Pump down #66 is 435 days old. RGA scan is normal. New maglev is fine. New UPS is in place but not hooked up to communicate.

V1 has bare minimum interlock. Pirani vacuum gauges  PTP1 and PRP do not communicate with readout system.

There is no emergency dial out in case of vacuum loss.  Our existing vacuum dedicated desk top computer is dead.

New cold cathodes, Pirani gauges and gauge controller should be added.

In general: vacuum system needs an upgrade !

Good news and bad news. For the MOPA diagram, which I did recently, I have GIMP file with separate layers for the background image, ray traces, and labels. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that this was the best way to do it until I had done most of the ray tracing for the main diagram, so, although I have that file in GIMP as well, only the labels are on a separate layer. If this is a major issue I can do the tracing again. The other thing is that the original files are quite large: 17.3 MB for the MOPA, and 64.1(!) MB for the main diagram. Let me know what you think.

Diagram. I don't want to say PNG is an editable format for this purpose...
You have the PPT, PDF or any drawing format to create this diagram.

 Do you mean the diagram or the inventory? The diagrams are online as attachments (small versions on the main "PSL Table Diagram" page and large versions on the linked pages). The inventory is easily editable on the wiki itself. It's just rendered in table form using the CSV parse utility for "comma-separeted values" (though you actually need to use semicolons, for reasons unknown).

 I have updated the PSL Diagram wiki page to include MOPA. As with the PSL diagram, clicking the photo on the main page takes you to a larger image. The inventory is pretty meager as I didn't have time to sit and read labels (if indeed there are any). I will look through the documentation at the 40m to see if there is a record of what is there. Again, if you know something, please amend the list!!

http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/40m/PSL_Table_Diagram

 IP-ANG clipping can be traced back to our last vent of Aug. 18, 2008  See elog entry #845

This was an after earth quake - sus repair vent

On behalf of Steve and of the rest of the not-native-English community at the 40m willing to have their browser's spell checker working while editing the Elog, I fixed the Elog's feature that prevented Firefox' context menu (that one which pops up with a mouse right click) to work when using the HTML editing interface (FCKeditor).

That let also Firefox spell checker to get enabled.

To get the browser context menu just press CTRL right-clicking.

To make sure that the features works properly on your browser, you might have to fully clear the browser's cache.

Basically I modified the FCKeditor config file (/cvs/cds/caltech/elog/elog-2.7.5/scripts/fckeditor/fckconfig.js). I added this also to the elog section on our Wiki.

David Nolting, chief LIGO Safety Officer and his lieutenants from LLO and LHO paid homage to the 40m lab this morning.

They give us a few recommendation: update safety documents, move optical table from the front of ETMX-rack and label-identify absorbent plastics on enclosure windows-doors.

We'll correct these short comings ASAP

I uploaded on the Wiki (here) the results of an inventory over our current PDs, a list of the new ones that we're going to need for the new control scheme.

http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/40m/PSL_Table_Diagram

Thanks. I love this. Could you also put the original file that is editable for future modification by anyone?

 I made a wiki entry for the PSL table diagram under the PSL directory on the 40mHomePage. I tried to use the ImageLink macro to use a resized (smaller) version of the diagram as a link to the full image, which it is designed to do if there is no target given, but it didn't seem to work. Instead, I had to create a second page that had the full-sized diagram, and I used ImageLink with a smaller version to link to that page.

The inventory that is shown is clearly incomplete. Part of this is due to the fact that many labels were either missing or impossible to read without touching stuff. For those components with labels missing, I tried to infer what they were to the best of my knowledge, but I wasn't able to for all of them. In true wiki spirit, everyone is encouraged to fill in any additional information they might have on these components. 

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).

An email from Rolf about the delay in the 110Bs:

"...we do take the ~2msec pipeline delay into account when we send the data to DAQ. If I remember correctly, the delay is about 39 samples. On startup, the first 39 samples are 'thrown away', such that, from then on, data lines up with the correct time (just read 2msec later then Penteks)."

Initial pointing beam is clearly clipping on 2" pick off mirror in  ETMX vacuum chamber.

Atm. 1  The pick off mirror is just north west of the ETMX test mass

Atm. 2 The camera is looking in from the north view port of ETMX chamber. The back side of pick off mirror is visible now with the face view of the "IP-ANG-OUT" mirror.

the mode cleaner was having trouble locking in a 00 mode, needing several tries.  I changed the MC2 coil biases, and it seems better for now.

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.)

Rana pointed out that the delay may be caused by the 110B DAQ, as it integrates over 2ms (5 clock cycles at 2048Hz on the fe computer), to make low noise measurement. However, the C0DCU knows about this delay and corrects it by fudging the time stamp, before sending it to the frame builder, so that the time stamps match the actual measurement time. But, the ASS computer is not aware of such an integration time, so it does not adjust the time. We verified that it is indeed the case. This is what we did (as suggested by Rana):

We split the signal from the MODE cleaner board "OUT" port using a T-splitter to the original PENTEK board (C1:SUS-MC2-MCL-IN) and the PEM ADCU channel #2. Then measured the mutual delays between the signals that are processed by C0DCU and the ASS computer for both the MC_L signal and the corresponding output through the PEM channel. We clearly see the same delay (compare red and brown in the bottom panel) between the signals that are going through 110B and the PENTEK DAQ. This delay is a bit noisy, possibly because the PENTEK is not as low noise as the 110B is.

There is some delay (pink curve in the bottom panel) between the PENTEK DAQ and the frame builder corrected 110B output, much smaller than 2ms, could be ~200-400 u sec. Which should correspond to the 1 or 1/2 cycle delay caused by the PENTEK DAQ.

So, once we have the planned advLIGO DAQ system, there should not be any long delay. Perhaps, to solve the problem and make OAF functional soon, we will upgrade the PEM DAQ asap, rather than waiting for the rest of the upgrades...

The Chameleon HB (by Knox) video switch that we use for routing video signals into the control room monitors is broken.  Well, either it's broken, or something is wrong with the mv162 EPICS IOC which communicates with it via RS-232.  Multiple reboots/resets of both machines has not yet worked.  The CHHB has two RS-232 inputs--I switched to the second one, and there is now one signal coming through to a monitor but no switching yet. I've been unable to further debug it because we don't have anything in the lab (other than the omega iserver formerly used for the RGA logger) which can communicate with RS-232 ports.  I've been trying to get this thing (the iserver) working again, but can't communicate with it yet.  For now I'm just going to bypass the video switch entirely and use up all the BNC barrel connectors in the lab, so we can at least have the useful video displays back.

 All of the PEM channels seem to be okay right now.  The accelerometers didn't turn out to have any differences in the traces when we put both XYZ triplets right next to each other, so we put them back where they belong.  Gur2 seismometer was showing a few problems, especially with Gur2_X, as Rana posted in elog 2079.  This was solved by tightening the cable screws which hold the Dsub end of the Guralp cable to the front panel of the Guralp box.  All is now well.

                2.2 uF
In ----o-------- | | --------o-------- Out
       |                     |
       _                     |
       _  1uF                R  7.5 kOhms
       |                     |
       |                     |
      GND                   GND

Here is the result for the measurement of the phase noise.  We used the marconi function generator and compared it with an Isomet AOM driver (model 232A-1), so this is really a measure of the relative phase between them.  We used a 5x gain and a frequency response of 13 Hz/V for the modulation.  In all the attached plots, the blue is the data and the red is the measurement limit (as determined by the noise in the SRS785).  Also note that the units on the yaxis of the Phase noise plot are incorrect, they should be dB/Sqrt(Hz), I will fix this and edit as soon as possible.

 Alex came in a week ago Friday to help figure this timing problem out, and some progress was made, although there's more to be done. 

Here are the (meager) notes that I took while he was working:

we can rename the tpchn_C1_new back to tpchn_C1, but the _new one works right now, so why change it?

need to find dcuDma.c source code...this is (?) what sends the PEM channels over to ASS.  Found:  source code is dcu.c, th
en the binary is dcuDma.o  Trying to recompile/remake dcuDma to make everything (maybe) good again.

Possibility: maybe having so many channels written to the RFM takes too long? shouldn't be  a problem, but maybe it is.  I
n the startup.cmd (or similar?) change the number of ISC modules to 1, instead of 2, since we only have one physical board
 to plug BNCs into, even though we have 2 isc boards.  c0dcu1 rebooted fine with the one isc board.  now can't get ass tes
tpoints to try the DTT timing measurement again.  rebooting fb40m to see if that helps.  fb40m is back, but we still don't
 have ASS testpoints.  Alex had to leave suddenly, so maybe more later.

Also, next possibility is that c0dcu and c1ass are not synched together properly....we should look at the timing of the AS
S machine.
 

After these adventures, the noisy trace in the timing delay (in the plot in elog 2066) has become quiet, as shown below (The blue trace, which was noisy in 2066 is now hiding behind the red trace).  However, the overall timing delay problem still exists, and we don't quite understand it.  Alex and I are meeting tomorrow morning at the 40m to try and suss this out.  Our first plan of attack is to look at the ASS code, to see if it puts any weird delays in.

Kiwamu, Alex and Zach are practicing mandatory IR-safety scan at the 40m-PSL

40m specific safety indoctrination were completed.

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.

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?

I tried to compare the IP_POS time series with the IPANG and MC_TRANS but was foiled at first:

1) The IPANG scan rate was set to 0.5 second, so it doesn't resolve the pendulum motions well. Fixed in the .db file.

2) Someone had used a Windows/DOS editor to edit the .db file and it was filled with "^M" characters. I have removed them all using this command:   tr -d "\r" <ETMXaux.db > new.db

3) The MC_TRANS P/Y channels were on the MC Lock screen but had never been added to the DAQ. Remember, if there's a useful readback on an EPICS screen. its not necessarily in the frames unless you add it to the C0EDCU file. I have done that now and restarted the fb daqd. Channels now exist.

4) Changed the PREC of the IPPOS channels to 3 from 2.

5) changed the sign for the IBQPD (aka IPANG) so that bigger signal is positive on the EPICS screen.

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. )

Its back in and re-centered. Our next move on IPPOS should be to replace its steering mirror with something bigger and more rigid.

Electronics changes:

20K -> 3.65 K  (R6, R20, R42, R31) (unused)

20K -> 3.65 K  (R7, R21, R32, R43, R11, R24, R35, R46)

If you look in the schematic (D990272), you see that its an AD797 transimpedance stage with a couple of LT1125 stages set to give some switchable gain. It looks like some of these

switches are on and some are not, but I am not sure where it would be controlled from. I've attached a snapshot of one quadrant of the schematic below.

The schematic shows the switches in the so-called 'normally closed' configuration. This is what the switches do with zero volts applied to the control inputs. As the schematic also shows,

just disconnecting the 'switch' inputs cause the switch's control inputs to go high (normally open configuration, i.e. pins 2-3 connected, pin4 open). For the record, the default positions of the IPPOS switches are:

switch1   high

switch2   low

switch3   low

switch4   high

** EDIT (Nov 2, 2009): I forgot to attach the before and after images; here they are:

I wanted to see how long our IP POS beam has been badly clipped - turns out its since April 1, 2007.

Steve's April Fool's joke is chronicled then. The attached trend shows that the drop in IP POS is coincident with that event.

In trying to align IPPOS, I noticed that someone has placed a ND2.0 filter (factor of 100 attenuation) in front of it. This is kind of a waste - I have removed IPPOS to fix its resistors and avoid this bad optic. Also the beam coming onto the table is too big for the 1" diameter optics being used; we need to replace it with a 2" diamter optic (Y1-2037-45P).

IP ANG dropped by a factor of 2 back in early August of '08.

We need this guy on the investigation:

Inspecting the AS table to make an inventory of the photodiodes in use around the interferometer, I found a mysterious photodetector hiding behind PD1 (AS166).

It turned out the detector was an old type of QPD from the Squeezing Experiment a few years ago.

We removed the box and the cable to which it was connected from the table. We stored it in the optics cabinet along the X arm.

 Here's the trend.

The transient at ~22:40 is Rob switching to 'Open Loop' on the Piezo Jena PZTs. I don't see any qualitative change in the drift after this event.

At 05:55 UTC, I removed an iris that was blocking the IP POS beam (the sum goes up from 2 to 6.5) without disturbing the mirrors who's oplev beam are on that table. Steve has conceded one sugar Napoleon after betting against my ninja-like iris skills.

We should recenter the beam on IP POS now that its unclipped - I'll let it sit this way overnight just to get more drift data.

This afternoon the elog crashed. We just restarted it.

I pushed the "closed loop" button on PZT2 YAW around 3:40 pm today, then roughly recentered it using the DC Offset knob on the PiezoJena controller and the IP ANG QPD readbacks.  There was a large DC shift.    We'll watch and see how much it drifts in this state.

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

Some questions came arise to me:

A. How the green injection system should be? How the handing off between 532 and 1064 should be?

This is not new, though. It would be worth reminding.

B. Do we still need PMC if we use 2W innolight?

Innolight has low intensity noise at the detection freq. Also the spacial mode is clean.

C. Do we still need frequency prestabilization by RC?

Is the stabilization of the laser freq by the MC not enough?
What is the relationship with the green?

Pointing stability of 4 days. Initial pointing does not go through suspended optics. It is launched  right after the Piezo Jena steering mirrors in the BS chamber.

IP-ANG on epics screen is  C1:ASC-IBQPD_X and Y in dataviewer  were recentered. This beam is clipping a bit in ETMX chamber  pick off mirror.

IP-POS pick  off is in the BS chamber and it's qpd on the BS_ISCT This beam is also clipping just a little bit. This is easy to fix. We'll have to remove an iris from the BS optical levers table.

note: arms were not locked when I recentered

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.

 OK, I'm out--hopefully for good. HEPAs back at 20%.

I'm at the PSL table taking inventory of the elements I don't have down yet.

Awesome 5 hrs of locking  Rob!

In addition to the main mirrors (PRM, SRM) we will also have fold mirrors (called PR1, PR2, SR1, SR2). I am curious to see if we can get away with just using commercial optics; I think that the CVI Y1S coatings may do the trick.

The above plots show the reflectivities v. wavelength. I've asked the sales rep to give us specs on the reflectivity v. angle. I bet that we can guess what the answer will be from these plots.

Bottom trace is proportional to the OMC PZT voltage - top trace is the transmitted light through the OMC. Interferometer is locked (DARM- RF) with arm powers = 80 / 100. The peaks marked by the cursors are the +(- ?) 166 MHz sidebands.

Thermal lensing formula:

from (T090018 by A. Abramovici (which references another doc).

In the above equation:

w        1/e^2 beam radius

k        thermal conductivity (not the wave vector) = 1.3 W / m/ K

alpha    absorption coefficient (~10 ppm/cm for our glass)

NP       power in the glass (alpha*NP = absorbed power)

dn/dT    index of refraction change per deg  (12 ppm/K)

d        mirror thickness (25 mm for all of our SOS)

I'm attaching a plot showing the focal length as a function of recycling cavity power for both our current MOS and future SOS designs.

I've assumed a 10 ppm/cm absorption here. It may actually be less for our current ITMs which are made of Heraeus low absorption glass - our new ITMs are Corning 7980-A (measured to have an absorption of 13 ppm/cm ala the iLIGO COC FDD). I expect that our thermal lens focal length will always be longer than 1 km and so I guess this isn't an issue.

This is huge.    Five hours of lock only interrupted by intentional break from transfer function abuse.

The IFO can now be locked during the daytime.  Well, it's locked now.

I have gotten the hang of the procedure for measuring phase noise on the AOMs. 

Koji suggested I right up a short guide (wiki page?) on how to do this. 

I will finish up here, then go measure the AOMs at the other lab (may have to be tomorrow, after laser safety), and then write up the instructions.

 I'm out, HEPAs are back at 20%.

I am at the PSL table taking what is hopefully the last set of pictures for the diagram. Woohoo.

You can remove the RFAM measuring setup. Once we upgrade, we will no longer have a MZ or the related problems.