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12893   Mon Mar 20 11:18:58 2017 gautamUpdateCDSNo internet connectivity on control room machines

There is no internet connectivity on any of the control room machines.

I have been trying to debug by tracing the cabling situation in the rack in the office area, and will update if/when this problem has been resolved. I had last come into the lab on Saturday and there was no problem then. There 40m wireless network servicing the office area seems to work fine.

12894   Mon Mar 20 14:39:44 2017 gautamUpdateCDSNo internet connectivity on control room machines

Koji diagnosed that the NAT router was to blame for this problem. I simply power cycled this router, and now the connectivity has been restored.

It was possible to log into nodus and then to pianosa - and it was also possible to log into the various control room machines once logged into nodus. However, the outward packets seemed to not get transmitted. Anyways, power cycling the NAT Router unit seems to have done the job.

 Quote: There is no internet connectivity on any of the control room machines.  I have been trying to debug by tracing the cabling situation in the rack in the office area, and will update if/when this problem has been resolved. I had last come into the lab on Saturday and there was no problem then. There 40m wireless network servicing the office area seems to work fine.

12896   Tue Mar 21 15:13:44 2017 gautamUpdateIMCIMC input beam mode matching

[valera, gautam]

Last night, Valera and I looked into two aspects of the IMC:

1. How can we accurately set the offset at the error point of the PDH servo such that we lock to the true center of the resonance?
2. What's up with the large common mode offset on the WFS?

I will post a more detailed elog about last night's work, but Valera also thought it might be a good idea to try and improve the mode-matching into the IMC. I couldn't find anything on the wiki/elog about the mode matching situation on the PSL table, so I quickly went over yesterday to measure some lengths. From looking at the MCREFL DC levels when the mode cleaner is locked (~0.37V) and unlocked (~5.7V), the current mode matching efficiency seems to be about 88%, so there is definitely some headroom for improvement.

Here is my cartoon of the situation on the PSL table. All lengths are measured in mm, and I would say correct to +/- 5 mm, so there could be considerable error here...

(L1 : f=+200mm. L2: f=-150mm. L3:  f=+400mm)

I extracted the lengths from the edge of the PSL table to IM1 and MC1 from (what I think are) the latest CAD drawings on the DCC. I then put all this into an a la mode script [Attachment #5] - I assumed a waist of 370um at the PMC output mirror, and a waist of 1.78mm at MC1. I neglected the passage through the in-vac Faraday, EOM and BS1 (on the sketch above) and the MC1 substrate. I was able to achieve a theoretical mode-matching efficiency of 1 by just moving the positions of L2 and L3.

Given that there are probably errors of the order 0.5cm in the lengths on the PSL table, and also the in-vacuum distance to MC1, I figured it would be ideal to just move one lens and see if we can improve the efficiency. It looks like it may be more effective to move L2 than L3. The plot on the right shows that the sensitivity is approximately equal to the positioning of L2 and L3. Judging by this plot, looks like w.r.t. the coordinates in this plot, we are somewhere around (0.02,-0.02).

It looks like if we want to do this, moving L2 (f = -150mm) may be the best way to go.

Attachment 2: IMC_ModeMatch.pdf
Attachment 3: singleLensSensitivity.pdf
Attachment 4: sensitivity.pdf
Attachment 5: IMCmodeMatch.m
close all
clear all
clc

%Create a beamPath object
InpPath = beamPath;
%Add components - for a first pass, ignore Faraday and HWPs, so only
%mirrors and lenses..

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12897   Tue Mar 21 21:21:58 2017 gautamUpdateIOOWFS filter banks updated

The arrangement of filters in the WFS loop filter banks have been altered, Rana will update with details of the motivation behind these changes. Here is how the screen looks now:

I have updated the C1IOO SDF table, and also the mcwfson script to reflect these changes. The latter has been svn committed.

12898   Tue Mar 21 21:59:48 2017 gautamUpdateIMCIMC input beam mode matching

[valera, gautam]

We implemented the plan outlined in the previous elog. The visibility (Pmax-Pmin)/(Pmax+Pmin) calculated with the MC REFL PD levels with the MC locked/unlocked is now ~96% (up from 88%). The MC REFL DC level in lock is now ~0.12V (compared to 0.4V). Assuming a modulation depth of 0.1 @ 29.5MHz, about 25% of this (i.e. 0.03V) is from sideband light.

The procedure followed was (see sketch in previous elog for various optic labels):

1. Move L2 back (towards PMC) by ~2cm.
2. Walk the beam using M3 and M4 to minimize MCREFL, re-lock IMC, run WFS.
3. Move L3 back (towards PMC) by ~2cm.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3, the latter with smaller steps, monitor MCREFL DC level.

We could probably tweak the fine positioning of L2 and L3 and improve the efficiency a little more, but the primary objective here was to see if there was any effect on the large common mode offset on the WFS demodulated "SUM" output. Unfortunately, we saw no effect.

Here are two photos of the relevant section of the PSL table before (left) and after (right) our work there:

12899   Wed Mar 22 00:33:00 2017 gautamUpdateIMCIMC length offset nulling

[valera, gautam]

Motivation: see this elog

I was fiddling around for a few days trying to implement the method outlined in this paper to null this offset - I will post a separate elog about my efforts but Valera pointed out that we could try injecting an AF modulation at the IN2 input of the MC Servo Board. Last night, we hooked up an SR function generator (f = 312Hz, A = 0.01Vpp, IN2 gain = -5dB) to the unused BNC IN2 input of the MC Servo board. To avoid any additional offsets from the AO path during this measurement, I disconnected the LEMO cable (it is labelled).

We looked at the spectrum of the MC transmission around 312Hz and also 2*f = 624Hz. As a result of this modulation, we expect in the transmitted power, dP/P, a 2f term with amplitude ~(X_mod/X_0)^2 and a term at f with amplitude ~(X_offset * X_mod / X_0^2) - I may have missed out some numerical factors of order 1. So the latter should vanish if the offset at the error point is truly zero and the lock-point is the center of the resonance. Last night, we found that an offset in the range of -0.25 V to -0.19 V nulled this peak in the DTT spectrum. Today, the number was -0.05V. So the true offset seems to vary from lock to lock. Here are spectra around f=312Hz for a few different values of the offset slider (the center of the resonance seems to be -0.05V on the MEDM slider at this time).

Do these numbers make sense? Some time ago, I had pulled out the MC Servo board to find out what exactly is going on at this offset summing point. The MEDM slider goes from -10V to 10V, and by measuring the voltage at TP5 (see schematic below), I found that there is a 1/40 scaling factor between what is actually applied and the number on the MEDM slider (so for example, the numbers in the legend in the above plot have to be divided by 40). I've modified the MC Servo Board MEDM screen to reflect this. When I had pulled the board out, I noticed that in addition to the offset voltage applied via the backplane connector, there was also a potentiometer (R50 in the schematic below). I had nulled the voltage at TP5 using this potentiometer, but I guess drifts of ~5mV are possible.

Discussion on calibration of offset slider in Hz/V:

I've yet to do a rigorous calibration of this slider into Hz, but looking at the spectrum of the transmitted intensity at 2f, we estimated the coefficient (X_mod/X_0) ~ 3e-3 for an offset of 0.2V. dP/P ~1 when the applied modulation equals the linewidth of the cavity, which is 3.6kHz. So 0.2V of offset slider corresponds to ~ 10Hz frequency offset. In other words, I estimate the slider calibration to be 50Hz/V. So with the full range of +/- 10V, we should be able to scan ~1kHz of frequency offset. What does this imply about the variation of the offset slider value that removes the peak at 1f between locks? As mentioned above, this variation is ~0.2V over a day - with the calibration mentioned above, this corresponds to a change in cavity length of ~10um, which seems reasonable to me...

So how did all of this tie in with WFS SUM offsets? We did the following:

• After nulling the length offset using the procedure detailed above, we noticed non-zero offsets on both WFS1 and WFS2 "I" SUM outputs
• So we set the dark offsets and RF offsets for the WFS, with no light incident on the WFS (PSL shutter closed).
• Re-locking the IMC and closing the WFS loops, we noticed that WFS2 SUM offset was still hovering around 0, but WFS1 SUM offset was ~ -2000cts.
• Looking at some trends on dataviewer, this offset seems to drift around over a few days timescale by a few thousand counts - for example, the WFS1 offset today was +2000cts. Moreover, the WFS1 offset seems to drift around by ~factor of 3 times as much as WFS2 offset in the 24 hour period I looked up (plot to follow)...
• Misaligned MC2 and looked at the sum offset with just the single bounce beam off MC1 onto the WFS

I neglected to screenshot the StripTool from the times we were doing these trials but I have the times, I will pull up some dataviewer plots and upload them here tomorrow...

Attachment 1: offsetInvestigation.pdf
Attachment 2: offset_summing_amp.pdf
12900   Wed Mar 22 16:58:25 2017 gautamUpdateIMCWFS sensing matrix measurements

I've taken a bunch of transfer function measurements from the MC ASC PIT and YAW channels to the WFS error signals using the same set of DTT templates Koji used while characterizing the WFS loops a couple of months ago, before the IMC RF changes. Analysis is underway and I will post the results here shortly...

As an aside, Rana had added 10dB and 20dB gains to all of the WFS filter banks yesterday. I tried engaging the 10dB gains on the two MC2_TRANS PD loops, and this did not seem to induce any instability. I stepped both loops and saw that as expected, the 1/e times for both of these loops is about 45 seconds now (compared to ~150 seconds at the nominal gain). These have been running all day today, and the IMC seems well behaved, so I am going to leave these on for now... Jacking up the gain on the MC2_TRANS_QPD loops by 20dB induced instability - same story for the 4 WFS loops with 10dB additional gain...

12901   Thu Mar 23 01:44:53 2017 gautamUpdateIMCWFS sensing matrix measurements

Thanks to Koji's nice MATLAB script using DttData functions, I was able to quickly analyze the TF data. Essentially, this measurement was a repetition of what was done here. The difference is that the modulation depth has been increased by ~25x compared to that measurement from December 2016. Here are the measured TFs (before accounting for the 1/f^2 normalization) for the various quadrants and the PIT/YAW channels:

The plots above are just to illustrate that the measurement was clean between the band over which the averaging will be done to compute the TF amplitude - i.e. 7-15Hz. The full summary of TF amplitudes, standard deviations, and the sensing matrix in the style of the referenced elog (the actual excel spreadsheet is Attachment #4, minus some of the graphics Koji had on his excel sheet):

Inverting those matrices, we get the matrices that diagonalize the sensor-actuator chain:

PITCH:

$\begin{pmatrix} -0.00518 & -0.00305 & -639.6\\ 0.00354 & -0.00281 & 198.8\\ 0.00102 & 0.00672 & -756.6 \end{pmatrix}$

YAW:

$\begin{pmatrix} 0.00523 & -0.00276 & -856.7\\ 0.000318 & 0.00010 & -366.4\\ 0.00039 & -0.00548 & -851.9 \end{pmatrix}$

I will try implementing these matrices tomorrow and take a look at the step responses of the loops - the idea is that perhaps the system wasn't optimally diagonalized before and perhaps we can now improve the bandwidths of all the loops.

Attachment 1: IMC_WFS_segment_TF.pdf
Attachment 2: IMC_WFS_channels_TF.pdf
Attachment 3: TFsummary.pdf
Attachment 4: IMC_WFS_170322.xlsx.zip
12903   Thu Mar 23 23:38:58 2017 gautamUpdateIMCMC SUS damping gains stepped down

I've reduced the gains of the damping on all 3 MC SUS by a factor of 3 for overnight observation as part of the ongoing feedforward noise cancellation investigations. I will return them to the nominal values tomorrow morning.

12904   Fri Mar 24 11:26:57 2017 gautamUpdateIMCMC SUS damping gains restored

I've restored the damping loop gains to their nominal values. Analysis of the coherence between MCL and seismometer channels under this reduced gain setting is underway, results to follow.

12905   Fri Mar 24 12:21:27 2017 gautamSummaryIOOMCL / MCF / Calibration

I repeated this measurement as follows:

1. Added a filter in the MC_F filterbank (FM9) to account for the Pomona box between the PZT control signal and the laser PZT (pole@2.9Hz). So the filter bank at the time of TF measurement looks like this:
2. Measured TF from driving MC2 (with C1:SUS-MC2_MCL_OUT channel) to C1:IOO-MC_F, which is the output of the above filter bank. The response is the expected 1/f^2 shape of the free optic

3. From this transfer function, the magnitude is 0.0316 ct/ct. Using the value of 6nm/ct for the MC2 actuator gain that I found in a previous elog entry, I calibrated the MC_F output into Hz using the calibration factor 3.95MHz/ct (FM10 in the above filterbank).

Here is a calibrated MC_F spectrum:

RXA: I've added this plot of the free-running noise of the Lightwave NPRO which is probably similar to our Innolight Mephisto. Seems like the laser is quieter than MC_F everywhere below 100 Hz.

Attachment 2: MCF_cal.pdf
Attachment 3: MCFTF_mag.pdf
Attachment 4: MCFTF_phase.pdf
Attachment 5: MCFTF_coh.pdf
Attachment 6: FreqNoiseReq.pdf
12906   Fri Mar 24 19:04:18 2017 gautamUpdateIMCSeismic feedforward and WFS

[valera, gautam]

On Wednesday at the meeting, we were discussing why we aren't able to achieve more seismic feedforward subtraction in MCL. We spent some time thinking about this yesterday, and this elog is meant to be a summary of the stuff we tried.

1. We let the WFS loops run for a while and settle, and then turned the input gain down to zero so that the integrators held the outputs to the suspension at a "good" alignment. If the WFS loop bandwidth is ~0.1 Hz, then they aren't helping us at 1Hz anyways. We then looked at coherence between the seismometer signals in this state compared to when the WFS loops were running, and noticed negligible difference. It doesn't seem like the WFS loops are injecting noise into MCL at ~1Hz.
2. We decided agains implementing the WFS sensing matrix I measured on Wednesday evening, as we found that the relative magnitudes of the matrix elements are virtually the same as in Koji's measurement back in December 2016. But looking at matrix elements like MC1P->WFS1P compared to MC3P->WFS1P - there is a difference of a factor of ~3. Why should there be? The response should be completely symmetric to MC1 and MC3?
3. While looking at the OSEM channels (i.e. SUSPIT_IN1_DQ, SUSYAW_IN1_DQ etc) for each of the MC optics, we noticed a dramatic difference between MC1 (factor of ~10 higher) and the other two MC optics.
4. Looking at coherence between MCL and the seismometer channels, we felt that there is less coherence at low frequencies (1Hz and lower) now than there was back in January when I took a measurement. However, there was coherence between the OSEM signals and the seismometers - so it doesn't look like the seismometer is to blame. To make an apples-to-apples comparison, I compared the MCL and Seismometer channel spectra from January to now (for the latter, at two different settings of the damping loop gains on the MC suspensions), and also the maximum predicted achievable subtraction (using EricQs frequency domain multicoherence tool). The two changes I can think of since January are that the MC1 satellite box has been interchanged with the SRM satellite box, and the IMC servo gains have been reallocated since the RF upgrade. My findings are summarized in attachments #1 and #2.

The seismometer spectra look similar enough to be explained by time of day variations, so perhaps the culprit is MC1. The ambient MCL spectrum is almost an order of magnitude higher above 4Hz now, with the nominal damping loop gains, as compared to back in January. I think the damping loops on MC1 need to be tweaked.

Attachment 1: MCL_comparison.pdf
Attachment 2: seis_comparison.pdf
12916   Wed Mar 29 11:41:19 2017 gautamUpdatePSLPMC DAQ assay for feed-forward integration

The C1IOO frontend machine that resides in 1X1/1X2 has 2 ADCs, ADC0 and ADC1. The latter has 28 out of 32 channels unused at the moment, so I decided to use this for setting up fast channels for the PMC DAQ. On the RTCDS side of things, the PSL namespace block lives in the C1ALS model. I made the following modifications to it:

1. Added channels for the PMC DAQ
2. Added CDS filters for both the newly added PMC DAQ channels and the existing FSS DAQ channels, so that we can calibrate these into physical units
3. Changed the names of the existing FSS channels from FSS_MIXER and FSS_NPRO to FSS_ERR and FSS_CTRL. The latter is still a bit ambiguous, but I felt that FSS_CM_BOARD_CTRL was too long.
4. Added DQ channels for the new PMC channels. These are recording at 16K at the moment, but since we have the fast testpoints courtesy of the CDS filter modules for diagnostics, perhaps the DQ channels need only be recorded at 2K?

The PSL namespace block in C1ALS looks like this now:

I then tried hooking up the DAQ signals from the PMC servo board to the ADC via the 1U generic ADC interface chassis in 1X2 - this has 4pin LEMO inputs corresponding to 2 differential input channels. I used J6 (corresponding to ADC channels 10 and 11) for the PMC_ERR and PMC_CTRL respectively. I was a little confused about the status of the 4 pin LEMO output on the front panel of the PMC servo board. According to the DCC page for the modified 40m servo board, the DAQ outputs are wired to the backplane connector instead of the 4 pin LEMO. But looking at photographs on the same DCC page, there are wires soldered on the rear-side of the PCB from the 4-pin LEMO to the backplane connector. Also, I believe the measurements made by Rana in the preceeding elog were made via the front panel LEMO. In any case, I decided to use the single pin LEMO monitor points on the front panel as a preliminary test. The uncalibrated spectra with ADC terminated, IMC unlocked and IMC locked look like:

So it looks like at the very least, we want to add some gain to the AD620 instrumentation amplifiers to better match the input range of the ADC. We also want to make the PZT voltage monitor path AC coupled. My plan then is the following:

1. Figure out what is going on with the 4-pin LEMO connector on the front panel - is it connected to the DAQ monitor points or not?
2. Ground pin 5 of U15 (this has already been done by Koji for U14 according to the DCC page)
3. Add a resistor between pins 1 and 8 of U14 and U15 to get some gain. According to the datasheet, a 1k resistor will give a gain of 50, which for U15 will mean that we undo the existing 1/50 attenuation. Of course we need to AC couple this path first by adding a capacitor in series with R14.
4. Figure out where the RF harmonics are coming from and what is the best way to attenuate them.

I will update with a circuit diagram with proposed changes shortly.

Proposed changes:

1. Cut PCB trace between R14 and R13, install capacitor - what is is correct type of capacitor to use here? I figured installing a series capacitor after the resistive divider, to the input of the instrumentation amplifier avoids the need for a HV capacitor, so we can use a 1uF WIMA capacitor.
2. Add gains to U14 and U15 (error and control signal monitors respectively). Based on the uncalibrated spectra attached, I think we should go for a gain of ~50 for U15 (1kohm between pins 1 and 8), and a gain of ~200 for U14 (250ohms between pins 1 and 8).

The PCB layout is such that I think using components with leads is easier rather than SMD components.

If this sounds like a reasonable plan, I will pull out the servo card from the eurocrate and implement these changes today evening...

Attachment 2: PMCcheckout.pdf
Attachment 3: D980352-A-40m_151119.pdf
12918   Thu Mar 30 00:16:09 2017 gautamUpdatePSLPSL NPRO PZT calibration

As part of the ongoing effort to try and calibrate the PMC DAQ channels into physical units, I tried to get a calibration for the PSL NPRO PZT actuator gain. In order to do this, I selected "Blank" on the PMC servo MEDM screen such that there was no feedback signal to the PMC PZT for length control. Then I used the summing box right before the  PSL PZT to inject a ~1Hz triangular wave, 4Vpp. This was sufficient to sweep the NPRO frequency over 70MHz such that both sidebands and the carrier go through resonances in the PMC cavity. I then simultaneously monitored the applied triangular wave voltage and the PMC error signal (using the single pin LEMO connector on the front panel) on an oscilloscope. Analysis is underway, but a quick look at one measurement suggests a PZT actuator gain of ~1.44MHz/V, which is close to what we expect for the Innolight NPROs. The idea is to use this calibration to convert the DQ channels into physical units.

Details + plots + error analysis to follow...

12924   Mon Apr 3 17:09:47 2017 gautamUpdateCDSC1PSL burt-restored

When I came in this morning, Steve had re-locked the PMC and IMC - but I could see a ~1Hz intensity fluctuation on the PMC REFL video monitor. I unlocked the PMC and tried to re-lock it, but couldn't using the usual prescription of turning the servo gain down and moving the DC bias slider around. I checked the status of the slow machines - all were responding to pings and could be telnet'ed into, so that didn't seem to be the problem. In the past, this sort of behaviour was characteristic of the infamous "sticky slider" problem - so I simply burt-restored c1psl using a snapshot from 29 March, after which I could easily re-lock the PMC. The transmitted light level looked normal on the scope on the PSL table, and the PMC REFL video monitor also look normal now.

12925   Mon Apr 3 17:25:13 2017 gautamUpdatePSLPSL NPRO PZT calibration

Summary:

By sweeping the laser frequency and looking at the PMC PDH error signal, I have determined the 2W Mephisto Innolight PZT actuator gain to be 1.47 +/- 0.04 MHz/V

Method:

1. Re-aligned the input beam into the PMC to maximize transmission level on the oscilloscope on the PSL table to 0.73V.
2. Disabled control signal from IMC servo to PSL.
3. Unlocked the PMC and disabled the loop by selecting "BLANK" on the PMC MEDM screen.
4. Connected a 0.381 Hz 5Vpp triangular wave with SR function generator to the "SUM" input of the Fast I/F box just before the PSL PZT input. These params were chosen considering the Pomona box just before the NPRO has a corner at 2.9Hz, and also to sweep the voltage to the NPRO PZT over the full 150V permitted by the Thorlabs HV amplifier unit. Monitored the voltage to the Thorlabs HV amp from the "AFTER SUM" monitor point on the same box. Monitored the PMC PDH error signal using the single-pin LEMO monitor point on the PMC servo board (call this Vmon). Both of these signals were monitored using a Tektronix digital O'scope.
6. Fit a line to the voltage applied to the NPRO PZT - I assumed the actual voltage being applied to the PZT is 15*Vmon, the pre-factor being what the Thorlabs HV amplifier outputs. The zero crossings of the sideband resonances in the PDH error signal are separated by 2*fmod (separated by fmod from the carrier resonance, fmod = 35.5MHz assumed). With this information, the x-axis of the sweeps can be converted to Hz, from which we get the PZT actuator gain in MHz/V.

An example of the data used to calculate the actuator gain (left), and the spread of the calculated actuator gain (right - error bars calculated assuming 5e-4 s uncertainty in the sideband zero-crossing interval, and using the error in the slope of the linear fit to the sweep voltage):

This will now allow calibration of the PMC DAQ channels into Hz.

GV 4 April - The y-axis of the lower plot in Attachment #1 has mis-labelled units. It should be [V], not [MHz/V].

Attachment 1: PDHerr.pdf
Attachment 2: NPROcalib.pdf
12926   Mon Apr 3 23:07:09 2017 gautamUpdatePSLPMC DAQ assay for feed-forward integration

I made some changes to the DAQ path on the PMC servo board, as per the plan posted earlier in this thread. Summary of changes:

1. AC coupling PMC control signal path using 2 x 47uF metal film capacitors (in parallel)
2. Grounding pin 5 of U15
3. Adding gain to U14 (gain of ~500) and U15 (gain of ~50)

Details + photos + calibration of DAQ channels to follow. The PMC and IMC both seem to remain stably locked after this work.

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..

12936   Mon Apr 10 15:37:11 2017 gautamUpdateCOCRC folding mirrors - v3 of specs uploaded

Koji and I have been going over these calculations again before we send a list of revised requirements to Ramin. I've uploaded v3 of the specs to the DCC page. Here is a summary of important changes.

1. Change in RoC specification - I condensed the mode-matching information previously in 8 plots into the following 2 plots. Between tangential and saggital planes, the harmonic mean was taken. Between X and Y cavities, the arithmetic mean was taken. Considering the information in the following plots, we decided to change the spec RoC from 600 +/- 50m to 1000 +/- 150m. The required sensitivity in sag measurement is similar to the previous case, so I think this should be feasible.

Why this change? From the phase map information at  /users/public_html/40m_phasemap/40m_TTI gather that we have 2 G&H mirrors, one with curvature ~ -700m and the other with curvature ~ -500m. An elog search suggests that the installed PR2 has RoC ~ -700m, so this choice of RoC for PR3 should give us the best chance of achieving optimal modematching between the RCs and arms as per the plots below.

2. Cavity stability checks - these plots confirm that the cavity remains stable for this choice of RoC on PR3...

3. Coating design - I've been playing around with the code and my understanding of the situation is as follows. to really hit low AR of 10s of ppms, we need many dielectric layer pairs. But by adding more pairs, we essentially become more susceptible to errors in layer thickness etc, so that even though the code may tell us we can achieve R_AR(532nm) < 50ppm, the minima is pretty sharp so even small perturbations can lead to much higher R of the order of a few percent. On the HR side, we need a large number of layer pairs to achieve T_HR(1064nm)=50ppm. Anyways, the MC studies suggest that for the HR coating design, with 19 layer pairs, we can be fairly certain of T_HR(1064nm)<100ppm and R_HR(532nm)>97% for both polarizations, which seems reasonable. In order to make the R_HR(532nm) less susceptible to errors, we need to reduce the number of layer pairs, but then it becomes difficult to achieve the 50ppm T_HR(1064nm) requirement. Now, I tried using very few layer pairs on the AR side - the best result seems to be with 3 layer pairs, for which we get R_AR(532nm)<1% and T_AR(1064nm)>95%, both numbers seem reasonable to me. In the spectral reflectivity, we also see that the minima are much broader than with large number of layer pairs.

First row below is for the HR side, second row is for the AR side. For the MC studies, I perturbed the layer thicknesses and refractive indices by 1%, and the angle of incidence by 5%.

If there are no objections, I would like to send this version of the specs to Ramin and get his feedback. Specifically, I have assumed values for the refractive indices of SiOand Ta2O5 from google, Garilynn tells me that we should get these values from Ramin. Then we can run the code again if necessary, but these MC studies already suggest this coating design is robust to small changes in assumed values of the parameters...

Attachment 1: PRC_modematch.pdf
Attachment 2: SRC_modematch.pdf
Attachment 3: TMS_PRC.pdf
Attachment 4: TMS_SRC.pdf
Attachment 5: PR3_HR_spectralRefl.pdf
Attachment 6: PR3_HR_MC_CDF_revised.pdf
Attachment 7: PR3_AR_spectralRefl_new.pdf
Attachment 8: PR3_AR_MC_CDF_new.pdf
12939   Tue Apr 11 00:38:37 2017 gautamUpdatePSLPMC demod moved off servo board

As discussed at the Wednesday meeting last week, I tried moving the demodulation of the PMC error signal off the PMC servo board, by using some minicircuits components. This is just a quick summary elog, more details to follow tomorrow.

• I used the Mini Circuits ZAD-6+. This is a level 7 mixer, and the LO board puts out ~16dBm, so I replaced the existing 3dB attenuator between the LO board and the input to the PMC servo board with a 9dB attenuator.
• On the RF side, I retained the 35.5 MHz bandpass filter on the PD input.
• On the IF output, I used an in-line 50ohm terminator in series with a minicircuits BLP1.9+ low pass filter
• The mixer output was routed to the FP1 test input of the servo board
• After some twiddling with the demod phase MEDM screen, I was able to lock the PMC. I've not done a thorough characterization of the loop with the current configuration, this will be done tomorrow. But the PMC and IMC have been stably locked for the last couple of hours...

During the course of this work, I noticed that there was a 35.5MHz line (at ~-55dBm) in the 4-pin LEMO DAQ outputs even when all other inputs to the servo board were terminated. So it seems like this pickup is not coming from the RFPD or demod path. The LO board has a shield enclosure similar to what we have on the LSC demod boards, but perhaps this shield does not enclose the full RF path, and there is some residual pickup between the two cards in close proximity in the Eurocrate?

On the bright side, with this demod setup, the higher harmonic peaks seem to be significantly suppressed.

In particular, the 3x35.5 MHz peak which was very prominent when I looked at these spectra with the nominal demod setup, seems to be much suppressed.

I'm leaving the PMC servo in this configuration (off servo board demodulation using minicircuits parts) overnight.

Attachment 1: PMC_Ctrl_spec.pdf
12940   Wed Apr 12 00:36:53 2017 gautamUpdatePSLPMC demod moved off servo board

Here is a more detailed comparison of the spectra of the signals at the front panel DAQ LEMO output, measured with the Agilent analyzer. I've left the scale linear, it looks like when the demodulation is done on the servo board, the 1x, 3x and 5x harmonics of the 35.5MHz modulation are clearly visible. I also plut in a plot of the spectra when both the PD and LO inputs to the servo board are terminated (and so the PMC is unlocked), but with the HV In and OUT of the servo board still connected. In this case, the higher harmonics vanish, but a 35.5MHz peak of ~-50dBm remains. Since this is present with no input to the servo board, this must be direct pickup from the nearby LO board?

In any case, it looks like many of the harmonics that are present with the nominal demod setup either vanish or are much more suppressed when the error signal demodulation is done off the servo board .

Further down the signal chain, I had noticed sometime last week that the ADC signals for the PMC DAQ channels I set up seemed to saturate around 4000 counts. Rana mentioned that the ADC interface box with LEMO connectors on the front is powered with +/-5V. Valera and co. had simply increased the suppy voltage sometime ago to get around this problem, so I did something similar, and increased the supply voltage to +/- 15V. I then confirmed that the ADC doesn't get saturated by driving the input with a +/-5V signal. So now the amplified AD620 signals from the PMC servo board are better matched to the ADC range.

Here is an uncalibrated spectrum (taken with IMC locked), compared to the current ADC noise and signal levels before the AD620s were given gain.

I now need to think a little about what exactly the control scheme would be if the PMC is used as a reference for the IMC over some frequency range...

Attachment 1: PMC_digitalSpec.pdf
Attachment 2: PMC_DAQ_spectra.pdf
12944   Tue Apr 18 01:01:03 2017 gautamUpdatePSLPMC OLTF measured, DAQ channels calibrated

Quick entry, details to follow in the AM tomorrow.

• I calibrated the PMC DAQ channels into physical units - there now exists in the filter modules  cts2m and cts2Hz filter modules, though of course only one must be used at a time
• Finally measured the PMC OLTF, after moving the PMC PDH error signal demodulation off the servo board - I used the same procedure as Koji when he made the modifications to the PMC servo board, I will put up the algebra here tomorrow. Turns out the previously nominal servo gain of +10dB on the MEDM sliders was a little low, the new nominal gain is +20dB, and has been updated on the MEDM screen.

ToDo:

• Put up the modified schematic on the 40m DCC tree Done April 18 10pm
• Check calibration by comparing inferred PMC cavity displacement from error point and control point spectra, using the measured OLTF
• Finish up looking at multicoherence with MCL and various witness channel combinations

Attachment 1: PMCspectra_calibrated.pdf
12945   Tue Apr 18 16:10:00 2017 gautamUpdatePSLPMC OLTF measured, DAQ channels calibrated

Here are the details:

1. PMC OLTF:
• the procedure used was identical to what Koji describes in this entry.
• I used the SR785 to take the measurement.
• MEDM gain slider was at +20dB
• I used the two single pin LEMO front panel monitor points to make the measurement.
• Mix_out_mon was CH2A, HV_out_mon was CH1A on the SR785
• A = CH2A/CH1A with the SR785 excitation applied to the EXT_DC single pin LEMO input on the front panel. I used an excitation amplitude of 15mV
• B = CH2A/CH1A without any excitation
• Couple of lines of loop algebra tells us that the OLTF is given by the ratio A/B. The plot below lines up fairly well with what Koji measured here, UGF is ~3.3kHz with a phase margin of ~60degrees, and comparable gain margin at ~28kHz. As noted by Koji, the feature at ~8kHz prevents further increase of the servo gain. I've updated the nominal gain on the PMC MEDM screen accordingly... I couldn't figure out how to easily extract Koji's modelled OLTF so I didn't overlay that here... Overlaid is the model OLTF. No great care was taken in analyzing the goodness of the agreement with the model and measurement by looking at residuals etc, except that the feature that was previously at 28.8kHz now seems to have migrated to about 33.5 kHz. I'm not sure what to make of that.
2. PMC DAQ calibration:
• The calibration was done using the swept cavity, the procedure is basically the same as described by Koji in this elog.
• The procedure was slightly complicated by the fact that I added gain to the AD620 buffers that provide the DAQ signals. So simply sweeping the cavity saturates the AD620 very quickly.
• To workaround this, I first hooked up the un-amplified single pin LEMO front panel monitor points to the DAQ channels using some of the available BNC-LEMO patch cables.
• I then did the swept cavity measurement, and recorded the error and control signals fron the single pin LEMO front panel monitor points. Sweep signal was applied to EXT_DC input on front panel.
• In the nominal DAQ setup however, we have the amplification on the AD620. I measured this amplification factor by hooking up the single pin LEMO monitor point, along with its corresponding AD620 amplified counterpart, to an SR785 and measuring the transfer function. For the PMC_ERR channel, the AD620 gain is ~53.7dB (i.e. approx 484x). For the PMC_CTRL channel, the AD620 gain is ~33.6dB (i.e. approx 48x). These numbers match up well with what I would expect given the resistors I installed on the PMC board between pins 1 and 8 of the AD620. These gains are digitally undone in the corresponding filter modules, FM1.
• To calibrate the time axis into frequency, I located the zero crossings of the sidebands and equated the interval to 2 x fmod. For the PMC servo, fmod = 35.5MHz. I used ~1Hz triangle wave, 2Vpp to do the sweep. The resulting slope was 1.7026 GHz/s.
• The linear part of the PDH error signal for the carrier resonance was fitted with a line. It had a slope of 1.5*10^6 cts/s.
• The round trip length of the PMC cavity was assumed to be 0.4095m as per Koji's previous entry. This allows us to calibrate the swept cavity motion from Hz to m. The number is 1.4534 * 10^-15 m/Hz. I guess we could confirm this by sweeping the cavity with the DC bias slider through the full range of 0-250V, but we only have a slow readback of the PMC reflection (and no readback of the PMC transmission).
• Putting the last three numbers together, I get the PMC_ERR signal calibration as 1.6496 pm/ct. This is the number in the "cts2m" filter module (FM10).
• An analogous procedure was done to calibrate the control signal slope: from the sweep, I got 4617 cts/s, which corresponds to 2.7117*10^-6 cts/Hz. Using the FSR to convert into cts/m, I get for PMC_CTRL, 535.96 pm/ct. This is the number in the "cts2m" filter module (FM10).
• For convenience, I also added "cts2Hz" calibration filters in FM9 in the corresponding filter modules.

The updated schematic with changes made, along with some pictures, have been uploaded to the DCC page...

 Quote: Quick entry, details to follow in the AM tomorrow.​

Attachment 1: PMC_OLTF_170418.pdf
12947   Wed Apr 19 15:13:30 2017 gautamUpdatePSLPMC/MCL multicoherence

I used a one hour stretch of data from last night to look at coherence between the PMC control signal and MCL, to see if the former can be used as a witness channel in some frequency band for MCL stabilization. Here is a plot of the predicted subtraction and coherence, made using EricQs pynoisesub code. I had thought about adopting the greedy channel ranking algorithm that Eric has been developing for noise subtraction in site data, but since I am just considering 3 witness channels, I figured this straight up comparison between different sets of witness channels was adequate. Looks like we get some additional coherence with MCL by adding the PMC control signal to the list of witness channels, there is about a factor of a few improvement in in the 1-2Hz band...

Attachment 1: PMC_MCL_multicoherence.pdf
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
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
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
12972   Thu May 4 19:03:15 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralDRMI locking - preliminary MICH NB

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.

Attachment 1: DRMI_noArms_April30.pdf
Attachment 2: MICH_OLTF.pdf
Attachment 3: C1NB_disp_40m_MICH_NB_30_April_2017.pdf
Attachment 4: 40m_REFL_RFPDs_efficiency.pdf
12975   Fri May 5 12:10:53 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralMICH NB questions

 Quote: Is suspension thermal noise missing? I take it "Thermal" refers just to thermal things going on in the optic, since I don't see any peaks at the bounce/roll modes as I would expect from suspension thermal noise. What goes into the GWINC calculation of seismic noise? Does it include real 40m ground motion data and our seismic stacks? I'm surprised to see such a sharp corner in the "Dark Noise" trace, did you apply the OLG correction to a measured dark noise ASD? (The OLG correction only needs to be applied to the in-lock error signals to recover open loop behavior, there is no closed loop when you're measuring the dark noise so nothing to correct for.)

I've included the suspension thermal noise in the "Thermal" trace, but I guess the GWINC file I've been using to generate this trace only computes the thermal noise for the displacement DoF. I think this paper has the formulas to account for them, I will look into including these.

For the seismic noise, I've just been using the seis40.mat file from the 40m SVN. I think it includes a model of our stacks, but I did not re-calculate anything with current seismometer spectra. In the NB I updated yesterday, however, I think I was off by a factor of sqrt(3) as I had only included the seismic noise from 1 suspended optic. I've corrected this in the attached plot.

For the dark noise, you are right, I had it grouped in the wrong dictionary in the code so it was applying the OLG inversion. I've fixed this in the attached plot.
Attachment 1: C1NB_disp_40m_MICH_NB_30_April_2017.pdf
12979   Wed May 10 01:56:06 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralMICH NB - OL coupling

### 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

 Quote: 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.

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.

Attachment 1: OL_BS_ITM_comp.pdf
Attachment 2: C1NB_disp_40m_MICH_NB_8_May_2017.pdf
Attachment 3: C1NB_disp_40m_MICH_NB_10_May_2017.pdf
12980   Wed May 10 12:37:41 2017 gautamUpdateCDSMCautolocker dead

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.

12983   Wed May 10 17:17:05 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralDAC / Coil Driver noise

# 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.
Attachment 1: actuation.jpg
12984   Wed May 10 17:46:44 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralDAC / Coil Driver noise - SRM coil driver + dewhite board removed

## 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.

12986   Thu May 11 18:59:22 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralSRM coil driver + dewhite board initial survey

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).

Attachment 1: D010001-B_40m.pdf
Attachment 2: D000183-C8_40m.pdf
12987   Fri May 12 01:36:04 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralSRM coil driver + dewhite board LISO modeling

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.

Quote:

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).

Attachment 1: SRM_bypass_plus_CoilDriver.pdf
Attachment 2: liso.zip
12988   Fri May 12 12:34:55 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralITM and BS coil driver + dewhite board pulled out

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.

12990   Fri May 12 18:50:08 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralITM and BS coil driver + dewhite board pulled out

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.

 Quote: 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.

13003   Mon May 22 13:37:01 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralDAC noise estimate

### Summary:

I've spent the last week investigating various parts of the DAC -> OSEM coil signal chain in order to add these noises to the MICH NB. Here is what I have thus far.

### Current situation:

• Coils are operated with no DAC whitening
• So we expect the DAC noise will dominate any contribution from the electronics noise of the analog De-Whitening and Coil Driver boards
• There is a factor of 3 gain in the analog De-Whitening board

### DAC noise measurement:

• I essentially followed the prescription in G1401335 and G1401399
• So far, I only measured one DAC channel (ITMX UL)
• The noise shaping filter in the above documents was adapted for this measurement. The noise used was uniform between DC and 1kHz for this test.
• For the >50Hz bandstops, I used 1 complex pole pair at 5Hz, and 1 compelx zero pair at 50Hz to level off the noise.
• For <50Hz bandstops, I used 1 compelx pole pair at 1Hz and 1 complex zero pair at 5Hz to push the RMS to lower frequencies
• I set the amplitude ("gain" = 10,000 in awggui) to roughly match the Vpp when the ITM local damping loops are on - this is ~300mVpp (measured with a scope).
• The elliptic bandstops were 6th order, with 50dB stopband attenuation.
• The SR785 input auto-ranging was disabled to allow a fair comparison of the various bandstops - this was fixed to -20 dBVpk for all measurements, and the SR785 noise floor shown is also for this value of the input range. Input was also AC coupled, and since I was using the front-panel LEMO for this test, the signal was effectively single-ended (but the ground of the SR785 was set to "floating" in order to get the differential signal from the DAC)
• Attachment #1 shows the results of this measurement - I've subtracted the SR785 noise from the other curves. The noise model was motivated by G1401399, but I use an f^-1/2 model rather than an f^-1 model. It seems to fit the measurement alright (though the "fit" is just done by eye and not by systematic optimization of the parameters of the model function).

### Noise budget:

• I then tried to translate this result into the noise budget
• The noises for the 4 face coils are added in quadrature, and then the contribution from 3 optics (2 ITMs and BS) are added in quadrature
• To calibrate into metres, I converted the DAC noise spectral density into cts/rtHz, and used the numbers from this elog. I thought I had missed out on the factor of 3 gain in the de-white board, but the cts-to-meters number from the referenced elog already takes into account this factor.
• Just to be clear, the black line for DAC noise in Attachment #2 is computed from the single-channel measurement of Attachment #1 according to the following relation: $\script{n}_{\mathrm{DAC}} ~ (m/\sqrt{Hz}) = n_{1-ch} (V/\sqrt{Hz}) \times (2^{15}/20) (cts/V) \times G_{act} \times 2 \times \sqrt{6}$, where G_act is the coil transfer function from the referenced elog, taken as 5nm/f^2 on average for the 2 ITMs and BS, the factor of 2 comes from adding the noise from 4 coils in quadrature, and the factor of sqrt(6) comes from adding the noise from 3 optics in quadrature (and since the BS has 4 times the noise of the ITMs)
• Using the 0.016N/A number for each coil gave me an answer than was off by more than an order of magnitude - I am not sure what to make of this. But since the other curves in the NB are made using numbers from the referenced elog, I think the answer I get isn't too crazy...
• Attachment #2 shows the noise budget in its current form, with DAC noise added. Except for the 30-70Hz region, it looks like the measured noise is accounted for.

• I have made a number of assumptions:
• All DAC channels have similar noise levels
• Tried to account for asymmetry between BS and ITMs (BS has 100 ohm resistance in series with the coil driver while the ITMs have 400 ohms) but the individual noises haven't been measured yet
• This noise estimate holds for the BS, which is the MICH actuator (I didn't attempt to simulate the in-lock MICH control signal and then measure the DAC noise)
• But this seems sensible as a first estimate
• The dmesg logs for C1SUS don't tell me what DACs we are using, but I believe they are 16-bit DACs (I'll have to restart the machine to make sure)
• In the NB, the flattening out of some curves beyond 1kHz is just an artefact of the fact that I don't have data to interpolate in that region, and isn't physical.
• I had a brief chat with ChrisW who told me that the modified EEPROM/Auto-Cal procedure was only required for 18-bit DACs. So if it is true that our DACs are 16-bit, then he advised that apart from the DAC noise measurement above, the next most important thing to be characterized is the quantization noise (by subtracting the calculated digital control signal from the actual analog signal sent to the coils in lock)
• More details of my coil driver electronics investigations to follow...
Attachment 1: DAC_noise_model.pdf
Attachment 2: C1NB_disp_40m_MICH_NB_22_May_2017.pdf
13010   Tue May 23 22:58:23 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralDe-Whitening board noises

### Summary:

I wanted to match a noise model to noise measurement for the coil-driver de-whitening boards. The main objectives were:

1. Make sure the various poles/zeros of the Bi-Quad stages and the output stage were as expected from the schematics
2. Figure out which components are dominating the noise contribution, so that these can be prioritized while swapping out the existing thick-film resistors on the board for lower noise thin-film ones
3. Compare the noise performance of the existing configuration, which uses an LT1128 op-amp (max output current ~20mA) to drive the input of the coil-driver board, with that when we use a TLE2027 (max output current ~50mA) instead. This last change is motivated by the fact that an earlier noise-simulation suggested that the Johnson noise of the 1kohm input resistor on the coil driver board was one of the major noise contributors in the de-whitening board + coil driver board signal chain. Since the TLE2027 can drive an output current of up to 300mA, we could reduce the input impedance of the coil-driver board to mitigate this noise source to some extent.

### Measurement:

• The back-plane pin controlling the MAX333A that determines whether de-whitening is engaged or not (P1A) was pulled to ground (by means of one of the new extender boards given to us by Ben Abbott). So two de-whitening stages were engaged for subsequent tests.
• I first measured the transfer function of the signal path with whitening engaged, and then fit my LISO model to the measurement to tweak the values of the various components. This fitted file is what I used for subsequent noise analysis.
• ​For the noise measurement, I shorted the input of the de-whitening board (10-pin IDE connector) directly to ground.
• I then measured the voltage noise at the front-panel SMA connector with the SR785
• The measurements were only done for 1 channel (CH1, which is the UL coil) for 4 de-whitening boards (2 ITMs, BS, and SRM). The 2 ITM boards are basically identical, and the BS and SRM boards are similar. Here, only results for the board labelled "ITMX" are presented.
• For this board, I also measured the output voltage noise when the LT1128 was replaced with a TLE2027 (SOIC package, soldered onto a SOIC-to-DIP adaptor). Steve has found (ordered?) some DIP variants of this IC, so we can compare its noise performance when we get it.

### Results:

• Attachment #1 shows the modeled and measured noises, which are in fairly good agreement.
• The transfer function measurement/fitting (not attached) also suggests that the poles/zeros in the signal path are where we expect as per the schematic. I had already verified the various resistances, but now we can be confident that the capacitance values on the schematic are also correct.
• The LT1128 and TLE2027 show pretty much identical noise performance.
• The SR785 noise floor was low enough to allow this measurement without any pre-amp in between.
• I have identified 3 resistors from the LISO model that dominate the noise (all 3 are in the Bi-Quad stages), which should be the first to be replaced.
• There are some pretty large 60 Hz harmonics visible. I thought I was careful enough avoiding any ground loops in the measurement, and I have gotten some more tips from Koji about how to better set up the measurement. This was a real problem when trying to characterize the Coil Driver noise.

### Next steps:

• I have data from the other 3 boards I pulled out, to be updated shortly.
• The last piece (?) in this puzzle is the coil driver noise - this needs to be modeled and measured.
• Once the coil driver board has been characterized, we need to decide what changes to make to these boards. Some things that come to mind at the moment:
• Replace critical resistors (from noise-performance point of view) with low noise thin film ones.
• Remove the "fast analog" path on the coil driver boards - these have potentiometers in series with the coil, which we should remove since we are not using this path anyways.
• Remove all AD797s from both de-whitening and coil driver boards - these are mostly employed as monitor points that go to the backplane connector, which we don't use, and so can be removed.
• Increase the series resistor at the output of the coil driver (currently, these are either 100ohm or 400ohm depending on the optic/channel). I need to double check the limits on the various LSC servos to make sure we can live with the reduced range we will have if we up these resistances to 1 kohm (which serves to reduce the current noise to the coils, which is ultimately what matters).
Attachment 1: ITMX_deWhite_ch1_noise.pdf
13012   Thu May 25 12:22:59 2017 gautamUpdateCDSslow machine bootfest

After ~3months without any problems on the slow machine front, I had to reboot c1psl, c1susaux and c1iscaux today. The control room StripTool traces were not being displayed for all the PSL channels so I ran testSlowMachines.bash to check the status of the slow machines, which indicated that these three slow machines were dead. After rebooting the slow machines, I had to burt-restore the c1psl snapshot as usual to get the PMC to lock. Now, both PMC and IMC are locked. I also had to restart the StripTool traces (using scripts/general/startStrip.sh) to get the unresponsive traces back online.

Steve tells me that we probably have to do a reboot of the vacuum slow machines sometime soon too, as the MEDM screen for the Vacuum indicator channels are unresponsive.

 Quote: Had to reboot c1psl, c1susaux, c1auxex, c1auxey and c1iscaux today. PMC has been relocked. ITMX didn't get stuck. According to this thread, there have been two instances in the last 10 days in which c1psl and c1susaux have failed. Since we seem to be doing this often lately, I've made a little script that uses the netcat utility to check which slow machines respond to telnet, it is located at /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/cds/testSlowMachines.bash.

13015   Thu May 25 19:27:29 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralCoil driver board noises

[Koji, Gautam]

### Summary:

• Attachment #1 shows the measured/modeled noise of the coil driver board (labelled ITMX).
• Measurement was made with "TEST" input (which is what the DAC drives) is connected to ground via 50ohm terminator, and "BIAS" input grounded.
• The model tells us to expect a noise of the order of 5nV/rtHz - this is comparable to (or below) the input noise of the SR785, and even the SR560. So this measurement only serves to place an upper bound on the coil driver board noise.
• There is some excess noise below 40Hz, would be interesting to see if this disappears with swapping out thick-film resistors for thin film ones.
• The LISO model says that the dominant contribution is from the voltage and input current noise of the two op-amps (LT1125) in the bias LP filter path.
• But if we can indeed realize this noise level of ~10-20nV/rtHz, we are already at the ~10^-17m/rtHz displacement noise for MICH at about 200Hz. I suspect there are other noises that will prevent us from realizing this performance in displacement noise.

### Details:

This measurement has been troublesome - I was plagued by large 60Hz harmonics (see Attachment #1), the cause of which was unknown. I powered all electronics used in the measurement set up from the same power strip (one of the new surge-protecting ones Steve recently acquired for us), but these remained present. Yesterday, Koji helped me troubleshoot this issue. We did the various things, I try to put them here in the order we did them:

1. Double check that all electronics were indeed being powered from the same power strip - OK, but harmonics remained present.
2. Tried using a different DC power supply - no effect.
3. Checked the signal with an oscilloscope - got no additional insight.
4. I was using a DB25 breakout board + pomona minigrabbers to measure the output signal and pipe it to the SR785. Koji suggested using twisted ribbon wire + soldered BNC connector (recycled from some used ones lying around the lab). The idea was to minimize stray radiation pickup. We also disconnected the WiFi extender and GPIB box from the analyzer and also disconnected these from the power - this finaly had the desired effect, the large harmonics vanished.

Today, I tried to repeat the measurement, with the newly made twisted ribbon cable, but the large 60Hz harmonics were back. Then I realized we had also disconnected the WiFi extender and GPIB box yesterday.

Turns out that connecting the Prologix box to the SR785 (even with no power) is the culprit! Disconnecting the Prologix box makes these harmonics go away. I was using the box labelled "Santuzza.martian" (192.168.113.109), but I double-checked with the box labelled "vanna.martian" (192.168.113.105, also a different DC power supply adapter for the box), the effect is the same. I checked various combinations like

• GPIB box connected but not powered
• GPIB box connected with no network cable

but it looks like connecting the GPIB box to the analyzer is what causes the problem. This was reproducible on both SR785s in the lab. So to make this measurement, I had to do things the painful way - acquire the spectrum by manually pushing buttons with the GPIB box disconnected, then re-connect the box and download the data using SRmeasure --getdata. I don't fully understand what is going on, especially since if the input connector is directly terminated using a 50ohm BNC terminator, there are no harmonics, regardless of whether the GPIB box is connected or not. But it is worth keeping this problem in mind for future low-noise measurements. My elog searches did not reveal past reports of similar problems, has anyone seen something like this before?

It also looks like my previous measurement of the de-whitening board noises was plagued by the same problem (I took all those spectra with the GPIB boxes connected). I will repeat this measurement.

### Next steps:

At the meeting this week, it was decided that

• All AD797s would be removed from de-whitening boards and also coil-driver boards (as they are unused).
• Thick film resistors with the most dominant noise contributions to be replaced with thin-film ones.
• Gain of 3 on de-whitening board to be changed to gain of 1.

I also think it would be a good idea to up the 100-ohm resistors in the bias path on the ITM coil driver boards to 1kohm wire-wound. Since the dominant noise on the coil-driver boards is from the voltage noise of the Op-Amps in the bias path, this would definitely be an improvement. Looking at the current values of the bias MEDM sliders, a 10x increase in the resistance for ITMX will not be possible (the yaw bias is ~-1.5V), but perhaps we can go for a 4x increase?

The plan is to then re-install the boards, and see if we can

1. Turn on the whitening successfully (I checked with an extender board that the switching of the whitening stages works - turning OFF the "simDW" filter in the coil driver filter banks enables the analog de-whitening).
2. Relize the promised improvement in MICH displacement noise with the existing whitening configuration.

We can then take a call on how much to up the series resistance in the DAC signal path.

Now that I have figured out the cause of the harmonics, I will also try and measure the combined electronics noise of de-whitening board + coil driver board and compare it to the model.

 Quote: The last piece (?) in this puzzle is the coil driver noise - this needs to be modeled and measured.

Attachment 1: coilDriverNoises.pdf
13017   Mon May 29 16:47:38 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralCoil driver boards reinstalled

### Yesterday, I reinstalled the de-whitening boards + coil driver boards into their respective Eurocrate slots, and reconnected the cabling. I then roughly re-aligned the ITMs using the green beams.

I've given Steve a list of the thin-film resistors we need to implement the changes discussed in the preceeding elogs - but I figured it would be good to see if we can realize the projected improvement in MICH displacement noise just by fixing the BS Oplev loop shape and turning the existing whitening on. Before re-installing them however, I did make a few changes:

• Removed the gain of x3 on all the signal paths on the De-Whitening boards, and made them gain x1. For the De-Whitened path, this was done by changing the feedback resistor in the final op-amp (OP27) from 7.5kohm to 2.49kOhm, while for the bypass path, the feedback resistor in the LT1125 stages were changed from 3.01kohm to 1kohm.
• To recap - this gain of x3 was originally implemented because the DACs were +/- 5V, while the coil driver electronics had supply voltage of +/- 15V. Now, our DACs are +/- 10V, and even though the supply voltage to the coil driver boards is +/- 15V, in reality, the op-amps saturate at around 12V, so we aren't really losing much in terms of range.
• I also modified the de-whitening path in the BS de-whitening board to mimic the configuration on the ITM de-whitening boards. Mainly, this involved replacing the final stage AD797 with an OP27, and also implementing the passive pole-zero network at the output of the de-whitened path. I couldn't find capacitors similar to those used on the ITM de-whitening boards, so I used WIMA capacitors.
• The SRM de-whitening path was not touched for now.
• On all the boards, I replaced any AD797s that were being used with OP27s, and simply removed AD797s that were in DAQ paths.
• I removed all the potentiometers on all the boards (FAST analog path on the coil driver boards, and some offset trim Pots on the BS and SRM de-whitening boards for the AD797s, which were also removed).
• For one signal path on the coil driver board (ITMX ch1), I replaced all of the resistors with thin-film ones and re-measured the noise. However, the excess noise in the measurement below ~40Hz (relative to the model) remained.

Photos of all the boards were taken prior to re-installation, and have been uploaded to the 40m Google Photos page - I will update schematics + photos on the DCC page once other planned changes are implemented.

I also measured the transfer functions on the de-whitened signal paths on all the boards before re-installing them. I then fit everything using LISO, and updated the filter banks in Foton to match these measurements - the original filters were copied over from FM9 and FM10 to FM7 and FM8. The new filters are appended with the suffix "_0517", and live in FM9 and FM10 of the coil output filter banks. The measured TFs (for ITMs and BS) are summarized in Attachment #1, while Attachment #2 contains the data and LISO file used to do the fits (path to the .bod files in the .fil file will have to be changed appropriately). I used 2 complex pole pairs at ~10 Hz, two complex zero pairs at ~100Hz, real poles at ~15Hz and ~3kHz, and real zeros at ~100Hz and ~550Hz for the fits. The fits line up well with the measured data, and are close enough to the "expected" values (as calculated from component values) to be explained by tolerances on the installed components - I omit the plots here.

After re-installing the boards in the Eurocrate, restoring rough alignment, and updating the filter banks with the most recent measured values, I wanted to see if I could turn the whitening on for one of the optics (ITMY) smoothly before trying to do so in the full DRMI - switching off the "SimDW_0517" filter (FM9) should switch the signal path on the de-whitening board from bypass to de-whitened, and I had confirmed last week with an extender board that the voltage at the appropriate backplane connector pin does change as expected when the FM9 MEDM button is toggled (for both ITMs, BS and SRM). But today I was not able to engage this transition smoothly, the optic seems to be getting kicked around when I engage the whitening. I will need to investigate this further.

Unrelated to this work: the ETMY Oplev HeNe is dead (see Attachment #3). I thought we had just replaced this laser a couple of months ago - what is the expected lifetime of these? Perhaps the power supply at the Y-end is wonky and somehow damaging the HeNe heads?

Attachment 1: deWhitening_consolidated.pdf
Attachment 2: deWhitening_measurements.zip
Attachment 3: ETMY_OL.png
13019   Tue May 30 16:02:59 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralCoil driver boards reinstalled

I think the reason I am unable to engage the de-whitening is that the OL loop is injecting a ton of control noise - see Attachment #1. With the OL loop off (i.e. just local damping loops engaged for the ITMs), the RMS control signal at 100Hz is ~6 orders of magnitude (!) lower than with the OL loop on. So turning on the whitening was just railing the DAC I guess (since the whitening has something like 60dB gain at 100Hz).

The Oplev loops for the ITMs use an "Ellip15" low-pass filter to do the roll-off (2nd order Elliptic low pass filter with 15dB stopband atten and 2dB ripple). I confirmed that if I disable the OL loops, I was able to turn on the whitening for ITMY smoothly.

Now that the ETMY OL HeNe has been replaced, I restored alignment of the IFO. Both arms lock fine (I was also able to engage the ITMY Coil Driver whitening smoothly with the arm locked). However, something funny is going on with ASS - running the dither seems to inject huge offsets into the ITMY pit and yaw such that it almost immediately breaks the lock. This probably has to do with some EPICS values not being reset correctly since the recent slow-machine restarts (for instance, the c1iscaux restart caused all the LSC RFPD whitening gains to be reset to random values, I had to burt-restore the POX11 and POY11 values before I could get the arms to lock), I will have to investigate further.

GV edit 2pm 31 May: After talking to Koji at the meeting, I realized I did not specify what channel the attached spectra are for - it is  C1:SUS-ITMY_ULCOIL_OUT.

 Quote: But today I was not able to engage this transition smoothly, the optic seems to be getting kicked around when I engage the whitening. I will need to investigate this further.  Unrelated to this work: the ETMY Oplev HeNe is dead (see Attachment #3). I thought we had just replaced this laser a couple of months ago - what is the expected lifetime of these? Perhaps the power supply at the Y-end is wonky and somehow damaging the HeNe heads?

Attachment 1: OL_noiseInjection.pdf
13026   Thu Jun 1 00:10:15 2017 gautamUpdateGeneralCoil driver boards reinstalled

[Koji, Gautam]

We tried to debug the mysterious sudden failure of ASS - here is a summary of what we did tonight. These are just notes for now, so I don't forget tomorrow.

What are the problems/symptoms?

• After re-installing the coil driver electronics, the ASS loops do not appear to converge - one or more loops seem to run away to the point we lose the lock.
• For the Y-arm dithers, the previously nominal ITM PIT and YAW oscillator amplitudes (of ~1000cts each) now appears far too large (the fuzz on the Y arm transmission increases by x3 as viewed on StripTool).
• The convergence problem exists for the X arm alignment servos too.

What are the (known) changes since the servos were last working?

• Gain of x3 on the de-whitening boards for ITMX, ITMY, BS and SRM have been replaced with gain x1. But I had measurements for all transfer functions (De-White board input to De-White Board outputs) before and after this change, so I compensated by adding a filter of gain ~x3 to all the coil filter banks for these optics (the exact value was the ratio of the DC gain of the transfer functions before/after).
• The ETMY Oplev has been replaced. I walked over to the endtable and there doesn't seem to be any obvious clipping of either the Oplev beam or the IR transmission.

Hypotheses plus checks (indented bullets) to test them:

1. The actuation on the ITMs are ~x10 times stronger now (for reasons unknown).
• I locked the Y-arm and drove a line in the channels C1:SUS-ETMY_LSC_EXC and C1:SUS-ITMY_LSC_EXC at ~100Hz and ~30Hz, (one optic at one frequency at a time), and looked at the response in the LSC control signal. The peaks at both frequencies for the ITMs and ETMs were within a factor of ~2. Seems reasonable.
• We further checked by driving lines in C1:SUS-ETMY_ASCPIT_EXC and C1:SUS-ITMY_ASCPIT_EXC (and also the corresponding YAW channels), and looked at peak heights at the drive frequencies in the OL control signal spectra - the peak heights matched up well in both the ITM and ETM spectra (the drive was in the same number of counts).

So it doesn't look like there is any strange actuation imbalance between the ITM and ETM as a result of the recent electronics work, which makes sense as the other control loops acting on the suspensions (local damping, Oplevs etc seem to work fine).
2. The way the dither servo is set up for the Y-arm, the tip-tilts are used to set the input axis to the cavity axis, while actuation to the ITM and ETM takes care of the spot centering. The problem lies with one of these subsystems.
• We tried disabling the ASS servo inputs to all the spot-centering loops - but even with just actuation on the TTs, the arm transmission isn't maximized.
• We tried the other combination - disable actuation path to TTs, leave those to ITM and ETM on - same result, but the divergence is much faster (lock lost within a couple of seconds, large offsets appear in the ETM_PIT_L / ETM_YAW_L error signals.
• Tried turning on loops one at a time - but still the arm transmission isn't maximized.
3. Something is funny with the IR transmon QPD / ETMY Oplev.
• I quickly measured Oplev PIT and YAW OLTFs, they seem normal with upper UGFs around 5Hz and phase margins of ~30 degrees.
• We had no success using either of the two available Transmon QPDs
• Looking at the QPD quadrants, the alignment isn't stellar but we get roughly the same number of counts on all quadrants, and the spot isn't drastically misaligned in either PIT or YAW.

For whatever reasons, it appears that dithering the cavity mirrors at frequencies with amplitudes that worked ~3 weeks ago is no longer giving us the correct error signals for dither alignment. We are out of ideas for tonight, TBC tomorrow...

13028   Thu Jun 1 15:37:01 2017 gautamUpdateCDSslow machine bootfest

Steve alerted me that the IMC wouldn't lock. Reboots for c1susaux, c1iool0 today. I tried using the reset button instead of keying the crates. This worked for c1iool0, but not for c1susaux. So I had to key the latter crate. The machine took a good 5-10 minutes before coming back up, but eventually it did. Now IMC locks fine.

13033   Fri Jun 2 01:22:50 2017 gautamUpdateASSASS restoration work

I started by checking if shaking an optic in pitch really moves it in pitch - i.e. how much PIT to YAW coupling is there. The motivation being if we aren't really dithering the optics in orthogonal DoFs, the demodulated error signals carry mixed information which the dither alignment servos get confused by. First, I checked with a low frequency dither (~4Hz) and looked at the green transmission on the video monitors. The spot seemed to respond reasonably orthogonally to both pitch and yaw excitations on either ITMY or ETMY. But looking at the Oplev control signal spectra, there seems to be a significant amount of cross coupling. ITMY YAW, ETMY PIT, and ETMY YAW have the peak in the orthogonal degree of freedom at the excitation frequency roughly 20% of the height of the DoF being driven. But for ITMY PIT, the peaks in the orthogonal DoFs are almost of equal height. This remains true even when I changed the excitation frequencies to the nominal dither alignment servo frequencies.

I then tried to see if I could get parts of the ASS working. I tried to manually align the ITM, ETM and TTs as best as I could. There are many "alignment references" - prior to the coil driver board removal, I had centered all Oplevs and also checked that both X and Y green beams had nominal transmission levels (~0.4 for GTRY, ~0.5 for GTRX). Then there are the Transmon QPDs. After trying various combinations, I was able to get good IR transmission, and reasonable GTRY.

Next, I tried running the ASS loops that use error signals demodulated at the ETM dither frequencies (so actuation is on the ITM and TT1 as per the current output matrix which I did not touch for tonight). This worked reasonably well - Attachment #1 shows that the servos were able to recover good IR transmission when various optics in the Y arm were disturbed. I used the same oscillator frequencies as in the existing burt snapshot. But the amplitudes were tweaked.

Unfortunately I had no luck enabling the servos that demodulate the ITM dithers.

The plan for daytime work tomorrow is to check the linearity of the error signals in response to static misalignment of some optics, and then optimize the elements of the output matrix.

I am uploading a .zip file with Sensoray screen-grabs of all the test-masses in their best aligned state from tonight (except ITMX face, which for some reason I can't grab).

And for good measure, the Oplev spot positions - Attachment #3.

 Quote: While Gautam is working the restoration of Yarm ASS, I worked on Xarm.

Attachment 1: ASS_Y_recovery.png
Attachment 2: ASS_Repairs.zip
Attachment 3: OLs.png
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