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Category |
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16974
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Wed Jul 6 18:51:20 2022 |
Deeksha | Update | Electronics | Measuring the Transfer Function of the PZT | Yesterday, we set up the loop to measure
the PZT of the transfer function - the MokuLab
sends an excitation (note - a swept sine |
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16973
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Wed Jul 6 15:28:18 2022 |
Tega | Update | SUS | Output matrix diagonalisation : F2P coil balancing | git repo : https://git.ligo.org/40m/scripts/-/tree/main/SUS/OutMatCalc
local dir: |
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16972
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Tue Jul 5 20:05:06 2022 |
Tomislav | Update | Electronics | Whitening electronics noise | For whitening electronics noise for WFS1,
I get (attachment). This doesn't seem
right, right? |
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16969
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Fri Jul 1 12:49:52 2022 |
Koji | Update | IOO | MC2 seemed misaligned / fixed | I found the IMC was largely misaligned
and was not locking. The WFS feedback signals
were saturated and MC2 was still largely |
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16968
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Fri Jul 1 08:50:48 2022 |
yuta | Summary | LSC | FPMI with REFL/AS55 trial | [Anchal, Paco, Yuta]
We tried to lock FPMI with REFL55
and AS55 this week, but no success yet. |
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16967
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Thu Jun 30 19:24:24 2022 |
rana | Summary | PEM | effect of nearby CES construction | For the proposed construction in the NW
corner of the CES building (near the 40m
BS chamber), they did a simulated construction |
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16966
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Thu Jun 30 19:04:55 2022 |
rana | Summary | PSL | PSL HEPA: How what when why | For the PSL HEPA, we wanted it to remain
at full speed during the vent, when anyone
is working on the PSL, or when there is a |
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16965
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Thu Jun 30 18:06:22 2022 |
Paco | Update | ALS | Optimum ALS recovery - part I | [Paco]
In the morning I took some time
to align the AUX beams in the XEND table. |
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16964
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Thu Jun 30 17:19:55 2022 |
Deeksha | Summary | Electronics | Measured Transfer Functions of the Control Loop, Servo (OLTF); got Vectfit working | [Cici, Deeksha]
We were able to greatly improve
the quality of our readings by changing the |
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16963
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Wed Jun 29 18:53:38 2022 |
rana | Update | Electronics | Electronics noise | this is just the CDS error signal, but
is not the electronics noise. You have to
go into the lab and measure the noise at |
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16962
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Wed Jun 29 14:28:06 2022 |
Paco | Summary | ALS | ALS beat allan deviation (XARM) | I guess it didn't make sense since
f_beat can be arbitrarily moved, but the
beat is taken around the PSL freq ~ 281.73 |
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16961
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Tue Jun 28 23:10:34 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | Measurement of AS55 demod board conversion factor | {Yuta, Yehonathan}
We measured the AS55 demod board
conversion from the amplitude of a 55MHz |
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16960
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Tue Jun 28 22:27:11 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | Measurement of input and output electronics noise | {Yuta, Yehonathan}
For MICH noise budgeting we measure
the input electronics noise which includes |
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16959
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Tue Jun 28 18:53:16 2022 |
rana | Summary | ALS | ALS beat allan deviation (XARM) | what's the reasoning behind using df/f_beat
instead of df/f_laser ?
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16958
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Tue Jun 28 18:19:09 2022 |
Tomislav | Update | Electronics | Electronics noise | I measured electronics noise of WFSs and
QPD (of the WFS/QPD, whitening, ADC...) by
closing PSL and measuring the error signal. |
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16957
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Tue Jun 28 17:07:47 2022 |
Anchal | Update | Calibration | Added Beatnote channels in demodulation of c1cal | I added today demodulation of C1:LSC-BEATX/Y_FINE_I/Q
in the c1cal demodulation where different
degrees of freedom can be dithered. For McCal |
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16956
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Tue Jun 28 16:59:35 2022 |
Paco | Summary | ALS | ALS beat allan deviation (XARM) | [Paco]
I took ~ 7 minutes of XALS beatnote
data with the XAUX laser locked to the XARM |
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16955
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Tue Jun 28 16:26:58 2022 |
Cici | Summary | General | Vector fitting open loop transfer function/Audio cancellation of optical table enclosure | [Deeksha, Cici]
We attempted to use vectfit to
fit our earlier transfer function data, and |
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16954
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Tue Jun 28 14:24:23 2022 |
yuta | Update | BHD | BHD DC PD signals now also sent to c1lsc to circumvent IPC error | [JC, Yuta]
To circumvent IPC error sending
BHD DC PD signals from c1sus2 to c1lsc, DB9 |
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16953
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Tue Jun 28 09:03:58 2022 |
JC | Update | General | Organizing and Cleaning | The plan for
the tools in 40m
As of right now, there are 4 tool |
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16952
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Mon Jun 27 18:54:27 2022 |
yuta | Update | LSC | Modulation depths measurement using Yarm cavity scan | [Yehonathan, Yuta]
EDITED
by YM on 22:11 June 27, 2022 to correct for |
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16951
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Mon Jun 27 13:39:40 2022 |
Deeksha | Update | Electronics | Setting up the MokuLab | [Cici, Deeksha]
On Friday Cici and I set up the
Mokulab to take readings of our loop. The |
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16950
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Mon Jun 27 13:25:50 2022 |
Cici | Update | General | Characterizing the Transfer Loop | [Deeksha, Cici]
We first took data of a simple
low pass filter, and attempted to perform |
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16949
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Mon Jun 27 12:32:45 2022 |
yuta | Update | IOO | WFS issues fixed | |
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16948
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Sat Jun 25 22:18:41 2022 |
Tomislav | Update | ASC | Simulation and reality comparisons | In the attachment please find plots comparing
controller output, local damping output,
and error signals. |
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16947
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Sat Jun 25 20:23:59 2022 |
Koji | Update | IOO | WFS issues | I could run the WFS servo (6dofs) for more
than 15min by flipping the sign for the MC2
Pit and WFS1 Yaw. (See attachments) |
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16946
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Sat Jun 25 14:29:48 2022 |
Anchal | Update | IOO | WFS issues | This issue is very weird and still unresolved.
Without WFS loops, we'll have to realign
IMC often and we might loose IMC alignment |
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16945
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Fri Jun 24 17:16:59 2022 |
Paco | Update | ALS | XAUX cable in control room | [JC, Paco]
We took the long BNC cable that
ran from ETMX to ETMY and ran it from ETMX |
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16944
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Fri Jun 24 13:29:37 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | General | OSEMs from KAGRA | The box was given to Juan Gamez (SURF)
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16943
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Fri Jun 24 12:13:16 2022 |
JC | Update | IOO | WFS issues | [Yuta, JC]
It seems that early this morning
MC got very misaligned. Yuta was able to |
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16942
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Thu Jun 23 15:05:01 2022 |
Water Monitor | Update | Upgrade | Water Bottle Refill | 22:05:02 UTC Jordan refilled his water
bottle at the water dispenser in the control
room. |
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16941
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Wed Jun 22 19:41:13 2022 |
Koji | Update | LSC | Daily alignment work; POY trouble solved | Before the final measurement of the DC
values for the transmissions, I aligned the
PMC. This made the PMC trans increased from |
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16940
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Wed Jun 22 18:55:31 2022 |
yuta | Update | LSC | Daily alignment work; POY trouble solved | [Koji, Yuta]
I found that Yarm cannot be locked |
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16939
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Wed Jun 22 17:04:06 2022 |
Deeksha | Summary | Electronics | Characterising the AUX control loop | [Cici, Deekha]
Setup loop to measure transfer
function of control loop - the aim is |
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16938
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Wed Jun 22 14:44:03 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Fixed DC error in c1su2, added new library model for suspensions | The 0x2000 error in c1su2 happens whenever
we make it and install it as the default
data acquisition rates are too much in the |
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16937
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Tue Jun 21 22:22:37 2022 |
Tomislav | Update | ASC | Plots | In the attachment please find a comparison
of error signals of simulation and reality
after including air turbulence as input noise. |
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16935
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Tue Jun 21 21:17:16 2022 |
yuta | Update | BHD | RTS models for BHD added but PCIE error remaining | [Anchal, Yuta]
RTS
models for BHD homodyne phase control (c1hpc) |
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16934
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Tue Jun 21 18:41:46 2022 |
Tomislav | Update | ASC | Simulation plot | In the attachment please find a comparison
of error signals of simulation and reality.
For C1:IOO-WFS1/2_PIT_IN1 excess signal ('belly') |
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16933
|
Tue Jun 21 14:59:22 2022 |
Cici | Summary | General | AUX Transfer Function Loop Exploration | [Deeksha, Cici]
We learned about the auxillary
laser control loop, and then went into the |
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16932
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Tue Jun 21 14:17:50 2022 |
yuta | Configuration | BHD | BHD DCPDs re-routed to c1sus2 | After discussing with Anchal, we decided
to route BHD related PD signals directly
to ADC of c1sus2, which handles our new suspensions |
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16931
|
Tue Jun 21 08:36:50 2022 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | Diagonalized input matrices for LO1, freeSwing on ITMY and ITMX | Over the weekend, I ran freeSwing test
with sequential kicks in specific DOFs for
LO1, ITMY, ITMX. LO1 results were successfully |
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16930
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Mon Jun 20 19:46:04 2022 |
Tomislav | Update | ASC | Simulation plots | In the attachment please find IMC ASC simulation
plots. Let me know what you think, if you
want some other plots, and if you need any |
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16929
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Fri Jun 17 16:22:21 2022 |
yuta | Update | LSC | Actuator calibration of BS. ITMX, ITMY, updated MICH displacement spectra from c1cal | Following what we have done in 2013 (40m/8242),
actuator calibration was done using MICH. |
6x |
16928
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Fri Jun 17 13:07:08 2022 |
Koji | Update | BHD | Comparison of MICH OLTF model with measurement | I'm curious why the actual OLTF included
the 60Hz comb...? It is undesirable to have
such structure in the OLTF around the UGF |
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16927
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Fri Jun 17 12:05:32 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | Comparison of MICH OLTF model with measurement | I should write down what I didn't include
for completeness:
1. AA filters |
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16926
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Thu Jun 16 19:49:48 2022 |
Cici | Update | General | Using the SR785 | [Deeksha, Cici]
We used a python script to collect
data from the SR785 remotely. The SR785 is |
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16925
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Thu Jun 16 18:30:07 2022 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | New diagonalized input matrices applied | I used the same fre swing data to diagnolize
input matrices of following optics:
MC1, MC2, MC3 |
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16924
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Thu Jun 16 18:23:15 2022 |
Paco | Configuration | BHD | Recovering LO beam in BHD DCPDs | [Paco, Yuta]
We recovered the LO beam on the
BHD port. To do this, we first tried reverting |
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16923
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Thu Jun 16 17:40:15 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | Comparison of MICH OLTF model with measurement | I made some progress in modeling MICH loop.
Putting all the LSC and SUS filters
together with the MICH Finesse model I constructed |
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16922
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Thu Jun 16 15:29:03 2022 |
yuta | Update | PSL | PMC input beam aligned again, IMC | [Paco, Tomislav, Yuta]
Somehow, when we were trying to measure |
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