Andrew and I set up the razor blade beam profiling experiment for He-Ne lasers on the "SP" table.  Once I receive the laser safety training, I will make power measurements and fit it to an erfc curve from which I will calculate the gaussian profile of the beam. I'm attaching some pictures of the setup. 

Least count of the micrometer - 2 microns 

Laser  : Lumentum 22037130:1103P

Photodetector : Thor Labs PDA100A

Olympus camera is removed and our old CCD camera is back to monitor the face of MC2

Sus dampings recovered. ETMY oplev needs to be recentered.

GV May 17 11am: I shut down the BS, SRM, ITMX and ITMY watchdogs, as the coil-driver boards for these optics are presently not installed.
 

 Early surfs of India Jigyasa and Kaustubh received basic 40m specific safety traning.

this is not the right one; this Ethernet controlled strip we want in the racks for remote control.

Buy some of these for the MONITORS.

It seems that FSS slow servo stopped working.

I found that megatron was restarted (by Rana, to finish an apt-get upgrade) on ~18:47 PDT today.

controls@megatron|~> last -5
controls pts/0        192.168.113.216  Mon May 15 19:15   still logged in   
controls pts/0        192.168.113.216  Mon May 15 19:14 - 19:15  (00:01)    
reboot   system boot  3.2.0-126-generi Mon May 15 18:50 - 19:19  (00:29)    
controls pts/0        192.168.113.200  Mon May 15 18:43 - down   (00:04)    
controls pts/0        192.168.113.200  Mon May 15 15:25 - 17:38  (02:12)

FSSslow / MCautolocker were restarted on megatron.

I did an 'svn update' in userapps/cds/ which pulled in some changes from the sites as well as various CDS utilities in common/ and utilities/

This was to get Keith Thorne's get_data.m and get_data2.m scripts which I tested and they seem to be able to get data. No success with getting minute trend yet, but that may be a user error.

Update Monday 15-May: Our version of NDS client is 0.10 and we need to have 0.14 for this new method to work. Ubuntu12 lscsoft repo doesn't have newer nds client so we'll have to upgrade some OS.

I've uploaded high-res photos + marked up schematics to the same DCC page linked in the previous page. I've noted the S/Ns of the ITM, BS and SRM boards on the page, I think it makes sense to collect everything on one page, and I guess eventually we will unify everything to a one or two versions.

To take the photos, I tried to reproduce the "LED light painting" technique reported here. I mounted the Canon EOS Rebel T3i on a tripod, and used some A3 sheets of paper to make a white background against which the board to be photographed was placed. I also used the new Macro lens we recently got. I then played around with the aperture and exposure time till I got what I judged to be good photos. The room lights were turned off, and I used the LED on my phone to do the "painting", from ~a metre away. I think the photos have turned out pretty well, the component values are readable.

Raw and JPG formats of the pictures are saved on the Mac in the control room and at this link:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9WDJpPRYby1c2xXRHhfOExXNFU 

The camera was mounted using the JOBE arm wrapped around a small heavy piece of metal. The lights were kept on, the camera was zoomed in as closely as possible (so the light would take up most of the frame), F number of 8 was used, and shutter speeds from 1/2 to 1/100 seconds were used. 

The pictures still look a bit blurry, probably because looking back at the details of the image, the focal length was 86.34m (as short of a focal length would be ideal, and Olympus is capable of going down to 1m).

Next steps include looking at the saturation in the pictures and setting up a more stable mount. 

I first set the bias sliders to 0 on the MEDM screen (after checking that the nominal values were stored), then shut down the watchdogs, and then pulled out the boards for inspection + photo-taking.

I've made the LISO models for the dewhitening board and coil driver boards I pulled out.

Attached is a plot of the current noise in the current configuration (i.e. dewhitening board just has a gain x3 stage, and then propagated through the coil driver path), with the top 3 noise contributions: The op-amps (op3 and op5) are the LT1125s on the coil driver board in the bias path, while "R12" is the Johnson noise from the 1k input resistace to the OP27 in the signal path.

Assuming the OSEMs have an actuation gain of 0.016 N/A (so 0.064 N/A for 4 OSEMs), the current noise of ~1e-10 A/rtHz translates to a displacement noise of ~3e-15m/rtHz at ~100Hz (assuming a mirror mass of 0.25kg). 

I have NOT included the noise from the LM6321 current buffers as I couldn't find anything about their noise characteristics in the datasheet. LISO files used to generate this plot are attached.

I've added marked-up schematics + high-res photographs of the SRM coil driver board and dewhitening board to the 40m DCC Document tree (D1700217 and D1700218). 

In the attached marked-up schematics, I've also added the proposed changes which Rana and I discussed earlier today. For the thick-film -> thin-film resistor switching, I will try and make a quick LISO model to see if we can get away with replacing just a few rather than re-stuff the whole board.

Since I have the board out, should I implement some of these changes (like AD797 removal) before sticking it back in and pulling out one of the ITM boards? I need to look at the locking transients and current digital limit-values for the various DoFs before deciding on what is an appropriate value for the output resistance in series with the coil.

Another change I think should be made, but I forgot to include on the markups: On the dewhitening board, we should probably replace the decoupling capacitors C41 and C52 with equivalent value electrolytic caps (they are currently tantalum caps which I think are susceptible to fail by shorting input to output).

I believe the ETMs and ITMs are different from the others.

I've removed the SOS coil driver (D010001-B, S/N B151, labelled "SRM") + Universal Dewhitening Board (D000183 Rev C, S/N B5172, labelled "B5") combo for SRM from 1X4, for photo taking + inspection.

I first shutdown the SRM watchdog, noted cabling between these boards and also the AI board as well as output to Sat. Box. I also needed to shutdown the MC2 watchdog as I had to remove the DAC output to MC2 in order to remove the SRM Dewhitening board from the rack. This connection has been restored, MC locks fine now.

Suspension Actuator noise:

There are 3 main sources of electronics noise which come in through the coil driver:

1. Voltage noise of the coil driver.
   1. The input referred noise is ~5 nV/rHz, so not a big issue.
   2. The Johnson noise of the output resistor which is in series with the coil is sqrt(4*k*T*R) ~ 3 nV/rHz. We probably want to increase this resistor from 200 to 1000 Ohms once Gautam convinces us that we don't need that range for lock acquisition.
2. Voltage noise of the dewhitening board.
   1. In order to reduce DAC noise, we have a "dewhitening" filter which provides some low passing. There is an "antiDW" filter in the digital part which is the inverse of this, so that when they are both turned on, the result is that the main signal path has a flat transfer function, but the DAC noise gets attenuated.
   2. In particular, ours have 2 second order filters (each with 2 poles at 15 Hz and 2 zeros at 100 Hz).
   3. We also have a passive pole:zero network at the output which has z=130, 530 Hz and p = 14, 3185 Hz.
   4. The dewhitening board has an overall gain of 3 at DC to account for our old DACs having a range of +/-5 V and our coil drivers having +/- 15 V power supplies. We should get rid of this gain of 3.
   5. The dewhitening board (and probably the coil driver) use thick film resistors and so their noise is much worse than expected at low frequencies.
3. DAC voltage noise. 
   1. The General Standards 16-bit DACs have a noise of ~5 uV/rHz.
4. the satellite box is passive and not a significant source of noise; its just a flaky construction and so its problematic.

I rebooted megatron around 12:20 today. It had dozens of stalled medm process (some of them there since February!). I couldn't kill them without them coming back like zombies, so I did sudo reboot.

That's a good find.

1. The OL control signal can be gotten from the DQ error signal. You just need to multiply it by the digital filters and the gain. The state of the filters and the gain can be gotten using matlab tools like getFotonFilt.m. For python ChrisW wrote a tool called foton.py which is in the GDS SVN. You should ask him for it. It requires access to some ROOT libraries to run.
2. We should have sub budgets for everything like OL and thermal, etc. They should be automatically produced each time you run the main budget and should be separate pages in the same PDF file. Jamie / Chris may have something going along these lines so check to see if they are already on it.

The MCautolocker had stalled - there were no additional lines to the logfile after 12:17pm (~20mins ago). Normally, it suffices to ssh into megatron and run sudo initctl restart MCautolocker - but it seems that there was no running initctl instance of this, so I had to run sudo initctl start MCautolocker. The FSS Slow control initctl process also seemed to have been terminated, so I ran sudo initctl start FSSslowPy.

It is not clear to me why the initctl instances got killed in the first place, but MC locks fine now.

Last night, I tried to estimate the contribution of OL feedback signal to the MICH length error signal.

In order to do so, I took a swept sine measurement with a few points between 50 Hz and 500 Hz. The transfer function between C1:LSC-MICH_OUT_DQ and the Oplev Servo Output point (e.g. C1:SUS-BS_OL_PIT_OUT etc) was measured. I played around with the excitation amplitude till I got coherence > 0.9 for the TF measurement, while making sure I wasn't driving the Oplev error point too hard that side-lobes began to show up in the MICH control signal spectrum.

The Oplev control signal is not DQ-ed. So I locked the DRMI again and downloaded the 16k data "live" for ~5min stretch using cdsutils.getdata on the workstation. The Oplev error point is DQ-ed at 2k, but I found that the excitation amplitude needed for good SNR at the error point drove the servo to the limiter value of 2000cts - so I decided to use the control signal instead. Knowing the transfer function from the Oplev *_OUT* channel to C1:LSC-MICH_IN1_DQ, I backed out the coupling - the transfer function was only measured between 50 Hz and 500 Hz, and no extrapolation is done, so the estimation is only really valid in this range, which looks like where it is important anyways (see Attachment #2, contributions from ITMX, ITMY and BS PIT and YAW servos added in quadrature).

I was also looking at the Oplev servo shapes and noticed that they are different for the ITMs and the BS (Attachment #1). Specifically, for the ITM Oplevs, an "ELP15" is used to do the roll-off while an "ELP35" is employed in the BS servo (though an ELP35 also exists in the ITM Oplev filter banks). I got lost in an elog search for when these were tuned, but I guess the principles outlined in this elog still hold and can serve as a guideline for Oplev loop tweaking.

Coil driver noise estimation to follow

GV 10 May 12:30pm: I've uploaded another copy of the NB (Attachment #3) with the contributions from the ITMs and BS separated. Looks like below 100Hz, the BS coupling dominates, while the hump/plateau around 350Hz is coming from ITMX.

Gautam and Steve,

Surge protective power strip was install on Friday, May 5 in the Control Room

Computers not connected to the UPS are plugged into Isobar12ultra.

I tried to get some minute trend data today, but was unable to get it from inside or outside the control room using our matlab or python tools.

It seems the NDS2 interface will not work anywhere since it needs our minute trends to be written as frames; in the last version that Jamie left us, our minute trend frame files are not being written since they lead to periodic daqd crashes.

From inside the control room, we can get the minute trend (only with DataViewer). I've attached 30 days of BS_X just to show its real.

We can get the numerical data from the Grace plot window using the menu option Data->Export->ASCII.

You must select all of the 'Write Sets' to get all of the traces in the plot window. The resulting ascii file is not in a great format, but its not terrible.

I think the most important next two items to budget are the optical lever noise, and the coil driver noise. The coil driver noise is dominated at the moment by the DAC noise since we're operating with the dewhitening filters turned off.

Olympus SP570 UZ - without  IR blocker, set up as Atm.3  Camera distance to MC  face ~85 cm,  IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM 16,300 counts, Lexan cover on not coated viewport.

Image mode: RAW + JPG,  M-costum,  manual focus,  Lens: Olympus 4.6 - 92 mm, f2.8 - 4.5,  Apeture: F2.8 - 8,  Image pick up device: 1/2.33" CCD (primary color filter)

Atm.1,       212k.jpg of raw 15 MB,  exp 0.025s,   apeture 2.97,  f 4.6,   iso 64,  

Atm.2,        Copied through my Cannon S100  (  3.3 MB.jpg of raw from UFraw photo shop )I will look up the original raw file for details.

Summary:

I've been playing around with Evan's NB code trying to put together a noise budget for the data collected during the DRMI locks last week. Here is what I have so far.

Attachment #1: Sensing matrix measurement.

• This is basically to show that the MICH error signal is mostly in AS55Q.
• The whitening gain used was 0dB, and the demod phase was -82 degrees.
• The MICH sensing response was 5.31*10^8 V/m, where V is the demod board output. The 40m wiki RFPD page for AS55 says the RF transimpedance is ~550ohms, and I measured the Demod Board puts out 5.1V of IF signal (measured at after the Preamp, which is what goes to the ADC) for 1V of RF signal at the PD input. Using these numbers, and assuming a PD responsivity of 0.8 A/W at 1064nm, the sensing response is 2.37*10^5 W/m. I don't have a feeling yet for whether this is a reasonable number, but it would be a number to compare to what my Finesse model tells me to expect, for example.
• Actuator calibration used to arrive at these numbers was taken from this elog. 

Attachment #2: MICH OLTF measurement vs model

• In order to build the MICH OLTF model, I used MATLAB to put together the following transfer functions:
  • BS pendulum
  • Digital servo filters from LSC_MICH
  • Violin mode filters 
  • Analog/Digital AA and AI filters. For the digital AA/AI filters, I took the coefficients from /opt/rtcds/rtscore/release/src/fe/controller.c
• The loop measurement was taken with digital filter modules FM1, FM2, FM3, FM7, FM9 engaged. 
• In order to fit the model to the measurement, I tried finding the best-fit values for an overall loop gain and delay. 
• The agreement between model and measurement isn't stellar, but I decided to push ahead for a first attempt. This loop TF was used to convert various noises into displacement noise for plotting.

Attachment #3: Noise budget

• It took me a while to get Evan's code going, the main changes I made were to use nds2 to grab data instead of GWPy, and also to replace reading in .txt files with importing .mat files. This is a work in progress.
• Noises plotted:
  • Measured - I took the in loop error signal and estimated the free-running displacement noise with the model OLTF, and calibrated it into metres using the sensing response measurement. This looks consistent with what was measured back in Dec 2015.
  • Shot noise - I used the measured DC power incident on the PD, 13mW, RF transimpedance of 550 V/A, and the V/m calibration factor mentioned above, to calculate this (labelled "Quantum Noise").
  • Dark noise - measured with PSL shutter closed.
  • Seismic noise, thermal noise, gas noise - calculated with GWINC

I think I did the various conversions/calibrations/loop algebra correctly, but I may have overlooked something. Now that the framework for doing this is somewhat set up, I will try and put together analogous NBs for PRCL and SRCL. 

GV 22 August 2017: Attachment #4 is the summary of my demod board efficiency investigations, useful for converting sensing measurement numbers from cts/m to W/m.

That's a new failure mode. Probably we can't trust the power to be safe anymore.

Need Steve to order a couple of surge suppressing power strips for the monitors. The computers are already on the UPS, so they don't need it.

Freshmen Rebecca Zhang as " work study undergrad "  received 40m specific basic safety training yesterday.

I made an Altium schematic for the microphone amplifier circuit for fabrication.

mic_schematicv2.pdf

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

- Is there any machine that can handle 4K? I have one 4K LCD for no use.
- I also can donate one 24" Dell

It seems we lost three monitors basically overnight.

The main (landscape, left) displays of Pianosa, Rossa and Allegra are all broken with the same failure mode:

their backlights failed. Gautam and I confirmed that there is still an image displayed on all three, just incredibly faint. While Allegra hasn't been used much, we can narrow down that Pianosa's and Rossa's monitors must have failed within 5 or 6 hours of each other, last night.

One could say ... they turned to the dark side

Quick edit; There was a functioning Dell 24" monitor next to the iMac that we used as a replacement for Pianosa's primary display. Once the new curved display is paired with Rossa we can use its old display for Donatella or Allegra.

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

[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).

MC2 ccd camera is replaced by Olympus 570 zoom temporarly.

So as the ETMY ccd camera is replaced by Cannon Rebel.

Both viewport are under Lexan protection and covered by Aluminum foil....still, turn all lighting off if you do not want room light in the IFO

Do not remove Lexan shield!

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. 

We ought to put the camera software on the shared disk; I don't think there's any speed reasons that it needs to be local.

Its OK to use optimus as the camera server for testing at the moment, but once we have things running, we'll install a few more cameras. With ~4-5 GigE running, we may not want to share with optimus, since we're also using it for comsol and skymap calculations.

You'll likely have to run camera_server.py using the same ini file first before you can use the client. Since the pylon installation is not on the shared drive but only local to optimus at the moment you would have to do it from there. You'll need to add /opt/pylon5/lib64/ to LD_LIBRARY_PATH or it won't find some required libraries. I couldn't start up the server all the way, probably because we need to define some slow EPICS channels before running the server script, as Joe points out in his document T1300202. You'll find instructions how to do that for example in this elog.

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 requested. even 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.

Using /ligo/apps/linux-x86-64/camera/bin/camera_client.py -c  /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/GigE/SnapPy/L1-CAM-MC1.ini, the Python script was able to run without error but didn't show any video feed from the camera in GStreamer. Problem might be in the configuration of the camera in the .ini file.
 

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

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.

Yesterday I failed to take good pictures of ETMY  resonant arm of 1064 nm with Cannon Rebel T3i in RAW 22-27Mp & JPG dual- format. UFRaw file converter worked well. The IR blocker filter seems to be too good.

Today I used Olympus SP-570UZ ( without IR blocker), in raw format of 15Mp, fl 22.4mm, 15s including 2-3s flashlight,  f/8 and auto focus  This is just too much scattered IR for the Olympus.

Overexposed raw picture' jpg is shown  at the PSL with diffraction patter of the camera.

I'll go back using  the Nikon D40 with zoom 55-200mm as this Atm2 of May 2007 : manual focus, 15s, f/4-5.6, ISO 560,  826KB

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...

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...

1064 nm Semiconductor Laser Fiber Distribution System and Mirror Tomography

Below threshold these Semiconductor Fabry-Perot lasers have an axial mode structure with a spacing of about a THz. As you turn up the current to above threshold the first mode to oscillate saturates the gain down on all the modes and only it oscillates.  The laser I have here in my office (a backup for the one you have at the 40 meter) has a wavelength of 1064.9 nm at 70 Degrees C.  We should be able to temperature tune it down to 1064.3 nm although this could be a bit tedious the first time we do it. The specifications claim a "spectrum width" of 1.097 nm which I believe is the temperature tuning range.  I don’t know what the line width is but it will be single frequency and we shouldn’t have mode hoping problems.  So we should be able to use it in the “Mirror Tomography” experiment.  You might want to use some sort of polarization diversity to avoid the problems of fiber polarization drift.

There have been 2 student projects on using the fiber distributed PD frequency response at1064 nm laser.

“Automated Photodiode Frequency Response Measurement System,” Alexander Cole - T1300618

“Final Report: Automated Photodiode Frequency Response Measurement System for Caltech 40m lab,” Nichin Sreekantaswamy - P140021

I’ll look up a few more references and add include them in the next elog.

Eric

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.