Tip Tilt pitch adjustment on existing-in vacuum suspension. This can be added by a simple installation of a 1.25" long 2-56 threaded rod with nuts.

I started to create a Finesse model of the PRC cavity. We have the phase maps for the PRC and the two ITMs. I could not find anything for PR2,3 and BS. All files can be found in my SVN folder /janosch/PRC40m. I used the AutoCAD model to determine angles of incidence and distances. These numbers are largely inconsistent with numbers that you can find elsewhere on the 40m wiki, but this certainly depends on what accuracy is required for interferometer alignment and I don't understand anything about alignment.

The phase maps come in a format that needs to be modified before they can be used in Finesse. I have started with this work, but maybe someone else can take over. The phase maps show tilts and the PRC also has the curvature. These have to be subtracted out before the maps can be loaded into Finesse. I asked GariLynn for the code that they use. The Finesse model (MichPRC_40m.kat) does not load the phasemaps yet, and I just wrote some random parameter values for the TEM00 input beam to the PRC. So these Gauss parameters need to be corrected.

I will only go on with this work if Rana tells me that I should do so, otherwise it is on hold until we have a volunteer.

 I've actuated on MC1 with UL, UR, LR, LL coils in turn and measured sensor readings. All coils separately work fine from the first look.

On the plot: black - free mirror, blue - UL coil actuation, green - UR, grey - LR, red - LL.

I've written MC123 input matrixes to the front-end.

MC1 diagonalization is poor, better then before, but still pitch is seen in pos and yaw. Either smth is malfunctioning or flags touch sensors and do not move freely. On the plot mc1_new black lines - before, red - after rediagonalization.

I've added MCL and WFS stop triggers into C1MCS/SUS model. Threshold value of MC_TRANS can be changed in the text entry located in MC2_POSITION medm screen. I tried 2 cases: trigger either blocks signal before MCL filter bank input or after output. Due to filter history in the 1 case MC2 was still slightly disturbed (C1:SUS-MC2_ULPD_VAR ~= 15) right after unlock. In the second case there was no disturbance as we zero output signal, but then I had to add "clear history" command to the mcup script.

WFS triggers block the signal before ASCPIT/YAW filter bank.

I have added some control logic and appropriate output DAC channels for the input tip-tilts (TT1 and TT2) to the c1ass model.

The plan is for all the tip-tilt drive electronics to live in a Eurocrate in 1Y2.  They will then interface with a DAC in c1lsc.

c1ass runs on the c1lsc front-end machine, and therefore seemed like an appropriate place for the control logic to go.

I added and interface to DAC0, and a top_named IOO block, to c1ass:

The IOO block includes two TT_CONTROL library parts, one for each of TT1 and TT2:

This is just a start so that I can start testing the DAC output.

I have not recompiled c1ass yet.  I will do that tomorrow.

 Also, when I walked through the control room later, the WFS were driving the MC crazy.  I turned off / disabled the WFS from the WFS screen.   In my infinite spare time, I need to put in the real-time triggering, so that the WFS turn off as soon as the cavity unlocks. 

 Rijuparna, Jenne

Today I checked the optical lay-out in MC REFL board of the MC REFL path on the AS table (I will put the updated diagram in a few hours), and took a record of the reflected power of unlocked MC and power entering MC REFL PD. The power coming out of MC cavity when unlocked is 1.25W and power entering REFL PD 112mW (Jenne measured these powers for me). 

I also got a description of the MC demodulation board from Jenne.

(Edits by Jenne)

 Aluminum sheet as shown will replace the acetate. Side entries for your arms and "window" on the top will be covered with acetate using double- sided removable-no residue tape 3M 9425

1)  Mirror mount holder for "large silvered mirror" inside of the 8" OD tube vacuum envelope.

 Since we upgraded the CDS system, I guess our ADC ranges have gone up but we never did anything to the OLs to match the ADC ranges. From Liz's daily summary page of the OL, I see this:

So we need a factor of 5-10 increase in the electronics gain (why isn't the BS SUM on there?). This might be accomplished in the head, but for the ones with whitening boards, might be better to do there.

(** add to Jamie's list of long term tasks **)

 Absolutely hokey. What are our requirements for this RFPD? What are the power levels and SNR that we want (I seem to remember that its for 22 as well as 110 MHz)? Perhaps we can test an aLIGO one if Rich has one sitting around, or if the aLIGO idea is to use a broadband PD I guess we can just keep using what we have.

I moved some of the REFL optics on the AS table by a teeny bit to accomodate the new place that the REFL beam exits the chamber (none of this was done while we were at air....we were only dealing with the AS beam at the time, and were happy that REFL came out of the vacuum).

The REFL beam is now on the REFL camera (with PRMI aligned), and the beam is going toward the 4 REFL RF PDs, but it's not aligned to any of them.

I have some questions as to mystery optics on in the REFL path.  There is a 90% BS, and I don't know where the 10% reflection goes....is it going to beat against the AUX Stochino laser?

I have to go, and I didn't fix the videocapture script today, so pix tomorrow, I promise.

Riju hasn't been in the lab in a long time to do any measurements, so I put the signals back to how they should be. 

I turned off / confirmed off the things which were sending signal to the EOM:  the network analyzer, the RF generator box, and the Marconi which supplies the 11MHz. 

I removed the cavity scanning cable, and terminated it, and put the regular 11MHz cable back on the splitter.

I then turned on the RF gen box and the Marconi.  The Marconi had been off, so we were not getting any 11MHz or 55MHz out of the RF gen. box.  This is why I couldn't lock any cavities last night (duh). 

On to locking!

----------------- In other news,

While swapping out the EOM cable, I noticed that the DC power supply sitting under the POX table was supplying a weird value, 17 point something volts.  I checked on the table to remind myself why that power supply is there...it's powering an RF amplifier right after the commercial PD that is acting as POP22.  The amplifier wants +15 and GND, so I reset the power supply to 15V.  We should add this to the list of things to fix, because it's dumb.  Either we need to put in the real POP22 (long term goal), or we need to get this guy some rack power, and do the same for any amplifiers for the Beat setup.  It's a little hoakey to have power supplies littering the lab.

What are "LID" sensors?  Do you mean the OSEM shadow sensors?  I'm pretty sure that's what you meant, but I'm curious what "LID" means.

I went inside to align the beam on WFS and noticed that oscillations in yaw are ~10 times stronger then in pitch. I've plot rms of pitch and yaw measured by LID sensors and saw that MC3 yaw rms motion is a few times larger then pitch.

Also MC1 input diag matrix does not diagonalize signals for pitch and yaw. In the spectrums of these signals all 4 resonance are equally seen during the free swinging. I think we should rediagonalize MC1.

Another thing is that if MC1 and MC3 are on the same stack,  pitch and yaw spectrums of these mirrors should be comparable. But MC1 signal is ~2-3 times larger then of MC3. I think we should correct calibration.

[Evan, Jenne]

We applied some volts across both the pitch and yaw pin sets of the ribbon cable that goes to PZT2.  We ended up with ~40V yaw and ~14.5V pitch.  That was the nice happy center of the clipping that we can see on the AS camera.  Once we found the center of the PZT clipping range with the ITMY beam, we recentered the AS camera (actually, this took a few iterations, but now it's good). 

We then aligned MICH, but aren't able to get it to lock.  Before falling asleep, we have decided to align the PRM and SRM, so right now we have a flashing DRMI.  Both the SRMI and PRMI look a little funny the closer you get to 'good' alignment, so I'll investigate a little more tomorrow, and include pictures.  (The video capture script has barfed again, and I'm not in the mood to deal with it today.)

[Evan, Jenne]

We were sitting trying to lock MICH (hooooorraaaayy!!!), and the emergency lights above the control room door came on, and then ~1 minute later turned off.  Steve, can you see what's up?

 The shame:

There is no situation in which it is OK to install a mount like this. Steve had installed this flaky and shaky mount to optimize the beam size on the OL QPD.

Everyone in the lab should know better. Putting in something like this is just like sabotage - it creates extra noise in our interferometer in a sneaky way and just makes locking harder. All mounts for anything useful (including QPDs) must have highly rigid mounts. 

Use the example from the PSL relayout: use the 3/4" steel mounts and the wide aluminum bases from Newport. No more art projects using home made mounting crap, Steve.

Note to self:

The ENV-40 amplifiers that we have supply -10V through +150V .... so don't exceed those limits.

piezojena link

After the fuse-blowing fiasco earlier this afternoon, Koji and I took another look at the PZT controllers.

We put an ammeter in place of the fuse, and watched the current as we turned on the transformer module.  The steady-state current with no other modules plugged in is ~15mA.  However, there is a surge current right when you turn on the box which sometimes goes as high as 330mA.  Since the fuse is 250mA, this explains the fuse blowing, even though Koji had already checked out the low voltage path.

The high voltage line was connected, with +180V to the HV out pin of the backplane connector, and the (-) terminal of the power supply connected to signal ground on the board.

We inserted the PITCH module for PZT2, and we started with ~10V as our "high" voltage, and slowly increased the value (current at this time was ~60mA).  We also had a function generator plugged into the "MOD" input, which is where the epics slider goes, so that we should see a changing output voltage.  We never saw a changing output voltage.  Increasing the HV power supply didn't help. 

When Koji spun the "DC offset" knob really fast and then stopped, sometimes the output voltage as measured on the connector-converter board between the white and red wires would jump up, and then settle back down. It came back to the same value that it always was, but it was bizzarre that it would jump like that.  We suspect that that knob is an offset for use with the closed loop setting, so it isn't relevant for us anyway.  Watching the MON output, the value never changed, even when Koji did his fancy knob twirling.

We switched to the other PITCH module, and watched the output voltage on the MON output.  This time, with the function generator unplugged, so no modulation input (so we were expecting a steady DC output voltage) the number on the LCD and the MON output fluctuated wildly.  We plugged in the function generator, and the fluctuations did not change in approximate amplitude or DC offset.  They kind of looked the same. 

So, we have concluded that (a) the PZT drivers don't work, and (b) we don't understand why.  Therefore, we don't know how to fix them.

With that in mind, we are thinking of totally circumventing the PZT drivers. 

I plugged in the PZT1 connector converter board, which has Koji's circuit that he made last time when PZT1 died.  I plugged the ribbon cable which goes to the PZT, and the +\- 30V power supply, and the PZT responded!  Just plugging in the power supply puts the PZTs near the center of their nominal range.  I then put a function generator on the epics inputs for pitch and yaw (one at a time), and saw the spot move around at the ~1Hz that I was applying.  Yay!

What I think I'll do for tonight - modify the other connector converter board so that I can just use 2 HV power supplies (current limited) to steer the PZT.  I set up a TV monitor next to the PZT electronics (1Y3? 1Y4?  I forget), and it's connected to output 20 of the video switch, so I can watch the AS camera and move the PZTs by hand.  Then maybe I can try to align some stuff. (Evan is coming to work tonight, so if I electrocute myself, someone will be here to call 5000)  Koji suggested buying 2 single-channel thorlabs piezo drivers, like we have on the PSL table for the FSS loop.  These take in 0-10V and output either 0-75V, 0-100V or 0-150V (depending on which setting you choose).  These cost $712 each. This would be a more permanent solution than me just sitting out there, since we could once again control PZT2 via epics.

 I connected a thick wire to pin 22 of the backplane connector of the transformer / power supply module of the PZT box.  This is the pin that +180V is supposed to go on, to be distributed to the other boards in the crate.  Last week I had drilled a hole in the front panel so the wire can come out (since no one on campus seems to have HV panel mount connectors in stock). 

While the transformer module was isolated, not touching anything else, I applied (slowly ramping up) 180V DC, and it all looked good.

When I plugged the module back into the crate (first turning off and disconnecting the HV), I blew the 250mA fuse again.  No HV yet, just the low voltage stuff that Koji had fixed last week.  :( 

We're now out of 250mA fuses, we're supposed to get a box of them tomorrow.

 I think state estimation and optimal control are two different techniques that are often used together. Sometimes (as for pendulum) we can use LQG without state estimation as we need only position and velocity. But for more complex systems (like quad suspension) the states of all 4 masses can be reconstructed in some optimal way using information from only one of them if the dynamics is sufficiently well known. When current system states are measured/estimated we can apply control where all our filters are hidden.

 The algorithm needs to know about expected seismic noise transmission from the ground to the optic, but it might be not very precise. I gave it some rough estimate, there are better ways to do it. I think that we'll understand whether we need state estimation or not when we'll move to more complex systems. Brett uses a similar approach for his modal control. Interesting if these methods + seismometer readings will be able to say if one of your sensors is noisier then others.

 For lack of a better idea, I keyed the crate.  The computer came back up just fine, ETMX is happily damped again.

Something bizarre-o was going on with the PMC and FSS over the weekend.  On the striptool, PMC's PZT looks like it was doing a sawtooth pattern for several hours.  I opened up the FSS screen, and the FSS SLOWDC had walked itself up to +10.  It's not supposed to get that far from 0. 

Here are some trends, so you can see what was going on.

10 day trend:  This weird behavior began ~Friday evening (FSS_SLOWDC ramps quickly).

1 day trend:  You can see the sawtooth pattern in PMC_PZT more clearly here.  It's at the same time as the FSS_SLOWDC is ramping rapidly, and the FSS_FAST is saturated.

I think the ETMX slow machine might be dead.  All of the regular FE readbacks are fine, and the c1iscex FE computer looks fine, but the slow readbacks are all whited out. 

I turned off the damping loops for ETMX, since I don't have access to the watchdog disable/enable switch.  I guess checking this out will be task #1 for Monday morning.

 I guess that the estimated state has the same low pass filter, effectively, that we use to low pass the feedback signal in SUSPOS. I wonder if there is an advantage to the state estimation or not. Doesn't the algorithm also need to know about the expected seismic noise transmission from the ground to the optic?

For context, there's a is stand-alone cymac test system running at the 40m.  It's not hooked up to anything, except for just being on the martian network (it's not currently mounting any 40m CDS filesystems, for instance).  The machine is temporarily between the 1Y4 and 1Y5 racks.

I've applied online state estimation technique using Kalman filter to LQG controller. It helps to estimate states that we do not measure. I've considered MC2 local damping, we measure position and want to estimate velocity that we need for control. We can either differentiate the signal or apply state estimation to avoid huge noise injection at high frequencies. In state estimation we need to know noise covariance, I've assumed that LID sensor noise is 0.1 nm. Though covariance can be calculated better.

In the time-domain figure C1:SUS-MC2_SUSPOS_IN1 = MC2 postion, C1:SUS-MC2_SUSPOS_OUT = MC2 velocity obtained by differentiation, 2 other channels are estimations of position and velocity.

 MC2 was tripped again. I think the answer is that watchdog's critical value was too small C1:SUS-MC2_PD_MAX_VAR = 10, so seismic could trip MC2. I've changed the value to 100.

I rebooted cymac0 a couple of times. When I first got here it was just frozen. I rebooted it and then ran a model (x1ios). The machine froze the second time I ran ./killx1ios. I've rebooted it again.

The PMC has been aligned and is all happy happy 

I have installed an  iris to dump the higher order beams deflected by the AOM. After installing the iris, I found that the PMC trans dropped to 0.58V and the PMC misaligned in pitch. So I've touched the 2 steering mirrors before the PMC. Now it is satisfactorily locked with PMC trans at 0.84.

I have also checked the alignment with AOM switched on. PMC trans drops to 0.15 with AOM on and comes back to 0.84 when AOM is switched off without losing lock .

40 plus freshmen visited the 40m today

[Den, Jenne]

Den noticed that the -15V LED on the TTFSS board was not illuminated.  A further symptom of the FSS being funny was that the PC RMS Drive was constantly high (3.6 ish) and the FAST Monitor was very high, often saturated. 

We took the TTFSS board out, and put an extender card in, and it looked like all of the correct power is being supplied to the board (the +\- 24V LEDs on the extender card were illuminated).  Just to check, we put the board back in, and this time both +\- 15V LEDs came on.  So it looks like the board is fine, it just wasn't seated in there all the way.

Now the readbacks on the FSS screen look good (PC RMS Drive is less than 1, FAST Mon is 5ish), the MC is locked, and I think we're back in business. 

 The RGA was not effected by the short power outage.

 I've meant Guralp is NOW working again 

 Problems with Slow Machines?

Read ELOG

 I've added calibration gains to Guralp (to um/sec) and EM172 (to Pa) channels.

We can run PEM at 16 kHz. I think Foton file stores both sos-representation and filter commands which are independent of the sampling frequency, so it should be possible to change model sampling frequency quickly.

In fact, we can save data at 64 kHz from iop models. I've done this once with MC_F channel. However, I did not test EM172 noise at frequencies > 1 kHz.

Guralp readout box received +13.7 /0/ -15V instead +15V because of the broken fuse. Power provided by the source is normal.

Edit by Den: I've found a similar fuse on one of the tables and borrowed it. Guralp is not working again.

 Here I am attaching the schematic diagram of the experimental set-up for IMC cavitymode scanning. A 30- 45MHz scanning signal generated by Agilent 4395A network analyzer enters EOM, which in turn modulates the laser beam entering IMC. The cavity response can be verified from reflected/transmitted beam.

I worked with the reflected beam last days. But I got no clue about the percentage of  reflected light reaching the photodiode and also the photodiode response. I would like to measure the power reaching photodiode and also would like to perform the test with transmitted beam - on wednesday if possible.

 Do you know how to burtrestore or restart slow machines?

Edit by Den: I did burtrestore of c1psl.snap from 2 days ago. Still slow machines behave not normal. For example, if I sweep C1:PSL-FSS_SLOWDC, SLOW monitor value does not change.

One terrible concern of mine is that the slow machines were rebooted at the power interruption.
Based on the elog entries, I assume they have not been burtrestored...

If this is true, they may cause some weird behaviors of the PSL/IOO electronics.

PZT monitor is not lying to us, I've measured it with a voltmeter. But PMC SERVO is still interesting. If I break the loop after PMCERR signal monitor (C1:PSL-PMC_BLANK=0), I can change PZT voltage from 0V (C1:PSL-PMC_RAMP = -7.3) to 132V (C1:PSL-PMC_RAMP=-10.0). If I break the loop by enabling TEST1, PZT voltage goes up to 294 V, though voltage on the TEST1 and MIXER MON is 0.

Do more investigation to understand what is causing the power reduction.

Is the alignment inadequate? Check the in-lock ccd image.

Is the incident power reduced? (by what?) Use dataviewer.

Is the AOM doing something? Is it active? Then how much power is it eating?

BY THE WAY, how the deflected beam is dumped?
If you don't have anything for blocking the 1st order beam, you have to expect Steve coming to you.

 It isn't singing Jan..it's dancing between 0.7 to 0 and we are not able to figure out whose the DJ ; there seems to be something else that is controlling the PMC as there is no coordination between what we do (tweaking the mirrors) and what we observe (the PD signals).

 Can someone detail what "weird" means? Is it singing old songs from Guns & Roses?

 {Jan, Manasa, Den}

We wanted to align the PMC and followed Koji's procedure detailed to us by mail. We touched the 2 steering mirrors in front of the PMC for alignment.

- Stand in front of the PMC.
- Find an oscillosocpe on the shelf in the PSL enclosure.
- This has two signals connected. One is the PMC refl dc.
  The other is the PMC trans dc.
- Minimize the refl. Maximize the trans.
- You have the CRT monitor on the MC chamber.
- Project the image of the PMC refl CCD.
  This should show some what symmetric image like an LG mode.
- Use the dataviewer to see how C1:PSL-PMC_PMCTRANSPD is recovered.

We were able to obtain 0.7 at PMC trans; but the PMC was never really stable dropped from 0.7 to 0 abruptly from time to time.

Jenne and Jamie also find that the PMC is behaving very weird 

Summary: Problem unresolved