Continued to work on the WFS repair

Demod phase adjustment:

- Use the PDH signal to adjust the demodulation phase to have uniform signals between the segments.

- Excited laser frequency at 1234Hz by injecting 10mVpp into IMC Servo Board IN2. The input was enabled on the MC Servo screen and given the input gain of 0dB.

- Looked at the ~real time spectrum in WFS1/2 SEG1/2/3/4 I&Q after the phase rotators. Changed the demod phases 1) to have ~0deg transfer function between C1:IOO-MC_F to C1:IOO-WFSi_Ij 2) to minimize the freq signal in Q phases.
(See Attachment 1)

- Resulting change of the demod phases:

WFS1 SEG1  52.0 -> 38.0deg
WFS1 SEG2  54.0 -> 53.0deg
WFS1 SEG3  16.6 -> 33.2deg
WFS1 SEG4 103.9 ->-37.1deg

WFS2 SEG1  17.0 -> 57.8deg
WFS2 SEG2  26.6 -> 51.5deg
WFS2 SEG3  24.5 -> 44.0deg
WFS2 SEG4 -58.0 ->103.7deg

SEG4 of both WFSs had significant phase rotation. A quick check of the power spectrum indicates that the Q signals have significantly (<x1/10) lower signals (Attachment 2/3/4). So that's good.

Transfer function measurement

Now the ASCPIT/ASCYAW of the MC1/2/3 suspension were excited and the transfer functions to WFS1/2 SEG1/2/3/4 and MC Trans P/Y were measured. The analysis will come later.

Again here the Q signals have significantly lower sensitivity to the mirror motion. So it is consistent with the above observation of the spectra.

However, the quick check of the transfer functions indicated that the conventional input matrices result in the flipped dependence of the combined error signals in pitch and yaw.
This might indicate that some of the cables were not inserted into the demod board properly although the cables at the demod boards show no indication of anomaly. (See the photos in ELOG 17048)
It might be the case that the cable had been inserted with a special unusual arrangement.

In any case, this can be fixed at the input matrix. Native change of the input matrix made WFS1PIT/WFS1YAW/WFS2PIT/WFS2YAW/MC2Trans YAW servos running (after some adjustment of the servo signs).
The MC2TRANS PIT servo didn't seem to settle and run away no matter which sign is used.

It's probably better to look at the sensing matrix and figure out the proper input/output matrix carefully. So at this moment, no WFSs are working.

Note that I left the new demod phases in the system

During the transfer function measurement some filters were turned off to make the shaking smoother:

IMC ASC filters were turned off to make the FResp flat:
- MC1 ASCP/Y FM1/FM5 OFF
- MC2 ASCP/Y FM1/FM5/FM6 OFF
- MC3 ASCP/Y FM1/FM5 OFF

60Hz comb OSEM Input filters were also turned off to make the transfer functions simpler:
- MC1 INPUT FM2 OFF (60Hz comb)
- MC2 INPUT FM2 OFF (60Hz comb)
- MC3 INPUT FM2 OFF (60Hz comb)

cf. Past IMCWFS commissioning http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/12684

[Yuta, Tega, Chris]

We did it!

Following Chris's suggestion, we added "pciRfm=1" to the CDS parameter block in c1x07.mdl - the IOP model for c1sus2. Then restarted the FE machines and this solved the dolphin IPC problem on c1sus2. We no longer see the RT Netstat error for 'C1:HPC-LSC_DCPD_A' and 'C1:HPC-LSC_DCPD_B' on the LSC IPC status page, see attachement 1.

Attachment 2 shows the module dependencies before and after the change was made, which confirms that the IOP model was not using the dolphin driver before the change.

We encountered a burt restore problem with missing snapfiles from yesterday when we tried restoring the EPICS values after restarting the FE machines. Koji helped us debug the problem, but the summary is that restarting the FE models somehow fixed the issue.

Borrowed DSUB cables for Juan's SURF project

- 2x D25F-M cables (~6ft?)

Last week, we could find an alignment which realizes LO beam and AS beam both unclipped, but it was not consistent with an alignment which realize BHD fringe (40m/17046).
Today, we tweaked the alignment of SR2, AS1, AS4 to have BHD fringe with reduced LO and AS beam clipping.
AS beams on AP table and BHD both still look clipped, but much better now.
Ideally, SR2 and AS1 will unclip AS beam, and LO1, LO2, AS4 would make BHD fringe, but it is hard right now since LO beam seem to have little room and LO2 have little actuation range.
BHD optics on ITMY table, including camera, and AS55/ASDC were realigned after the aglinment work (Note that DCPD_A path have a pick-off for camera path, and this pick-off mirror have quite significant incident angle dependence of R/T ratio).

Current alignment scheme:
Current alignment scheme I figured out is the following.
 - Check Y green. If it is transmitted at good spot on GTRY camera, Yarm is OK. If not, tweak ITMY/ETMY. alignment.
 - Align TT1, TT2, LO1 to have DCPD_A_OUT of ~130 and DCPD_B_OUT of ~125.
 - Align PR3, PR2 to maximize TRY_OUT to ~1.05.
 - Tweak ITMY/ETMY if the beam spot on them are not good.
 - Align BS, ITMX to have good MICH fringe and TRX_OUT to ~1.1.
 - Tweak ITMX/ETMX if the beam spot on them are not good.
 - Misalign ETMY, ETMX, ITMY to have LO-ITMX fringe in BHD DCPDs, and align AS beam with SR2 and AS4 differentially, with ratio of AS4/SR2=3.6.

DC PD values in various configurations:
Both arms locked with POX/POY, MICH free, PRM/SRM misaligned
                          Mean     Max      Min
C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM :     14088.57 13947.52 14167.04
C1:LSC-ASDC_OUT16 :           0.16    -0.02     0.34
C1:LSC-POPDC_OUT16 :        369.34   -74.88   854.34
C1:LSC-REFLDC_OUT16 :         0.03    -0.00     0.06
C1:LSC-TRY_OUT16 :            1.00     0.95     1.04
C1:LSC-TRX_OUT16 :            1.07     1.04     1.08

Only LO beam to BHD DCPDs
                          Mean     Max      Min
C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM :     14121.32 14057.71 14159.38
C1:HPC-DCPD_A_OUT16 :       129.80   128.37   130.68 (Consistent with, 40m/17046. Power as expected within 20%. Squashed shape)
C1:HPC-DCPD_B_OUT16 :       123.42   121.92   124.48

ITMX single bounce (ITMY, ETMX, ETMY, PRM, SRM, LO misalgined)
                          Mean     Max      Min
C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM :     14105.13 14000.89 14171.91
C1:HPC-DCPD_A_OUT16 :        92.54    91.45    93.30 (Consistent with 40m/17040, Power as expected within 40%. Clipped to the left in camera)
C1:HPC-DCPD_B_OUT16 :       137.70   136.55   138.53 (Note that DCPD_A/B ratio is different from LO, due to BHD BS R/T unbalance; 40m/17044)
C1:LSC-ASDC_OUT16 :           0.10     0.09     0.10 (Power as expected 40m/16952. Clipped to the right in camera)
C1:LSC-POPDC_OUT16 :        309.19   288.93   327.10 (Power as expected within 30% 40m/17042.)
C1:LSC-REFLDC_OUT16 :         0.02     0.01     0.02

ITMY single bounce (ITMX, ETMX, ETMY, PRM, SRM, LO misalgined)
                          Mean     Max      Min
C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM :     14112.09 14025.37 14154.51
C1:HPC-DCPD_A_OUT16 :        92.58    92.01    93.26
C1:HPC-DCPD_B_OUT16 :       137.68   136.81   138.27
C1:LSC-ASDC_OUT16 :           0.10     0.09     0.10
C1:LSC-POPDC_OUT16 :        308.48   290.49   319.73
C1:LSC-REFLDC_OUT16 :         0.02     0.01     0.02

MICH fringe only (ETMX, ETMY, PRM, SRM, LO misalgined)
                          Mean     Max      Min
C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM :     14090.34 13979.15 14143.86
C1:HPC-DCPD_A_OUT16 :       325.60    91.92   714.57
C1:HPC-DCPD_B_OUT16 :       400.27    18.37   762.57
C1:LSC-ASDC_OUT16 :           0.19    -0.05     0.41
C1:LSC-POPDC_OUT16 :        595.66  -119.21  1334.11
C1:LSC-REFLDC_OUT16 :         0.03    -0.01     0.07

LO-ITMX fringe only (ITMY, ETMX, ETMY, PRM, SRM misalgined)
                          Mean     Max      Min
C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM :     14062.58 13968.05 14113.67
C1:HPC-DCPD_A_OUT16 :       224.31    89.57   371.66
C1:HPC-DCPD_B_OUT16 :       259.74    85.37   421.86

Next:
 - Measure contrast (40m/17020) and estimate mode-matching of LO-AS again (40m/17041)
 - Now that we have better LO-AS fringe, lock LO phase in MICH (40m/17037)
 - Now that Dolphin issue was fixed, try double-demodulation to lock LO phase

Added C1:IOO-MC_LOCK to ALConfigMC.yml which solved the isse with FSS Slow. We should tune the FSS Slow Servo PID coefficients for a better performance.

the C1PSL_SLOW.adl screen is not obsolete. It can be used to change the PID coefficients, engage/disengage the PID loop, monitor the PID script blinker, and monitor FAST actuator value C1:PSL-FSS_FAST. the functionality of this screen has not changed from before.

I've also added a wiki page for scripts documentation.

Koji and JC looked around the lab today and found some supermicro boxes which I was told to look into to see if they have any useful computers.

Boxes next to Y-arm cabinets (3 boxes: one empty)

We were expecting to see a smaller machine in the first box - like top machine in attachement 1 - but it turns out to actually contain the front-end we need, see bottom machine in attachment 1. This is the same machine as c1bhd currently on the teststand. Attachment 2 is an image of the machine in the second box (maybe a new machine for frambuilder?). The third box is empty.

Boxes next to X-arm cabinets (3 boxes)

Attachement 3 shows the 3 boxes each of which contains the same FE machine we saw earlier at the bottom of attachement 1. The middle box contains the note shown in attacment 4.

Box opposite Y-arm cabinets (1 empty box)

In summary, it looks like we have 3 new front-ends, 1 new front-end with networking issue and 1 new tower machine (possibly a frame builder replacement).

OK... It seems that all the 6 dof of the IMC WFS servo loops were closed with some condition...

- Measured the transfer functions from ASCPIT/YAW_EXC of each suspensions to WFS segs.
- FInd the proper input matrix for PIT and YAW for WFS1 and WFS2
- Closed loops one by one => This was not so successful because the loop shape was quite conditional.
- Closed WFS1/WFS2 loops one by one only with FM4 (0.8Hz Zero / (100Hz pole)^2). Adjust the gains to have the UGF at a few Hz.

- Found that the separation between WFS1P and WFS2P was not good. This caused instability of these loops when the gains were matched. I ended up lowering the gain of WFS1P by a factor of 10. This made the loop OK to work. FM3 (Integrator below 0.8Hz) worked fine.

- FM9 Rolloff filters (RLP12) makes the loops unstable.

- The MC2 spot loops (MC2_TRANS_PIT/YAW) are supposed to be slow loops. From the time series behavior it looks they are working.

MEDM Snapshots (Attchaments 1~4)

Sensing matrix measurement

MCx_ASCyyy_EXC was shaken with the amplitude of 3000 cnt. Measure the transfer functions to each segment of the WFS I&Q demod outputs.

- Pitch excitations consistently indicated WFS1 SEG2&3 / SEG1&4, and WFS2 SEG 1&2 / SEG 3&4 are the pairs.
- Yaw excitations consistently indicated WFS1 SEG1&2 / SEG3&4, and WFS2 SEG 1&4 / SEG 2&3 are the pairs.

---> WFS1P matrix {1,-1,-1,1}, WFS1Y matrix {1,1,-1,-1}, WFS2P matrix {1,1,-1,-1}, WFS2Y matrix {-1,1,1,-1}

Now look at the servo input. The following lists show the important numbers for the actuation to sensor matrices. The numbers were the measured transfer function between 7~10Hz and the unit is 1/f^2 [cnt/cnt].

CHA:, C1:SUS-MC1_ASCPIT_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-WFS1_I_PIT_OUT, -77.4602 +/- 18.4495
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC1_ASCPIT_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-WFS2_I_PIT_OUT, -22.6042 +/- 5.289
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC1_ASCPIT_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_PIT_OUT, -0.0007949 +/- 0.00019046
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC1_ASCYAW_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-WFS1_I_YAW_OUT, -60.5557 +/- 14.1008
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC1_ASCYAW_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-WFS2_I_YAW_OUT, -206.3526 +/- 47.1332
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC1_ASCYAW_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_YAW_OUT, 0.00027094 +/- 6.6131e-05

CHA:, C1:SUS-MC2_ASCPIT_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-WFS1_I_PIT_OUT, 57.8636 +/- 35.3874
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC2_ASCPIT_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-WFS2_I_PIT_OUT, -185.079 +/- 104.679
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC2_ASCPIT_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_PIT_OUT, 0.00089367 +/- 0.00052603
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC2_ASCYAW_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-WFS1_I_YAW_OUT, -349.7898 +/- 202.967
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC2_ASCYAW_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-WFS2_I_YAW_OUT, -193.7146 +/- 111.2871
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC2_ASCYAW_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_YAW_OUT, 0.003911 +/- 0.0023028

CHA:, C1:SUS-MC3_ASCPIT_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-WFS1_I_PIT_OUT, 65.5405 +/- 14.305
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC3_ASCPIT_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-WFS2_I_PIT_OUT, 78.8535 +/- 17.1719
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC3_ASCPIT_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_PIT_OUT, -0.00087661 +/- 0.00020837
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC3_ASCYAW_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-WFS1_I_YAW_OUT, -130.7286 +/- 29.6898
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC3_ASCYAW_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-WFS2_I_YAW_OUT, 129.0654 +/- 28.6328
CHA:, C1:SUS-MC3_ASCYAW_EXC, CHB:, C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_YAW_OUT, -0.00024944 +/- 5.9112e-05

Put these numbers in the matrix calculation and take the inverse for pitch and yaw separately.

We obtained

WFS1P    WFS2P    MCTP    
-4.017   -4.783   -7.306e5   MC1P
 3.611   -5.252   -2.025e5   MC2P
 7.323   -1.017   -6.847e5   MC3P

WFS1Y    WFS2Y    MCTY    
-3.457   -4.532   -5.336e5   MC1Y
-0.1249   0.3826   2.635e5   MC2Y
-5.714    1.076   -4.578e5   MC3Y

Basically we can put these numbers into the output matrix. The last column corresponds to the spot position servo and we want to make this slow.
So used x1e-5 values (i.e. removed e5) instead of these huge numbers.

WFS/MCTRANS_QPD Power Spectra

Attachment 1: HEPA ON

WFS1/2 PIT/YAW Spectra are stabilized below 1Hz (0.1Hz for WFS1P)

MC2 TRANS PIT is largely contaminated by the other WFS loops.
MC2 TRANS YAW is slightly contaminated but not much compared to the one for pitch.

Attachment 2: HEPA OFF

Again, WFS1/2 PIT/YAW Spectra are stabilized below 1Hz (0.1Hz for WFS1P)

MC2 TRANS PIT is still contaminated but better.
MC2 TRANS YAW is not contaminated.

Observation

WFS1/2 signals are largely disturbed when PSL HEPA is ON. Probably the amount of HEPA air flow was not optimized.
Above 1Hz, invacuum suspension are quieter than the beam incident on the IMC.

The dirty WFS signals are fedback to the mirrors. Due the large motion of the beam and also the imperfection of the actuator matrix cause the MC2 spot rather moves than stabilized.

This means that the WFS loops should leave the mirrors untouched above 1Hz i.e. The loop bandwidths should be low (~<0.1Hz). (Yes I know)
However, the simple gain reduction (x10) does make the servos unstable. So more adjustment is necessary. (<-Not for today)

Upon leaving the lab:

- HEPA is ON at the original speed (i.e. same speed at 5PM today)

- WFS servo is ON, partly because we want to see how stable it is. It is not handled with the autolocker right now.
So there is a possibility that the WFS servo goes wild and make the IMC totally misaligned (and does not come back)
In such a case, go to the WFS servo screen and push "CH" (clear history) of each servo filters.

The IMC lock survived overnight and the WFS servo loops kept it aligned. The IMC was unlocked in the morning.
The left 6 plots are the WFS servo outputs and the right most two plot show the transmission and reflection of the IMC.

If the WFS is making the lock unstable under high seismic conditions, please turn the loops off.

I set out to test the actuation bandwidth of the 950nm laser. I hooked the laser to the output of the bias tee of PD testing setup. I connected the fiber coming out of the laser to the fiber port of 1611 REF PD.

The current source was connected to the DB9 input of the PD testing setup. I turned on the current source and set the current to 20mA. I measured with a fluke ~ 2V at the REF PD DC port.

I connected the AC port of the bias tee to the RF source of the network analyzer and the AC port of the REF PD to the B port of the network analyzer. Attachment 2 shows the setup.

I took a swept sine measurement (attachment) from 100kHz to 500MHz.

It seems like the bandwidth is ~ 1MHz which is weird considering the spec sheet says that the pulse rise time is 0.5ns. To make sure we are not limited by the bandwidth of the cables I looped the source and the input of the network analyzer using the cables used for the previous measurement and observed that the bandwidth is a few 100s of MHz.

can't we just go back to the old python script that was working for many years, and tested? I imagine that as soon as someone besides you tries to debug the docker setup, this is what will happen.

Added 3 FE machines - c1ioo, c1lsc, c1sus -  to the teststand following the instructions in elog15947. Note that we also updated /etc/hosts on chiara by adding the names and ip of the new FE since we wish to ssh from there given that chiara is where we land when we connect to c1teststand.

Two of the FE machines - c1lsc & c1ioo - have the 6-core X5680 @ 3.3GHz processor and the BIOS were already mostly configured because they came from LLO I believe. The third machine - c1sus - has the 6-core X5650 @ 2.67GHz processor and required a complete BIOS config according to the doc.

Next Step:  I think the next step is to get the latest RTS working on the new fb1 (tower machine), then boot the frontends from there.

KVM switch note:

All current front-ends have the ps/2 keyboard and mouse connectors except for fb1, which only has usb ports. So we may not be able to connect to fb1 using a ps/2 KVM switch that works for all the current front-ends. The new tower machine does have a ps/2 connector so if we decide to use that as the bootserver and framebuilder, then we should be fine.