This is a plot of the R and T of the existing ETM's HR coating. I have only used 1/4 wave layers (in addition to the standard 1/2 wave SiO2 cap on the top) to get the required T.

The spec is a T = 15 ppm +/- 5 ppm. The calculation gives 8 ppm which is close enough. The calculated reflectivity for 532 nm is 3%. If the ITM reflectivity is similar, the signal for the 532 nm locking of the arm would look like a Michelson using the existing optics.

Illuminators and PSL lights turned off.
HEPA filter speed increased from 20 to 100%

The PMC power is seems to be on the rise, ( MOPA_AMPMON is dropping ?) but I do not think it is real. We have Santa Anna wind condition, when the relative humidity drops and  ......

There is an other funky think. The room temp became rock solid. The PSL HEPAs running at 20% and IFO-room ACs are also in normal operational mode.

LockAcq is back on track, with the full script working well.  Measurements in progress.

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'

 This problem has disappeared.  I don't know what it was. 

The first plot shows one of the symptoms.  The second plot is a similar section taken from a more normal acquisition sequence the night before.

All is not perfect, however, as now the handoff to RF CARM is not working.

A 30-day trend of the PCDRIVE from the FSS.

Does anyone know what the channels plugged in to the PEM ADCU, channels 5,6,7,8 are?  They aren't listed in the C1ADCU_PEM.ini file which tells the channel list/dataviewer/everything about all the rest of the signals which are plugged into that ADCU, so I'm not sure if they are used at all, or if they're holdovers from some previous time.  The cables are not labeled in a way that makes clear what they are.  Thanks!

I was working on the ISS excitation to take TFs.

I used ISS IL excitation, stealing from a small box on the floor for the OMC.

All the configuration was restored except that the HEPA is on.

I adjusted the steerings to the PMC and gained 7%. Now the MC_TRANS 7.0 has been recovered.

Actually I need another 7% to get MC_TRANS 7.5.
But I couldn't find how I can recover 126MOPA-AMPMON to 2.8ish.

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.

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.
 

I measured the mode cleaner open loop gain.  It's around 60kHz with 29 degs of phase margin.

[Alex, Jenne, Sanjit]

Alex came to the 40m today, and did several awesome things in OAF-land.

We discovered that there is, in fact, an ADC board connected to the ASS machine.  The tricky bit is that it only has a ribbon cable connector, so before we can use this ADC, we need to figure out how to make a breakout board/cable/something to connect the seismometer/accelerometer/microphone BNCs to this little board.  This is the same little board that connects the timing slave to the ASS machine.  For good or for ill, the timing slave is connected to this board via clip-doodles.  Potentially we can connect an ADC tester board to this board, and go from seismometer BNCs to clipdoodles to the tester board, but I'm not in love with the idea of utilizing clipdoodles as a semi-permanent solution until the upgrade.  I emailed Ben to see if he has a better idea, or (better yet) some spare hardware now that's the same as we'll use after the upgrade.  If we can use this ADC, it may solve our timing problem which is caused by the 110B ADC used by the PEM computer. Alex showed Sanjit and I how to connect the ASS's ADC card to the simulink diagram, when we're ready for that.

We also poked around in the code, and it seems that we can now save and restore OAF coefficients at will.  I added buttons to the OAF (ASS) screen, and Alex made it so the OAF coefficients are saved in RFM shared memory whenever you click the "save coeffs" button, and are restored when you click the "restore coeffs" button.  The buttons are the same as the 'Reset' button which has been there for a long time, so they seem to maybe have a similar problem in that you have to hold the button for a while in order for the code to realize that the button has been depressed.  We couldn't fix this easily, because it looks like our SimuLink cds stuff is a little out of date.  Some day (before/when Joe and Peter make new screens for the new 40m), we need to update these things.  Alex was concerned that it might take a while to do this, if the update broke some of the blocks that we're currently using.  Also, Sanjit and I now need to check that the coefficient-saving is going as planned.  When I have DTT open, and the OAF running, I see a certain shape to the signal which is sent to MC1 to correct for the seismic motion.  This shape includes at least several peaks at resonant frequencies that exist in our stacks/suspensions.  I can then save the coefficients, reset the active filter, and then restore the coefficients.  When I do this while watching DTT, it seems as though the general shape of the filter is restored, but none of the detailed features are.  The reason for this is still under investigation. 

The code-modifications involved a few iterations of 'remaking the ass'.

The laser power is down 5-6%

Lock acquisition has gone bad tonight. 

The initial stage works fine, up through handing off control of CARM to MCL.  However, when increasing the AO path (analog gain), there are large DC shifts in the C1:IOO-MC_F signal.  Eventually this causes the pockels cell in the FSS loop to saturate, and lock is lost. 

In this morning, we have disconnected SR785 which was in front of 1X2 rack, to measure a Hall sensor noise.

After a while, we put back SR785 and re-connected as it has been.

But the display setup might have been changed a little bit.

 The real problem is that we are using frequency synthesizers to make the beat signals (133 and 199) instead of mixers. Luckily, the future 40m will not use beat signals (?) or synthesizers.

So, it appears that one doesn't even have to change the Marconi set frequency to alter the phase of the output signal.  It appears that other front panel actions (turning external modulations on/off, changing the modulation type) can do it as well.  At least that's what I conclude from earlier this morning, when after setting up the f2 Marconi (166MHz) for external AM, the double-demod handoff in the DRMI no longer worked.  Luckily this isn't a real problem now that we have the setDDphases and senseDRM scripts. 

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.