A_noise.

Eric Q and Evan H helped me find the relationship between Coherence and SNR:

P = Pn + Pc, Pn = P * (1 - Coh), Pc = P * Coh

==> SNR = sqrt( Pc / Pn ) = sqrt( Coh / 1 - Coh )

From Coh ~ 0.999, SNR ~ 30.

 Quote: Question for Craig: What does the SNR of our lines have to be? IF we're only trying to calibrate the actuator in the audio band over long time scales, it seems we could get by with more frequency noise. Assuming we want a 1% calibration at 50-500 Hz, what is the requirement on the frequency noise PSD curve?

12843   Tue Feb 21 17:05:14 2017 SteveUpdateGeneralProjector lamp replaced

This bulb was blown out on Feb 4, 2017 after 2 months of operation.

Attachment 1: blownup.jpg
12845   Wed Feb 22 10:16:54 2017 ranaSummaryGeneralAlternative Calibration Scheme

OK, but the questions still stands: "Assuming we want a 1% calibration at 50-500 Hz, what is the requirement on the frequency noise PSD curve?"

 Quote: We get SNR in two ways: the amplitude of applied force and the integration time.  So we are limited in two ways: stability of the lock to applied forces and time of locklosses / calibration fluctuations.
12848   Thu Feb 23 14:50:26 2017 SteveUpdateGeneral USB microscope returned

The microscope shipped back to the vendor for credit yesterday.

 Quote: http://www.amscope.com/3-5x-180x-boom-stand-trinocular-zoom-stereo-microscope-with-144-led-ring-light-and-10mp-camera.html will be ordered today. The actual unit we are getting has lockable zoom for better repeatability after calibration: SM-3NTPZZ-144 Quote: CWQ6-020817

12871   Mon Mar 6 16:32:36 2017 SteveUpdateGeneralold NPRO

16 years old Lightwave NPRO M126-1064-700, sn 415 power output is tripping continously to zero.

The Lightwave Controller 125/126-OPN-POS sn516 was used in this test. Settings were lowered to close to nominal values without any success.

One can not determine what is broken: head or controller. This NPRO head was under Manasa's desk.

12872   Tue Mar 7 15:17:19 2017 SteveBureaucracyGeneralproperty tag

Property tag found.

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12875   Thu Mar 9 15:25:12 2017 KojiUpdateGeneralIMC/XYarms aligned/locked

As per Steve's request, I've checked the alignment of the IMC and the arms. These three cavities are locked and aligned.

12876   Thu Mar 9 17:26:43 2017 SteveUpdateGeneralattempted ETMY picture taking

I removed the video monitoring can and replaced it with Olympus SP-570UZ camera. It has no IR blocker. The OSEM light are dominant because I can not zoom in more.

I left the camera in place so you can try it. Leave the LEXAN plate on the glass window so no accident can happen. The illuminator is on and you can turn it off-on with the manual switch, close to the camera. Camera manual is on my desk.

12877   Thu Mar 9 20:11:04 2017 KojiUpdateGeneralattempted ETMY picture taking

The attached is the ETMY image with the single arm locked. This was the best I could do. Here is the recipe

• Turn on SP570UZ
• Switch to "M" mode (Manual aperture and exposure)
• Set the aperture to be the widest (smallest F number) and the exposure to be maximum (15 second).
• Switch to AF mode by the lens side switch
• Use the lens dial to adjust the zoom until the OSEMs fill the central 1/3 box (i.e. 1/9 area of the field of view). If you zoom more, you can't focus the spot later.
• Use menu button to switch to ISO1600 (You are now capable to see the beam spot)
• Switch to MF mode by the lens side switch
• Use the lens dial to adjust the focus to have the sharpest image of the spot. This can be achieved at the focal distance of ~1m
• Use menu button to switch back to ISO64
• Push the shutter (I didn't use it, but you should be able to use 2sec timer)
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12881   Fri Mar 10 18:00:22 2017 SteveUpdateGeneralattempted ETMY picture taking

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12929   Wed Apr 5 16:05:47 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralNB code checkout

[evan, gautam]

We spent some time trying to get the noise-budgeting code running today. I guess eventually we want this to be usable on the workstations so we cloned the git repo into /ligo/svncommon. The main objective was to see if we had all the dependencies for getting this code running already installed. The way Evan has set the code up is with a bunch of dictionaries for each of the noise curves we are interested in - so we just commented out everything that required real IFO data. We also commented out all the gwpy stuff, since (if I remember right) we want to be using nds2 to get the data.

Running the code with just the gwinc curves produces the plots it is supposed to, so it looks like we have all the dependencies required. It now remains to integrate actual IFO data, I will try and set up the infrastructure for this using the archived frame data from the 2016 DRFPMI locks..

12948   Wed Apr 19 15:46:24 2017 gautamUpdateGeneral1611/1811 inventory check

I looked through the lab area to do a fast photodiode inventory check, as we may need to buy some for the higher order mode spectroscopy SURF project. I looked on the following optical tables: ETMY, ITMY, BS, AS, PSL, SP, ITMX, Jenne laser table, and ETMX, as well as the photodiode cabinet, and could only find two 1611s. Here is a summary of the inventory:

• Power supply 0901: 2x in photodiode cabinet (E6 along the Y arm), 1x on Jenne laser table
• Newfocus 1611 S/N 7284-WX, labelled "REF DET" on ITMY optical table, currently unused
• Newfocus 1611 S/N 57109 on Jenne laser table

I have not yet checked if these photodiodes are in working order.

12950   Tue Apr 25 19:35:41 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralIPCS -q

Dataviewer wouldn't launch on pianosa - it seemed to work fine on Donatella though. Rana suggested using the ipcs -q command. The complete fix can be found in this elog. This did the trick, dataviewer runs fine on Pianosa now...

12951   Wed Apr 26 01:00:23 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralDRMI locking

Since we'd like to get back to DRSE locking, I tried locking the DRMI tonight. I did the following:

• First, I aligned the arms, and ran the dither alignment scripts to maximize the arm transmission
• Next, I misaligned the ETMs, and tried to lock the PRC resonant for the carrier (i.e. PRCL on REFL11I, MICH on AS55Q). I got brief lock stretches of a few seconds but not longer. Turns out the AS55 beam was barely hitting the photodiode. I guess this wasn't looked at since Johannes modified the AS path for the loss measurements. Anyways, it just required a minor tweak to center the beam on the AS55 photodiode.
• Once the PRC was locked, I ran the PRC and MICH dither align scripts. The way these are set up right now, the error signals to these servos are REFLDC and ASDC respectively (demodulated at the respective dither frequencies). But looking at the spots on the ITM cameras with the PRC resonant, the spots seem shifted (in both PIT and YAW) relative to the spots when the arm cavity is resonant. Shouldn't they be the same mode? Or maybe I am missing something.

• Next, I tried to lock the DRMI with the 1f error signals: i.e. PRCL on REFL11 I, SRCL on REFL55 I, and MICH on AS55 Q. After some demod phase tweaking, I was able to get some locks going. Turning on the PRC angular feedforward seemed to help the locking, but I have no idea if the installed filters are still the correct ones. I believe the POP QPD channels are the witnesses used to train this filter, I will look at the predicted vs achieved subtraction.
• At this point, I was able to get locks lasting a few minutes - see the attachment. I ran the UGF servos and tweaked the loop gains a little, but before I could start a loop measurement, I lost the lock. I am calling it for the night.

GV 26 April 2017, 3pm: Forgot to note yesterday that I re-connected the suspect Satellite box, which has been connected to the SRM signal chain, back to the SRM suspension. I did not see any instances of glitching during my work last night. Also added pictures showing shifted spots on ITMs when PRC is locked relative to when arms are locked...

12954   Fri Apr 28 02:04:36 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralDRMI locking

I got a couple of ~30min long DRMI lock stretches today. The settings I used are essentially the same as what I had back in November. Though we have since made some changes to the IMC RF signal chain, I guess it is not unreasonable that the LSC Demod phases that worked then work now as well.

In the lock stretches, I did the following:

• Took loop measurements for MICH, PRCL, SRCL
• Turned on the sensing oscillator lines for error signal calibration
• Tried turning on the analog whitening on AS55, REFL11 and REFL55. The latter two worked fine, but everytime I turned the REFL55 whitening on, I broke the lock. I'm also unable to acquire lock if I leave the whitening turned on all the time. The ADC overflow indicators also indicate frequent overflows when I turn the whitening on. Oddly, this seems to happen even if I turn the analog whitening gain to 0dB - the signals look well within the ADC range on dataviewer and DTT timeseries mode. Not sure what's going on here, I will investigate further tomorrow.
• We should have some stretches where we can look at the possibility of seismic feedforward for some DRMI length DOFs.

On the side, I'm also looking at whether the PRC angular feedforward filters, last trained in October 2016, remain valid. Even post midnight, I am unable to lock the DRMI without turning on the FF, and looking at the POP QPD PIT and YAW signal spectra with the FF on vs FF off, there is definitely some improvement in the 1-4Hz band (plot to follow), question is whether we can do better and hence improve the DRMI duty cycle/ make the lock acquisition easier. To this end, I centered the beam on the POP QPD after locking and dither aligning the PRC on carrier, and have taken some data to look at.

So, much data analysis to follow - the idea is to put together a DRMI noise budget with Evan's NB code. For now, here are the uncalibrated control signal spectra.

Attachment 1: 20170428_DRMI.pdf
12955   Fri Apr 28 13:56:26 2017 ranaUpdateGeneralDRMI locking

one of these signals does not look like the others: explanation?

12957   Fri Apr 28 19:32:06 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralDRMI locking - PRCL angular FF

I took a closer look at the POP QPD/ PRC angular feedforward situation yesterday. I thought it would be useful to have a POP QPD MEDM screen. Looking at the PIT and YAW channel filter modules, the anti-whitening filters seemed different from what we have for other channels that are connected to the Pentek interface board (e.g. MCL). So I copied over the 150:15 (z:p) filter, and also turned on a 60Hz comb. The LSC offsets script does not set the dark offsets for this QPD, so I manually put in the dark offsets for the PIT, YAW and SUM channels as well. For the locking, I first locked the arms on IR an dither aligned them. Then I locked the PRMI on carrier, ran the PRC dither alignment, and went over to the ITMX pickoff table and centered the beam on the QPD by making the PIT and YAW channel timeseries oscillate around approximately zero.

After these tweaks, I collected ~40mins of data with the angular FF OFF/ON. I did not DC couple the ITM Oplev servos, but Eric tells me that this did not make a difference to the achievable subtraction in the past. Here is the frequency domain multicoherence analysis - I used the BS_X and BS_Y seismometer channels as witnesses. I've also put a plot with what the raw FF filter coefficients look like (no fitting yet).

Looks like we can do better for both DOFs - it even seems like we are injecting noise with the current FF filters in some bands, perhaps we can do a better job of rolling off the filters outside the band of interest. Eric and I were discussing MATLAB's "reduce" routine for this purpose, I will play around with it and see if I get a better fit.

Unfortunately, I encountered a strange error when trying to pull data with nds2 today, it kept complaining RuntimeError: Too many channels or too much data requestedeven though I have pulled longer stretches of data for more channels with 16k sampling rate as recently as last week. Shorter duration requests (<600 seconds) seemed to work fine though... So I had to use cds.getdata to pull the data, and they're much too large to attach. Has anyone else encountered a similar error?

The mystery of the spots on the ITMs when the PRC is locked on carrier remains - after talking this over with Koji, we figured that even with the carrier resonant, the spot will be much dimmer than the spots when the arms are locked, but what I see on the cameras is still a pretty beefy spot. The real cavity mode is actually visible where it should be (I marked the locations of the spots with arms well-aligned with a marker on the monitors), as given away by some twinkling that is visible only when the cavity is locked. But what ghost beam is so intense it looks almost as bright as when the arm is locked?

GV 10pm 28 April 2017: Turns out this is the spot from the single bounce off the ETM transmitting back through the ITM and hitting the suspension cage (hence the bright spot). Johannes and I confirmed by moving the ETM, the spot moved with it. I just never paid attention to this spot before.

Attachment 1: PRC_angularFF.pdf
Attachment 2: PRC_TFs.pdf
12960   Mon May 1 16:29:51 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralDRMI locking

For the traces I posted, I had not turned on the whitening for the SRCL sensing PD (REFL55). However, I took a spectrum on a subsequent lock, with the analog whitening + digital dewhitening turned on for all 3 PDs (AS55, REFL11 and REFL55), and the HF part of the SRCL spectrum still looked anomalous. I'm putting together the detailed NB, but here's a comparison between the signals from the 3 RFPDs with the PSL shutter closed (but whitening engaged, and with the analog gains at the same values as used during the locking).

To convert the y-axis into m/rtHz, I used data from a sensing matrix measurement I took yesterday night during a DRMI lock - I turned on lines between 300 Hz and 325 Hz for the 3DOFs for ~5 minutes, downloaded the RFPD error signal data and did the demodulation. I used numbers from this elog to convert the actuator drive from cts to m. The final numbers I used were:

MICH (AS55_Q):   8.706 * 10^11 cts/m

PRCL (REFL11_I): 2.757 * 10^12 cts/m

SRCL (REFL55_I): 1.995 * 10^10 cts/m

So it looks like there may be something weird going on with the REFL55 signal chain. Looking at the LSC rack (and also suggested by an elog search), it looks like the demodulation is done by a demod board labelled "POP55" - moreover, the demodulated outputs are taken not from the regular output ports on this board, but from the "MON" ports on the front panel.

 Quote: one of these signals does not look like the others: explanation?

Attachment 1: LSC_sensingNoise.pdf
12962   Mon May 1 21:45:54 2017 ericqUpdateGeneralDRMI locking
Comparing counts doesn't get you anywhere; each PD has different whitening gain which may vary from measurement to measurement. The better thing to compare is Volts coming out of the demod board, since this (hopefully) only changes when we touch the PD or analog signal chain; this is what I used for the most recent DRMI sensing measurements. (ELOG 11589) We have calibrated actuator channels in the CAL model, which will give you the control signal in m for the DRMI lengths. Perhaps you can convert your sensing matrix measurement to demod board output volts per meter to compare with the last measurement.

Also, the monitor ports are the LEMO ports to the left; the SMA ports where the signal is coming from are from a daughter board that has a better output opamp that the nominal output; we're using the same output on the REFL11 and AS55 demod boards.
12963   Wed May 3 16:00:00 2017 gautamSummaryGeneralNetwork Topology Check

[johannes, gautam]

I forgot we had done this last year already, but we updated the control room network switch labels and double checked all the connections. Here is the status of the connections and labels as of today:

There are a few minor changes w.r.t. labeling and port numbers compared to the Dec 2015 entry. But it looks like there was no IP clash between Rossa and anything (which was one of the motivations behind embarking on this cleanup). We confirmed by detatching the cable at the PC end of Rossa, and noticed the break in the ping signals. Plugging the cable back in returned the pings. Because Rossa is currently un-bootable, I couldn't check the MAC address.

We also confirmed all of this by using the web browser interface for the switch (IP = 192.168.113.249).

Attachment 1: Network_topology_3May2017.pdf
12964   Wed May 3 16:02:36 2017 SteveUpdateGeneralPI pzt inventory check

One is broken, two are ready to steer green and 3 available in un known condition

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12967   Wed May 3 16:47:45 2017 KojiUpdateGeneralPI pzt inventory check

I also have a functional one on my desk, which has one of the wires repaired.

 Quote: One is broken, two are ready to steer green and 3 available in un known condition

12969   Wed May 3 18:45:45 2017 ranaUpdateGeneralDRMI locking

 Quote: Comparing counts doesn't get you anywhere; each PD has different whitening gain which may vary from measurement to measurement. The better thing to compare is Volts coming out of the demod board, since this (hopefully) only changes when we touch the PD or analog signal chain; this is what I used for the most recent DRMI sensing measurements. (ELOG 11589) We have calibrated actuator channels in the CAL model, which will give you the control signal in m for the DRMI lengths. Perhaps you can convert your sensing matrix measurement to demod board output volts per meter to compare with the last measurement. Also, the monitor ports are the LEMO ports to the left; the SMA ports where the signal is coming from are from a daughter board that has a better output opamp that the nominal output; we're using the same output on the REFL11 and AS55 demod boards.

Wrong! RTFS.

SMA outputs are the bare, passive outputs of the mixer/lowpass.
TNC outputs are the low-noise, acti amplified outputs via the daughter board.
LEMO outputs are the high noise, G=2, LT1125 buffered outputs
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