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  4573   Wed Apr 27 17:38:01 2011 kiwamuUpdateElectronicsRe : AS55 demod board with new 90 deg splitter : healthy

relativephase.png

Figure.1  I-Q relative phase measurement as a function of LO power.

 Blue curve : relative phase of AS55 that I have modified today (#4572).

 Red curve : relative phase of AS11 that I had modified a week ago (#4554). Just for comparison.

 The relative phase of AS55 agrees approximately what we expected according to the datasheet of PSCQ-2-51W. We expected 85 degree.

 

IQamplitude.png

Figure.1  I-Q amplitude imbalance as a function of LO power.

From - 5 dBm to 5 dBm in LO power the imbalance is within 3 %.

But the precision of the measurement is also about 2 % (because I used an oscilloscope). Even so the imbalance is still good.

Quote from #4572

Some plots will be posted later.

 

  4943   Wed Jul 6 02:12:36 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSRe : More normalization of all sus controllers

[Jenne / Rana/ Kiwamu]

 We found the 30 Hz high pass filters had lower gain than what they used to be at low frequcnies.

So we increased the gain of the high pass filters called '30:0.0'  by a factor of 10 to have the same gain as before.

Now all the suspension shows some kind of damping. Needs more optimizations, for example Q-adjustments for all the suspensions...

Quote from #4942

This is getting closer, but with the whitening left OFF and the cts2um filter also OFF, none of the suspensions are working correctly.

 

  4944   Wed Jul 6 10:35:35 2011 JamieUpdateSUSRe : More normalization of all sus controllers

Quote:

We found the 30 Hz high pass filters had lower gain than what they used to be at low frequcnies.

So we increased the gain of the high pass filters called '30:0.0'  by a factor of 10 to have the same gain as before.

 

I'm not convinced that this is what you want to do, or at least I wouldn't do it this way.  The "k" in the zpk filter was set such that the filter had unity gain above the high-pass cut-off frequency.  For a 30 Hz high-pass the k needs to be a factor of 10 smaller than it would be for a 3 Hz high-pass to achieve this high frequency unity gain.

As it is now these HP filters have 20 dB of gain above 30 Hz.  If the open loop transfer function needs to more gain I would have done that by adjusting the overall DC gain of the filter bank, not by increasing the gain in this one filter.  Maybe you guys have been doing it differently, though.  Or maybe I'm just completely off base.

  4946   Wed Jul 6 15:32:32 2011 JamieUpdateSUSRe : More normalization of all sus controllers

So after talking to Kiwamu about it, I understand now that since the damping loops need all of this extra gain when the high-pass corner is moved up, it's more convenient to put that gain in the control filter itself, rather than having to crank the overall DC gain up to some inconveniently high value.

  4799   Thu Jun 9 12:21:07 2011 kiwamuUpdatePSLRe : PMC needs help

Nulling the slow actuation offset fixed the issue. Now PMC is back to normal.

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The reflected beam on the CCD was quite symmetric (it looked very TEM00 mode !) for some reasons, I somehow suspected the mode matching to PMC.

One possibility I thought of was the laser temperature because it could change the laser spatial mode.

So I looked at the slow actuation offset on the FSS screen and found it was at -4.0 which sounds somewhat big.

Then I zeroed the offset by the slider and relocked PMC.

Then the spatial pattern of the reflected beam became usual (i.e. junk light looking) and the transmitted light wet up to 0.83 which is normal.

Quote from #4798

The PMC is losing power.

 

  5075   Sun Jul 31 00:37:57 2011 kiwamuUpdatePSLRe : PSL table work

I think you made a simple mistake in your diagram -- the mixer must be replaced by a summer circuit. Otherwise you cannot do the PDH lock.

Quote from #5069

LIGO_block_diagram.png

  5316   Mon Aug 29 00:49:00 2011 kiwamuUpdateCDSRe : fb down

Fb is in a bad situation. It needs a MANUAL fsck to fix the file system.

HELP US, Jamieeeeeeeeeeee !!!

 

When Suresh and I connected a display and tried to see what was going on, the fb computer was in a file system check.

This was because Suresh did a hardware reboot by pressing a power button on the front panel.

Since the file checking took so long time and didn't proceed fast, we pressed the reset button and again the power button.

Actually the reset button didn't work (maybe ?) it just made some light indicators flashing.

After the second reboot the reboot message said that it needs a manual fsck to fix the file system. This maybe because we interrupted the file checking.

We are leaving it to Jamie because the fsck command would do something bad if unfamiliar persons, like us, do it.

 

In addition to it, the boot message was also saying that line 37 in /etc/fstab was bad.

We logged into the machine with a safe mode, then found there was an empty line in 37th line of fstab.

We tried erasing this empty line, but failed for some reasons. We were able to edit it by using vi, but wasn't able to save it.

  5317   Mon Aug 29 12:05:32 2011 jamieUpdateCDSRe : fb down

fb was requiring manual fsck on it's disks because it was sensing filesystem errors.  The errors had to do with the filesystem timestamps being in the future.  It turned out that fb's system date was set to something in 2005.  I'm not sure what caused the date to be so off (motherboard battery problem?)  But I did determine after I got the system booting that the NTP client on fb was misconfigured and was therefore incapable of setting the system date.  It seems that it was configured to query a non-existent ntp server.  Why the hell it would have been set like this I have no idea.

In any event, I did a manual check on /dev/sdb1, which is the root disk, and postponed a check on /dev/sda1 (the RAID mounted at /frames) until I had the system booting.  /dev/sda1 is being checked now, since there are filesystems errors that need to be corrected, but it will probably take a couple of hours to complete.  Once the filesystems are clean I'll reboot fb and try to get everything up and running again.

  5319   Mon Aug 29 18:16:10 2011 jamieUpdateCDSRe : fb down

fb is now up and running, although the /frames raid is still undergoing an fsck which is likely take another day.  Consequently there is no daqd and no frames are being written to disk.  It's running and providing the diskless root to the rest of the front end systems, so, so the rest of the IFO should be operational.

I burt restored the following (which I believe is everything that was rebooted), from Saturday night:

/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2011/Aug/27/23:07/c1lscepics.snap
/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2011/Aug/27/23:07/c1susepics.snap
/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2011/Aug/27/23:07/c1iooepics.snap
/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2011/Aug/27/23:07/c1assepics.snap
/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2011/Aug/27/23:07/c1mcsepics.snap
/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2011/Aug/27/23:07/c1gcvepics.snap
/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2011/Aug/27/23:07/c1gfdepics.snap
/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2011/Aug/27/23:07/c1rfmepics.snap
/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2011/Aug/27/23:07/c1pemepics.snap

 

  16715   Tue Mar 8 19:29:36 2022 PacoUpdateBHDRe-balance of AS1

[Paco]

Installed AS1 in vacuum, near the center of the table, and installed the OSEMs. All OSEMS are "balanced" nominally, i.e. their shadow is at the halfway point optimum, but fine tuning is required, which I will attempt tomorrow after restoring the AS1 suspension screen settings. Today, I tried damping the SIDE DOF, but didn't succeed, although there was definitely some oscillating behaviour with high (> 5) gains on the damping, so I believe this is a matter of patience. For now, all OSEMs are looking ok, the SOS is in place, and hopefully it will soon be damped. 

  16716   Wed Mar 9 09:35:26 2022 PacoUpdateBHDRe-balance of AS1

[Paco]

AS1 is installed, OSEMs balanced, and the optic damped successfully. We should run the free swinging test overnight to validate this re-installation.

  3798   Wed Oct 27 16:15:35 2010 SureshUpdateSUSRe-glued magnet to the PRM

Thanh and I re-glued the magnet to the PRM following the procedure outlined by Jenne

The PRM in the gluing fixture has been placed in the little foil house and left to cure for a day.

If all goes well the balancing the PRM will be done tomorrow.

 

 

  11501   Wed Aug 12 22:33:36 2015 IgnacioUpdateIOORe-measured MC2 -> MCL TF

Since I will need to do transfer function measurements in order to implement FF for the arms and the MC2's yaw and pitch channels, I decided to practice this by replicating the transfer function measurement Eric did for MC2 to MCL. I followed his procedure and the data that I aquired for the TF looked as shown below,

About five minutes of data were taken (0.05 Hz resolution, 25 averages) by injecting noise from 1 to 100 Hz. The TF coherence looked as below,

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Attachment 2: Coherence.png
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  16678   Thu Feb 24 18:05:58 2022 YehonathanUpdateBHDRe-susspension of AS1

{Yehonathan, Anchal, Paco}

Yesterday, Anchal and Paco removed AS1 from the vacuum chamber and moved it into the cleanroom. The suspension wires were cut and the AS1 optic was put on the table.

Two things were noticed:

1. One of the wires was not sitting inside the side block groove (attachment 1)

2. One of the face magnets was grossly tilted (attachment 2). Probably due to uneven polishing of the dumbbell.

We put new wires into the side blocks making sure they sit in their grooves and we removed the tilted magnet. A different, more straight magnet was picked from the remaining spare magnets. The dumbbell and adapter were cleaned from glue residues and a batch of glue was prepared.

In the process of gluing a different magnet was knocked off. We cleaned that magnet too. The 2 magnets were glued on the adapter.

Today I came and saw that the gluing failed completely. One of the magnets was completely away from its socket and the other one wasn't glued at all.

I prepared a new batch of glue and glued the two magnets.

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  16694   Wed Mar 2 14:02:43 2022 YehonathanUpdateBHDRe-susspension of AS1

Yesterday, I rebuilt the OpLev setup in the cleanroom in order to suspend AS1. It took me a while to find all the necessary parts but I found them in the end.

The HeNe laser was placed on the optical table and turned on. The beam was aimed to bounce off a folding mirror to the SOS tower.

The beam's height was controlled by the HeNe laser stage and made to be 5+14/32". The beam from the folding mirror was made parallel to the table, first with an iris and then with the QPD connected to a scope.

Preparing the SOS tower for the suspension I noticed that the wire clamp is scratched on both sides from previous suspensions. I discarded that wire clamp but couldn't find the spares. Time ran out and I had to stop.

  16698   Thu Mar 3 17:09:46 2022 PacoUpdateBHDRe-susspension of AS1

[Anchal, Paco]

Wire clamp spare was installed, furthermore AS1 was reinstalled on adapter, attached wire clamps, and cleaned using ionized air gun. Finally, we suspended it on the SOS tower and left it resting on the bottom earthquake stops; ready for balancing.

Quote:

Yesterday, I rebuilt the OpLev setup in the cleanroom in order to suspend AS1. It took me a while to find all the necessary parts but I found them in the end.

The HeNe laser was placed on the optical table and turned on. The beam was aimed to bounce off a folding mirror to the SOS tower.

The beam's height was controlled by the HeNe laser stage and made to be 5+14/32". The beam from the folding mirror was made parallel to the table, first with an iris and then with the QPD connected to a scope.

Preparing the SOS tower for the suspension I noticed that the wire clamp is scratched on both sides from previous suspensions. I discarded that wire clamp but couldn't find the spares. Time ran out and I had to stop.

 

  16710   Mon Mar 7 16:56:08 2022 YehonathanUpdateBHDRe-susspension of AS1

{Paco, Yehonathan}

We tried to roughly balance the adapter with two counterweights at the front, like with the other thin optics using an iris. As before, we couldn't get the beam above the iris hole no matter how much we inserted the counterweights into the adapter. We noticed that one of the side blocks is actually the one where the clearance for the wire was made on the wrong side. So there was clearance on both the up and bottom sides of the side block (see attachment 1).

Could this be the cause of the balancing issue? Running out of ideas on how to fix it we gave it a try and replaced it with a spare side block. We also found that the wire on the other side block was kinked so we replaced the wire on this one as well.

After inserting new wires into the side blocks, we hung the adapter on the winches and the beam was above the iris aperture! How could this tiny amount of missing mass make this much difference?

We were able to roughly balance the adapter.

We then tried to balance the roll of the adapter but accidentally knocked off the side magnet 😫.

We usually glue several side magnets together and they all together support the metallic plate on which the magnets are magnetically attached to. This time we had only one side magnet to glue so instead of trying to glue the magnet vertically we are trying to glue it horizontally using a flat surface and a stage to clamp it (attachments 2,3).

BTW, the HeNe was not working when we came into the cleanroom. We realized it was the old HeNe that we already determined to be broken but there was no sign on it. I attached a "BAD" sign on it and replaced it with the new HeNe. The OpLeve beam was realigned. All of this happened before all the things described above

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  16711   Mon Mar 7 18:53:16 2022 KojiUpdateBHDRe-susspension of AS1

Not sure if that small difference can cause the alignment inability. Particularly, the removed metal was just below the wire. This means that there is no misalignment effect at the first order.

Here is my idea:
You may be able to assist the alignment by adding washers on one side of the four holes to this "H" shaped parts. The holes are away from the center line, adding some weight definitely do some misalignment.

 

  16714   Tue Mar 8 12:24:13 2022 YehonathanUpdateBHDRe-susspension of AS1

The gluing seemed to be successful. I assembled the side block with the magnet on the adapter. Paco helped me hang the adapter on the SOS tower.

The height and roll of the adapters were balanced (attachment 1,2).

The QPD was placed at the beam reflection. The beam was centered horizontally on the QPD and then measured vertically. The pitch DOF was balanced using the counterweights. The counterweight was locked. Balance was retained.

I tried to assemble the upper mirror clamp on the tower but for some reason, one of its tap holes was not able to accept screws. I gave it to Jordan for retapping. I measured the motion spectrum using the QPD connected to a scope (attachment 3).

Major peaks are at 668mHz, 942mHz, and 1029mHz.

 

Attachment 1: AS1_Roll_Balance.png
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Attachment 2: AS1_Height_Balance.png
AS1_Height_Balance.png
Attachment 3: FreeSwingingSpectra_new.pdf
FreeSwingingSpectra_new.pdf
  3823   Fri Oct 29 14:06:12 2010 kiwamuUpdateGreen LockingRe: 80MHz VCO for green PLL : VCO calibration

P.S. There is a document about the 80MHz VCO box. This may be helpful. 

link to LIGO DCC

  14014   Mon Jun 25 19:14:02 2018 UditSummaryGeneralRe: A summary of the Tip-TIlt Mirror Holder design changes

2. Weighted screw rod at the bottom for tilting the mirror-holder:

The screw length selected here (2") is not interfering with any part of the assembly.

The 'weights' I have here are just thumb nuts from Mcmaster, so their weight is fixed (1.65g each, btw).

Problem I'd like to solve: Find an assortment of weighted, symmetric nuts with caps on one end to fix position on shaft. 

3. Set-screws on both side of wire clamp to adjust its horizontal position:

Thanks for pointing out the mismatch in travel distance of protrusion and clamp screws. To match them, the clamp screw slot now sticks out of the profile (by 1.5mm). The range of the clamp motion is +/- 3 mm.

Also, here's a screenshot of the slot in the mirror holder:

--

- Excluding the weighted screw rod assembly, the height gap between assembly COM and wire release point is 3.1 mm.

Quote:

> 2. Weighted screw rod at the bottom for tilting the mirror-holder:

Too long. The design of the holder should be check with the entire assembly.
We should be able to make it compact if we heavier weights.
How are these weights fixed on the shaft?
Also can we have options for smaller weights for the case we don't need such a range?
Note the mass of the weights.

> 3. Set-screws on both side of wire clamp to adjust its horizontal position:

How much is the range of the clamp motion limited by the slot for the side screws and the slot for the protrusion? Are they matched?
Can you show us the design of the slot made on the mirror holder?

>>

Where is the center of mass (CoM) for the entire mirror holder assy and how much is the height gap between the CoM and the wire release points. Can you do this with 3/8" and 1/2" fused silica mirrors?

 

  14015   Mon Jun 25 21:14:08 2018 KojiSummaryGeneralRe: A summary of the Tip-TIlt Mirror Holder design changes

3.
- Do we need this much of extended range of the clamp location? How much range will we need if we use either 3/8 or 1/4 inch mirrors?
- This slot on the mirror holder ring is not machinable.

About the CoM height
- Include the angle adjustment screw and adjust the wire releasing point to have comparable pitch resonant freq to the SOS suspension.

 

  5251   Wed Aug 17 02:48:56 2011 kiwamuUpdateRF SystemRe: AM in the PM

[Keiko / Suresh / Anamaria / Kiwamu]

 The AM components do exist also on the beam after the EOM.

The peaks were found at 11, 29 and 55 MHz, where the PM are supposed to be imposed.

Suresh and Keiko minimized them by rotating the HWP, which is in front of the EOM.

Also Anamaria and I tried minimizing them by adjusting the EOM crystal alignment.

However everytime after we minimized the AM peaks, they grew back in a time scale of ~ 1 min.

Potentially it could be a problem of the HWP and/or EOM alignment.

Since we wanted to proceed the in-vac work anyways, we stopped investigating it and decided to postpone it for tomorrow.

We again adjusted the incident power to 20 mW.

 

-- P.S.

 The incident power going to MC went down to 7 mW for some reasons. This was found after ~ 6 hours from our works on the PSL table.

We haven't touched anything on the PSL table since the daytime work.

Possibly the angle of the HWP is drifting (why?) and changed the amount of the P-polarizing beam power.

Suresh locked the angles of two HWPs, which are the one just after the EOM and the one after the attenuation PBS.

Quote from #5249

So first check is beam out of PSL EOM, to make sure the input beam is aligned to the crystal axis and is not giving AM modulation in adition to PM.

 

  5285   Tue Aug 23 09:40:37 2011 kiwamuUpdateGeneralRe: AS clipping fixed

Indeed it was suspenseful.

We tried finding where the clipping happened, but we couldn't find any obvious clippings.

So we checked centering of the beams on all the optics associated with the AS path, starting from BS, SR3,... to the AS optical bench.

And during the work some of them were recentered.

At the end we found no clipping. To make sure we tested the available range (no clipping range) by exciting the angular motion of BS with AWG (f ~ 1Hz, a ~ 1000).

The beam looked successfully coming out at the most of the angular oscillation point.

Quote from #5284

Where was the AS clipping?! Ah, the suspense...

 

  619   Tue Jul 1 21:54:05 2008 KojiUpdateGeneralRe: Abs. Length Meas. setup
I tried to look for the beating in the signal from the PD but I couldn't find. I had the temperature of the laser initially set to 40deg and then slowly increased by one degree. The manual of the laser says the frequency should change by several GHz. The problem is then that our PD is limited to no more than 30Mhz.

Although the two beams seem to overlap quite well, we might still need a better matching of the injected beam.


Alberto


Quote:
o The position of the iris was adjusted so as not to disturub the beam for OMCR CCD.

o The RF spectrum analyzer was returned to the place of the network analyzer.


Quote:

In the process of making this report, I noticed that one of the iris apertures is about disturbing the beam for OMCR CCD. I will check this before I go to Hanford. Also an RF spectrum analyzer is at the AP table. I try to return this near the PSL on Monday morning.
  5652   Tue Oct 11 19:11:25 2011 kiwamuUpdateLSCRe: BS actuator reponse at low frequency : measured

I think the precision due to the loop gain uncertainty is something like 0.1% at 0.1 Hz. It's not the issue.

The real issue was the loud motion of MICH, which degrades the coherence of the measurement.

Also last night I tried the fringe hopping technique and gave it up for several reasons.

 

(uncertainty due to the loop gain)

When MICH is locked, the signal at C1:LSC-MICH_OUT can be expressed in frequency domain by
 
     MICH_OUT = G / (1+G) * (1 / A) * X + G / (1+G) * (1 / H) * (1 / A) * S,                 [1]
 
where G is the open loop gain, A is the actuator response, H is the sensor transfer function (constant factor),
X is the natural (unsuppressed) motion of MICH and S is an excitation injected at C1:LSC-MICH_EXC.
When the natural motion of MICH X is smaller than the excited displacement S/H, dividing MICH_OUT by S gives
 
   [Transfer function] = S / MICH_OUT
                                 = (1+G) /G * H * A
 
At low frequency the open loop gain is always big, so that the transfer function can be approximated to
 
   [Transfer function] ~ H *A
 
This approximation is valid with a precision of 1/G.
In my case yesterday, the open loop gain at 0.1Hz was about 103 or more than that, so the uncertainty due to the loop gain was 0.1% or even less.
 

(Effect from the MICH motion)

In the equation [1], it is shown that the MICH motion X shows up together with the excitation signal.
Actually this MICH motion term was not completely negligible and eventually this term disturbs the measurement resulting in a low coherence.
In order to get a high coherence in the measurement, X should be smaller than the excited displacement S/H,
 
      X << S / H
 
This the reason why I had to inject a big excitation signal. Although the coherence around 1Hz turned out to be still low due to the loud natural motion in MICH.
The excitation was already close to 0.1 um level in terms of peak-to-peak displacement, and I wasn't able to increase it any more because the MICH signal would run into a nonlinear regime.
In the worst case I lost the lock due to a too much excitation.
 
 
(Fringe hopping technique)
 
Actually I tried and gave up this technique. That's why I did the in-loop measurement.
My feeling is that this technique is not suitable for the 40m.
What I tried was to flip the sign of the MICH control such that the fringe hops from the dark fringe to the neighbor bright fringe or vice versa.
Difference in the control signal (C1:LSC-MICH_OUT) was supposed to give us the amount of signal which drives the actuator by exactly quarter of the laser wave length.
However this technique turned out to be not good because
    (1) BS actuator is too strong
          => expected difference in the control signal is quite small.
          => \lambda / 4 / A ~ 12 counts, where A is the actuator DC response of about 2.2e-8 [m/counts].
   (2) MICH motion was too loud
         => I saw such a tiny 12 counts difference in the control signal, but once the hopping is done the control signal immediately fluctuated and it was really hard to precisely measure it.
         => It's simply because MICH was loud, and the actuator tried to suppress the motion and it resulted such an immediate signal fluctuation in the control signal

Quote from #5649

This seems like an error prone method for DC responses due to the loop gain uncertainty. Better may be to use the fringe hopping method (c.f. Luca Matone) or the fringe counting method

 

  4948   Wed Jul 6 18:15:26 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSRe: BS oplev spectra

[Steve / Kiwamu]

Motivation:

 Since the oplevs were the ones we haven't carefully tested, so the oplevs need to be checked.

This checking is also a part of the suspension optimizations (see the minutes of the last 40m meeting).

 In this work Steve will check two things for all the oplevs :

    1. Noise level including the dark noise, electrical noise and ADC noise to just make sure that the noise are blow the signal levels below ~ 30Hz.

    2. The spectra of the signals to make sure there are no funny oscillations and unexpected structures

 

Measurement :

  To check the things listed above, we take two kinds of oplves' spectra :

     1. "dark noise" when the He-Ne beam is blocked.

     2. "signals" when the optics are damped by only OSEMs

 We did these checks on the BS oplev today (see the last entry).

All of them are fine, for example the dark noise (including electrical noise and ADC noise) are below the signal levels.

And no oscillation peak was found. Steve will go through all of the oplevs in this way.

Quote from #4947

Healthy BS oplev

  13479   Fri Dec 15 00:26:40 2017 johannesUpdateCDSRe: CDS recovery, NFS woes
Quote:

Didn't touch Xarm because we don't know what exactly the status of ETMX is.

The Xarm is currently in its original state, all cables are connected and c1auxex is hosting the slow channels.

  4611   Tue May 3 13:22:13 2011 LeoUpdateSUSRe: DRMI prep : suspension diagnostic

Here are the free-swinging spectra for the BS, ETMX, ETMY, ITMX, ITMY, MC1, MC2, MC3, and PRM chambers.  Kiwamu left the suspensions free for 5 hours this weekend, starting at Sat Apr 30 00:15:26 2011.

This is GPS time 988 182 941.  Quick tip: you can do local to GPS time conversions using lalapps_tconvert, which is a lot like tconvert but with special powers.  It is installed on pianosa.

$ lalapps_tconvert Sat Apr 30 00:15:26 2011

988182941

I generated these figures with the attached Python script, measure.py.

Notice that the C1:SUS-ITMX_SENSOR_UL and C1:SUS-MC3_SENSOR_UL spectra fall as 1/f.  Jenne suggested that this might indicate that there is a loose electrical connection.

Also, notice that C1:SUS-ETMY_SENSOR_LR, C1:SUS-ITMY_SENSOR_LL, and C1:SUS-PRM_SENSOR_SIDE are a lot noisier above 10 Hz.

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  4613   Tue May 3 15:04:20 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSRe: DRMI prep : suspension diagnostic

Jenne went through all the suspension racks and pushed all the connectors.

After pushing them, we had a quick look at those spectra and found no funny noise spectrum except for C1:PRM-SENSOR_UL.

We then checked connection around the SCSI cables and eventually found the connection between ADC_card_0 and a SCSI was loose.

We put short standoffs on the ADC card so that the screws from the SCSI can nicely reach to the ADC card. Now everything looks fine.

SUS diagnostic is quite useful !

Quote from #4611

Notice that the C1:SUS-ITMX_SENSOR_UL and C1:SUS-MC3_SENSOR_UL spectra fall as 1/f.  Jenne suggested that this might indicate that there is a loose electrical connection.

  5153   Tue Aug 9 11:33:33 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSRe: ETMX free swinging data

I believe that the 17 Hz broad structure on SIDE is just because of a bad rotational angle of the SIDE OSEM.

The same structure had been observed on the EMTY_UR, and the structure became narrower after we repositioned/rotated the OSEM yesterday.

My guess is that the SIDE OSEM is now in a place where the OSEM is quite sensitive to the bounce mode

and creating the broad structure due to a bi-linear coupling between the bounce mode and low frequency signals.

Quote from #5150

There is something defintely wrong with the side sensor.  It might be the electronics as it also has this problem with it slow channel readings (my previous elog today). 

  5221   Sat Aug 13 02:31:42 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSRe: ETMY hopefully good again

I guess the ETMY suspension is still fine. Their OSEM DC voltage and the free swinging spectra look healthy.

It could be a failure in the initial guess for fitting.

Quote from #5216

I'm no longer convinced that ETMY is healthy. I can't fit the peaks to get the input matrix.

  5237   Mon Aug 15 13:16:50 2011 JenneUpdateSUSRe: ETMY hopefully good again

Quote:

I guess the ETMY suspension is still fine. Their OSEM DC voltage and the free swinging spectra look healthy.

It could be a failure in the initial guess for fitting.

Quote from #5216

I'm no longer convinced that ETMY is healthy. I can't fit the peaks to get the input matrix.

 Turns out I was missing a critical step in the process...running makeSUSspectra.m  After I do that, everything is back under control, and ETMY looks fine. 

I'm almost done doing the peak-fitting and matrix inversion for all optics.

  1753   Wed Jul 15 18:22:15 2009 KojiUpdateCamerasRe: GigE Phase Camera

Quote:

Koji recommended that we use the optical setup pictured below.  Although it uses fewer optics, I can't think of a way to test the phase camera using this configuration because any modulation of the wavefront with a lens or whatever would be automatically corrected for in the PLL so I think I'll have to stick with the old configuration.

I talked with Zach. So this is just a note for the others.

The setup I suggested was totally equivalent with the setup proposed in the entry http://131.215.115.52:8080/40m/1721, except that the PLL PD sees not only 29.501MHz, but also 1kHz and 59.001MHz. These additional beating are excluded by the PD and the PLL servo. In any case the beating at 1kHz is present at the camera. So if you play with the beamsplitter alignment you will see not only the perfect Gaussian picture, but also distorted picture which is resulted by mismatching of the two wave fronts. That's the fun part!

The point is that you can get an equivalent type of the test with fewer optics and fewer efforts. Particularly, I guess the setup would not be the final goal. So, these features would be nice for you.

  3340   Sat Jul 31 10:12:05 2010 kiwamuUpdateVACRe: How to stop and start slow pumpdown

I resumed the pumping down. It started from 9:55 am.

  3341   Sat Jul 31 14:59:33 2010 kiwamuUpdateVACRe: How to stop and start slow pumpdown

I stopped the pumping at 14:50 pm because I was going back home. I did the same procedure as Koji wrote down (see here).

The P1 pressure reached 32 Torr.

Koji will take over the pumping shift tonight. 

  4921   Thu Jun 30 11:36:54 2011 JamieUpdateSUSRe: ITMX whitening, ETMX left free swinging

Quote:

While closing up the whitening shop for the night, I noticed that the ITMX whitening state (Whitening "On") is opposite that of all other suspensions (they all have Whitening "Off").  I don't know which way is correct, but I assume they should all be the same.  Once all the whitening and BO testing is done, we should make sure that they're all the way we want them to be.

This was certainly my fault, probably left over from early debugging of my BO switch check script.  I've turned the ITMX whitening all off, to match the other suspensions.

Quote

Also, Koji and I are leaving ETMX free swinging.  That's the way we found it, presumably from Jamie's BO testing at the end station today.  We don't know what the optic's story is, so we're leaving it the way we found it.  Jamie (or whomever left it free swinging), can you please restore it when it is okay to do so?  Thanks!

Again, this was my fault.  Sorry.  I just accidentally left this off when I finished yesterday.  Much apologies.  I've turned the ETMX watchdog back on.

  5338   Fri Sep 2 17:57:18 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSRe: ITMY released without opening chambers

It stacked again . We should take a closer look at it.

Quote from #5326

The ITMY mirror was released. The OSEM readouts became healthy.

 

  4627   Wed May 4 15:22:39 2011 kiwamuUpdate Re: Intermittent MC3 UL PD signal

I went push all the possible connectors for the MC3 shadow sensors including the SCSIs, flat cables and satellite box.

Also I put screws on them so that they won't become loose any more.

As a result UL_PDMON dropped from 0.6 V to 0.490 V and it becomes stable so far.

I didn't strain relief the cables but we must do it at some point before going into the full locking test.

Quote from #4625

The attached plot shows the 30 day trend of the MC3 UL PD signal. The signal dropped to zero at some point but now it is close to the level it was a few weeks ago. There still could be a problem with the cable.

The rest of the MC1,2,3 PD signals looked ok.

 

  7570   Wed Oct 17 19:35:58 2012 KojiUpdateComputersRe: Lots of new White :(

Solved. The power code of c1iscaux was loose.
Has anyone worked around the back side of 1Y3?


I looked into the problem. I went around the channel lists for each slow machines and found the variables are supported by c1iscaux

controls@pianosa:/cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1iscaux 0$ cd /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1iscaux
controls@pianosa:/cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1iscaux 0$ grep C1:IF *
C1IFO_STATE.db:grecord(ai,"C1:IFO-STATE")

It seemed that the machine was not responding to ping. I went to 1Y3 and found the crate was off. Actually this is not correct.
The key was on but the power was off. I looked at the back and found the power code was loose from its inlet.
Once the code was pushed in and the crate was keyed, the white boxes got back online.

Just in case I burtrestored these slow channels by the snapshot at 6:07am on Sunday.

  7574   Thu Oct 18 08:00:40 2012 jamieUpdateComputersRe: Lots of new White :(

Quote:

Solved. The power code of c1iscaux was loose.
Has anyone worked around the back side of 1Y3?


I looked into the problem. I went around the channel lists for each slow machines and found the variables are supported by c1iscaux

controls@pianosa:/cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1iscaux 0$ cd /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1iscaux
controls@pianosa:/cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1iscaux 0$ grep C1:IF *
C1IFO_STATE.db:grecord(ai,"C1:IFO-STATE")

It seemed that the machine was not responding to ping. I went to 1Y3 and found the crate was off. Actually this is not correct.
The key was on but the power was off. I looked at the back and found the power code was loose from its inlet.
Once the code was pushed in and the crate was keyed, the white boxes got back online.

Just in case I burtrestored these slow channels by the snapshot at 6:07am on Sunday.

I was working around 1Y2 and 1Y3 when I wired the DAC in the c1lsc IO chassis in 1Y3 to the tip-tilt electronics in 1Y2.  I had to mess around in the back of 1Y3 to get it connected.  I obviously did not intend to touch anything else, but it's certainly possible that I did.

  5173   Wed Aug 10 14:30:55 2011 kiwamuUpdateIOORe: MC A2L alignment

I modified a set of the automated MC locking scripts which are dedicated for the low power MC.

Currently there are three scripts like the usual MC locking scripts:

(1)mcup_low_power, (2) mcdown_low_power and (3) autolockMCmain40_low_power.

I ran those scripts on op340m as usual and so far they are running very well. The lock acquisition is quite repeatable.

I hope theses scripts always bring the lock condition to the same one and hence the LOCKIN signals don't change by every lock.

 

- To run the script

  log into op340m and run autolockMCmain40m_low_power

Quote from #5167

And the MC settles into a new position when the MC-PSL servo loop was disturbed by random denizens in the lab.  Requiring us to start over again.

 

  5238   Mon Aug 15 14:07:39 2011 kiwamuUpdateIOORe: MC misaligned a lot

The leveling was still okay. The MC mirrors were realigned and now they all are fine.

We will go ahead for the vertex alignment and extraction of the pick-off beams.

 

Here is a summary of the spot measurement.

    Feb 26 2011      May 08 2011 Aug 2 2011  Aug 10 2011 (in air) [NEW!!] Aug 14 2011 (in air)
MC1 pit [mm]   1.6   1.9  1.93 -0.858 -0.2
MC2 pit [mm]   6.4   9.0 9.03 -0.844 -0.8
MC3 pit [mm]   1.4   2.0 2.01 -1.03 -0.1
MC1 yaw [mm]   -1.5   -1.7 -1.72 -0.847 -1.1
MC2 yaw [mm]   1.0   0.2 0.178 0.582 0.6
MC3 yaw [mm]   -1.3   -1.9 -1.87 -1.06 -1.1

 

Quote from #5236

Anyways we should check the leveling of the IOO table and the spot positions on the MC mirrors again to make sure.

 

  4643   Thu May 5 15:28:23 2011 kiwamuUpdateLSCRe: MI locking : calibration of BS and ITMs actuators

They are the DC responses.

I put the resonant frequencies that Leo reported in the wiki to obtain the DC response.

The resonant frequencies I used are :

  f_BS = 0.957 Hz

  f_ITMX = 0.966 Hz

  f_ITMY = 0.988 Hz

Also I assumed that all the Q-values are 5 due to the damping.

Quote:

I've got confused

1) Are these the DC responses of the coils? If that is true, we need to specify the resonant frequency of each suspension to get the AC response.

2) Are these the AC responses well above the resonant freqs? In that case, The responses should be x.xxx / f^2 [m/counts]

Quote:

 BS = 3.69e-08 [m/counts]
 ITMX = 8.89e-09 [m/counts]
 ITMY = 9.22e-09 [m/counts]

 

  1373   Mon Mar 9 11:09:33 2009 AlbertoUpdateComputersRe: Not even data retrieval working

Quote:
Although getting the regular DAQ data works, we can't get any testpoints.

I tried restarting tpman several times; there's no inittab on fb40m for this so we should get Alex to set one up when he comes.
I also tried various power cycles and reboots: daqawg, daqctrl, etc. I also notice that Osamu's setup of new stuff is connected to
the same rack and power strips as all of our sensitive DAQ machines. We should find out if there was any hardware installed in the
last couple days; it would be easy to accidentally unplug or damage on of our fibers.

I moved the old tpman.log over to tpman.log.090308. It starts out with a header and then just lists when each TP is requested.

When restarting tpman it puts the following into the terminal:
fb:controls>./tpman &
[1] 1037
fb:controls>VMIC RFM 5565 (0) found, mapped at 0x2868c90
VMIC RFM 5579 (1) found, mapped at 0x2868c90
Could not open 5565 reflective memory in /dev/daqd-rfm1
16 kHz system
Spawn testpoint manager
Channel list length for node 0 is 4168
Test point manager (31001001 / 1): node 0
which is OK?; its the same startup outputs that are in the old log file. It would be nice if there was not and error message about the RFM.
Requesting new testpoints via tdsdata, dtt, or the diag command line doesn't seem to work. tpman doesn't spit anything out although 'tp show 0'
does show that the TP is selected.

Once Alex fixes the 'tpman' issue, we should make sure to put an inittab or startup script in there so that tpman writes a log
file and also archives its old log files upon a restart.


Alex fixed the problem. It was caused by the awgtpman running on kami1.martian which conflicted with the tpman in fb0.

Killing awgtpman on kami1 allowed for the tpman on tp0 to work properly again.

If more test points are needed, Alex suggested to tune the GDS settings accordingly.
What this actually means, I still have to understand it.
  2920   Wed May 12 10:33:32 2010 kiwamuUpdateGreen LockingRe: Reflection from ETM and ITM !

The procedure you wrote down as a standard is right.   I explain reasons why we didn't do such way. 

For our situation, we can rotate the polarization angle of the incident beam by using a HWP in front of the Faraday.  

This means we don't have to pay attention about the PBS_in because the rotation of either PBS_in or the HWP causes the same effect (i.e. variable transmission ). This is why we didn't carefully check the PBS_in, but did carefully with the HWP.

Normally we should take a maximum transmission according to a instruction paper from OFR, but we figured out it was difficult to find a maximum point. In fact looking at the change of the power with such big incident (~1W) was too hard to track, it only can change 4th significant digit ( corresponds to 1mW accuracy for high power incident ) in the monitor of the Ophir power meter. So we decided to go to a minimum point instead a maximum point, and around a minmum point we could resolve the power with accuracy of less than 1mW.

After obtaining the minimum by rotating the HWP, we adjusted the angle of PBS_out to have a minimum transmission.

And then we was going to flip the Faraday 180 deg for fine tuning, but we didn't. We found that once we remove the Faraday from the mount, the role angle of the Faraday is going to be screwed up because the mount can not control the role angle of the Faraday. This is why we didn't flip it.

Quote:

I could not understand this operation. Can you explain this a bit more?

It sounds different from the standard procedure to adjust the Faraday:

1) Get Max transmittion by rotating PBS_in and PBS_out.

2) Flip the Faraday 180 deg i.e. put the beam from the output port.

3) Rotate PBS_in to have the best isolation.

 

 

  2921   Wed May 12 12:25:11 2010 KojiUpdateGreen LockingRe: Reflection from ETM and ITM !

??? I still don't understand. What principle are you rely on?

I could not understand why you rotated the HWP to the "minimum" transmission
and then minimized the transmission by rotating the output PBS. What is optimized by this action?

Probably there is some hidden assumption  which I still don't understand.
Something like:
Better transmission gives best isolation, PBS has some leakage transmission
of the S-pol light, and so on.

Tell me what is the principle otherwise I don't accept that this adjustment is "to get a good isolation with the Faraday".

P.S. you could flip the faraday without removing it from the V-shaped mount. This does not roll the Faraday.

Quote:

The procedure you wrote down as a standard is right.   I explain reasons why we didn't do such way. 

For our situation, we can rotate the polarization angle of the incident beam by using a HWP in front of the Faraday.  

This means we don't have to pay attention about the PBS_in because the rotation of either PBS_in or the HWP causes the same effect (i.e. variable transmission ). This is why we didn't carefully check the PBS_in, but did carefully with the HWP.

Normally we should take a maximum transmission according to a instruction paper from OFR, but we figured out it was difficult to find a maximum point. In fact looking at the change of the power with such big incident (~1W) was too hard to track, it only can change 4th significant digit ( corresponds to 1mW accuracy for high power incident ) in the monitor of the Ophir power meter. So we decided to go to a minimum point instead a maximum point, and around a minmum point we could resolve the power with accuracy of less than 1mW.

After obtaining the minimum by rotating the HWP, we adjusted the angle of PBS_out to have a minimum transmission.

And then we was going to flip the Faraday 180 deg for fine tuning, but we didn't. We found that once we remove the Faraday from the mount, the role angle of the Faraday is going to be screwed up because the mount can not control the role angle of the Faraday. This is why we didn't flip it.

Quote:

I could not understand this operation. Can you explain this a bit more?

It sounds different from the standard procedure to adjust the Faraday:

1) Get Max transmittion by rotating PBS_in and PBS_out.

2) Flip the Faraday 180 deg i.e. put the beam from the output port.

3) Rotate PBS_in to have the best isolation.

 

 

 

  5776   Tue Nov 1 16:02:15 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSRe: SUS input matrix diagonalizer REMOVED from crontab

Quote:

It turns out that nodus doesn't know how to NDS2, so I can't run diagAllSUS as a cron job on nodus. To further complicate things, no other machines can run the elog utility, so I am going to have to do something shifty...

 Actually in the last 40m meeting we discussed the SUS diagnosis and decided not to post the results on the elog.

Alternatively we will have a summary web page which will contain all the information (sensitivity, UGF monitors, etc.,) and will be updated everyday like GEO.

This will be a place where we should post the SUS results every week.

So we don't need to worry about the cron-elog job, and for running the scripts you can simply use one of the lab machines as a cron host.

Once you get the scripts running on a machine as a cron job, it will be the point where we should quit developing the SUS diagonalizer and pass it to the web summary people.

  4195   Mon Jan 24 13:08:07 2011 kiwamuUpdateGreen LockingRe: X arm locked !

Quote: #4192

Also, the PLL diagram seems to show that you have a 1/f^2 loop: 1/f from the SR560 and 1/f from the Hz->rad conversion ??

Well, the diagram I drew is true. I also have been confused by this 1/f^2 issue in our PLL.

As Rana pointed out, the open-loop TF should become 1/f^2 over most of the frequency range, but it still remains 1/f above 5kHz for some reasons. 

 Need more investigations.

e_pll_oltf.png

 At the beginning I tried phase-locking the VCO to the beat note without any external filters (i.e. SR560 see here), but I never succeeded.

It was because the hold-in range of the PLL was not sufficiently wide, it could stay locked within frequency range of less than +/- 1MHz from the center frequency of 80 MHz.

This is obviously not good, because the beat note typically fluctuates by more than +/- 3MHz in time scale of 1 sec or so.

  So I decided to put an external filter, SR560,  in order to have a larger DC gain and a higher UGF.

Somehow I unconsciously tuned the SR560 to have a pole at 1Hz with the gain of 2000, which shouldn't work in principle because the open-loop will be 1/f^2.

However I found that the PLL became more robust, in fact it can track the input frequency range of +/- 5MHz.

The open-loop TF is shown above. For comparison I plotted also the open-loop TF wehn it's without the SR560.

I checked the frequency of the VCO output when it was phase-locked to a Marconi, it was healthy (i.e. the same frequency as the input signal from Marconi).

  4196   Mon Jan 24 14:27:13 2011 kiwamuUpdateGreen LockingRe: X arm locked !

Quote: #4193

So, how is the IR error signal stabilized when the IR is brought in to the resonance?

I can see the linear trend of 0.1V/s from 5s to 10s.  This corresponds to 100kHz/s and 13nm for the residual beat drift and the arm length motion, respectively. That sounds huge.

 I haven't yet taken any data for the IR fluctuation when the Xarm is locked by the green locking.

You are right, the DC drift was due to a lack of the DC gain. But don't worry about that, because this issue has been solved.

 


(DC gain issue)

  The lack of DC gain was because I put an IIR filter called ''DC block" that I made. It has 1/f shape below 30mHz and becomes flat above it.

The purpose of this filter was to avoid a DC kick when it starts feeding back to ETMX.

Usually the output signal from the PLL has an offset, typically ~5V, then this offset is also acquired into the ADC and eventually kicks ETMX through the feedback.

So when I took the time series data I enabled the 'DC block', that's why it drifts slowly.

 After taking the time series, I found that without this 'DC block' technique, the lock can be achieved by appropriately subtracting the offsets with epics numerical values.

This subtraction technique, of course, gave me more stable lock at DC.

 


(open loop transfer function)

Here is the open-loop TF of the arm locking I measured last night:

masslock_oltf.png

The IIR filter chain has the following poles and zeros:

     pole 0.1Hz, 1000Hz,

   zero 1Hz, 30Hz

For the fitting I assume that the ETMX pendulum has a resonance at 1Hz with Q of 5. Also I put the cavity pole at 24 kHz, assuming the finesse is 80 at 532 nm.

I just fitted the gain and the time delay by my eyes.

If I believe the result of the fitting, whole time delay is 330 usec, which sounds pretty large to me.

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