ELOG 40m

Summary

FOUND! The Missing Standoff!

We used a zoom lens on the GC750 to take this picture of the standoff while inside a plastic rubber-glove bag. The standoff with bag is currently scotch-taped to the periodic table of the elements.

Attachment 1: standoff.png

834

Thu Aug 14 11:39:06 2008

steve

particle counter is out of order

The 40m ifo paricle counter sensor failed last night.

833

Thu Aug 14 10:26:45 2008

steve

HowTo

sus cable pin cheater for out of vac damping

The 40m D25 vacuum feed troughs give you a mirror image pin count.

Sus damping outside of the vacuum envelope require this cheater cable where
on the male D pin 1 is connected to female D 13 and so on
and male D pin 14 is connected to female D 25 and so on

Attachment 1: suscabmin.png

832

Wed Aug 13 20:13:35 2008

PRM stand-off is glued

Steve, Janne, Rob, Bob, Koji, Yoichi

We finally managed to balance the PRM and the stand-off is now glued.

The whole procedure was something like this:

(1) Measure the levelness of the optical table. It was done by a bubble level claiming that
the sensitivity is 60 arcsec (roughly 0.3 mrad).
There was no noticeable tilt along the longitudinal direction of the table.

(2) We put a He-Ne laser on one end of the table. Mounted a QPD on a X-Y-Z stage. Put the QPD very
close to the laser and centered it by moving the QPD.
Then we moved the QPD far away from the laser and centered the beam spot in vertical direction
by changing the tilt of the laser mount.
We then moved the QPD close to the laser again and adjusted the height to center it. By repeating
the centering at two locations (near and far) several times, we aligned the laser beam parallel to
the table.

(3) The PRM suspension tower was put on the other end of the optical table, i.e. far from the laser.
The QPD was moved next to the laser to form an optical lever. The height of the QPD is preserved from
the previous step.

(4) A stand-off was picked by a pair of tweezers. By gently lifting the mirror by the bottom earthquake stops,
the tension of the wire was relieved. Then the stand off was slid in below the guide rod.

(5) Using the microscope, it was confirmed that the wire is in the grooves on both sides.

(6) Without damping, it was too much pain to balance the mirror. So we put spare OSEMs in the suspension and
pulled a long cable from the suspension rack to the clean room with a satellite amp.

(7) It turned out that the pinout of the cable is flipped because of the vacuum feed through. So we asked Ben for help.
He made conversion cables. We also found UR OSEM was not responding. Ben opened the satellite box, and we found an op-amp was burnt.
Probably it was because we connected OSEMs wrongly at first and the LED current driver was shorted. We switched the satellite box
from the PRM one to the BS one. Ben will fix the PRM box.
Bob cleaned up some D-Sub converters for the interface with the clean OSEM pigtails.

(8) While waiting for Ben, we also tried to short the OSEM coils for inductive damping. We saw no noticeable change in the Q.

(9) After the OSEMs were connected to the digital control system, Rob tweaked the damping gains a bit to make it work efficiently.

(10) I pushed the stand-off back and forth to make the reflected beam spot centered on the QPD. I used the PZT buzzer to gently move the stand-off.
For fine tune, just touching it is enough. I found it useful to touch it without clamping the mirror, because if it is clamped, we can easily push
it too hard. When the mirror is freely hanging, once the tip of the buzzer touches the stand-off, the mirror escapes immediately. If the mirror
swings wildly by your touch, you pushed it too hard.

(11) After about an hour of struggle, I was able to level the mirror. We used about 1.5m optical lever arm. A rough calibration tells us that the
beam spot is within 0.6mm of the center of the QPD. So the reflected light is deflected by 0.4mrad. That means the mirror
is rotated by 0.2mrad. The OSEMs should have about 30mrad of actuation range. So this should be fine.

(12) We mixed the Vac Seal epoxy and put it under vacuum for 15min to remove bubbles. Actually 15min was not enough for removing bubbles completely. But
stopped there because we did not want the epoxy to be too stiff.
I dipped a thin copper wire into the epoxy and applied it on the top of the stand-off. I found the epoxy is already not fluid enough, so Steve made
another Vac Seal mixture. This time we put it under vacuum for only 3 min.
I also applied the epoxy to the sides of the stand-off.
While working on this, I accidentally touched the side of the PRM. Now there is a drop of epoxy sitting there (upper left of the attached picture).
We decided not to wipe it out because we did not want to screw up the levelness.

(13) We put an incandescent light about 1m away from the suspension to gently warm up the epoxy but not too much. We will leave it overnight to cure the
epoxy.

Attachment 1: img1.jpg

831

Wed Aug 13 17:00:59 2008

The PRM sat amp is broken. Ben is working on it.
The BS sat amp was removed from the BS sus and it is used with the PRM in
order to damp it for wire stand-off alignment.

830

Tue Aug 12 21:38:19 2008

John

Accidental higher order mode resonances in the arms

LSC

Recently we had been having some trouble locking the full IFO in the spring configuration (SRC on +166).
It was thought that an accidental higher order mode resonance in the arms may have been causing problems.

I previously calculated the locations of the resonances using rough arm cavity parameters(Elog #690). Thanks to Koji
and Alberto I have been able to update this work with measured arm length and g factors for the y arm (Elog #801,#802).
I have also included the splitting of the modes caused by the astigmatic ETM. Code is attached.

I don't see any evidence of +166MHz resonances in the y arm.

In the attached plot different colours denote different frequencies +33, -33, +166, -166 & CR.
The numbers above each line are the mn of TEMmn.
Solid black line is the carrier resonance.

Attachment 1: HOMresonances.png

Attachment 2: HOMarms2.m

%Check for accidental resonances of HOM in the arms (maybe due to
%sidebands). At the moment there is only data for the y arm.

clear all
close all
clc


%Stuff one might change often
modeorder = 0:5;          % Look for TEMmn modes where m,n run over modeorder

... 157 more lines ...

829

Tue Aug 12 19:48:24 2008

PRM standoff is in....mostly

IOO

Yoichi, Jenne

The missing PRM standoff is now partially installed. The standoff is in, and the wire is in the groove, but we have not finished adjusting its position to make the PRM stand up straight. It turns out to be pretty tricky to get the position of the standoff just right.

We have set up a HeNe laser as an oplev on the flow bench (which we checked was level) in the clean assembly room, and are using it to check the pitch of the mirror. We set a QPD at the height of the laser, and are looking at the single-reflected light. When the single-reflected light is at the same height as the center of the QPD, then the mirror is correctly aligned in pitch. (Actually, right now we're just trying to get the single-reflected light to hit the diode at all...one step at a time here).

We'll continue trying to align the PRM's standoff in the morning.

828

Tue Aug 12 12:21:13 2008

Variation in fit over 140 images for GC650 and GC750

Used matlab to calculate Gaussian fits on 145 GC650 images and 142 GC750 images. These were individual images (no averaging) looking at the PSL output from May 29th 2008. The GC650 and GC750 were looking at a split, but had different exposure values, slightly different distances to the nominal waist of the beam, and were not centered on the beam identically. Mostly this is a test of the fluctuations in the fit from image to image.

Note the mm refer to the size or position on the CCD or CMOS detector itself.

GC650

Mean
Amplitude  X center       Y center       X waist  Y waist  Background offset from zero
           position (mm)  position (mm)  (mm)     (mm)
0.3743     1.7378         2.6220         0.7901   0.8650  0.0047

Standard Deviation
Amplitude  X center       Y center       X waist  Y waist  Background offset from zero
           position (mm)  position (mm)  (mm)     (mm)
0.0024     0.0006         0.0005         0.0005   0.0003  0.00001

Std/Mean x100 (percent)
Amplitude  X center       Y center       X waist  Y waist  Background offset from zero
           position (mm)  position (mm)  (mm)     (mm)
0.6%       0.03%          0.02%          0.06%    0.04%    0.29%


GC750

Mean
Amplitude  X center       Y center       X waist  Y waist  Background offset from zero
           position (mm)  position (mm)  (mm)     (mm)
0.2024     2.5967         1.4458         0.8245   0.9194  0.0418

Standard Deviation
Amplitude  X center       Y center       X waist  Y waist  Background offset from zero
           position (mm)  position (mm)  (mm)     (mm)
0.0011     0.0005         0.0005         0.0003   0.0005  0.00003

Std/Mean x100 (percent)
Amplitude  X center       Y center       X waist  Y waist  Background offset from zero
           position (mm)  position (mm)  (mm)     (mm)
0.6%       0.02%          0.04%          0.04%    0.05%    0.07%

827

Tue Aug 12 12:05:36 2008

HP color printer is back

I restarted the HP printer server (a little box connected to the HP color laser) so that we can use the HP LaserJet 2550.
After this treatment, the printer spat out a bunch of pages from suspended jobs, many of these were black and white.
I think people should use the black-and-white printer for these kind of jobs, because the color printer is slow and troublesome.

826

Mon Aug 11 19:09:28 2008

DAQ

Seismometer DAQ is being funny

While looking at the Ranger seismometer's output to figure out what our max typical ground motion is, Rana and I saw that the DAQ output is at a weird level. It looks like even though the input to the DAQ channel is being saturated, the channel isn't outputing as many counts as expected to Dataviewer.

Sharon and I checked that the output of the seismometer looks reasonable - sinusoidal when I tap on the seismometer, and the the output of the SR560 (preamp) is also fine, and not clipping. If I stomp on the floor, the output of the SR560 goes above 2V (to about 3V ish), so we should be saturating the DAQ, and getting the max number of counts out. However, as you can see in the first figure, taken when I was tapping the seismometer, the number of counts at saturation is well beneath 32768counts. (16 bit machine, so the +-2V of the DAQ should have a total range of 65536. +2V should correspond to +32768counts.) The second figure shows 40 days of seismometer data. It looks like we saturate the DAQ regularly.

I did a check of the DAQ using an HP6236B power supply. I sent in 1V, 2V and 2.2V (measuring the output of the power supply with a 'scope), and measured the number of counts output on the DAQ.

Input Voltage [V]	Counts on Dataviewer	Expected counts from 16 bit machine
1	18983	16384
2	29331	32768
2.2	29347	32768

I'm not sure why the +1V output more than the expected number of counts (unless I mis-measured the output from the power supply).

Moral of the story is...when the DAQ is saturated, it is not outputting the expected number of counts. To be explored further tomorrow...

Attachment 1: SeisDAQ.png

Attachment 2: SeisData.png

825

Mon Aug 11 15:07:49 2008

Procyon aka fb40m switched to new switch

I've connected Procyon to the Prosafe 24 port switch with a new, labeled Cat6 cable. Quick tests with dataviewer shows that its working.

824

Mon Aug 11 13:59:23 2008

While poking around the crate, I noticed an error light on one of the c1susvme2 related boards was lit, while the corresponding light on the c1susvme1 was not. This confuses me as the c1susvme1 is the one having problems.

As a quick sanity check, I unplugged the ethernet connection from the c1susvme1 labeled board, and confirmed I couldn't log into it, and then plugged it back in, restarted it, and re-ran the startup script. This time c1susvme1 seemed to come up fine. Re-enabling the watchdogs doesn't seem to kick anything, and in fact seems to be bringing everything into line properly.

Although the error light on the c1susvme2 clk drvr board is still on. So I'm not sure what thats trying to tell us. Open to suggestions.

823

Mon Aug 11 12:42:04 2008

Continuing saga of c1susvme1

Coming back after lunch around 12:30pm, c1susvme1's status was again red. After switching off watchdogs, a reboot (ssh, su, reboot) and restarting startup.cmd, c1susvme1 is still reporting a max sync value (16384), occassionally dropping down to about 16377. The error light cycles between green and red as well.

At this point, I'm under the impression further reboots are not going to solve the problem.

Currently leaving the watchdogs associated with c1susvme1 off for the moment, at least until I get an idea of how to proceed.

822

Mon Aug 11 11:36:11 2008

josephb, Steve

c1susvme1 minor problems

Around 11 am c1susvme1 start having issues. Namely C1:SUS-PRM_FE_SYNC was railing at some large value like 16384 (2^14). I presume this means the computer was running catastophically late.

I turned off the BS and ITM watch dogs (the PRM was already off), tried hitting reset and sshing in, and running startup, but this didn't help. I then turned off the c1susvme2 associated watch dogs (MC1-3, SRM) and went out to do a hard reboot by switching the crate power off. c1susvme2 came back up fine, was restarted and associated watch dogs turned back on. However, c1susvme1 came back up without mounting /cvs/cds/.

As a test, I replaced the ethernet connection with a CAT6 cable to the Prosafe switch in 1Y6, and then ran reboot on c1susvme1. When it came back up, it had mounted properly, and I was able to run the ./startup.cmd file. At this point it seems to be happy. The new cable is in the trays coming in from the top of the 1Y4 and 1Y6 and approriately labeled.

Edit: Apparently ITMX and ITMY became excited after the reboot (perhaps I turned the watchdogs back on too early? Although that was after the DAQ light was listed as green for c1susvme). Steve noticed this when the alarms went off again (I had turned them off after the reboot seemed successful), and he damped them. Interestingly, the BS remained unexcited.

821

Mon Aug 11 09:39:29 2008

2 years of temperature trend

Steve and I went around and inspected and then adjusted the thermostats and humidostats.

All the thermostats were set at 70F in 2005 by Steve. We adjusted the ones on the arms up to 72F
and set the one on the wall west of the framebuilder up to 74F (this area was consistently colder
than all the others and so we're over-correcting intentionally).

820

Mon Aug 11 00:58:31 2008

2 years of temperature trend

The PSL RMTEMP alarmed again because it says the room temperature is 19.5 C. Steve said in
an earlier log entry that this is a false alarm but he didn't say why he thought so...

I say that either the calibration of the RMTEMP channel has drifted, the setpoint of the HVAC
has shifted, or there's a drift in the RMTEMP channel. I don't know what electronics exactly
are used for this channel so not sure if its susceptible to so much drift.

However, since the Dust Monitor (count_temp) shows a similar temperature decline in the
last two years I am inclined to blame the HVAC system.

The attached plot shows 2 years of hour-mean trend.

Attachment 1: Untitled.png

819

Sun Aug 10 16:57:02 2008

Photos from Vent 8/4 - 8/8

Summary

Photos

http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~rana/40m/VentAug08/

I've added the D40 pictures from last week to this web page. I have done some cropping and
rotating to make things look better.

On page 3, there are some over head shots of the Michelson area so that one can use screw holes
to judge what the spacing between the suspensions is and also possibly the cavity lengths. Lets
also remember to measure the ITM-BS distance accurately using a tape measure or ruler while we
have the thing open.

818

Fri Aug 8 17:54:52 2008

Standoffs and Guide Rods

After closer inspection of other small optics, it is clear that the guide rods should be above the standoffs on our small optics. Yoichi took a picture of the SRM that shows this clearly. This makes sense since the tension of the wire will make the standoff 'want' to go up during pre-epoxy adjustment, so the guide rod prevents the standoff from popping up and out.

Looking at the side of the PRM without the groove, it looks like there is lots of space between the guide rod and the alignment etch in the glass, so we can just place a standoff directly under the guide rod that is present.

A spare standoff is being shipped tomorrow morning, so we should have it by Monday for installation on the PRM.

Attachment 1: SRM_Standoff_and_guide.JPG

817

Fri Aug 8 15:10:35 2008

No groove in the stand-off ... wait, it is not even a stand-off !

I tried to find the missing stand-off and the guide rod in the BS chamber, but I couldn't.

816

Fri Aug 8 13:29:54 2008

No groove in the stand-off ... wait, it is not even a stand-off !

Yoichi, Steve, Seiji

We took magnified pictures of the stand-offs of the PRM.
Attm1: North side stand-off.
Attm2: South side stand-off.
Attm3: Zipped file of the full pictures.

We found no groove in the south side stand-off.
After some discussion, we concluded that it is actually a guide rod. You can see it from the size difference (the magnification is the same for the two pictures).
The stand off on the south side is missing (fell off, ran away, evaporated or whatever ...).
Also we noticed that the guide rod on the north side is missing.

We have to find a stand-off and place it on the south side.
Seiji suggested that it is better to put a guide rod next to the north side stand-off, otherwise the stand-off itself is too weak to hold the load.
He also said that the PRM was installed after he left, so it was not his fault.

Attachment 1: north-standoff-preview.jpg

Attachment 2: south-standoff-preview.jpg

Attachment 3: No-groove.zip

815

Fri Aug 8 12:21:57 2008

Switched X end ethernet connections over to new switch

In 1X4, I've switched the ethernet connections from c1iscex and c1auxex over to the new Prosafe 24 port switches. They also use the new cat6 cables, and are labeled.

At the moment, everything seems to be working as normally as it was before. In addition:

I can telnet into c1auxex (and can do the same to c1auxey which I didn't touch).
I can't telnet into c1iscex (but I couldn't do that before, nor can I telnet into c1iscey either, and I think these are computers which once running don't let you in).

814

Fri Aug 8 11:04:34 2008

Sharon

MCL Wiener filter

I took some old data from Rana and converted the units of the Weiner filter to m/m so to make the effect of the seismometer and accelerometers more obvious.

The data is in counts, and so to convert to m this is what I did:

%%% MC_L calibration
v_per_counts = 5/32768;
v_per_v = 3;
amp_per_N = 1/0.064;

%%% Accelerometers calibration
v_per_counts_acc = 61.045e-6;
g_per_v = 9.8/100;

%%% Seismometer calibration
v_per_counts_seis = 61.045e-6;
m_per_s_per_s_per_volt = 9.8/100;
m_per_v_per_s = 1/345;

for jj=1:6
hfmatm(:,jj)=hfmat(:,jj).*(v_per_counts.*v_per_v.*amp_per_N.*f)./(v_per_counts_acc*g_per_v); %%% accelerometers' data
end
hfmatm(:,7)=hfmat(:,7).*(v_per_counts.*v_per_v.*amp_per_N)./(v_per_counts_seis*m_per_v_per_s); %%% Seismometer data

Attachment 1: m_per_m.png

813

Fri Aug 8 10:58:05 2008

Cameras and gstreamer

In regards to camera failure:
1) I forgot to reconnect that particular camera to the network (my fault) so thats why it was failing.

2) Even with the correct camera connected, I've realized at full frame rate, op440m is going to get a few frames and then fail, as I don't think it has a fast enough ethernet card. It will work on Rosalba, and will also work ssh-ing from Rosalba because it is using a new ethernet card. It also works on my laptop, which is where I originally tested the command. One way to get around this is to increase the time between pictures, by changing -l 0 to -l 1 (or higher), where the number after the "ell" is the number of seconds to wait between frame captures.

3) What I should do is figure out the UDP transmission plugins for gstreamers and compress first (using the theoraenc since it gets compression ratios of better than 100:1) and transmit that over the network.

I have since reconnected the camera, so it should work on Rosalba and any sufficiently well connected computer. For other machines like linux2 or op440, try the following line:

Running the following command on Mafalda (via ssh -X mafalda) or Rosalba while in /cvs/cds/caltech/target/Prosilica/40mCode/SnapCode/

CamSnap -F 'Mono8' -c 44058 -E 10000 -X 0 -Y 0 -H 480 -W 752 -l 1 -m 100 | gst-launch-0.10 fdsrc fd=0 blocksize=360960 ! video/x-raw-gray, height=480, width=752, bpp=8,depth=8,framerate=1/1 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink

This will be at a much slower frame rate (1 per second) but should work on any of the machines. (Tested on linux2).

812

Fri Aug 8 09:54:10 2008

New code + gstreamer allows for easy saving and compression of images

Quote:

Modified the CamSnap code to output the image data stream to standard out. This can then be piped into a gstreamer plugin and then be used

Didn't work; Prosilica has only 1 "l". Even so, sshing from op440m to mafalda, I got this:

mafalda:SnapCode>CamSnap -F 'Mono8' -c 44058 -E 5000 -X 0 -Y 0 -H 480 -W 752 -l 0 -m 300 | gst-launch-0.10 fdsrc fd=0 blocksize=360960 ! video/x-raw
-gray, height=480, width=752, bpp=8,depth=8,framerate=30/1 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! theoraenc ! oggmux ! filesink location="./testVideo.ogm"
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...

** (gst-launch-0.10:27121): WARNING **: Size 60 is not a multiple of unit size 360960
Caught SIGSEGV accessing address 0x487c
ERROR: from element /pipeline0/ffmpegcsp0: subclass did not specify output size
Additional debug info:
gstbasetransform.c(1495): gst_base_transform_handle_buffer (): /pipeline0/ffmpegcsp0:
subclass did not specify output size
ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7deddae in __lll_mutex_lock_wait ()
#2  0xb7de9aac in _L_mutex_lock_51 () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#3  0xb7de949d in pthread_mutex_lock ()
#4  0xb7e452e0 in g_static_rec_mutex_lock () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5  0xb7f1fa08 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#6  0x080c1220 in ?? ()
#7  0x00000001 in ?? ()
#8  0x0809586c in ?? ()
#9  0x00000001 in ?? ()
#10 0x08095868 in ?? ()
#11 0xb7f7a2a8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#12 0xb7e8da80 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#13 0xb7f7a2a8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#14 0xb7f7a2a8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#15 0x00000000 in ?? ()
Spinning.  Please run 'gdb gst-launch 27121' to continue debugging, Ctrl-C to quit, or Ctrl-\ to dump core.
Caught interrupt --

811

Thu Aug 7 17:32:23 2008

Afternoon PRM activities

Rana, Jenne, Yoichi, Dmass

After Yoichi confirmed this morning that the wire was in both grooves, Rana attempted to lift the PRM a tiny bit, and twist it around (very gently of course) to see if we could make the wire slip back to its nominal position underneath the optic. On the first attempt, the wire ended up slipping the wrong way, causing slightly more tilt. On another attempt, the wire came out of the groove nearest the chamber door by about 0.5mm. We got the wire back in the groove by slightly lifting the optic, and pushing the wire back in. Then, on further attempts at making the wire slip back to its nominal position, the wire came out of the groove farthest from the chamber door. It is very difficult to get at that side of the PRM, because the table is crowded, and it is on the far side of the optical table from the chamber door. We decided to pull the PRM out of the chamber. Rana clamped the mirror into its cage using the earthquake stops and removed the OSEMS, and then we pulled the mirror out. We put it on a cart that was covered with foil and had a little foil house for the optic cage. We rolled the mirror+cage over to the flow bench at the end of the y-arm.

We saw that the wire is no longer even on the standoff (~3mm away from the groove) on the side that was farthest from the chamber door.

Since we have not confirmed that we have spare wire and spare magnets (and due to the time of day), we have decided to cover the cage with some foil, while it is sitting on the flow bench, and we'll fix the wire in the morning.

810

Thu Aug 7 12:20:52 2008

PRM stand-offs and wire

We removed the side OSEM of the PRM so that we can see the stand-off on the farther side.

Attachment 1: Farther side stand-off from an angle before removing the OSEM
Attachment 2: Farther side stand-off through the empty OSEM hole.
Attachment 3: Near side stand-off

The wire is definitely in the near side stand-off groove.
Probably the wire is in the groove also on the farther side.

Attachment 1: IMG_1456.JPG

Attachment 2: IMG_1478.JPG

Attachment 3: IMG_1470.JPG

809

Thu Aug 7 11:54:26 2008

New code + gstreamer allows for easy saving and compression of images

Modified the CamSnap code to output the image data stream to standard out. This can then be piped into a gstreamer plugin and then be used to save, encode, transmit, receive, slice, dice and or mangle video (or virtually any type of data stream).

The gstreamer webpage can be found at: http://www.gstreamer.net/

Under documentation you can find a list off all available plug-ins. Some good, some bad, some ugly.

Running the following command on Mafalda (via ssh -X mafalda) or Rosalba while in /cvs/cds/caltech/target/Prosilica/40mCode/SnapCode/

CamSnap -F 'Mono8' -c 44058 -E 15000 -X 0 -Y 0 -H 480 -W 752 -l 0 -m 1000 | gst-launch-0.10 fdsrc fd=0 blocksize=360960 ! video/x-raw-gray, height=480, width=752, bpp=8,depth=8,framerate=1/1 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink

This command will create a window which displays what the camera with UID 44058 is looking at. It will display 1000 images, then quit. (You can switch the -m 100 to -i to just have it continue until the process is stopped).

You can also encode the data into compressed format and save it in a media file. The following command line will encode the images into an ogg media file (.ogm), which can be played with the totem viewer (available on Rosalba or almost any machine running Ubuntu or Centos) or any other viewer capable of handling ogm files. By switching the plugins you can generate other formats as well.

The compression is good, putting 300 images normally about 500K individually uncompressed to about 580K as a single file.

The following command line was used to generate the attached video file:

CamSnap -F 'Mono8' -c 44058 -E 5000 -X 0 -Y 0 -H 480 -W 752 -l 0 -m 300 | gst-launch-0.10 fdsrc fd=0 blocksize=360960 ! video/x-raw-gray, height=480, width=752, bpp=8,depth=8,framerate=30/1 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! theoraenc ! oggmux ! filesink location="./testVideo.ogm"

Currently looking into plugins which allow you to pull individual frames out of a video file and display or save them in a variety of formats. This would allow us to save long term images in compressed video format, and then pull out individual frames as needed.

Also need to look into how to "T" the streams, so one can be displaying while another encodes and saves.

Attachment 1: testVideo.ogm

808

Thu Aug 7 10:27:59 2008

Free swinging OSEM spectra

Sometimes we see extra peaks in the OSEM spectra coming from a beat between the regular eigenmodes.
This probably comes from the OSEM shadow sensor not being entirely linear - the nonlinearity is
greatly increased if the magnet is not perfectly centered in the LED beam. So the beats are
probably there at some level in all of them; usually below the noise.

807

Thu Aug 7 10:07:13 2008

Free swinging OSEM spectra

Looks like there are more extra peaks in the SRM than other optics.
Maybe because it is closer to the door ?

Attachment 1: FreeSwingSpectra.pdf

806

Wed Aug 6 22:19:07 2008

Koji, Yoichi

We realized that we did not pay attention to the BS alignment while working on the alignment of the ITMX today. Because we were injecting the ALM laser (absolute length measurement laser) from the AS port, the ITMX alignment depends on the BS alignment.
The BS optical lever was not centered and the sum was about 2000cnt, which is low compared, for example, to the SRM oplev.
So we were not sure if the BS was in a good alignment or not.
So we decided to move the BS to center the QPD.
In doing so, we also moved the ITMX so that we do not lose the ALM laser beam coming back to the AS port.
When the BS oplev was centered, the sum of the QPD was still about 2000. So it was not far off centered.
After the tweaking, we were able to see some interference between the light reflected by the ITMY and ITMX at the AS port (actually this is the bright port for the ALM laser). By tweaking the ITMY, we were able to see Michelson fringes at the AS port.
If we believe the ALM laser alignment is still good after the vent, the ITMX, ITMY, BS and SRM should be now in a good alignment condition.
The OSEM values for the ITMX, BS, SRM seem to be ok (0.9+/-0.2). The ITMY LL is a bit low (~ 0.45).

805

Wed Aug 6 19:01:15 2008

Alberto

ITMX and SRM OSEM post-earthquake diagnostic

Koji, Yoichi, Alberto

Today we reset the OSEMs on ITMX and SRM in order to be centered when the mirrors are aligned to the IFO beam. Since the PRM is still out of order, we used the beam from NPRO laser of the absolute length measurement experiment as it is injected through the AS port.
That�s how we did it:

1) We aligned the SRM so that the reflected beam from the NPRO was at the camera after at the AS port.

2) We traded off the alignment of SRM in order for the reflected beam at the camera to have a nice shape, avoiding any clipping from the optics, and for the optical lever to be not too far from zero. The final alignment for SRM, as read on the sliders on the MDM screen, is: Pitch=1.1650, Yaw=1.4674.

3) We aligned ITMX checking out by an IR card that the incoming and the reflected main beam in between ITMX and the BS matched. The alignment of the two beams was improved checking the matching after the SRM. The final alignment for ITMX, as read on the sliders on the MDM screen, is: Pitch=-1.2937, Yaw=-0.9890.

4) After the alignment of SRM and ITMX these were the voltages at the OSEMs:

SRM
UL=0.957
UR=1.254
LR=0.768
LL=0.620
Side=0.958

ITMX
UL=1.144
UR=1.360
LR=0.591
LL=0.325
Side=-----

5) Finally we centered the OSEMs on both mirrors and we read these voltages:

SRM
UL=0.939
UR=0.994
LR=0.782
LL=0.938
Side=0.953

ITMX
UL=0.918
UR=0.891
LR=0.887
LL=0.875
Side=0.883

804

Wed Aug 6 13:57:44 2008

Finished second progress report.

Working on improving the sensitivity of the Mach Zehnder to more accurately measure the fiber noise. Making more stable mounts that have fewer degrees of freedom/springs and are more solid should get rid of their vibrational modes and help with the noise. I found a good mount for the Faraday Isolator, and John and Aidan helped me to make the solid aluminum blocks to mount the fiber couplers. I'll also replace the laser feet with a similar solid mount. I will also get a plastic box to block out acoustic noise/air currents/etc. Am starting to couple into the fiber again; now I am using polarization maintaining fiber.

I am starting to plan the fiber noise cancellation setup, and thinking about the noise sources and their effects.

803

Wed Aug 6 13:15:57 2008

SRM ETMX freeswing spectra

After yesterday's work on the SRM, I took free swinging spectra of SRM.
The eigen modes look ok. But there are many other peaks which were not present in vacuum.
Some of those peaks may be resonances of the air inside the chambers and the pipes.
However, the peaks around 0.2Hz are too low frequency for those air compression modes.
I took the ETMX spectra at roughly the same time. I chose ETMX because we have not touched it after the vent.
ETMX also shows some extra peaks but the frequencies are different.

Attachment 1: SRM-ETMX-freeswing.pdf

802

Wed Aug 6 11:43:52 2008

Abs. Len. Meas. ~ analysis of the TEM01 scan

Analysis of the data on August 3th ~ Part 2

o I already have reported that the resonant freq of TEM10 and TEM01 split.

o Again, note that TEM10/01 were arranged almost in the horizontal/vertical by the observation of the video.

o The peaks of TEM10 and TEM01 were fitted with the same method as of TEM00.

o The peak freqs were:
f_TEM10: 5087040 Hz +/- 20 Hz
f_TEM01: 5068322 Hz +/- 15 Hz
The split is 18.7kHz.

o The additional parameter from the previous entry:
f_TEM00: 3879252 Hz +/- 9 Hz
L_yarm: 38.6462 m +/- 0.0003 m

o Radius of curvature
Rx = L /(1-Cos^2(Pi (f_TEM10 - f_TEM00) / (c/L/2) ))
Ry = L /(1-Cos^2(Pi (f_TEM01 - f_TEM00) / (c/L/2) ))

from these formula we get the value
Rx = 56.1620 +/- 0.0013 [m]
Ry = 57.3395 +/- 0.0011 [m]

Attachment 1: TEM01fit.png

801

Wed Aug 6 11:10:34 2008

Abs. Len. Meas. ~ analysis of the TEM00 scan

Analysis of the data on August 3th ~ Part 1

From the measurement of the 5 FSRs, the FSR frequency for the Yarm cavity was estimated as
f_FSR = 3878678 Hz +/- 30 Hz
and the Yarm length is
L_yarm = 38.6462 m +/- 0.0003 m
This is the precision of 8ppm. In my opinion, this is a satisfactory result for our purpose.

Y-arm length
e-log    length [m]
-----------------------------
 556(2008-Jun-24)  38.70    +/- 0.08    Cavity swinging measurement
 556(2008-Jun-24)  38.67    +/- 0.03    Tape & photo
 776(2008-Jul-31)  38.640   +/- 0.007   Beam injection, poor PLL, Transmitted DC
 782(2008-Aug-02)  38.6455  +/- 0.0012  Beam injection, independent PLL, Transmitted DC
 787(2008-Aug-04)  38.64575 +/- 0.00037 Beam injection, independent PLL, Transmitted RF
this(2008-Aug-04)  38.6462  +/- 0.0003  Beam injection, independent PLL, Transmitted RF, five FSRs, freq calibrated
-----------------------------

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o According to the entry 795, all of the scan frequency was calibrated.
o The five peaks of the scanned data for TEM00 were fitted. Each peak was fitted by the following formula:

V(f) = A / Sqrt(1 - ((f-f0)/fc)^2)

Variable
f: scan frequency

Parameters
A: peak amplitude
f0: center frequency
fc: half bandwidth of the peak for -3dB

o The results are shown in the attached figure 1. They look very similar each other but they are different plot! The fittings were extremely good. The center frequencies estimated were as follows:

FSR1:  3879251.9 Hz +/-  8.8 Hz
FSR2:  7757968.1 Hz +/- 10.8 Hz
FSR3: 11636612.9 Hz +/- 10.2 Hz
FSR4: 15515308.1 Hz +/-  8.7 Hz
FSR5: 19393968.7 Hz +/-  8.4 Hz

o The FSR frequencies were fitted by a line. The fitting and the residuals are shown in the attached figure 2.
The fitting results were

f_FSR(n) = 586.4 + 3878678 * n

This means that:
o FSR frequency was 3878678 [Hz].
o The lock of the carrier had detuning of 586 [Hz].

The detuning of the carrier from the resonance can be explained by the alignment drift. In deed, at the end of the measurement, decrease of the transmitted power by -15% was found. Then, the frequency of the 1st FSR was measured before and after the alignment adjustment. This changed the frequency of the FSR1 by 350Hz. This change could not be explained by the cavity length change as this is too big (~3.5mm).

Actually, the spacing of the cavity length is more stable. The residual is rather scattered with in 20-30Hz. So, I took the error of 30Hz as the whole precision of the frequency measurement that includes the fluctuation of the alignment, the cavity length itself, and so on. This yields the FSR and the cavity length of
f_FSR = 3878678 Hz +/- 30 Hz
L_yarm = 38.6462 m +/- 0.0003 m .

Attachment 1: TEM00fit.png

Attachment 2: TEM00FSRfit.png

800

Tue Aug 5 17:56:23 2008

Alberto

SRM and PRM inspection

Yoichi, Koji, Rana, Steve, Alberto

Today we opened the BSC to inspect the optics, and in particular the SRM and PRM.
We found that one of the side magnets of the SRM was broken and a piece of it fell and got stuck to the LR magnet.
We removed the LR OSEM and took off the broken part with tweezers. Since we couldn�t replace the magnet on the side,
we decided to just switch the OSEM to the other side were a second magnet was available. Then we centered the OSEMs.
Using the optical levers we aligned both the ITMX and the SRM so that now we have to center again the OSEMs on both.

The PRM was visibly tilted and it was out of the range of the OSEMs. To try to fix the tilt we lift it up a little
with the screws on the bottom and pushed it with the third screw on top. That had the effect of making the mirror
tilt to the opposite direction. We looked at the wires (see attached picture) and it seemed centered on the side
of the mirror.

Tomorrow we are going to reset the OSEMs on ITMX and SRM and then we�re going to try to fix the tilt on PRM.

Attachment 1: IMG_1434.JPG

Attachment 2: IMG_1456.JPG

799

Tue Aug 5 12:52:28 2008

ITMX, SRM OSEM spectra

Free swinging spectra of ITMX and SRM.
ITMX seems to be ok after yesterday's work, though the OSEM DC values are still a bit off from the normal value of 0.9.
(ITMX OSEM values: UL=1.12, UR=1.38, LR=0.66, LL=0.41, SIDE=0.66)
SRM is still clearly wrong.

Attachment 1: ITMX-2008_08_05-morning.pdf

Attachment 2: SRM-2008_08_05-morning.pdf

798

Tue Aug 5 10:56:05 2008

Alberto

ITMX chamber opened and mirror released

D-Mass, Steve, Rana, Koji, Yoichi, Alberto,
We opened the ITMX chamber to check the optics after last week earthquake. In particular, from the spectra, ITMX seemed to be stuck and had to be released again. When we inspected the mirror, we found that it wasn�t necessary to touch it. It had become free again during the vent thanks to the change of conductivity in the air inside during the vent.
We checked the magnets and they seemed to be fine.
A couple of stop screws had lost the rubber on their tips, although we don�t know if that was due to the earthquake.
We also took advantage of the opening to center the LR and the left OSEMs in the mirror to their zero.
Inspecting the table we found a couple of things not totally clear on the configuration of the optics in the table. In particular we found a beam dump located too close to the ifo beam. Eventually we found out that the dump was meant to block a ghost beam coming from the ITM. A better location should probably be figured out for that. We also found that the POXM1 mirror designed to have the maximum reflectivity for the P polarization of the beam at 45 degrees is mounted so that the incident beam is at 22 degrees. This cause the beam to be 90% transmitted and only 10 percent reflected to POX. The transmitted beam appears at ther BSC chamber.

The ifo beam passes so close to the POXM1 mirror so that it can be clipped by its large metal frame ring. The beam at that point is about 6mm large and the ring is about 1cm thick so that we could gain some distance with a different mount.

797

Tue Aug 5 10:23:00 2008

steve

earthquake and venting effects

atm 1, EQ
atm 2, vent 7 days later: venting kicks optic into place to be free,
PRM: LR magnet gets pushed in and it is stocked, side in free

Attachment 1: eq4h.jpg

Attachment 2: vent4hr.jpg

796

Tue Aug 5 02:39:55 2008

Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Optical Layout on the AP / PSL table 2008-Aug-05

Here are the PDF and the PNG of the AP and PSL table layouts.
After this photo, the squeezing setup at the AP table was removed.

Attachment 1: optical_layout_ap_table3.png

Attachment 2: optical_layout_ap_table3.pdf

Attachment 3: optical_layout_PSL_table1.png

Attachment 4: optical_layout_PSL_table1.pdf

795

Tue Aug 5 00:05:57 2008

Abs. Len. Meas. ~ IFR2023A calibration

Work log on August 4th

o IFR2023A (Marconi) was calibrated by the SR620 frequency counter which is locked to the GPS signal.
o The frequency of the IFR2023A was scanned from 1MHz to 20MHz with 1MHz interval. The readout of the frequency counter was recorded.
o The linear fit was taken.

f_freq_count = K0 + K1 * f_IFR [Hz]
K0 = 0.00        +/- 0.02
K1 = 0.999999470 +/- 0.000000001

o So, the IFR seems to have -0.5ppm systematic error.

794

Mon Aug 4 22:31:10 2008

Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Simple Test for TEM01/10 split

Work log on August 3rd - Part3

Question:
o The TEM01 and TEM10 of the Yarm were found to split with 19kHz separation. Is this true?
o In which direction the eigenmodes are?

Thought:
o The separation of 19kHz is a kind of too big because the cavity bandwidth is several kHz.
o This means that "TEM01 and TEM10 can not resonate at the same time (by the PSL beam)".

Test:
o Imagine we are just using the PSL beam and playing with an arm cavity.
o Tilt the end mirror in pitch. Resonate the TEM01 mode (8-shaped).
o Then tilt the end mirror in yaw.
o a) If the resonances are degenerated within the bandwidth of the laser, it rotates freely.
o b) If the resonances splits, the tilt in yaw does not change the shape. Then suddenly jumps to TEM10 (by an accident).

Result:
o The shape does not change. Just jumps to the other mode. (The case above b.)
o The eigenmode looked like quite horizontal and vertical.

Conclusion: the mode really splits.

Attachment 1: TEM01_10.png

793

Mon Aug 4 21:48:24 2008

Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Scan for TEM00/01/10

Work log on August 3rd - Part2

o I tried to measure the frequency of the FSRs using TEM00 resonances. Also search of TEM01/TEM10 resonances were tried.

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Measurement for TEM00

o The frequency of the injection beam was scanned from 2MHz to 20MHz using the LabVIEW panel with GPIB. The 1st figure attached below is the result of the scan. Equispaced peaks were found as expected. The interval of the peaks are about 3.89MHz. Each peaks were measured with freq intervals of down to 50Hz. I will analyze the center frequency of the peaks precisely later in order to have a final result.

Measurements for TEM01/TEM10

o The beam injection technique is thought to be useful for measureing the frequency of the higher-order resonances. In order to measure the higher-order resonances the modifications of the experimental setup were applied as below.

1) For TEM10 (the beam like "OO" shape), a razor blade which blocked the horizontal half of the transmitted beam was placed. We needed to disturb half of the beam because the beat between the PSL TEM00 and the injection TEM01 cancels if the PD receives all of the light.

2) The injection beam is slightly misaligned in the horizontal direction in order to enhance the coupling of the injection beam to the cavity TEM01 mode.

3) For TEM01 (the beam like "8" shape), a razor blade cutting the vertical half and the misalignment of the inj beam in the vertical direction are applied.

o The frequency of the injection beam was scaned from 1st FSR of TEM00 in the upward direction. The alignment of the arm cavity was left untouched during the measurement. As shown in the 2nd figure attached below, the resonances were found about 1.19MHz away from the TEM00, but they are separated by about 19kHz(!). This could be split of the degenerated modes which corresponds to the difference of the mirror curvature in two directions! This difference is something like 56 m and 57 m. Can you believe this?

(To be continued to the next entry)

Attachment 1: TEM00.png

Attachment 2: TEM01.png

Attachment 3: knife_edge.png

792

Mon Aug 4 16:20:20 2008

Dmass

ITMX magnet position relative to OSEMS

Photos

We have vented, and taken the following pics of the magnets to document their position before we ruin everything.

Attachment 1: DSC_0151.JPG

Attachment 2: DSC_0150.JPG

791

Mon Aug 4 13:43:02 2008

As a part of the effort to repair the FSS loop bandwidth, I tried to calibrate the FSS loop.

First, I scanned the MOPA frequency by injecting a triangular wave into the ramp-in of the FSS box, which goes to the PZT of the NPRO.
The first attachment shows the transmitted light curve (pink one) along with the PDH signal (light blue).
The sweep was very slow (0.1Hz for 2Vp-p). From this measurement, the FWHM was 6.8e-3V. Then fpol = FWHM/2=3.4e-3V, where fpol is the cavity pole frequency.
So the PZT's DC response is 294*fpol/V. If we use the canonical fpol=38kHz, it is 11.172MHz/V.

Then I tried to measure the cavity pole. First I tried the cavity ring down measurement, by blocking the beam abruptly. Unfortunately, my hand was not fast enough.
The ring down shape was not an exponential decay.
I then locked the reference cavity only using the PZT with very narrow bandwidth (UGF=2kHz). I injected signal into the external modulation input of the 80MHz VCO
for the AOM. The second attachment shows the transfer function from this input to the IN2 (mixer output monitor port) of the FSS servo box.
To plot this, I corrected the measurement for the open loop TF (i.e. multiplying the measured TF with (1+G)), and other filters in the path (8MHz LPF after the ext. mod.
input of the 80MHz VCO, and an RCL network after the mixter). The gain looks like a cavity pole, but the phase decreases very rapidly.
If you look at the third attachment showing a wider band transfer function, there are notches at 1.8MHz and above. I couldn't find this kind of filter in the schematic.
Maybe this is the RFPD's bandpass filter. I will check this later. From these plots, it is difficult to tell the cavity pole frequency. From the -3dB point, fpol is around 83kHz,
but from the phase=-45deg point, fpol is around 40kHz.

Finally, I calibrated the cavity's optical gain by locking the Ref. Cavity with only PZT, and injecting a signal into the loop.
The signal was injected from Test-In2 of the FSS servo box and the transfer function from the PZT output signal (TP10) to IN1 (mixer output) was measured.
The transfer function was corrected for a 10Hz LPF after TP10.
The attachment4 shows a nice flat response up to 30kHz. Above 30kHz, the measurement is too noisy. The optical gain at DC is about 22dB from the PZT drive to the error signal (IN1).
Using fpol=38kHz, it means 887kHz/V calibration factor for the signal at IN1. There is a mixer output monitor DAQ channel in the FSS but it seems to be not working at the
moment. I will look into this later. There is a gain of 10dB between IN1 and the mixer monitor channel.
By looking at the phase response of the attachement4, there is a cavity pole like behavior around 30kHz. If we assume the PZT response is flat up to this frequency, it is
roughly consistent with fpol=38kHz.

I was not able to take a sensible spectrum of IN1 using the network analyzer. When the FSS servo was engaged, the signal was too small.
I will try to use an AF spectrum analyzer later to get a calibrated spectrum.

Attachment 1: P7310048.JPG

Attachment 2: cavity-response.pdf

Attachment 3: cavity-response2.pdf

Attachment 4: cavity-gain.pdf

790

Mon Aug 4 12:12:20 2008

The 40m vac envelope was vented this morning.
P1 is at 760 Torr

Attachment 1: vent3h.jpg

Attachment 2: Untitled.png

789

Mon Aug 4 05:23:57 2008

Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Measurement for Y-arm completed

Finally, I have completed the abs length and g-factor measurements for Y-arm.
>>>GO FOR THE VENT<<<

I will report the results later.

Some notes on the status:
o Y-arm was aligned at the end of the experiment by the script. The values were saved.

o At the AP table, the injection beam and the flipper were left aligned so that the inj. beam can be used as a reference of the SRM and the ITMs. But the shutter of the NPRO was closed.

o The experiment setup was mostly left at the side of the AP table. I tried not to disturb the walk as much as possible.

o The long cable from the Y-end was wound and placed at the Y-end. The knife-edge was left on the Y-end bench. It is not disturbing any beam.

788

Mon Aug 4 00:56:07 2008

HowTo

Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Auto freq scanner with GPIB

Work log on August 3rd - Part1

o Yesterday I was too much tired of changing the RF frequency, reading peaks on the RF spectrum, and writing the values. Rana saw me and thought I was such poor that he gave me an USB-GPIB adapter.

o I dig into the internet for the manuals of the adapter, IFR2023A(Marconi), and HP8591E(RF spectrum analyzer) in order to learn how to use them.

o I had LabVIEW installed on my laptop. Finally I understand how to use that adapter (by Agilent) with LabVIEW. I made a small program to scan the frequency of IFR2023A, and read the peak values from HP8591E. It is unfortunate that there is no LabVIEW in the 40m lab. I think I can make an independent executable which does not need the LabVIEW itself. Give me some time to understand how to do it.

Attachment 1: freq_scan.png

787

Mon Aug 4 00:37:58 2008