damped sus at atm1 and freeswingging sus at atm2

Most of the suspension look ok, with "badness" levels between 4 and 5.  I'm just posting the ones that look slightly less ideal below.

• PRM, SRM, and BS in particular show a lot of little peaks that look like some sort of intermodulations.
• ITMY has a lot of elements with imaginary components
• The ETMY POS and SIDE modes are *very* close together, which is severely adversely affecting the diagonalization

PRM		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.466   1.420   1.795  -0.322   0.866   UR    1.383  -0.580   0.516  -0.046  -0.861   LR   -0.617  -0.978   0.205   0.011   0.867   LL   -1.534   1.022   1.484  -0.265  -1.407   SD    0.846  -0.632  -0.651   1.000   0.555	5.62863
SRM		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.783   1.046   1.115  -0.149   1.029  UR    1.042  -0.954   1.109  -0.060  -1.051  LR   -0.958  -0.926   0.885  -0.035   0.856  LL   -1.217   1.074   0.891  -0.125  -1.063  SD    0.242   0.052   1.544   1.000   0.029	4.0198
BS		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.536   0.714   0.371   0.283   1.042   UR    0.225  -1.286   1.715  -0.084  -0.927   LR   -1.775  -0.286   1.629  -0.117   0.960   LL   -0.464   1.714   0.285   0.250  -1.070   SD    0.705   0.299  -3.239   1.000   0.023	5.5501
ITMY		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.335   0.209   1.232  -0.071   0.976   UR   -0.537   1.732   0.940  -0.025  -1.068   LR   -2.000  -0.268   0.768   0.004   1.046   LL   -0.129  -1.791   1.060  -0.043  -0.911   SD   -0.069  -0.885   1.196   1.000   0.239	4.28384
ETMY		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.103   0.286   1.194  -0.039   0.994  UR   -0.196  -1.643  -0.806  -0.466  -1.113  LR   -2.000   0.071  -0.373  -0.209   0.744  LL   -0.701   2.000   1.627   0.217  -1.149  SD    0.105  -1.007   3.893   1.000   0.290	9.25346

 We should use the deionizer before drag wiping with isopropanol.

Kiwamu and Steve, from yesterday

PRM and BS oplev paths were relaid after setting 1/2 OSEM voltages. The incident beam on suspended optics are centered  within  ~ +- 2 mm

I noticed many unvected ss screws are used on the big Al table tops. The SS 1/4-20 screws

 used on the optical tables in vacuum MUST be VENTED!

Also, please use  SS clamps. Replace aluminum ones when you can. We have plenty baked ones.

ALL optics (including MC) were kicked and left free swinging at:

997689421

The "opticshutdown" script was also run, which should turn the watchdogs back on in 5 hours (at 6am).

We have decided that the IFO alignment is bad enough that we're not ready to pump down.  PUMP ABORTED.

The IFO alignment is somewhat OK, in that the green and IR beams are flashing in the arms, and the return beams are overlapping at the BS.  However the beams appear to be not centered on any of the optics at the moment.  They are all displaced in yaw by ~0.5 to 1 cm or so in various directions.

From this we have decided that we need to step back and reattack the IFO alignment from square one.  Here is our current suggested procedure:

1. check ETM positions relative to what we think they should be on the drawings.  This is to verify that the ETMs were not placed in the wrong places laterally.
2. translate Y green axis north, centering green on ETMY and ITMY (by looking at cards).  North is the opposite direction from how the beams are displaced from the TM centers.
3. steer input pointing to overlap IR on green beam at BS, ITMY, and ETMY.  IR should visibly overlap green at both BS and ITMY, and we should be able to see IR on target in front of ETMY with ETMY face camera, and in ETMY trans camera.
4. center IR on ETMX by steering BS with DC bias.
5. align Y arm cavity for green resonance by adjusting ITMY.
6. adjust ITMX to achieve michelson fringes at AS
7. adjust PRM lateral translation to center beam on PRM, if needed
8. adjust SRM lateral translation to center beam on SRM, if needed
9. align PRC to see fringes
10. align SRC to see fringes
11. extract AS (no clipping)

 Once this is done, we will need to check the following:

• IPANG/IPPOS extraction
• pick-off extraction
• OPLEVs
• OSEMs
• green periscopes and green beam extraction at PSL

We've decided to stop for the night, get a good nights rest, and attack all of this tomorrow morning.

This afternoon's work:

• OSEMs were adjusted on all suspended optics.
• X and Y-arms were aligned to green.
• Once that was done, the input pointing was adjusted with the PZTs to get the IR beam centered on ITMY and ETMY.
• Once the input pointing was ok we extracted IPANG and IPPOS.
• BS, ITMY, PRM, SRM optical levers (oplevs) were extracted.
• Prepared rails and stops for TMs for morning drag wiping.

TODO before drag wiping:

• Check full IFO alignment.
• Readjust OSEMs if needed.
• Extract ITMX oplev.

While waiting for the IFO team to align things (there were already ~5 people working on a ~1 person job...), I got all of our supplies prepped for drag wiping in the morning. 

The syringes are still on the flow bench down the Xarm.  I put fresh alcohol from unopened spectrometer-grade bottles into our alcohol drag wiping bottles.

The ITMs already had rails for marking their position in place from the last time we drag wiped.  I placed marker-rails for both ETMs.

 All hands on deck at 9am Thursday for drag wiping and doors.  We'll do the 5 doors first (including drag wiping), then put on the access connector last.  Steve will then begin pumping early Friday morning.

Jenne, Anamaria

We aligned the ETMX OSEMs and ran into this issue. Looking at the SENSOR_SIDE channel, we pulled out the OSEM and determined that the open light voltage is 874 counts, so we centered it around 440 as well as we could. This is same channel as its slow counterpart SDSEN_OUTPUT (grey number immediately to the right on SUS medms).

Josh Smith, Fabian Magana-Sandoval, Jackie Lee (Fullerton)

Thanks to Jamie and Jenne for the tour and the input on the pages.

We had a look at the GEO summary pages and thought about how best to make a 40m summary page that would eventually become and aligo summary page. Here's a rough plan:

- First we'll check that we can access the 40m NDS2 server to get data from the 40m lab in Fullerton.

- We'll make a first draft of a 40m summary page in python, using pynds, and base the layout on the current geo summary pages.

- When this takes shape we'll iterate with Jamie, Jenne, Rana to get more ideas for measurements, layout.

Other suggestions: Jenne is working on an automated noisebudget and suggests having a placeholder for it on the page. We can also incorporate some of the features of Aidan's 40m overview medm screen that's in progress, possibly with different plots corresponding to different parts of the drawing, etc. Jenne also will email us the link of once per hour medm screenshots.

We will pump down the chambers on Thursday morning.

Today will be a day of the OSEM and oplev party.

 -- to do list for today --

 + OSEM mid-range adjustment

 + oplev realignment

 + placement of beam traps

 + extraction of IPPOS

 + table leveling

 + interferometer alignment

 + AM-PM mystery

 + preparation for drag and wipe

[Jamie / Suresh / Kiwamu] 

The in-vac work is ongoing.

Before we run out our energy we are posting this entry to briefly report the current status.

- (done) BS earthquake stop adjustment.

- (done) PRM earthquake stop adjustment

- (done) MC spot position check => They are almost the same within 10 %.

- (done) Injection and alignment of the ABSL laser to make the beam brighter in the vertex region.

- (done) POY => We repositioned an in-vac steering mirror to get the POY beam hitting the center of the steering mirror.

                           It's now coming out from the chamber.

-  (done)  IPANG => realigned two mirrors on the ETMY table to get the IPANG out from the chamber. Now it's reaching the ETMY optical table.

                             It needs a final touch before we pump down.  We revisited it later in the night after realigning the IFO and it is well aligned now.

- (done)  POP => We have aligned the ABSL laser injected from the AS port to reach the REFL camera.  We turned it up to max power of 300mW and used it as a substitute for the PRC beam.

                         Even this was not enough to see anything in the POP beam path after the PR2 (tip-tilt).  So we used a green beam from the Y-arm as a guide of the POP beam path because the ABSL (POP) beam was too dim to work with.

                         We placed a lens and a CCD camera to detect the green and then blocked the Y-green.  It was then possible to see the ABSL-POP beam in the CCD camera.  The lens and the CCD are markers for this beam. 

                         Do not remove these markers unless absolutely necessary.

-(done) POX => We located the ABSL (mimicking POX) beam on the POXM1 mirror and adjusted the mirror to ensure that the beam exits at the right height and a convenient location on the POX table. 

- (0%) OSEM mid-range adjustment

- (0%) IPPOS

- (0%) oplev re-alignment

[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.

 Kiwamu aligned things for me, and I rotated the SRM tower so that the reflected beam was pretty much totally overlapping the incident beam.  The SRC was aligned to make sure things were good.  Now the DC bias for SRM Yaw is ~1.4, so we're totally good. 

To rotate SRM, Jamie had the idea of using 2 screws so I could push the tower on one side, and back off the screw an equal amount on the other side and push the tower to be touching both screws again, to ensure that I was rotating about the center of the tower and wasn't introducing any Pos action. 

While I was at it, I also moved the OSEM connector tower back to its normal place on the table, so it's not in the way of oplev beams.  It had been moved previously to accommodate ITMY near the door.

Kiwamu, Keiko, Anamaria

Looking at the I and Q signals coming from REFL11 and REFL55 we saw large offsets, which would mean we have amplitude modulation, especially at 11MHz. We checked the PD themselves with RF spectrum analyzer, and at their frequencies we see stationary peaks (even if we look only at direct reflection from PRM). We changed the attenuation of the PSL EOM, and saw the peak go down. 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.

>If necessary steer ETMs and ITMs to make the X and Y green beam flashing.

Green is now flashing in both X and Y arms

>Open the IOO and OMC chamber and lock MC.

Open, and cover in place. MC is flashing and locking.

Data taken from: 997530498+120

Things are actually looking ok at the moment.  "Badness" (cond(B)) is below 6 for all optics.

• We don't have results from PRM since its spectra looked bad, as if it's being clamped by the earthquake stops.
• The SRM matrix definitely looks the nicest, followed by ITMX.  All the other matrices have some abnormally high or low elements.
• cond(B) for ETMY is better than that for SRM, even though the ETMY matrix doesn't look as nice.  Does this mean that cond(B) is not necessarily the best figure of merit, or is there something else that our naive expectation for the matrix doesn't catch?

We still need to go through and adjust all the OSEM ranges once the IFO is aligned and we know what our DC biases are.  We'll repeat this one last time after that.

TM		M	cond(B)
BS		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.456   0.770   0.296   0.303   1.035  UR    0.285  -1.230   1.773  -0.077  -0.945  LR   -1.715  -0.340   1.704  -0.115   0.951  LL   -0.544   1.660   0.227   0.265  -1.070  SD    0.612   0.275  -3.459   1.000   0.046	5.61948
SRM		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.891   1.125   0.950  -0.077   0.984  UR    0.934  -0.875   0.987  -0.011  -0.933  LR   -1.066  -1.020   1.050   0.010   1.084  LL   -1.109   0.980   1.013  -0.056  -0.999  SD    0.257  -0.021   0.304   1.000   0.006	4.0291
ITMX		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.436   1.035   1.042  -0.068   0.728  UR    0.855  -0.965   1.137  -0.211  -0.969  LR   -1.145  -1.228   0.958  -0.263   1.224  LL   -1.564   0.772   0.863  -0.120  -1.079  SD   -0.522  -0.763   2.495   1.000  -0.156	4.55925
ITMY		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.375   0.095   1.245  -0.058   0.989  UR   -0.411   1.778   0.975  -0.022  -1.065  LR   -2.000  -0.222   0.755   0.006   1.001  LL   -0.214  -1.905   1.025  -0.030  -0.945  SD    0.011  -0.686   0.804   1.000   0.240	4.14139
ETMX		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.714   0.191   1.640   0.404   1.052  UR    0.197  -1.809   1.758  -0.120  -1.133  LR   -1.803  -1.889   0.360  -0.109   0.913  LL   -1.286   0.111   0.242   0.415  -0.902  SD    1.823  -3.738  -0.714   1.000  -0.130	5.19482
ETMY		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.104   0.384   1.417   0.351   1.013  UR   -0.287  -1.501   1.310  -0.074  -1.032  LR   -2.000   0.115   0.583  -0.045   0.777  LL   -0.609   2.000   0.690   0.380  -1.179  SD    0.043  -0.742  -0.941   1.000   0.338	3.57032

 Since Suresh and I changed the DC biases on most of the suspension, the free swingning spectra will be different from the past.

- -

EXcited ETMX ETMY ITMX ITMY PRM SRM BS

Tue Aug 16 04:48:02 PDT 2011
997530498

The main goal of today is to extract the pick-off beams

Today's menu :

  + If necessary steer ETMs and ITMs to make the X and Y green beam flashing.

  + Open the IOO and OMC chamber and lock MC.

       => cover the place of the access connector by a large piece of aluminum foil. It will give a robust lock of MC.

  + Check the beam pointing down to Y arm by looking at the ETMY face camera.

        => If it's necessary align PZT1 and PZT2 from EPICS to make the IR beam flashing in the X arm.

  + Align BS and let the beam hit the center of ETMX to make the X arm flashing.

        => These alignment procedure will automatically gives us the MICH fringes on the AS CCD camera.

  + Rotate the SRM tower to get the SRMI fringes on the AS CCD camera.

        => This is because the required amount of the YAW correction on SRM is currently beyond the range of the DC bias.

  + Align PRM to get the PRMI fringes on AS CCD camera. Also make sure the beam comes back to the REFL CCD camera.

  + Lock the PRC to make POP/POX/POY bright enough.

     => Probably the REFL11 RFPD needs more power. To increase the power, just rotate the HWP, which is sitting before the RFPDs on the AS table.

     => If the signal on AS55 is too small, we can use REFL11_Q or REFL55 for the MICH lock.

  + OR inject and align the ABSL laser to make those pick-off beams bright enough.

     => This case we don't have to make the DRMI exactly on the resonance, what we need is just the DRMI flashing.

  + Align necessary optics for those pick-off beams.

     => In our definition (aLIGO definition) POP is the beam propagating from BS to PRM. Don't be confused by another one, which propagates from PRM to BS.

  + Steer two mirrors on the ETMY table for aligning IPANG. Also, steer some mirrors on the BS table for IPPOS.

    => IPANG has already reached the ETMY table, so ideally we don't have to steer a mirror on the BS table.

    => IPPOS/ANG are very visible with a sensor card.

  + Align some oplevs.

     => This work is relatively independent from the other tasks. Steve can take care of it.

  + Adjust the OSEM to their mid-range.

     => This work can be done anytime, but everytime we have to recover the alignment of the interferometer.

We did several things today+night.  The final goal was to lock the PRC so that we could obtain the POX, POY and POP beams.  However there were large number of steps to get there.

1) We moved the ITMY into its place and balanced the table

2) We then aligned the Y-arm cavity to the green beam which was set up as a reference before we moved the ETMY and ITMY to adjust the OSEMS.  We had the green flashing in Y-arm

3) We checked the beam position on PR2. It was okay. This confirmed that we were ready to send the beam onto the Y arm.

4) We then roughly aligned the IR beam on ETMY where Jamie had placed an Al foil with a hole.  We got the arm flashing in both IR and green. 

5) We used the PZTs to make the green and IR beams co-incident and flashing in the Y arm.  This completed the alignment of the IR beam into the Y-arm.

6) The IPPO (pick-off) window had to be repositioned to avoid clipping.  The IPANG beam was aligned such that it exits the ETMY chamber onto the ETMY table.  It can now be easily sent to the IPANG QPD.

7) Then BS was aligned to direct the IR beam into the X-arm and had the X-arm flashing.  It had already been aligned to its green.

8) It was now the turn of the SRC.  The beam spots on all the SRC related optics were off centered.  We aligned all the optics in the AS path to get the AS beam on to the AP table.

9) The AS beam was very faint so we repositioned the AS camera to the place intended for AS11 PD, since there was a brighter beam available there. 

10) We could then obtain reflections from ITMY, ITMX and PRM at the AS camera. 

11) Problems:

      a) ITMY osems need to be readjusted to make sure that they are in mid-range.  Several are out of range and so the damping is not effective.

      b) When we tried to align SRC the yaw OSEM had to be pushed to its full range.  We therefore have to turn the SRM tower to get it back into range.

 12)  We stopped here since moving the SRM is not something to be attempted at the end of a rather long day. Kiwamu is posting a plan for the rest of the day.

 REFL33 and REFL165 cables were connected from the AP table to the rack.  Cables on the rack for REFL33I, 33Q, 165I, 165Q ports were connected, too. Connections were confirmed by the data viewer. Two SMA cables which will be used for the two PDs on the AP tabl were built. We will be able to place the two PDs tomorrow. The beamsplitters to split the laser to REFL33 and REFL165 ports were mounted and ready to be placed.

We have placed a foil aperture in front of ETMY, to aid in aligning the Y-arm, and then the PRC.  It obviously needs to be removed before we close up.

For some reason ETMY has changed a lot.  Not only does it now have the worst "badness" (B matrix condition number) at ~10, but the frequency of all the modes have shifted, some considerably.  I did accidentally bump the optic when Jenne and I were adjusting the OSEMs last week, but I didn't think it was that much.  The only thing I can think of that would cause the modes to move so much is that the optic has been somehow reseated in it's suspension.  I really don't know how that would have happened, though.

Jenne and I went in to investigate ETMY, to see if we could see anything obviously wrong.  Everything looks to be ok.  The magnets are all well centered in the OSEMs, and the PDMon levels look ok.

We rechecked the balance of the table, and tweaked it a bit to make it more level.  We then tweaked the OSEMs again to put them back in the center of their range.  We also checked the response by using the lockin method to check the response to POS and SIDE drive in each of the OSEMs (we want large POS response and minimal SIDE response).  Everything looked ok.

We're going to take another freeswing measurement and see how things look now.  If there are any suggestions what should be done (if anything), about the shifted modes, please let us know.

I have updated the freeswing scripts, combining all of them into a single script that takes arguments to specify the optic to kick:

pianosa:SUS 0> ./freeswing
usage: freeswing SET
usage: freeswing OPTIC [OPTIC ...]

Kick and free-swing suspended optics.
Specify optics (i.e. 'MC1', 'ITMY') or a set:
'all' = (MC1 MC2 MC3 ETMX ETMY ITMX ITMY PRM SRM BS)
'ifo' = (ETMX ETMY ITMX ITMY PRM SRM BS)
'mc'  = (MC1 MC2 MC3)
pianosa:SUS 0>

I have removed all of the old scripts, and committed the new one to the SVN.

The moral of the story here is that none of the suspensions are overwhelmingly awesome, but most of them will be fine if we leave them as-is.

SUS	DoF Plot	Input Matrix	"BADness" (1==good)
ITMX		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.438   1.019   1.050  -0.059   0.717  UR    0.828  -0.981   1.128  -0.215  -0.956  LR   -1.172  -1.201   0.950  -0.275   1.241  LL   -1.562   0.799   0.872  -0.120  -1.087  SD   -0.579  -0.847   2.539   1.000  -0.170	4.68597
ITMY		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.157   0.185   1.188  -0.109   0.922  UR    0.020  -1.815   0.745  -0.051  -0.970  LR   -1.980  -0.090   0.812  -0.024   1.158  LL   -0.843   1.910   1.255  -0.082  -0.949  SD   -0.958   1.080   1.859   1.000   0.325	4.82756
ETMX		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.338   0.476   1.609   0.316   1.046   UR    0.274  -1.524   1.796  -0.069  -1.180   LR   -1.726  -1.565   0.391  -0.100   0.938   LL   -1.662   0.435   0.204   0.286  -0.836   SD    0.996  -2.629  -0.999   1.000  -0.111	4.32072
ETMY		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.123   0.456   1.812   0.231   0.936  UR   -0.198  -1.489   0.492  -0.096  -1.098  LR   -2.000   0.055   0.188  -0.052   0.764  LL   -0.679   2.000   1.508   0.275  -1.201  SD    0.180  -0.591   3.355   1.000   0.200	10.643
BS		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    1.575   0.697   0.230   0.294   1.045  UR    0.163  -1.303   1.829  -0.133  -0.958  LR   -1.837  -0.308   1.770  -0.171   0.944  LL   -0.425   1.692   0.171   0.257  -1.053  SD    0.769   0.345  -3.380   1.000   0.058	6.111
PRM		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.597   1.553   2.000  -0.469   1.229   UR    1.304  -0.447   0.383  -0.043  -0.734   LR   -0.696  -1.048  -0.277   0.109   0.687   LL   -1.403   0.952   1.340  -0.317  -1.350   SD    0.518  -1.125  -1.161   1.000   0.394	8.43363
SRM		pit     yaw     pos     side    butt UL    0.831   1.039   1.153  -0.140   1.065  UR    1.071  -0.961   1.104  -0.057  -1.061  LR   -0.929  -0.946   0.847  -0.035   0.837  LL   -1.169   1.054   0.896  -0.118  -1.037  SD    0.193  -0.033   1.797   1.000   0.045	4.17396

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.

 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.

This morning Steve and I opened the doors on the IOO and OMC chamber to let the IR beam go to MC.

And found the MC flashing is way far from TEM00, there were very higher order modes.

The MC suspensions were realigned based on an assumption that the incident beam didn't change recently.

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

[Suresh / Kiwamu]

 Adjustment of the OSEMs on BS has been done.

All the bad suspensions (#5176) has been adjusted. They are waiting for the matrix inversion test.

Excited all optics
Sun Aug 14 20:22:33 PDT 2011
997413768

GOAL : To lock the central part of ifo

Here is the plan:

Mon - assemble all the cables from PDs and mixers, and check the CDS channels. Prepare the beamsplitters.

Tue - The current paths to REFL11 and REFL55 will be modified to the four paths to REFL11, 33, 55, 165. And the PDs will be placed.
Wed, Thu - during waiting for the ifo available with vacuum, help aligning the POP, POX, POY. In parallel, a simulation to find the PRC length SRC 
length tolerance will be proceeded.

Fri - When the ifo becomes available with vacuum, the sensing signals by 3-f scheme will be obtained with proper demodulation phases.

Sat - Try to lock the central part of the ifo with the new 3-f signals.

like the subject says...

 I have been redoing the noise test multiple times today. Here is the best plot that I got

 The lock was lost when I came in around noon today to check on it. The slow actuator was still railing.

1) I got lock back for a few minutes, by varying the laser temperature set point manually. TMP_OUTPUT was still reading -30000 cts (minimum allowed) and the transmission was not as high as it had been.

2) I toggled the second filter button off. The TMP_OUTPUT started rising up to ~2000 cts. I then toggled the second filter back on, and TMP_OUTPUT jumped the positive maximum number of counts allowed.

3) I lost the lock again. I turned off the digital output to the slow actuator.

4) I have so far failed at getting the lock back. My main problem is that when the BNC cable to the slow port is plugged in, even when I'm not sending anything to that port, it makes it so that changing the temperature set point manually has almost no effect on the transmission (it looks as though changing the setpoint is not actually changing the temperature, because the monitor shows the same higher order mode even when with +-degree temperature setpoint changes).

 I am thinking that perhaps my mass estimations were off? The model that I have used fits the data better than the model that I have made (changing the masses to fit my estimations of the values)

Below are some plots from dataviewer of temperature-step data taken over the past 32 hours. (They show minute trends). I am looking at the thermal coupling from the can surrounding the reference cavity on the PSL table to the cavity itself, and trying to measure the cavity temperature response via the control signal sent to heat the NPRO laser, which is locked to the cavity.

• Top left: out-of-loop temperature sensor on can surrounding ref cav (RCTEMP)
• Top right: control signal sent to slow drive of laser (laser heater), which is supposed to follow the cavity temperature (TMP_OUTPUT)
• Bottom left: in-loop can temperature sensors (MINCOMEAS)
• Bottom right: room temperature reading (RMTEMP)

I stepped the temperature set point from 35 to 36 deg. C for the can at 12:30am last night. Then I waited to see the cavity temperature change and the slow actuator (laser heater: TMP_OUTPUT) follow that change.

I was a bit worried about the oscillations that were occuring in the TMP_OUTPUT signal even long after this temperature step was made, but I figured that they were simply room-temperature changes propagating into the cavity, since they seemed to have a similar pattern to the room-temperature variations, and since it is clear that the out-of-loop temperature sensor on the can (RCTEMP) experiences variations, even when the in-loop sensors are recording no variation.

At 8:46pm tonight I stepped the temperature down 2 degrees to 34 deg. C. The step had a clear effect on TMP_OUTPUT. The voltage to the heater dropped and eventually railed at its lowest output. I'm worried that the loop is unstable, although I haven't ruled out other possibilities, such as that a 2 deg. C temperature step is too large for the loop. I will investigate further in the morning.

 Thank you.

The wire used to suspend the EDCs is tungsten?

To verify, for my model, the EDC will be the mass of all four dampers or a single damper? The length of the wire used to suspend the EDC will be the combined length of 4 wires or length of  a single wire?

Taking into account the densities for each material (specific material of each component was listed, so I looked up the densities), and trying my best to approximate the volumes of each component, I have determined

the mass of the mirror + mirror holder to be ~100 g and the mass of a single EDC to be ~19 g

1) Drawing has the dimensions => You can calculate the volume => You can calculate the mass
Complicated structure can be ignored. We need a rough estimation.

2) Your restoring force can have two terms:
- one comes from the spring constant k
- the other from the gravity

 The drawings do not have the masses of the objects.

For the resonant frequency:

Instead of sqrt (g/l) would the numerator in the square root be[ g + (energy stored in wire)/(mass of damper)] ?

What are the parameters you are using? As you have the drawings of the components, you can calculate the masses of the objects.

Reducing the ECD resonance from 10Hz->6Hz looks nice.

The resonant freq of the ECDs are not (fully) determined by the gravitational energy but have the contribution of the elastic energy of the wire.

Q1: How much is the res freq of the ECDs if the freq is completely determined by the grav energy? (i.e. the case of using much thinner wires)

Q2: How thin should the wires be?

Using my Matlab model of the flexibly-supported eddy current damping system, I have changed parameters to see if/how the TTs can be optimized in isolation. As I found earlier, posted in my bode plot entry, there is only a limited region where the flexibly-supported system provides better isolation than the rigidly-supported system.

Here is what I have found, where \gamma is the scale factor of the magnetic strength (proportional to magnetic strength), \beta is the scale factor of the current damper mass (estimated by attempting to fit my model to the experimental data), and \alpha is the scale factor of the current resonant frequency of the dampers.

Here are my commentaries on these plots. If you have any commentaries, it would be very helpful, as I would like to incorporate this information in my powerpoint presentation.

It seems as if the TT suspensions are already optimized?

It may be difficult to lower the resonant frequency of the dampers because that would mean changing the lengths of the EDC suspensions). Also, it appears that a rather drastic reduction (at most 0.6*current EDC resonant frequency --> reduction from about 10 Hz to 6 Hz or less) is required . Using the calculation that the resonant frequency is sqrt(g/length), for my single-suspended EDC model, this means increasing the wire length to nearly 3 x its current value. I'm not sure how this would translate to four EDCs...

The amplification at resonance caused by increasing the magnet strength almost offsets the isolation benefits of increasing magnet strength. From my modeling, it appears that the magnet strength may be very close (if not already at) isolation optimization.

Lowering the mass to 0.2 the current mass may be impractical. It seems as if the benefits of lowering the mass only occur when the mass is reduced by a factor of 0.2 (maybe 0.4)

As reported in my  previous entry of TT supsension bode plots, I found that my experimental data had what appears to be very noise peaks above 20 Hz (as mentioned earlier, the peak at 22 Hz is likely due to vertical coupling, as 22 Hz is the resonant frequency of the cantilever blades). This is very unusual and needs to be explored further. I would like to vertically-shake the TTs to obtain more data on possible coupling. However, I am leaving on Monday and will not return until Thursday (day of SURF talks). I am leaving campus Friday afternoon or so. I would may need some help coming up with an assembly plan/assembling set-up for vertical shaking (if it is possible to do so in such a limited time frame).

Today I wanted to see if the "noisy peaks" above 30 Hz were due to EM noise coupling. I tested this hypothesis today, seeing if EM fields generated by the coil at higher frequencies were injecting noise into my transfer function measurements. I found that the "noisy peaks" above 30 Hz are NOT DUE TO EM NOISE COUPLING. I am very curious as to what is causing the high peaks (possibly coupling from other degrees of freedom)?

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.

I am leaving all of the suspensions free swinging. They will automatically recover after 5 hours from now.

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FYI : I ran a combination of two scripts:   ./freeswing && ./opticshutdown

Adjustment of the PRM OSEMs are done. The coils turned out to be healthy.

The malfunction was fixed. It was because the UL OSEM was too deeply inserted and barely touching the AR surface of the mirror.

(OSEM adjustment)

 + Excited POS at 6.5 Hz with an amplitude of 3000 cnts by the LOCKIN oscillator.

 + Looked at the signal of each sensor in frequency domain.

 + Maximized the excitation peak for each of the four face OSEMs by rotating them.

 + Minimized the excitation peak in the SIDE signal by rotating it.

 + Adjusted the OSEM translational position so that they are in the midpoint of the OSEM range.

(POS sensitivity check)

From the view point of the matrix inversion, one thing we want to have is the equally sensitive face sensors and insensitive SIDE OSEM to the POS motion.

To check the success level of today's PRM adjusment, I ran swept sine measurements to take the transfer function from POS to each sensor.

The plots below are the results.  The first figure is the one measured before the adjustment and the second plot is the one after the adjustment.

As shown in the plot, before the adjustment the sensitivity of OSEMs were very different and the SIDE OSEM is quite sensitive to the POS motion.

So PRM used be in an extremely bad situation.

After the adjustment, the plot became much better.

The four face sensors have almost the same sensitivity (within factor of 3) and the SIDE is quite insensitive to the POS motion.

To aid Jenny's valiant attempt to finish her SURF project, I did some things with the front end system over the last couple days, largely tricking Jamie into doing things for me lest I ruin the 40m RCG system. Several tribulations have been omitted.

We stole a channel in the frontend, in the proccess:

1. Modified the C1GFD simulink model (now analog) to be "ADC -> TMP -> DAC" where TMP is a filter bank
   • C1GFD_TMP.adl (in /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/medm/c1gfd) is the relevant part which connects the ADC to the DAC in the frontend
2. Confirmed that the ADC was working by putting a signal in and seeing it in the frontend
3. Could not get a signal out of the anti aliasing board
4. Looked sad until Kiwamu found a breakout board for the SCSI cable coming from the DAC
5. Used SR560 to buffer DAC output
   • drove a triangle wave with AWG into the TMP EXC channel (100 counts 1 Hz) and looked at it after the ~25 ft of BNC cable running between the DAC and the NRPO driver
   • wave looked funny (not like a triangle wave), maybe the DAC is not meant to push a signal so far, so added buffer
6. Took the control signal going to the fast input of the NPRO driver (using the 500 Ohm SR560 output - see Jenny's diagram) and put it into the anti aliasing board of the ADC
7. Added switchable integrator to filter bank with Foton
   • I couldn't get the names to display in the filter bank, so I looked sad again
   • Jamie and Koji both poked at the "no name displayed" problem but had no conclusions, so I decided to ignore it
   • I confirm that when the two filters were toggled "on" that the transfer function was as expected: simple integrator with a unity gain at ~10mHz - agrees with what Foton's Bode Plot tool says it should be (see attached DTT plot)
8. I got Jamie to manually add the two epics channels from the TMP model to the appropriate .ini file so they would be recorded
   • C1:GFD-TMP_OUTPUT  (16 Hz)
   • C1:GFD-TMP_INMON    (16 Hz)
9. RefCav heater servo seems to still be set up, so we can use existing channels:
   • C1:PSL-FSS_RCPID_SETPOINT (temp setpoint - will do +/-1C steps about 35 C)
   • C1:PSL-FSS_MINCOMEAS (In loop temp sensor - in C)
   • C1:PSL-FSS_RCTEMP (out of loop temp sensor - in C)
   • C1:PSL-FSS_TIDALSET (Voltage to heater - rails @ +/- 2V)
10.  Closed loop on the control signal for the NPRO driver with an integrator, saw error signal go to zero
    • Turned up gain a little bit, saw some oscillations, then turned gain down to stop them, final gain = 2
11. Left system on for Jenny to come in and do step responses

 Hmmm.  I'm no longer convinced that ETMY is healthy.  I think that when I gave it a kick, it's bouncing against something.  I can't fit the peaks to get the input matrix.  I guess step 1 is to try giving it a smaller kick for the free swinging spectra.  But if the owl shift folk feel like it, they might have a look-see.

[Jamie, Jenne]

We went in to have a look-see at ETMY since it looked stuck-ish.  Jamie noticed that the side magnet was pretty close to the teflon plates of the OSEM.  We rotated it a bit, and now its all better.  We also adjusted the OSEMs until their mid-ranges were happy.  The U's were a little low, and the L's were a little high, as if the optic were a bit pitched backward.  Anyhow, we checked that the table is level, and tweaked the OSEMs.  We're starting the free-swinging test now...

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