My bad.  I turned it off last night to see if it would help make the Xgreen more stable, and then when I woke up this morning I realized that I had forgotten to turn it back on.  Bad Jenne.

Here's the new end table layout, for the transmitted IR stuff.

Masha, Eric, Yaakov, Liz and Sasha received 40m specific basic safety training.

I aligned X arm so that the beam spot comes roughly on the center.

1. Use ITMX and ETMX (mainly ITMX) to make beam spot come on center of the optic using eyeball.

2. Use ETMX and BS to maximize TRX power (reached ~ 0.85)

3. Aligned green optics on X end. Transmission of X green measured at PSL table is now 255 uW and TEM00 has the most power.

It was not easy to increase X green transmission more because beam spot on green transmission PD is wiggly when X end table is opened. When closed, wiggliness is about the same for Y green and X green.
Turning off HEPA on the X end didin't helped, but there must be something bad in the X end table. If we couldn't figure out why, let's wait for PZTs to come for end tables.

Considering the laser power is different(X end 1 W, Y end 700 mW), X green transmission should reach ~400 uW. But I think we should go on to X beat search.

I placed green shutter for X end back for convenience. I put some spacers to adjust its height and avoid beam clipping.


[Steve, Yuta]

What causing wiggly X green transmission was the air flow from the air conditioner. When we turned it off, beam spot motion became quiet. Air flow from HEPA was not effecting much.

I've reinstalled the beatbox in the 1X2 rack.  This improved version has the X and Y arm channels stuffed, but just one of the DFD channels (fine) each.

I hooked up the beat PD signals for X and Y to the RF inputs, and used the following two delay lines:

• X: 140' light-colored cable on spool
• Y: 30m black cable

The following channel --> c1ioo ADC --> c1gcv model connections were made:

• X I  --> SR560 whitening --> ADC 22 -->  X fine I
• X Q --> SR560 whitening --> ADC 23 --> X fine Q
• Y I --> SR560 whitening --> ADC 24 --> Y fine I
• Y Q --> SR560 whitening --> ADC 25 --> Y fine Q

The connections to the course inputs on the ALS block were grounded.  I then recompiled, reinstalled, and restarted c1gcv.  Functioning fine so far.

[Yuta, Jenne]

We locked both arms using the ALS system simultaneously!  Hooray!

Video of spectrum analyzer during lock acquisition of both beats is attached.

Jamie is super awesome, since he fixed us up a beatbox speedy-quick.  Thanks Jamie!! 

 Details:

1:  Aligned PSL green optics

     1.1:  We added an amplifier of ~20dB after the X beat PD (more Xgreen power on the PSL table so the signal was ~3dB higher than Y, so required less amplification).  The ~24dB amplifier is still in place after the Y beat PD.  Both beat signals go to a splitter after their amplifiers.  One side of each splitter goes to one of the channels on the beatbox.  The other side of each splitter goes to a 3rd splitter, which we're using backwards to combine the 2 signals so we can see both peaks on the spectrum analyzer at the same time.

2:  Found both beat notes

     2.1:  Y beat was easy since we knew the temps that have been working for the past several days

     2.2:  X beat was more tricky - the last time it was locked was the end of February (elog 6342)

         2.2.1:  We found it by adjusting the PSL laser temp nearly the full range - DC Adjust slider was at 8.8V or so (Y beat was found with the slider at ~1.1V tonight)

          2.2.2:  We then walked the beat around to get the PSL temp back to "normal" by moving the PSL temp, then compensating with the Xend laser temp, keeping the beatnote within the range of the spectrum analyzer.

          2.2.3:  Fine tuned the temps of all 3 lasers until we had 2 peaks on the analyzer at the same time!!

               2.2.3.1:  Yend - measured Temp=34.14 C, thermal Out of Slow servo=29820

               2.2.3.2:  Xend - displayed temp=39.33 C, thermal Out of Slow servo=5070

               2.2.3.3: PSL - displayed temp=31.49 C, Slow actuator Adjust=1.100V

3:  Locked both arms using ALS!!

     3.1:  We were a little concerned that the Xarm wasn't locking.  We tried switching the cables on the beatbox so that we used the old channels for the Xarm, since the old channels had been working for Y.  Eventually we discovered that the input of the filter module for ETMX's POS-ALS input was OFF, so we weren't really sending any signals to ETMX.  We reverted the cabling to how it was this evening when Jamie reinstalled the beatbox.

          3.1.1:  We need to sort out our SUS screens - Not all buttons in medm-land link to the same versions of the SUS screens!  It looks like the ALS screen was modified to point the ETMY button to a custom ETMY SUS screen which has the ALS path in the POS screen, along with LSC and SUSPOS.  There is no such screen (that I have found) for ETMX.  The regular IFO_ALIGN screen points to the generic SUS screens for both ETMY and ETMX, so we didn't know until Yuta searched around for the filter bank that the ALS input for ETMX was off.  We just need to make sure that all of the screens reflect what's going on in the models.

     3.2:  See the video attached - it shows the beat peaks during locking!!! (how do I embed it? right now you have to download it)

          3.2.1:  First you will see both peaks moving around freely

          3.2.2:  Then X arm is locked briefly, then unlocked

          3.2.3: Y arm is locked, steadily increasing gain

          3.2.4:  X arm is locked, so both arms locked simultaneously

          3.2.5:  Yuta clicked a button, accidentally unlocking the Xarm

4:  The transmission of the X arm was not so great, and both of our green beams (although X green especially) were no longer nicely aligned with the cavities.  Yuta tried to align the X arm to the X green, but it's bad enough that we really need to start over with the whole IFO alignment - we leave this until tomorrow.  Since we didn't have any good IR transmission, we didn't bother to try to find and hold the Xarm on IR resonance using ALS, so we didn't measure a POX out of loop residual cavity motion spectrum.  Again, tomorrow. 

Are these correct?

1. It is a nice work.

2. This is not locking, but stabilization of the both arms by ALS.

3. We now have the phase trackers for both arms.

4. There is no coarse (i.e. short) delay line any more.

5. The splitters after the PDs are reducing the RF power to Beat-box.
Actually there are RF monitors on Beat-box for this purpose, but you did not notice them.

6. c1ioo channel list
https://wiki-40m.ligo.caltech.edu/CDS/C1IOO%20channel%20list
has to be updated.

7. Video can be uploaded to Youtube as Mike did at http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/6513

Answers to questions from Koji.

Are these correct?

1. It is a nice work.

Correct, of course!

2. This is not locking, but stabilization of the both arms by ALS.

Correct.

3. We now have the phase trackers for both arms.

Correct.

4. There is no coarse (i.e. short) delay line any more.

Correct. No coarse, only fine delay line (30m) with the phase tracker.

5. The splitters after the PDs are reducing the RF power to Beat-box.
Actually there are RF monitors on Beat-box for this purpose, but you did not notice them.

Oh, yes. But distance between beatbox and spectrum analyzer in the control room is longer than distance between BBPD on PSL table and the spectrum analyzer. We were too lazy to do cabling, but maybe we should.

6. c1ioo channel list 
https://wiki-40m.ligo.caltech.edu/CDS/C1IOO%20channel%20list
has to be updated.

Yes, we will.

7. Video can be uploaded to Youtube as Mike did at http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/6513

We didn't, but we can.

...Perhaps related to the fact that Jamie is copying a lot of stuff over the network to back up Ottavia before converting her to Ubuntu, perhaps totally independent. 

After restarting the daqd, c1lsc was the only computer whose mx_stream came up on its own.  I restarted c1sus. c1ioo, c1iscey, c1iscex by hand.

[Yuta, Jenne]

We tried to find a different place, not in the main green transmitted beam path, to place the trans camera for the green beams.  There is a little bit of leakage through the 3 high reflector mirrors which steer the beams from the direction when they first come out of the chamber over to the main green beat setup.  2 of these mirrors have virtually no space behind them for a camera (the first one the green beams encounters is right next to the EOM mount, and the 2nd one is pretty close to the Input Pointing QPDs.  We can potentially use the beam leaking through the 3rd steering mirror, if the camera is very close to the edge of the table (so that the camera isn't blocking the IR input pointing beams), but the X beam is so dim as to be nearly impossible to see, even when TEM00.  This precludes the point of the camera, which is to see the modes when we're aligning the beams.  (X power on the PSL table is pretty high - 330uW measured today, but those mirrors must transmit the Y beam's polarization more than the X beam's.)

Our other thought was to use one of the secondary beams coming out of the chambers.  This is kind of Mickey Mouse, but we thought that since this is just a camera to see the modes, as opposed to a PD, maybe it's okay.  This is a moot point however, since the secondary and tertiary beams (due to the wedge of the window) are clipped for the Y green.  We closed the PSL shutter then removed the beam pipe between the PSL table and the chamber so I could look inside. 

It looks to me like the main green transmitted beams are exiting through the window several inches from any edge, so they're definitely not clipping.  But the reflection from the window back into the chamber is hitting some optic.  The X green is hitting the face of the optic, while the Y green is hitting the edge of the optic and part of the mount.  The reflections from this mount then go back toward the chamber window and out toward the PSL table.  This isn't a big deal for the camera situation - we'll just use the leakage from one of the steering mirrors somehow, but it does mean that there is some green light reflected back onto an IR mirror, and potentially causing grief.  I didn't look to see if the mirror it's hitting is the 1st in-vac IR steering mirror (I don't think so) or something in the OMC / AS path (I think it's something here), but either way, we could be making trouble for ourselves.  We should try to dump the reflection from the window when we vent.  Jamie has put it on the List.

We replaced the beam pipe between the PSL table and the chamber before opening the shutter on the laser.  We are currently sticking with the plan of putting the camera in the main green trans path for initial alignment, then removing it for the rest of the work.

ottavia has been reinstalled with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and has been configured as a CDS workstation.

I have been maintaining a script that takes a stock 10.04 install and configures it as a workstation.  I've attached it here, but it lives at:

/users/controls/workstation-setup.sh

The script is designed to be idempotent, i.e. it can be run on a machine that has already been configured and it will either have no affect or update.

[Yaakov, Eric, Jenne, Yuta]

Two of our surfs, Yaakov and Eric, pulled two unused RG-405/SMA cables that had been running from 1X2 to (mysteriously) 1Y2 racks.  They left the 1X2 end where it was and pulled the 1Y2 end and rerouted it to the control room.  We labeled both ends appropriately.

The end at 1X2 is now plugged into a splitter that is combining the RF input monitor outputs for the X and Y beatbox channels, so that we can watch the beat signals with the HP8591 in the control room.

[Yuta, Jenne, Koji]

We stabilized the Xarm using the ALS and took a spectrum of POX as our out of loop sensor.  We used the calibration from elog 6841 to go from counts to meters.

We find (see attached pdf) that the RMS is around 60pm, dominated by 1Hz motion.

In other, related, news, I took out the beam pipe connecting the AP and PSL tables and covered the holes with foil.  This makes it much easier and faster to get to the X beat setup for alignment.  Eventually we'll have to put it back, but while the AUX laser on the AP table is not being used for beating against the PSL it'll be nice to have it out of the way.

X arm finesse is 416 +/- 6, mode-matching ratio is 91.2 +/- 0.3%

I did mode scan for X arm just like we did for Y arm (see elog #6832)

Servo design:
  Servo filters are as same as Y arm.
  UGF and phase margin of X arm ALS are 100 Hz and 14 deg.
  For phase tracking loop, they are 1.5 kHz and 56 deg.

Raw data from the mode scan:



Fitted peaks and finesse:


By taking the average,

F = 416 +/- 6 (error in 1 sigma)
(For Y arm, it was 421 +/- 6. See elog #6832)


Mode matching ratio:
 From X arm 8FSR measurement using phase tracker, peak heights are

TEM00 0.834, 0.851, 0.854, 0.852, 0.876, 0.850, 0.855, 0.878
TEM01 0.031, 0.031, 0.017, 0.017, 0.009, 0.014, 0.009, 0.011
TEM02 0.053, 0.052, 0.057, 0.058, 0.061, 0.060, 0.061, 0.059
TEM03 0.011, 0.010, 0.010, 0.007, 0.006, 0.005, 0.006, 0.005

 So, the mode-matching ratio is

MMR = 89.7%, 90.1%, 91.0%, 91.2%, 92.0%, 91.4%, 91.8%, 92.1%

 By taking the average,

MMR =  91.2 +/- 0.3 (error in 1 sigma)
(for Y arm, it was 86.7 +/- 0.3 %. See elog #6828)


Discussion:
 - Mode matching ratio for both X and Y arm is ~90%, which is not so great, but OK. It seems like there's no huge clipping or mode-mismatch from MC to ITMs. I think we should go next for PRMI investigation.

 - Measured finesse seems too low compared with the design value 450. If we believe power transmission of ITM and ETM are 0.0138 and 1.37e-5, the measured finesse tells you that there's ~0.1% loss(F = 2*pi/(T_{ITM}+T_{ETM}+T_{loss})). We need some evaluation for the linearity of the sweep, before concluding that there's 0.1% loss for each arm. Using FINE_I/Q signal for calibration, or installing frequency divider for monitoring actual beat frequency would help.


Things to do for the beat setup:
 - Amplifiers after beat PDs shouldn't be on the PSL table. Move them near the beatbox.
 - Install DC PD (and camera?) at un-used port of the beat BS for monitoring green transmission power.
 - Make nice MEDM screens for our new phase tracking ALS.
 - Make a script to sweep arm length with ALS and find IR resonance.
 - Look into X end table. Beam spot of the X green transmission is wiggly when X end table is opened and there's air flow.

I was notified by CIT Utilities that there was a power surge or short power outage this after noon.

Lab conditions are normal:  c1ioo is down.  The south arm AC was off......I turned it back on.

I tried to restart c1ioo becuase I can't live without him.

I couldn't ssh or ping c1ioo, so I did hardware reboot.
c1ioo came back, but now ADC/DAC stats are all red.

c1ioo was OK until 3am when I left the control room last night. I don't know what happened, but StripTool from zita tells me that MC lock went off at around 4pm.

I moved amplifiers for beat PD at PSL table to 1X2 rack. Current beat setup from PD to ADC is shown below. Setup for X beat and Y beat are almost the same except for minor difference like cable kind for the delay line.

Currently, DC power for amplifiers ZHL-1000LN+ is supplied by Aligent E3620A.
I tried to use power supply from the side of 1X1 rack, but fuse plug(Phoenix Contact ST-SI-UK-4) showed red LED, so I couldn't use it.
Measured amplification was +25 dB for 10-100 MHz.

Measured gain from RF input to monitor output of the beat box was ~ -1 db for 10-100 MHz.

I made a python script for relocking PMC.
It currently lives in /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/PSL/PMC/PMClocker.py.

I think the hardest part for this kind of locker is the scan speed. I could make the scan relatively fast by using pyNDS.
The basic algorithm is as follows.

1. Turns off the servo by C1:PSL-PMC_SW1.

2. Scans C1:PSL-PMC_RAMP using ezcastep.bin. Default settings for ezcastep is

ezcastep.bin C1:PSL-PMC_RAMP -s 0.1 0.01 10000

So, it steps by 0.01 for 10000 times with interval of 0.1 sec.

3. Get C1:PSL-PMC_PMCTRANSPD and C1:PSL-PMC_RAMP online 1 sec data using pyNDS.

4. If it finds a tall peak in C1:PSL-PMC_PMCTRANSPD, kills ezcastep.bin process, sets C1:PSL-PMC_RAMP to the value where the tall peak was found, and then turns on the servo.

5. If tall peak wasn't found, go back to 3 and get data again.

6. If C1:PSL-PMC_RAMP reaches near -7 V or 0 V, it kills previous ezcastep.bin process and turns the sign of the scan.

I tested this script several times. It sometimes passes over TEM00 (because of the dead time in online pyNDS?), but it locks PMC with in ~10 sec.
Currently, you have to run this to relock PMC because I don't know how to make this an autolocker.

I think use of pyNDS can be applied for finding IR resonance using ALS, too.
I haven't checked it yet becuase c1ioo is down, but ALS version lives in /users/yuta/scripts/findIRresonance.py. ALS may be easier in that we can use fast channels and nice filter modules.

Other scripts:
 I updated /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general/toggler.py. It now has "lazymode". When lazymode, it toggles automatically with interval of 1 sec until you Ctrl-c.

 Also, I moved damprestore.py from my users directory to /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/SUS/damprestore.py. It restores suspension damping of a specified mirror when watchdog shuts down the damping.

             CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

                 FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

                 UTILITY & SERVICE INTERRUPTION

**PLEASE POST**

Building:         CAMPUS

Date:             Saturday, June 23, 2012

Time:             3:46 P.M.

Interruption:     Electrical Power Disturbance

Contact:          Tom Brennan, x-625-395-4984    

*The City of Pasadena Water & Power Department had a 34,000-volt line event on Saturday June 23 at 3:46 p.m.  This caused a city wide disturbance on the power grid.  The Campus did not lose electrical power.  However, the disturbance may have affected sensitive electronic equipment.

(If there is a problem with this Interruption, please notify the Service Center X-4717 or the above Contact as soon as possible.

If no response is received we will proceed with the interruption.)

                        Jerry Thompson,

                        Interim Director of Campus Operations & Maintenance

 c1ioo was still all red on the CDS status screen, so I tried a couple of things.

mxstreamrestart (which aliases on the front ends to sudo /etc/init.d/mx_stream restart) didn't help

sudo shutdown -r now didn't change anything either....c1ioo came back with red everywhere and 0x2bad on the IOP

eventually doing as Jamie did for c1sus in elog 6742, rtcds stop all, then rtcds start all fixed everything.  Interestingly, when I tried rtcds start iop, I got the error
Cannot start/stop model 'iop' on host c1ioo, so I just tried rtcds start all, and that worked fine....started with c1x03, then c1ioo, then c1gcv.

 LSCoffsets is working again. 

tdsavg (now, but didn't used to) needs "LIGONDSIP=fb" to be specified.  Jamie just put this in the global environment, so tdsavg should just work like normal again.

Also, the rest of the LSCoffsets script (really the subcommand offset2) was tsch syntax, so I created offset3 which is bash syntax.

Now we can use LSCoffsets again.

There seems to be a problem with how models are coming up on boot since the upgrade.  I think the IOP isn't coming up correctly for some reason, which is then preventing the rest of the models from starting since they depend on the IOP.

The simple way to fix this is to run the following:

ssh c1ioo
rtcds restart all

The "restart" command does the smart thing, by stopping all the models in the correct order (IOP last) and then restarting them also in the correct order (IOP first).

I adjusted MC WFS offsets using /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/MC/WFS/WFS_FilterBank_offsets.
Beam spot positions on MC mirrors came back to where it was past few weeks. See the trend below. Trend sometimes shows huge jump, but it's just a bad measurement caused by unlock of MC during the measurement.

I ran /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/ASS/MC/mcassMCdecenter to measure beam spot whenever I feel like it (see elog #6727).
Beam spot doesn't move so much (~0.2 mm in standard deviation), which means incident beam from PSL table is quite stable.

Jenne and I renamed the mic channels Den created (elog 6664) to MIC_1, MIC_2, etc from the original accelerometer names to keep things clear. We then added 6 new channels (22-27) for the accelerometers, named ACC_MC1_X, Y, Z, ACC_MC2_X, Y, Z, etc. (See the screenshot below). We also added a DAQ channel block and listed out the IN1 channel of all the sensors. We compiled and started the model, and checked that all the channels were there in DataViewer.

I am considering to have 3 to 6 motorized optical mounts at the PSL and end tables for remote beam steering.

Question 1:
Was there any issue on the PI 3-axis PZT on the PSL?
Why was it disabled (even before the PSL upgrade)?


Question 2:
Do we need two mount at a place? Or we do have one instead?

- Comparing the distance of the steering mirrors and that from the steering mirror to the cavity waist, induced shift
is mostly cancelled by angle adjustemnts of a either of the mounts.
i.e. Induced misalignments by the steering mirrors are nearly degenerated.

We need to move two steering mirrors only for the initial installation, but any drift felt by a cavity can be compensated by a single mirror.

Question 3:
Do we like PI-style 2 or 3 axis PZT mount with analog inputs on the HV amp?
Or do we like "Newport Agilis" style controller with USB connection?

Any opinion?

I made a python script for finding IR resonance using ALS. It currently lives in /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/ALS/findIRresonance.py.

The basic algorism is as follows.

1. Scan the arm by putting an offset to the phase output of the phase tracker(Step C1:ALS-BEAT(X|Y)_FINE_OFFSET_OFFSET by 10 deg with 3 sec ramp time).

2. Fetch TR(X|Y) and OFFSET online data using pyNDS during the step.

3. If it finds a tall peak, sets OFFSET to the value where the tall peak was found.

4. If tall peak wasn't found, go back to 1 and step OFFSET again.

The time series data of how he did is plotted below.
I ran the script for Y arm, but it is compatible for both X and Y arm.

I thought we rewrite auto lockers once per year, but this time it took us only a month. I wrote it for PMC on May 24. Is it not working?

Could someone make it more clear why some scripts are written on bash, others on sh or python? I think we should elaborate a strict order. Masha and I can work on it if anyone else considers this issue as a problem.

I know.
I just wanted to use pyNDS for this kind of scanning & locking situation.
c1ioo was down for the weekend and I couldn't test my script for ALS, so I used it for PMC.

But I think PMClocker.py can relock PMC faster because it can sweep C1:PSL-PMC_RAMP continuously and can get continuous data of C1:PSL-PMC_PMCTRANSPD.

To get the feeling of the master of IFO, I;

1. Stabilized both arm length using ALS.

2. Ran findIRresonance.py for both arms and find what offset gives me IR resonances.

3. Holded X arm to IR resonance, holded Y arm to IR resonance, and released both arms.

Below is the time series data of what I did.



Issues:
 - Currently ALS is not stable enough. It only stays for about few minutes. I think it is because of the bad alignment of green from each end.
 - We can't tell end green frequency is higher or PSL green frequency is higher. So, the sign of the servo filter sometimes flips.
 - Wobbliness of X end green transmission beam spot was from the ETMX oplev. When the oplev servo is on, it got more wobbly when X end table is opened. But when the oplev servo was off, wobbliness was same even if the presence of air flow.
 - MICH contrast in plot above seems like it somehow got better when two arms are at resonance by ALS. I think this is not real because reflection from both arms at AS port was not well aligned and beam was clipped. Koji and I measured contrast of FPMI and MI(ETMs misalined), and they were 99.6 % and 99.9 % respectively. Beam clipping seems like it comes from some where between BS to AS port. We need to figure out where and fix this.

Things need to be done to make ALS more concrete:
 - Align Y end green beam!
 - Look into Y end green frequency servo
 - How do we hand-off servo using ALS to IR lock?
 - Noise budgeting for new phase tracker scheme
 - Linearity check of the beat box and phase tracker

[Koji, Yuta]

We checked that PZTs between SRM and OMC (called OMC stage 1 and 2) is working.
Now we need them to be EPICS channels because they are not connected to digital world right now.

Background:
  For the IFO alignment, what we have been doing for last 2weeks is,

1. Align Y arm to Y end green and maximize green transmission
2. Use PZT2 to maximize TRY (PZT1 is not functioning well. PZT1 Y do a little, but X totally does nothing.)
3. Align BS and X arm to maximize TRX
4. Tune BS and ITMX so that reflection from both arms overlap at AS
5. Align X end green to that we can see bright(~250 uW) TEM00 at transmission

  However, we found that something (Y arm axis or Y end green?) has drifted horizontally and can't make Y green transmission and TRY high level at same time. Because PZT1 is not functioning well, it is hard to compensate beam translation.
  So, now what we have to do is to align Y arm to IR incident beam. That means, we either have to realign Y end green or forget about maximizing green transmission. I think I will leave green as it is for a while because calibration of the beatbox is going on and I want to proceed to PRC.
  Anyway, if we align IFO to the IR incident beam, we see clipping in the AS port. From the contrast measurement last night, we thought clipping comes from somewhere between BS and AS port. So, we need PZTs between BS and AS port working.

What we did:
  1. Turned on 24P 24N power supplies(Sorensen DCS33-33E) in AUX_OMC_SOUTH rack to supply power to AUX_OMC_NORTH rack. 18P 18N cables to OMC_NORTH was unplugged and used by the beatbox, so we reconnected them.

  2. Turned on KEPCO high voltage power supply to supply 150 V to the PZT driver, but it was not functioning well. So, we currently use Aligent HP 6209B instead. Its on the OMC_NORTH rack.

  3. PZT driver output to OMC stage 1 was unplugged. So, we plugged them.

  4. Opened PZT driver (LIGO-D060287), put some signal from Piezo_Drive_in(J4 in schematic), and checked beamspot at AS port is moving. The gain from Piezo_Drive_in to the output (hv_out) was ~20.

  5. We could avoid clipping by putting some offset to OMC stage 2 (or 1) in yaw. That means, the clipping comes from after OMC stage 2.

Conclusion:
  If we can control OMC stage 1 and 2, we can avoid clipping. So, we want them to be EPICS channels.

From the mode scan measurements of the arms(elog #6859), ~6% of mode-mismatch comes from 2nd-order mode. That means we have longitudinal mismatch.

Suppose every mirrors are well positioned and well polished with designed RoC, except for the MMT1-MMT2 length. To get ~6% of mode-mismatch, MMT1-MMT2 length should be ~28cm longer (or ~26cm shorter) than designed value.
I don't know whether this is possible or not, but if they are actually longer(or shorter), we should fix it on the next vent.
I found some related elog on MMT (see #3088).




RoC and length parameters I used is below. They maybe wrong because I just guessed them. Please tell me the actual values.
Mirror thickness and effect of the incident angle is not considered yet.

== RoCs ==
MC2 19.965 m (???)
PRM 115.5 m (not used in calculation; just used to guess MC parameters)
ITM flat
ETM 57.37 m

== Lengths ==
MC round trip 27.084 m (???)
MC1 - MC3  0.18 m (???)
MC3 - MMT1 0.884+1.0442 m
MMT1 - MMT2 1.876 m
MMT2 - PRM 2.0079+0.4956 m
PRM - ITM 4.4433+2.2738 m
ITM - ETM 39 m

The MC waist is correct as is the arm RoCs. Most likely the error is in the telescope length or its distance from the MC. Jenne probably has all the numbers and can give us a surface plot showing how the MM degrades as a function of those two parameters.

This week, the other SURF students and I got acquainted with the caltech campus, LIGO 40m lab and the expectations of the SURF program.  We went to a lot of safety meetings and lectures that established a framework for the jobs we will be doing over the course of the summer.  I went on several tours of the 40m interferometer (one each with Jenne, Jamie and Steve) to get an overview of the layout and specifics of the setup.  I read parts of R. Ward and A. Parameswaran's theses and Saulson's book in order to prepare myself and gain a broader understanding of the purpose of LIGO.

I also began working in Python this week, primarily graphing PSDs of data from the C1:SUS-ETMY_SENSOR_LR, C1:SUS-ETMY_SENSOR_LL, C1:SUS-ETMY_SENSOR_UR, and C1:SUS-ETMY_SENSOR_UL channels.  I will eventually be using Python to generate the plots for the summary pages, so this is good practice.  The code that I have been working on can be found in /users/elizabeth.davison/script5.py.  Additionally, I have been going through the G1 summary pages and attempting to understand the plots available on them and the code that is available.

My plans for the upcoming week begin with modifying my code and potentially calibrating the channel data so that it is in units of length instead of counts.  I will also access the code from the G1 pages and go over it in depth, hopefully gaining insight into the structure of the website.

This week I wrote Matlab code, most of which can be found in /users/masha

First, I wrote a simulation seismicFilter.m which filters noisy seismic noise with a desired signal of non-seismic noise. The signals are purely simulated, so I played around with zero-pole-gain generation of transfer functions to obtain them. The function takes the number of taps, the filter type (Wiener or adaptive nlms) as well as an iteration step size and number of iterations, and generates PSD plots of the witness signal, the desired signal, the estimated (filtered) signal, and the error. I'm not sure that I am properly implementing the Wiener part of the code, and I assume the line "[W, R, P] = miso_firlev(TAPS, noisySeismicSignal1, seismicSignal2); " generates W, a filter with TAPS number of weights, but  then "[y, error] = filter(W, 1, noisySeismicSignal1);" generates an error signal of size TAPS rather than N, the size of the original signal. Perhaps I should calculate error using e(t) = d(t + a) - w(t)*x(t), where "a" is the delay.

I have various screenshots in my directory of what seismicFilter.m generates, and I will take a larger screenshot, as well as generate a learning curve (for error vs. number of taps) when I can use Sasha's computer for a bit, since it both has more computing power and a larger screen.

The funciton filterConvergence.m, meanwhile, is similar, except it takes two file names as real data, and uses realDataFilter.m to run the filtering. Currently, I am working with data from C1:IOO-MC_F_DQ-Online  and C1:PEM-SEIS_GUR1_X_IN1_DQ-Online, and I will include screenshots of these once I get on Sasha's computer.

In order to generate the data, meanwhile, I had to modify the python script, and thus wrote mashaImportingData.py for myself. Likewise, plotSignalFromFile.m visualizes this data, both in the time domain and in the frequency domain.

On the side, I wrote an NLMS filter in adaptiveFilterSimulationNLMS.m, and compared is to Matlab's NLMS filter in NLMStest.m (using generated data) and adaptiveFilterSimulation.m using twn input signals. Right now, it's faster on smaller inputs and smaller tap sizes, but then begins to choke and run slower than the Matlab one when these get to big. In order to improve it, I have to develop a better method of generating the initial weights.

As far as machine learning goes, once I find the number of taps for the convergence of both the Wiener filter and the NLMS filter, I will email Denis for further instructions. At some point, however, I should generate learning sets from the seismometers and the MCL (or the DARM), and thus have to find adequate times at which I can take data (probably not from the DARM, however, because it was rarely on).

Thanks for reading!

I started playing with matlab for the first time, accurately simulated a coupled harmonic oscillator (starting from the basic differential equations, if anyone's curious), wrote a program to get a bode plot out of any simulation (regardless of the number of inputs/outputs), and read a lot.

I'm currently going through the first stage of simulating an ideal Fabry-Perot cavity (I technically started yesterday, but yesterday's work turned out to be wrong, so fresh start!), and other than yesterday's setback, its going okay.

I attached a screenshot of my simulation of the pitch/pendulum motion of one of the mirrors LIGO uses. The bode plots for this one are turning out a little weird, but I'm fairly certain its just a computational error and can be ignored (as the simulation matlab rendered without the coupling was really accurate - down to a floating point error). I have also attached these bode plots. The first bode is based on the force input, while the second is based on the torque input. It makes sense that there are two resonant frequencies, since there ought to be one per input.

I started work familiarizing myself with the ELOG and some of the control systems at the 40m. I spent a fair bit of time gaining some general knowledge of the interferometer, control systems, calibration, null instruments, etc. On Friday, June 22 Yaakov and I spent the afternoon pulling cables for the beatbox that Jamie had finished up. We were able to get the cables from the rack containing the beatbox routed to the control room.

Then I started work on calibrating the beatbox. I set up the function generator to send a sine wave into the beatbox, then sent the signal from the beatbox to the oscilloscope. I compared both the input sine wave and the output from the beatbox at many frequencies, taking peak to peak measurements. I'm working on using the data to calibrate the beatbox now.

The beginning of my first week was spent at various orientations and safety meetings, some for general SURF and some more specific to LIGO and the lab. In between these I started  work.

Jenne and I took out the spare STACIS and took it apart, taking out the circuit boards. I've spent some time looking through the boards and sketching various parts of the board in trying to understand the exact function without any useful technical diagrams (STACIS supplied us only with a picture of the board without components, not all that helpful). I think I now at least understand the basic block diagram of the circuitry: the STACIS geophone signal goes through a preamplifier and filters (the semi-circular board), and converts it into a signal for the PZT stacks. This signal then goes through a high voltage amplifer, and then goes to the five PZTs (3 in the z, one each in the x and y direction). The unit I am looking at has an extension board, which allows us to tap into the signal going into the preamp and the one leaving it. This should allow us to input our own signal instead of the geophone signal, and thereby drive the PZTs ourselves.

My next step, once I get a resistor to replace a burnt one on the high voltage amplifier, is to take a transfer function of the STACIS and see if it is possible to drive the PZT stacks with the cables from the extension board. If that does not work, I'll have to keep tracing the circuit to determine where to input our own signal.

I have moved the summary pages stuff that Duncan set up to a new directory that it accessible to the nodus web server and is therefore available from the outside world:

/users/public_html/40-summary

which is available at:

https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:30889/40m-summary/

I updated the scripts, configurations, and crontab appropriately:

/users/public_html/40m-summary/bin/c1_summary_page.sh
/users/public_html/40m-summary/share/c1_summary_page.ini

I touched steering mirrors for AS and REFL at AP table.
AS beam and REFL beam now hits cameras at center and their respective PDs.

What I did:
  1. Aligned Y arm and X arm.

  2. Locked FPMI and aligned BS + X arm by minimizing ASDC (DC output of the AS55 PD, C1:LSC-ASDC_OUT reached ~ -1.43).

  3. Put -2V offset to the OMC stage 2 in yaw to avoid AS clipping. The offset is currently given by SRS DS345 on AUX_OMC_NORTH rack.

  4. Misaligned ETMs, locked MI in the bright fringe. Maximized ASDC (C1:LSC-ASDC_OUT reached ~ 1.22) by aligning 2 mirrors right after the vacuum chamber. This also centered beam spot on the AS camera.

  5. Locked MI in the dark fringe. Maximized REFLDC (DC output of the REFL55 PD, C1:LSC-REFLDC_OUT reached ~ 2.5) by aligning 2 mirrors after the vacuum chamber. Beam spot on the REFL camera was centered, too.

Mike J. came tonight and he fixed Sensoray (elog #6645). He recompiled it and fixed it.

I made a python wrapper script for Sensoray scripts. It currently lives in /users/yuta/scripts/videocapture.py.
If you run something like
  ./videocapture.py AS
it saves image capture of AS to /users/yuta/scripts/SensorayCapture/ directory with the GPS time.
Below is the example output of AS when MI is aligned. We still see some clipping in the right. This clipping is there when one arm is mis-aligned and clipping moves together with the main beam spot. So, this might be from the incident beam, probably at the Faraday.

Currently, videocapture.py runs only on pianosa, since Sensoray 2253S is connected to pianosa. Also, it can only capture MON4. My script changes MON4 automatically.

My goal for tonight was to lock PRMI,
 grasp the current situation by my eye,
  and capture some images using Sensoray.

They are done, but what are we going to do to solve the problem? The beam looks terrible than I had expected.


What I did:
  1. DC output of POP55 PD was plugged out from 1Y2 rack, so we plugged it in.

  2. Aligned POP beam to POP25 PD and moved POP camera position at ITMX table.
 
  3. Mis-aligned PRM and SRM, aligned both arms, aligned FPMI as usual.

  4. Mis-aligned PRM and ETMs, aligned MI and locked MI.

  5. Aligned PRM, and carrier locked PRMI. PRM alignment was not saved since June 7, so slider values which give good alignment was pretty much drifted (~0.4 in C1:LSC_PRM_(PIT|YAW)_COMM).

  6. Took some images of POP, REFL, AS during PRMI lock.




PRMI commissioning plan:
  From the beam shape at POP, REFL, and AS, the problem clearly comes from the mode-matching, including clipping, longitudinal mismatch, and alignment mismatch. Koji's idea of flipped-PRM seems reasonable, so I think we should better measure something to prove this.
  To prove this,

  1. Simulate what the beam look like in POP, REFL, AS if PRM was flipped. Compare them with actual captured images. I need to study on unstable cavities.
  2. Calculate power recycling gain and compare.
  3. Misalign PRM and capture the image of primary, secondary, ... reflections like Koji did in elog #6421. Measure the beam sizes of these reflections using some image analysis(Python Imaging Library? Is there anyone good at this?) and calculate PRM curvature.
  4. Can we do come characterization by making PRM-ITMY cavity? ITMX will be mis-aligned, BS will be the loss port to PRC.
  5. Beamspot on POP, REFL, AS looks woblby when PRMI is locked. Why?
  6. Open the vaccum chamber and see PRM. Simple.

  Any other ideas? I have to lock PRFPMI, at least, by July 13!

To be fair, this is Kiwamu's idea. And nothing is reasonable before it is confirmed quantitatively.

 Cycling the vacuum is easy. Why not vent starting Thursday evening and pop the doors on Friday morning? Inspect on Friday and pump on Monday morning.

Koji, Jamie and I talked together and I decided to VENT TOMORROW MORNING. Main purpose of this vent is to see if PRM is flipped or not.

Vent schedule:
June 28 (Thu)
  Prepare for the vent tonight

June 29 (Fri)
  Start vent in the morning
  Look into PRC in the evening. If PRM was flipped, we will correct them. We'll use REFL to align the PRM. If PRM was not flipped, look into PR2,PR3 and other related optics.

June 30 (Sat)
July 1 (Sun)
  Thinking time. I can work if needed.

July 2 (Mon)
  If we need something else to do, do it.
  If not, start pumping.
  July 4th is the Independence Day. So, I need IFO working before July 4th.

Check List:
 We will just open the BS chamber.
  - PRM flipping
  - PR2, PR3 flipping
  - PRC suspensions
  - Cipping check in PRC

 What do you mean by PR2, PR3 flipping?  They are (supposed to be) flat mirrors, so obviously they should be installed correctly, but they won't change the mode matching in a huge way if they're backwards, right?

For the PRM, I recommend checking (a) the arrow inscribed on the thinner side of the optic and (b) that the arrow *actually* points to the HR side.  I'm pretty sure I installed all the optics with the arrow pointing away from the OSEMs, but I never did a thorough check that the arrow always actually pointed to the HR coated side.  I don't remember any optics where I said "hmmm, that's funny, the arrow is pointing backwards", but nor did I write down that I had checked.

Also, hopefully the PRM is correct.  If however it's not, that means that all of the magnets are glued onto the HR side, and we'll have to redo all of the magnet gluing.  The guiderods should be fine, but all 6 magnets would need redoing.  If we were very, very careful and didn't break any of the magnets off of the dumbbells, it's a 24 hour turnaround due to drying time.  Since inevitably we break magnets away from dumbbells, conservatively we should think about a 48 hour turnaround. 

We see some ghost beam spots at POP. This may come from the back of PR2 and PR3. Also, they may change mode matching because of thermal lensing, mirror deformation, and other unexpected reasons. I thought we should check every mirrors in PRC, if PRM is not flipped.

We are going to check PRM just because we spent so much time for the PRC problem, and still don't have the solution or evidence.
PRM flipping is kind of the only idea for the root of all evil -- terrible beam shape, low PR gain, unstable PRMI lock.
So, I want to check with my eye during the stay.

I don't think we have to redo magnet gluing. It's okay to leave them on HR side.

[Koji, Jamie, Yuta]

We attenuated the incident beam (1.2 W -> 11 mW) to the vacuum chamber to be ready for the vent.
The beam spot on the MC mirrors didn't changed significantly, which means the incident beam was not shifted so much.

What we did:
 1. Installed HWP, PBS(*) and another HWP between the steering mirrors on PSL table for attenuating the beam. We didn't touched steering mirrors(**), so the incident beam to the IFO should be recovered easily, by just taking HWPs and PBS away. The power to the MC was reduced from 1.2 W to 11 mW.

(*) We stole PBSO from the AS AUX laser setup.
(**) Actually, we accidentally touched one of the steering mirrors, but we recovered them. We did the recovery tweaking the touched nob and minimizing the MC reflection. We confirmed the incident beam was recovered by measuring MC beamspot positions(below).

 2. Aligned PBS by minimizing MC reflection, adjusted first HWP so that the incident beam will be ~10 mW, and adjusted last HWP to minimize MC reflection (make the incident beam to the MC be p-polarization).

 3. To do the alignment and adjusting, we put 100% reflection mirror (instead of 10% BS) for the MC reflection PD to increase the power to the PD. That means, we don't have MC WFS right now.

 4. Tweaked MC servo gains to that we can lock MC in low power mode. It is quite stable right now. We didn't lose lock during beam spot measurement.

 5. Measured beam spot positions on the MC mirrors and convinced that the incident beam was not shifted so much (below). They look like they moved ~0.2 mm, but it is with in the error of the MC beam spot measurement.

# filename      MC1pit  MC2pit  MC3pit  MC1yaw  MC2yaw  MC3yaw  (spot positions in mm)
./dataMCdecenter/MCdecenter201206281154.dat     3.193965        4.247243        2.386126        -6.639432       -0.574460       4.815078    this noon
./dataMCdecenter/MCdecenter201206282245.dat     3.090762        4.140716        2.459465        -6.792872       -0.651146       4.868740    after recovered steering mirrors
./dataMCdecenter/MCdecenter201206290135.dat     2.914584        4.240889        2.149244        -7.117336       -1.494540       4.955329    after beam attenuation

 6. Rewrote matlab code sensemcass.m to python script sensemcass.py. This script is to calculate beam spot positions from the measurement data(see elog #6727). I think we should make senseMCdecenter script better, too, since it takes so much time and can't stop and resume the measurement if MC is unlocked.

1. Turned off high voltage power supplies for PZT1/2 (input PZTs) and OMC stage 1/2. They live in 1Y3 rack and AUX_OMC_NORTH rack.

2. Restored all IFO optics alignment to the position where I aligned this afternoon (for SRM, I didn't aligned it; it restored at the saved value on May 26).

3. Centered all the oplevs. They can be used for a reference for alignment change before and after the vent.

I will leave PSL mechanical shutter and green shutters closed just in case.

Some MEDM screenshots below.

 Steve, Yuta and Jamie

Jam nuts were checked and oplev servos were turned off. Sus summery is below with strain gauge values. Are the strain gauge values have any meaning when the PZT contorrels are off??????????????????

 The 4 hrs vent plot at 3 torr/min rate.

Nitrogen was used from 1e-6 torr to 35 torr  at intake pressure 14 PSI

The rest was filled with 5 cylinders of Instrument Grade Air at intake pressure 14 PSI

We can start opening chamber at 3 pm today