The c1lsc has been unstable since last night. Its status on the DAQ screen was oscillating from green to red every minute.

Yesterday, I power recycled it. That brought it back but the MC got unclocked and the autolocker could not get engaged. I think it's because the power recycling also turned c1iscaux2 off which occupies the same rack crate.

Killing the autolocker on op340 e restarting didn't work. So I rebooted also c1dcuepis and burt-restored almost all snapshot files. To do that, as usual, I had to edit the snapshot files of c1dcuepics to move the quotes from the last line.

After that I restarted the autolocker that time it worked.

This morning c1lsc was again in the same unstable status as yesterday. This time I just reset it (no power recycling) and then I restarted it. It worked and now everything seems to be fine.

The LSC time had gone too high. I deleted ~20 filters and rebooted. CPU time came down to 50 usec.

The filters all looked like old trash to me, but its possible they were used.

I didn't delete anything from the DARM, CARM, etc. banks but did from the PD and TM filter banks. You can always go back in time by using the

filter_archive/

[Rana, Jamie, Jenne]

SPOB DC hasn't been so good lately, so we installed a new PO DC PD on the PO table.  We used a 30% reflecting beam splitter (BS1-1064-30-1025-someotherstuff).  We didn't check with a power meter that it's a 30% BS, but it seems like that's about right.  The beamsplitter is as close as we could get to the shutter immediately in front of the regular POB/SPOB PD's, since that's where the beam gets narrow.   The new picked-off-pickoff beam goes to a Thorlabs 100A PD.  We haven't yet checked for reflected beams off the PD,  but there is a spare razor blade beam dump on the table which can be used for this purpose.  The output of this PD goes to the LSC rack via a BNC cable.  (This BNC cable was appropriated from it's previous "use" connecting a photodiode from the AP table to a bit of air just next to the LSC rack.)  Our new cable is now connected where the old SPOB DC cable used to be, at the input of a crazy Pomona Box tee.

For reference, the new levels of POB DC and SPOB DC, as measured by their BNC DC out connections is ~4mV each.  Since the beamsplitter is 70% transmissive, we used to be getting about 5.7mV on each PD.

The new photodiode puts out about 40mV, but it has an ND1.0 filter on, so if more gain is needed, we can take it off to get more volts.

Note the effect of quadrature rotation for small offsets.

This is the two arms locked, for an hour.  No integrator in either loop, but from this it looks like ETMY may have a bigger length2angle problem than ETMX.  I'll put some true integrators in the loops and do this again.

 There appear to be at least two independent problems: the coil balancing for ETMY is bad, and something about ITMX is broken (maybe a coil driver). 

The Y-arm becomes significantly misaligned during long locks, causing the arm power to drop.  This misalignment tracks directly with the DC drive on ETMY.  Power returns to the maximum after breaking and re-establishing lock.

ITMX alignment wanders around sporadically, as indicated by the oplevs and the X-arm transmitted power.  Power returns to previous value (not max) after breaking and re-establishing lock.

Both loops have integrators.

Here is a set of mode scans of the AS port, using the OMC as a mode scanner.  The plot overlays various configurations of the IFO.  

To remove PZT nonlinearity, each scan was individually flattened in fsr-space by polynomial (3rd order) fitting to some known peak locations (the carrier and RF sidebands).
 

I just added two slow channels to C0EDCUEPICS to monitor the input of PD11. The names are:

[C1:LSC-PD11_I_INMON]
[C1:LSC-PD11_Q_INMON]

Pete, Alberto,

tonight we worked on the tuning of the double demod phases for the handoff of the short DOFs control signals.

Only MICH can now undergo the handoff. PRC can't make it.

Basically, we tuned the PD6 demod phase and reduced the offset in PD6_I. Then we tuned the relative gain of PD6_I and PD2_I so that the two open loop transfer function of the control loops would match. We tried that in several ways and several times but without success.

I guess we're missing to do/check something.

This afternoon I tuned the handoff script for the SRC, after that Rob eralier during the day had already adjusted that for PRC. To do that, I followed the procedure in the Wiki.

• I measured the OL transfer function of the single demod path and of the double demod path and tuned thier gains so that they matched
• I tuned the double demod pahses of PD_7 and PD_8 in order to reduce the offset in the PD_x_I signals

After that the SRC could get locked with the double demod signals. the open loop transfer function emasurement on the PRC loop showed that it was nearly unstable. Rob reduced a little its gain to improve the stability.

The DD handoff is now working and we can get back to locking the interferometer.

This is a ratio of PD1_I to PD1_Q (so a ratio of the two quadratures of AS166), measured in an anti-spring state.  It's not flat because our set up has single sideband RF heterodyne detection, and using a single RF sideband as a local oscillator allows one to detect different quadratures by using different RF demodulation phases.   So the variation in frequency is actually a measure of how the frequency response of DARM changes when you vary the detection quadrature.  This measure is imperfect because it doesn't account for the effect of the DARM loop.

Even though you can choose your detection quadrature with this setup, you can't get squeezed quantum noise with a single RF sideband.  The quantum noise around the other (zero-amplitude) RF sideband still gets mixed in, and negates any squeezing benefits.

These are the settings which determine the transmon (eg, TRX) amplitude, and which are updated by the matchTransMon scripts.

For the X arm

op440m:AutoDither>tdsread C1:LSC-TRX_GAIN C1:LSC-LA_PARAM_FLT_01 C1:LSC-LA_PARAM_FLT_00
0.0023
0.155
119.775

For the Y arm

op440m:AutoDither>tdsread C1:LSC-TRY_GAIN C1:LSC-LA_PARAM_FLT_04 C1:LSC-LA_PARAM_FLT_03
0.00237196
-0.116
19.9809

All of the LSC RF PDs have been aligned.  I didn't really change much of anything, since for all of them, the beam was already pretty close to center.  But they all got the treatment of attaching a Voltmeter to the DC out, and adjusting the steering mirror in both pitch and yaw, finding where you fall off the PD in each direction, and then leave the optic in the middle of the two 'edges'.

Before aligning each set (PO, Refl, AS), I followed the procedure in Rob's new RF photodiode Wiki Page. 

Also, for superstitious reasons, and in case I actually bumped them, I squished all of the ribbon cable connectors into the PDs, just in case.

Today I aligned the beam to PD3 (POX) since Steve had moved it.

The DC power read 1.3mV when the beam was on the PD.

Mode cleaner length measured tonight.

33196198

132784792

165980990

199177188

[Tag by KA: modulation frequency, MC length]

While measuring the Piezo Jena noise tonight we noticed that the LSC timing is setup strangely.

Instead of using the Fiber Optic Sander Liu Timing board, we are just using a long 4-pin LEMO cable which comes from somewhere in the cable tray. This is apparent in the rack pictures (1X3) that Kiwamu has recently posted in the Electronics Wiki. I think all of our front ends are supposed to use the fiber card for this. I will ask Jay and Alex what the deal is here - seems like to me that this can be a cause for timing noise on the LSC.

We should be able to diagnose timing noise between the OMC and the LSC by putting in a signal in the OMC and looking at the signal on the LSC side. Should be a matlab script that we can run whenever we are suspicious of this. This is an excellent task for a new visiting grad student to help learn how to debug the digital control system.

Could be this.

http://ilog.ligo-la.caltech.edu/ilog/pub/ilog.cgi?group=detector&task=view&date_to_view=10/02/2009&anchor_to_scroll_to=2009:10:02:13:33:49-waldman

Today I made a measurement to research the LSC timitng issue as mentioned on Oct.16th.

*method

I put the triangular-wave into the OMC side (OMC-LSC_DRIVER_EXT) by AWG,

then looked at the transferred same signal at the LSC side (LSC_DARM_IN1) by using tdsdata.

I have compared these two signals in time domain to check whether they are the same or not.

In the ideal case it is expected that they are exactly the same.

*preliminary result

The measured data are shown in attached fig.1 and 2.

In the fig.1 it looks like they are the same signal.

However in fig.2 which is just magnified plot of fig.1, it shows a time-delay apparently between them.

The delay time is roughly ~50 micro sec.

The surprising is that the LSC signal is going beyond the OMC signal, although the OMC signal drives the LSC !!

We can say it is "negative delay"...

Anyway we can guess that the time stamp or something is wrong.

*next plan

Tomorrow I'm going to measure the transfer-function between them to see the delay more clearly.

( And I would like to fix the delay. )

You yourself told me that tdsdata uses some downconversion from 32k to 16k!

So, how does the downconversion appears in the measurement?
How does the difference of the sampling rate appears in the measurement?
If you like to understand the delay, you have to dig into the downconversion
issue until you get the EXACT mechanism including the filter coefficients.

AND, is the transfer function the matter now?

As far as the LSC and OMC have some firm relationship, whichever this is phase delay or advance or any kind of filering,
this will not introduce any noise. If so, this is just OK.

In my understanding, the additional noise caused by the clock jitter is the essential problem.
So, did you observe any noise from the data?

Of course I know there is a downconversion in OMC signal from 32k to 16k.

But I was just wondering if the delay comes from only downconversion.

And I can not find any significant noise in both signals because I use the triangular, which cause the higer harmonics and can hide the timing noise in frequency domain.

So I'm going to make the same measurement by using sinusoidal instead of triangular, then can see the noise in frequency domain.

I measured the noise spectrum of LSC_DARM_IN1 and OMC-LSC_DRIVE_EXC by using DTT,

while injecting the sin-wave into the OMC-LSC_DRIVE by AWG.

The attached are the results.

No significant differences appears between OMC and LSC in this measurement.

It means, in this measurement we can not figure out any timing noise which might be in LSC-clock.

In addition there are the noise floor, whose level does not change in each 3-figures. The level is about ~4*10^{-8} count/sqrt[Hz]

(The source of the noise floor is still under research.)

The 33MHz mod depth is now controlled by the OMC (C1:OMC-SPARE_DAC_CH_15).  The setting to give us the same modulation depth as before is 14000 (in the offset field).

According to my measurements I conclude that LSC-signal is retarded from OMC-signal with the constant retarded time of 92usec.
It means there are no timing jitter between them. Only a constant time-delay exists.

(Timing jitter)
Let's begin with basics.
If you measure the same signal at OMC-side and LSC-side, they can have some time delay between them. It can be described as followers.

where tau_0 is the time delay. If the tau_0 is not constant, it causes a noise of the timing jitter.

(method)
I have injected the sine-wave with 200.03Hz into the OMC-LSC_DRIVE_EXC. Then by using get_data, I measured the signal at 'OMC-LSC_DRIVE_OUT' and 'LSC-DARM_ERR' where the exciting signal comes out.
In the ideal case the two signals are completely identical.
In order to find the delay, I calculated the difference in these signals based on the method described by Waldman. The method uses the following expression.

Here the tau_s is the artificial delay, which can be adjusted in the off line data.
By shifting tau_s we can easily find the minimal point of the RMS, and at this point we can get tau_0=tau_s.
This is the principle of the method to measure the delay.  In my measurement I put T=1sec. and make the calculation every 1sec. in 1 min.

(results)
Attachment is the obtained results. The above shows the minimum RMS sampled every 1sec. and the below shows the delay in terms of number of shifts.
1 shift corresponds to Ts (=1/32kHz).  All of the data are matched with 3 times shift, and all of the minimum RMS are completely zero.
Therefore I can conclude that LSC-signal is retarded from OMC-signal with constant retarded times of 3*Ts exactly, and no timing jitter has been found.
 

The diagnostic script I've written is available in the 'caltech/users/kiwamu/work/20091026_OMC-LSC-diag/src'.

To run the script, you can just execute 'run_OMC_LSC.sh' or just call the m-file ' OMC_LSC_timinig.m'  from matlab.

NOTES:

The script destructs the lock of DARM and OMC, be careful if you are working with IFO.

I set a cron job on allegra.martian to run the diagnostic script every weekend.

I think this routine can be helpful to know how the trend of timing-shift goes

The cron runs the script on every Sunday 5:01AM and diagnostics will take about 5 min.

! Important:

During the running of the script, OMC and DARM can not be locked.

If you want to lock OMC and DARM in the early morning of weekend, just log in allegra and then comment out the command by using 'crontab -e'

As I wrote on Oct.27th, the cron job works every Sunday.

I found it worked well on the last Sunday (Nov.1st).

And I can not find any timing jitter in the data, its delay still stay 3*Ts.

I'm going to work on the X arm to measure the arm cavity finesse.

The idea is to measure the cavity transfer function to estimate the frequency of its cavity pole. That should be a more accurate measurement than that based on the cavity decay time.

I'm starting now and I'm going to inject a swept sine excitation on the OMC_ISS_EXC input cable laying on the floor nearby the AP table (see pic).

In orderf to do that I disconnected the cable from the OMC breakout box laying on the floor. I'm going to plug the cable back in as soon as I'm done.

 Since I need to measure the transfer function between TRX and MC_TRANS_DC I picked off the beam going to RFAM PD to send it to a PDA255 photodiode (cannibalized from the AbsL's PLL) which I installed on the PSL table.

I centerd the beam on the PD and I was able to see the injected signal.

I think I'm ready to measure the transfer function.

Except for the RFAM PD everything is as before.

I'm gonna go grab dinner and I should be back to keep working on that in about one hour.

 Back from dinner. Taking measurements.

I measured the transfer function between MC_TRANS and TRX and I'm attaching the result.

That looks quite strange. Something's wrong. I'll repeat it tomorrow.

for the night I'm putting everything back. I'm also reconnecting the OMC_ISS_EXC and opening again the test switch on the ISS screen.

The RFAM monitor remains disable

I would have guessed that you have to calibrate the detectors relative to each other before trying this. Its also going to be tricky if you use 2 different kinds of ADC for this (c.f. today's delay discussion in the group meeting).

I think Osamu used to look at fast transmission signals by making sure the PD at the end had a 50 Ohm output impedance and just drive the 40m long cable and terminate the receiving end with 50 Ohms. Then both PDs go into the SR785.

On Rana's suggestion I measured the trasfer function between the two photodiodes PDA255 that I'm using.

I took the one that I had on the end table and put it on the PSL table. I split the MC transmitted beam with a 50% beam splitter and sent the beams on the two diodes. (Rana's idea of picking off the beam and interposing the PDs before the ISS PDs was not doable: ISS PDs would be too close and there would be no room to install the PDA255 before them). See picture with the final setup.

The transfer function also includes the 40m long cable that I was using for the Arm Cavity measurement.

Here's what I got. It looks rather flat. Yesterday the calibration was probably not the problem in that measurement.

 I'm now going to install the PD back on the end table and measure the TFs between the excitation and several points of the loop.

(Trivia. At first, the PDs were saturating so Koji attached attenuation filters on to them. Suddenly the measurement got much nicer)

It seems that just repeating the measurement was enough to get a good transfer function of the x arm cavity. Here's what I got.

I'm going to fit the data on matlab, but at first sight, the pole seems to be at about 1.7KHz (that is where the phase is 45deg): as expected.

Probably it was useful to realign the beam on the Transmission PD. (btw, I'm using the PDA255 that was still on the X end table since the AbsL experiemtn that measured the arm length)

As for the X Arm, this the transfer function I measured for the Y arm cavity.

This time I'm using a different photodiode than the PDA255 on the Y end table.

The diode I'm using is the PDA520 from where TRY comes from.

I'm going to repeat the measurement with PDA255.

 Measurement repeated with the PDA255 PD at the end but not big changes

I disconnected the setup for the arm cavity TF measurement. I opened the scitation switch on the ISS medm screen. I reconnected the OMC ISS EXC cable to the breakout box on the floor.

The photodiode on the Y end is stilll connected.

Also the RFAm (whish is not disbaled anymore) still has a 50% beam splitter before it.

I'm also running the Align Full IFO script.

The MC2 watchdogs tripped. I just restored them.

I also had to relock the MZ and then the Mode Cleaner.

I removed the beam splitter and the PDA 255.

the beam path to the RFAM photodiode is clear again.

From fitting the arm cavity transfer functions I got the following values for the cavity pole frequencies.

X ARM: fp_x = (1720 +/- 70) Hz

Y ARM: fp_y = (1650 +/- 70) Hz

Attached are the plots from the fitting.

Steps:

1) Turn off feedback to ETMY (the ETMY button on the LSC screen).

2) Put a 1 into the YARM->MC2 output matrix element on the LSC screen.

3) Turn off FM6 (comb), FM7 (0.1:10) on the MC2_MCL filter bank. This is to make the IOO-MCL loop more stable and to reduce the IOO-MCL low frequency gain.

4) Set the MC2-LSC gain to 0.5, turn the output ON, turn ON FM4 & FM5 & FM6 of the MC2-LSC filter bank.

5) Turn on the input of MC2-LSC and the arm should now lock.

6) After locking, set the MC2-MCL gain to zero. Hopefully with a few second ramp time.

Voila!

(A comment by KA - c.f. this entry )