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7469
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Wed Oct 3 15:58:57 2012 |
Steve | Configuration | IOO | SOS coil drivers moved | The SOS coil drivers (Atm2) were moved from 1X1 to 1Y2 location. Is this the best place to locate the IOO Tip-Tilt steering that will replace the PJ-PZT ?
See 40m wiki T-T |
7468
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Wed Oct 3 15:37:04 2012 |
Steve | Update | PEM | ants on the PSL table | We observed one or two ants climbing over PMC optics without booties and safety glasses.
The floor was mopped with strong Bayer Home Pest Control solution in the Vertex area.
Do not work inside the 40m lab if you are sensitive to chemicals!
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7467
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Wed Oct 3 11:43:33 2012 |
Steve | Update | SAFETY | safety training | Den Martynov received 40m specific safety training. |
7466
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Wed Oct 3 07:41:23 2012 |
Steve | Update | SUS | MC2 sus damping restored | This is the third morning in a row that the MC2 was tripped. Would you look at it Koji? |
7465
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Tue Oct 2 16:32:43 2012 |
Jenne | Update | IOO | PZT diagnosis | [Koji, Jenne]
Jamie and I pulled the whole PZT driver for both PZT1 and PZT2.
Koji and I found that each HV power supply (the left-most module) has 2 fuses. Both HV supplies (PZT1 and PZT2) have one blown fuse. The "T2L250A" measures low resistance for both HV supplies, but the "T250mAL250V" measures Open for both HV supplies.
I have ordered 10 pieces of each kind of fuse, Next Day shipping, from DigiKey. |
7464
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Tue Oct 2 16:15:22 2012 |
Manasa | Configuration | PSL | AOM installation |
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{Jan, Manasa}
We installed the AOM driver back on the PSL table this morning. To calibrate the AOM RF output we connected a 1V dc to the modulation input of the driver and we are convinced with the setup.
Before we direct the rf signal to the AOM, in order to check its diffraction efficiency, we would like to setup an rf PD at the AOM output. We think we have place for a filter and PD after the AOM (replacing a beam dump) and would like to confirm the position before we actually install them. The layout is the picture below showing sweet spots for the new pd to sit. If you think it may disturb the system in any way, let us know!
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The rf PD and filter have been installed at the earlier proposed spot on the PSL table.

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7463
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Tue Oct 2 15:14:54 2012 |
jenne, jamie | Update | IOO | PZT diagnosis | pzt2 mod signals matched slider vals for both pitch and yaw
pzt2 yaw mon output = 6
pzt2 pitch mon output = 11.3
From the PZT connector-converter board we determined the following pin-outs:
X=Yaw: red=1, white=14, black=3
Y=Pitch: red=2, white=15, black=16
We believe that red is signal, white/black/shield are all ground. We also believe (although this is from the PMC PZT) that the expected capacitance of the PZTs should be in the 100's of nF range.
Here are the readings from the two PZT dsub connectors:
pin 1:14 PZT1 = ".003" on 2uF scale
PZT2 = ".184"
pin 2:15 PZT1 = ".002" on 2uF scale
PZT2 = ".202"
So we think this means (given this crappy capacitance meter) that PZT2 is showing roughly 200nF, which sounds ok, but that PZT1 is indeed bad.
So next we investigate the PZT2 driver.
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7462
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Tue Oct 2 14:20:33 2012 |
Manasa | Configuration | IOO | PDA255 not working | The PDA255 that Koji repaired is still not alright. It seems to be saturating again. I've left it in the PD cabinet where it is marked 'PDA 255'. I've asked Steve to order a fast PD at 150MHz, PDA10A because we don't seem to have any at the 40m. |
7461
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Tue Oct 2 09:13:16 2012 |
Steve | Update | VAC | RGA scan at day 7 |
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The new cold cathode gauge CC1 is in place. We were at atmosphere for 28 days ......more later
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cc1 = 2.3e-5 Torr at day 6 vacuum normal
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7460
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Tue Oct 2 07:45:49 2012 |
Steve | Update | SUS | MC2 & PRM sus damping restored | |
7459
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Mon Oct 1 19:21:03 2012 |
rana | Configuration | PEM | changed PEM DQ channels | Changed the list of channels to be written to frames from having the IN1 suffix to OUT. Now we can load the calibration of the channel into the filter module and the DQ channel will be calibrated.
We should do this wherever possible so that our channels will have real calibrations associated with them.
SEIS_GUR1_X_OUT 256
SEIS_GUR1_Y_OUT 256
SEIS_GUR1_Z_OUT 256
SEIS_GUR2_X_OUT 256
SEIS_GUR2_Y_OUT 256
SEIS_GUR2_Z_OUT 256
SEIS_STS_1_X_OUT 256
SEIS_STS_1_Y_OUT 256
SEIS_STS_1_Z_OUT 256
SEIS_STS_2_X_OUT 256
SEIS_STS_2_Y_OUT 256
SEIS_STS_2_Z_OUT 256
SEIS_STS_3_X_OUT 256
SEIS_STS_3_Y_OUT 256
SEIS_STS_3_Z_OUT 256
MIC_1_OUT 2048
MIC_2_OUT 2048
MIC_3_OUT 2048
MIC_4_OUT 2048
MIC_5_OUT 2048
MIC_6_OUT 2048
ACC_MC1_X_OUT 2048
ACC_MC1_Y_OUT 2048
ACC_MC1_Z_OUT 2048
ACC_MC2_X_OUT 2048
ACC_MC2_Y_OUT 2048
ACC_MC2_Z_OUT 2048
XARM_DIFFERENTIAL_MOTION_IN1 256
XARM_DIFFERENTIAL_MOTION_OUT 256
YARM_DIFFERENTIAL_MOTION_IN1 256
YARM_DIFFERENTIAL_MOTION_OUT 256
Next we should up the rate at which the model runs up to 16 kHz so that we can record the microphones at 16 kHz. FM radio has information up to 20 kHz. AM radio goes up to ~8 kHz. We should be at least as modern as AM radio. How do we make the change? How do we make sure the FOTON file stays OK?
I have made some changes to the daily summary file to compensate. New files is /users/public_html/40m-summary/share/c1_summary_page.ini. |
7458
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Mon Oct 1 17:03:01 2012 |
steve | Update | SUS | ETMY oplev relayed |
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The typical sign of a dying gas laser is that it glows for a few minutes only. The power supplies are fine.
Two new JDS - Uniphase 1103P lasers ( NT64-104 ) arriving on Monday, May 21
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Yesterday I swapped in new He/Ne laser with output power 3.5 mW The return spot on qpd is large ~6mm in diameter and 20,500 counts
The spot size reduction require similar layout as ETMX oplev.
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The oplev path is relayed and the spot size on the qpd is reduced. I still have to clean up and replace "Miki Mouse" lens holder.
There was no IP-ANG coming out of the chamber at this time!
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I did relayed the oplev path with new f 500 mm lens |
7457
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Mon Oct 1 16:05:01 2012 |
jamie | Update | CDS | mx stream restart required on all front ends | For some reason the frame builder and mx stream processes on ALL front ends were down. I restarted the frame builder and all the mx_stream processes and everything seems to be back to normal. Unclear what caused this. The CDS guys are aware of the issue with the mx_stream stability and are working on it. |
7456
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Mon Oct 1 13:11:43 2012 |
Jenne | Update | IOO | PZT inspection elogs | I'll come back to the PZTs later, but I want to write down all the elogs I have found so far that look relevant.
http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/699
http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/5368
nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/5431 |
7455
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Mon Oct 1 11:08:25 2012 |
Jenne | Update | IOO | MC WFS adjustment |
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Found a bug in the IOO screen: All of the 6 WFS signal indicators is liked to the same info (C1:IOO-MC1_PIT_OUTPUT).
Fix this, Jenne! Baaaaagghhhhh! 
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My bad. As it turns out, you can't copy and paste between MEDM instances. It is now fixed. |
7454
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Mon Oct 1 09:02:17 2012 |
Steve | Update | VAC | pumpdown reached vacuum normal |
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The new cold cathode gauge CC1 is in place. We were at atmosphere for 28 days ......more later
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cc1 = 2.3e-5 Torr at day 6 vacuum normal |
7453
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Mon Oct 1 07:25:48 2012 |
Steve | Update | SUS | MC2 & ETMX sus damping restored | |
7452
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Fri Sep 28 21:17:41 2012 |
Koji | Update | IOO | MC WFS adjustment | MC WFS was fixed. Now it is running constantly with the autolocker.
Found a bug in the IOO screen: All of the 6 WFS signal indicators is liked to the same info (C1:IOO-MC1_PIT_OUTPUT).
Fix this, Jenne! Baaaaagghhhhh! 
What I did:
1. C1:IOO-MC_RFPD_DCMON indicator was saturating. "HOPR" of this entry was set to 5 by running the following command:
ezcawrite C1:IOO-MC_RFPD_DCMON.HOPR 5
2. Scan MC2 spot position by using /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/MC/moveMC2 scripts.
or the adjustment, C1:SUS-MC2_ASCPIT_EXC and C1:SUS-MC2_ASCYAW_EXC were excited with 300cnt at 12Hz and 10Hz, respectively.
The corresponding peaks (i.e. ANgle to length coupling) in C1:IOO-MC_F were monitored on DTT and adjusted so that the peaks are approximately nulled.
3. moveMC2 scripts are not perect to keep the maximum of the transmission. So, the alignment was adjusted with MC1 and MC3.
4. Repeated 2 and 3 until the alignment converges.
5. Once I got satisfied with the MC2 spot position, I went to the MC2 table and aligned the steering mirror before the QPD.
6. As these actions above moves the REFL beam, I went to the MC REFL path and adjusted the MC REFL PD position and the MC WFS spot positions.
7. Checked if the alignment is still good. The MC REFL is 0.50~0.51. Pretty good.
8. Run /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/MC/WFS/WFS_FilterBank_offsets to register the current WFS offset etc.
9. At this point, MC WFS started working fine. I also confirmed the autolocker worked with this setting.
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Checked how the things are going in the morning. There were several unlocks. But the autolocker and WFS kept the cavity lcoked again.
Very good.
Some power fluctuation of ~1% is observed in the MC trans. I checked the PMC trans and found it is also fluctuating by 1% in a coherent way.
So I judge the WFS itself is fine. (See attached)
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7451
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Fri Sep 28 07:49:30 2012 |
Steve | Update | 40m Upgrading | New ETMX layout - Version 1.0 | Where is IP-ANG ? It is good practice to use two mirrors at launching and detecting the beam, so you can walk it - precisely adjust it.
The window can be replaced at ~$1,500 ea. 10 weeks as optical quality BK7 with dual AR |
7450
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Thu Sep 27 20:05:57 2012 |
Koji | Update | 40m Upgrading | New ETMX layout - Version 1.0 | 1. I wonder how the mode profiling/matching was considered in the new layout.
I can see the distances between the components and lenses are largely different from the old ones.
This is OK if you plan to go through a new mode matching solution with new lenses.
But it takes
a certain amount of time.
Note that we don't care the distance after the last lens as the Rayleigh range there is supposed
to be long enough to allow this kind of change.
2. The huge frustration of the green alignment in the old setup was caused by the 3D beam steering
at the last two 2" mirrors. i.e. the beam elevation on the table does not match with the beam elevation of the cavity.
In order to avoid this, I suggest you to use three 45 deg 2" mirrors instead of two. In fact these mirrors are supposed to be used at 45deg incidence!
3. The incident green beam and the transmitted IR beam should share a same path as they
share a same cavity mode.
This means that you should use a harmonic separator for the transmitted light pick-off.
4. Use the harmonic separator for the fiber path too. Get the mirror spec from Jamie.
5. Since the optical window on the chamber has a wedge angle, the beam paths are not straightforward.
The cavity beams can't be moved as they are constrained by the arm cavity.
Probably there is almost no freedom to move even for the oplev beams.
It would be safe just to follow the old positions and angles on the window.
Make sure the beam on the drawing is realistic. The angles of the oplev beams in the old setup look strange.
Is there a possibility to replace the optical window so that it has an AR for 532 and 1064 at least???
6. I wonder if the rejected beam by the Farady have a realistic angle or not. Check it with the old setup.
It is definitely better to have a steering mirrror and a lens before the refl PD.
7. The IR QPD and trans PD are intended to be used for the low and high power detection.
I forgot which is which. So check the range of them and think about the power distribution.
8. We should have separated CCDs for IR Trans and Green Refl.
We had a terrible ghost green beam on the IR trans CCD.
Thus, think about the amount of ghost reflection and consider filtering if necessary. |
7449
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Thu Sep 27 19:03:06 2012 |
Manasa | Update | 40m Upgrading | New ETMX layout - Version 1.0 | I am working towards redesigning the endtables. I've attached the first version of the layout. As per Steve's comment I've tried to leave a 2" empty space on all sides of the table. It still has to be updated with the whole 40m layout to be more precise about the pickoff and the ingoing beam directions. |
7448
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Thu Sep 27 17:00:41 2012 |
Eric Gustafson | Update | LSC | 40 meter photodiode frequency response measurement system installation | Mike and I installed all of the telescopes and launching hardware for REFL11, REFL33, REFL55, AS55, MCRef, POX11 and POP55. On Monday afternoon Steve will work with us on the fiber routing. Steve is buying some protective covers for the fibers.
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7447
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Thu Sep 27 16:26:11 2012 |
Steve | Update | LSC | RF fibre protection in cable trays |
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Jenne, Mike and I installed all of the post holders we could today including: REFL11, REFL33, REFL55, AS55, MCRef, POX11 and POP55. We did not install AS110, POY or REFL165 because there are interferences that will require moving stuff around. We also did not mount POP22 because it is a peely wally ThorLabs PD that will be replaced by a strong, straight and right thinking LIGO PD in the fullness of time. We did move it out of the way however which is no more than it deserves. Next step this afternoon Mike and I will install all of the telescopes and launching hardware. Then with the help of Steve we will begin routing the fibers. The 1x16 splitter module will be here by next Monday, the laser by the following Friday and then we will light up the fibers.
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I'm proposing split loom tubing that would run in the cable tray to protect the fibers inside of it. This tubing diameter in the cable tray can be 1.5-2" and out of the tray 0.75"
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7446
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Thu Sep 27 15:21:04 2012 |
Steve | Update | SUS | TT height adaptor & PTICH damping |
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[Koji, Steve, Den]
TT alignment is fine, yaw damping is satisfactory, pitch damping is slow. We might want to add magnets to the mirror and attach blades to the frame for pitch edge current damping.
We are moving towards electronics testing.
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Atm1, TT 1.5" high adaptor base will be back from the shop in 10 days.
Atm2, There is no PITCH damping, YAW edie current damping works well at 0.5 mm gap
Atm3, Adjustable Al -disc that contains a small magnet is purely designed.
We have to come up with a solution to have damping in PITCH |
7445
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Thu Sep 27 13:05:55 2012 |
Eric Gustafson | Update | LSC | 40 meter photodiode frequency response measurement system installation | Jenne, Mike and I installed all of the post holders we could today including: REFL11, REFL33, REFL55, AS55, MCRef, POX11 and POP55. We did not install AS110, POY or REFL165 because there are interferences that will require moving stuff around. We also did not mount POP22 because it is a peely wally ThorLabs PD that will be replaced by a strong, straight and right thinking LIGO PD in the fullness of time. We did move it out of the way however which is no more than it deserves. Next step this afternoon Mike and I will install all of the telescopes and launching hardware. Then with the help of Steve we will begin routing the fibers. The splitter module will be here by next Monday, the laser by the following Friday and then we will light up the fibers.
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7444
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Wed Sep 26 23:55:14 2012 |
Jenne | Update | IOO | WFS centered | Since the MC spots are good, I put the beam back on WFS 1 and WFS 2.
Also, I changed the indicators on the LockMC screen to reflect the change in elog 7289, where we added another on/off switch for the WFS so that the ASS could be on, but the WFS off. For the last month, the WFS could be disabled, but the MC screen's indicators would suggest that we were pushing very significantly on all 3 MC mirrors. Now the MC screen reflects reality a little better.
I also uncommented the WFS lines in the mcup script. Den had commented them out, but didn't elog about it! C'mon Den, please elog stuff!!!! (He confessed out loud the other day, but it still wasn't in the elog).
I'm leaving the WFS loops disabled (even though the MC autolocker tries to turn them on, I have them manually disabled using the extra on/off switch) since they're unstable. I'm in the process of figuring out what's wrong. So far, the WFS improve the MC alignment for a minute or two, and then they totally misalign the MC. This is a work in progress. |
7443
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Wed Sep 26 17:09:15 2012 |
Den | Update | SUS | TT | [Koji, Steve, Den]
TT alignment is fine, yaw damping is satisfactory, pitch damping is slow. We might want to add magnets to the mirror and attach blades to the frame for pitch edge current damping.
We are moving towards electronics testing. |
7442
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Wed Sep 26 16:59:30 2012 |
jamie | Update | IOO | IPANG ND filter installed |
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[Whomever took away this ND filter without elogging it was BAD!!! (Jamie, when we first found IPANG coming out of the vacuum during this vent, we moved some of the mirrors on the out-of-vac table in the IPANG path. Was the ND filter removed at that time? Or has it been out for much longer, and we never noticed because IPANG wasn't coming nicely out of the vacuum / was clipping on the oplev lens?)
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I do not remember removing anything from that setup. We just moved some mirrors and lenses around |
7441
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Wed Sep 26 11:03:04 2012 |
Steve | Update | VAC | pumpdown completed | The new cold cathode gauge CC1 is in place. We were at atmosphere for 28 days ......more later
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7440
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Wed Sep 26 01:10:34 2012 |
Jenne | Update | IOO | PZT2 not working?!?! MC back to normal | [Jenne, Evan, Den]
MC REFL beam is back on the PD, and the mode cleaner locks. It looks like we're a little high on the MC Refl camera, but the MC spots were measured, and don't look like they changed from Friday (or maybe Monday?), the last time they were measured. We took this to be acceptable MC alignment, and did not touch the PSL table's pointing.
The laser power reduction optics were removed, and placed out of the way on the PSL table (where do they belong?). PSL-POS and PSL-ANG aren't quite perfectly centered, but a beam dump had been in the way of that path, so I don't know if they drifted bad, or if it was a sudden thing. The beam is still hitting the QPDs though. After removing the beam power reducing optics, we recentered the MC REFL beam on the REFL PD, still not touching any PSL alignment. MC mirrors were aligned (Den did this work while I showed Evan around, so I don't know by how much), and MC Trans was maximized (really MC Refl was minimized, making sure that the unlocked MC Refl was the usual 4.something units on the EPICS readback.
We turned on the PZT high voltage supplies for the output steering PZTs and for the input steering PZTs. We left the OMC locking PZT supplies off, since we're still not using the OMC. Sadly, the beam coming out of the AS port looks clipped somewhere. [SELF: attach the videocapture shot when you get to work tomorrow] We tried moving PZT2's sliders, but nothing happened!!! I can move BS and the ITMs to get the beam mostly unclipped, but I really need to be able to move the PZTs, or at least one of them. IPPOS and IPANG beams are hitting the QPDs (although they're not centered perfectly), so the PZTs came back mostly to the same positions, but not exactly. Evan and I sat next to the input steering PZT controllers in 1Y3, and moved the sliders around. For most of the range, nothing changes on the LCD screen for either PZT2 pitch or yaw. Yaw can make 2 small steps near the far negative side of the slider, but nothing happens for most of the slider. Pitch really doesn't do anything for any part of the slider. We ensured that the LED labeled "CL ON" was not illuminated, next to the button labeled "closed loop", for all 4 controllers (PZT1 and 2, pitch and yaw). Sad!! I don't know if the LCD screen on the front panel of the PZT controllers is a readback of signal supplied to the PZTs, or of the strain gauges. I really hope it's the controller that's not working, rather than the PZTs themselves. The PZTs were fine before we vented, and Koji and I did our centering of the PZT range check during the vent, so they were fine then. What happened??? All PZT high voltage supplies were off during the pump-down. I turned them off yesterday, and Evan and I turned them back on tonight around 9:30pm or 10pm. What else could make them bad?
Without being able to move PZT2, just using BS and / or ITMs, I was unable to completely make the beam look nice on the AS camera. I came close, but it still seems a little bit funny, and I had to move the suspended optics quite a bit to find that place. This is not good. |
7439
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Tue Sep 25 22:40:55 2012 |
Jenne | Update | IOO | IPANG ND filter installed | [Jenne, Evan Hall]
Both IPPOS and IPANG beams are (after turning on the input and output PZTs) hitting their QPDs. However IPANG was saturating. We went down to take a look, and we had ~2.8mW incident on the QPD. There was an ND filter sitting unmounted, next to the diode, and an empty fork directly in front of the diode. Since IPPOS also has an ND filter in front, we stuck this ND filter back in. Now we are no longer saturating.
We're not hitting (yet) the center of these 2 PDs, but we're at least hitting the diodes, so it shouldn't be too hard to steer the input PZTs.
Whomever took away this ND filter without elogging it was BAD!!! (Jamie, when we first found IPANG coming out of the vacuum during this vent, we moved some of the mirrors on the out-of-vac table in the IPANG path. Was the ND filter removed at that time? Or has it been out for much longer, and we never noticed because IPANG wasn't coming nicely out of the vacuum / was clipping on the oplev lens?)
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7438
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Tue Sep 25 17:21:01 2012 |
Steve | Update | VAC | pumpdown completed | IFO P1= 1mTorr, CC1 = 5e-4 Torr. The IFO is ready for work. Be free to open the shutter and turn on HV
Jenne will double check the MC -REFL path for 1W power. There is a manual block on the PSL table.
Atm1, Pirani gauge at 9 h 10 min
Atm2, Pump configuration of pd#73 at 9h 35 min
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7437
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Tue Sep 25 14:29:07 2012 |
Jenne | Update | General | POP in-vac optics aligned, POY beam coming out of vac |
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What was the reasoning / resolution of the POP forward/backward beam? Are we going to have the right beam for DRMI locking?
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From Koji's email to me:
"With the backward beam you can see the returning beam even when the PRM is misaligned. That's the only difference. Once the PRM is aligned both beams have the same information."
So, we should be fine. |
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Mon Sep 24 23:45:39 2012 |
rana | Update | General | POP in-vac optics aligned, POY beam coming out of vac | What was the reasoning / resolution of the POP forward/backward beam? Are we going to have the right beam for DRMI locking? |
7435
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Mon Sep 24 20:28:13 2012 |
rana | Summary | elog | restarted elog: was unresponsive | |
7434
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Mon Sep 24 17:47:05 2012 |
Steve | Update | VAC | ready to pump | The IFO will be at atmosphere overnight. The annuloses are pumped down. The access connector jam nuts are tightened to 45 ft/lbs
Actual pumpdown will start tomorrow morning. |
7433
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Mon Sep 24 17:03:39 2012 |
Jenne | Update | PEM | 1X1 rack power |
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I've installed Guralp readout box back and it turned out that it does not work with voltage provided from the rack (+13.76 0 -14.94). +/-12 voltage regulators inside the box convert it to -0.9 0 -12. I've connected the box to +/-15 DC voltage supply to measure seismic motion at the ETMY table. Readout box works fine with +/- 15.
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I'm not sure what the problem is here. Den and I looked at it for a few minutes, before I went back to helping with putting doors on. The Sorensons are not supplying the rack power for 1X1. There are some flat cables which go from the fuses on the side of the rack up to the cable tray, and go elsewhere. Den is going to continue looking into this, but I think it's a moderately high priority, since lots of things should be getting served by that same power. |
7432
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Mon Sep 24 16:59:31 2012 |
Jenne | Update | VAC | Doors on, ready to pump | [The 40m Family]
The access connector and all heavy doors are back on.
Jamie put the regular viton EQ stops back on PRM, since he had to adjust the distance between the EQ stops and the PRM anyway. Jamie also waved an IR card near the IPANG steering mirrors in ETMY, but it was not possible to take a good photo. Jamie certifies that the beam is centered on both of those 2 optics.
I have centered IPPOS and IPANG QPDs.
All oplevs need a little realignment, especially ETMY, which had it's lens removed (Rana has a Wall of Shame photo of this, which is why it was removed by him). Steve will look into this tomorrow, after he starts pumping.
I have turned off all PZT high voltage supplies for in-vac PZTs: The input PZTs, the output PZTs, and the OMC PZTs (which weren't on, but I confirmed they were off).
I have also prepared the 3 low-power items for high power: MC refl's path was changed back to regular BS, AS camera was moved to its nominal position, and IPPOS has its ND filters back. MC refl and the AS camera will need to be realigned once we're actually at high power tomorrow afternoon.
Long vent, but good work everyone. |
7431
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Mon Sep 24 10:27:50 2012 |
Steve | Omnistructure | General | do not leave stuff on optical table tops | The SP table was found open this morning. Please, do not make optics dirty!
I cleaned up the tops of the SP table.
Stop storing your junk, boxes, laptops, etc. on the optical tables. This includes the big SP table. Please move all of that junk into racks or shelves, etc. |
7430
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Sun Sep 23 22:40:48 2012 |
Den | Update | Modern Control | MC_L locking | I've applied LQR approach to MC_L locking. Results show that LQR does not make MC_F signal smaller below 0.3 Hz in contrast with classical locking. This might indicate that in this frequency range we see sensing noise as LQR was provided with state-space model of MC only so it tries to reduce displacement noise. It is also possible that state-space model is not accurate enough.
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Sat Sep 22 01:03:30 2012 |
Den | Update | PEM | ETMY table | I've installed Guralp readout box back and it turned out that it does not work with voltage provided from the rack (+13.76 0 -14.94). +/-12 voltage regulators inside the box convert it to -0.9 0 -12. I've connected the box to +/-15 DC voltage supply to measure seismic motion at the ETMY table. Readout box works fine with +/- 15.
Seismic noise on the ETMY table measured to be a few times higher then on the floor in horizontal direction in the frequency range 50 - 200 Hz. Attached are compared spectrums of X, Y and Z motions. |
7428
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Fri Sep 21 22:43:51 2012 |
Den | Update | SUS | TT alignment | I did TT alignment using red laser and QPD.

I had a problem aligning TT with frame number SN-035 as some screws are damaged so all what I could move were 2 blades on the sides of the mirrors. But this was not enough to align pitch and yaw simultaneously. It is possible to align pitch only, but then I got a huge yaw angle (~0.05-0.1 rad). The only option I had was to make a reasonable alignment in yaw and then suspend several washes on the screw on the bottom of the mirror to align pitch.
Attached are flag positions inside coils. 1 - SN034, 2 - SN012, 3 - SN006, 4 - SN035. For each TT there are 4 pictures with flag 1-4: UL, LL, UR, LR |
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Fri Sep 21 22:25:44 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | General | POX, POY, PR2 pics | Unaltered PR2 images, with IR card, without card, and steering mirror:
  
Unaltered POX and POY images:
 
The POX images only needed a major brightness reduction and increased contrast to view:
 
The POY images needed their intensity histograms shifted slightly right and made left-tailed:
  
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Fri Sep 21 20:48:24 2012 |
Jenne | Update | General | POP in-vac optics aligned, POY beam coming out of vac | Getting POP:
We put a green laser pointer at ~4 inches on the POX table, and steered it using a mirror on the POX table to hit the center of the last in-vac mirror that POP sees. I then steered that mirror so we were hitting the center of the other POP in-vac steering mirror, and hitting the same spot as the main IR beam. It is easy to hold an IR card in front of PR2 and see the IR and green beams simultaneously. I aligned both of the POP in-vac steering mirrors such that the green beam is co-aligned with the IR beam at PR2, as well as as far as I could reach toward the face of PRM from the ITMX door.
Note: The drawings by Koji have the POP "forward" beam (transmission through PR2 of the beam from PRM to PR2) dumped, while the POP "backward" beam (transmission through PR2 of the beam from PR3 to PR2) leaving the vacuum. I aligned the steering mirrors such that the 'forward' beam would come out, although no dump is in place to dump the other beam. I can't think of a reason why we care one way or the other, but I feel like Koji has perhaps mentioned something in the past. I need to figure this out before we put doors on.
Getting POY:
Like yesterday with POX, we used the Watec with the aperture fully open to look at the POY pickoff, while I held the IR card in front of the mirror, to confirm that the beam was ~on the center of the optic. Then we took the lens off the camera, and made sure that the POY beam hit the CCD on the POY table.
To do list for Monday: While we are putting the heavy doors on, someone needs to wave an IR card in front of the IPANG steering mirrors in the ETMY chamber, while someone else takes a photo / still snapshot with the Watec. Also, Manasa wanted to retake in-vac photos of at least the ITMY chamber, since SR2 was moved a very slight amount. Also, also, someone tall needs to put the regular EQ stops on the PRM face (we have the old spring ones in there now).
Before pumpdown, we also need to get the IPANG beam centered on the PD. The beam is cleanly coming out of the vacuum and hitting the first out of vac steering mirror, I just haven't centered it onto the QPD.
Barring any other thoughts that people have of things that *must* be done before we pump down, I think we're ready to start putting heavy doors on the chambers on Monday.
Other thoughts, for next vent: We need to re-look at the ITMY table. POY's pickoff is just too close to the main beam. Is it possible to move the AS steering mirrors and get POY from the BS table? VENT CZAR: please put looking at this on the next vent to-do list. |
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Fri Sep 21 12:12:56 2012 |
Manasa | Configuration | PSL | AOM installation | {Jan, Manasa}
We installed the AOM driver back on the PSL table this morning. To calibrate the AOM RF output we connected a 1V dc to the modulation input of the driver and we are convinced with the setup.
Before we direct the rf signal to the AOM, in order to check its diffraction efficiency, we would like to setup an rf PD at the AOM output. We think we have place for a filter and PD after the AOM (replacing a beam dump) and would like to confirm the position before we actually install them. The layout is the picture below showing sweet spots for the new pd to sit. If you think it may disturb the system in any way, let us know!

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Thu Sep 20 22:52:38 2012 |
Den | Update | MachineLearning | Feedback controller |
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I have uploaded to my directory a directory neural_plant. The most important file is reference_plant.c, which compiles with the command
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We would appreciate some plots. Learning curves of recurrent NN working as a plant are interesting. For harmonic oscillator your RNN should not contain any hidden layers - only 1 input and 1 output node and 2 delays at each of them. Activation function should be linear. If your code is correct, this configuration will match oscillator perfectly. The question is how much time does it take to adapt.
Does FANN support regularization? I think this will make your controller more stable. Try to use more advanced algorithms then gradient descent for adaptation. They will increase convergence speed. For example, look at fminunc function at Matlab. |
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Thu Sep 20 20:07:38 2012 |
Jenne | Update | General | REFL, IPANG are coming out of the vac |
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[Jenne, Unni, Manasa]
I touched some in-vac steering mirrors, so we have REFL and IPANG coming out of the vacuum, not clipping. IPPOS was done yesterday. I re-checked a few optics in the AS path that were hard to see yesterday while the plastic light access connector was in place, and AS still looks good.
Except for POX, POY, POP, and putting the regular EQ stops back on PRM, I think we're done with the in-vac stuff.
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[Rana, Jenne, Manasa]
POX is coming out of the vacuum. We'll do POY tomorrow. We were able to hold the Watec outside the chamber and focus it on the pickoff mirror, and make sure it was roughly centered. Then we took the lens off the camera, put the camera in the POX beam path, and I steered the pickoff mirror until we were hitting the camera. POY will be done the same way.
POP is more challenging, since the transmission of the G&H mirrors is so low. We're not able to see a beam on an IR card held in the POP beam path. I had thought of removing PR2, getting the beam out, then putting PR2 back (using the same dog clamping some alignment markers technique that we use for the test masses), but the G&H mirrors have a 2 degree wedge, so this won't work. It would be fine for pitch, since the arrow is on the side of the optic, but it wouldn't be correct for yaw.
Maybe we should do something similar to what Suresh et. al. did when they set POP up originally - I think they put a green laser pointer on the POX table, and aligned it such that they were hitting the correct spot on PR2 and PRM (correct = the same as the IR spot, which should be the center of the optics). If we can do that with the POP in-vac steering mirrors, then we're fine, and POP should come out when we're back to high power.
All video capture snapshots of tonights pictures are on the pianosa desktop. |
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Thu Sep 20 19:56:05 2012 |
Jenne | Update | General | Pickoffs are hard to see |
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My hope is that the DRMI flashes will be bright enough to see on the PO beams. IF we get 10 mW through the Faraday, you should get some buildup when the carrier resonates in the DRMI.
If the recycling gain is 10 and the pickoff fraction is 100 ppm you ought to get ~10 uW on PO. How much of the recycling cavity power gets out of POP?
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[Manasa, Jenne]
We think this math is wrong.
If we have P mW through the Faraday, PRM's transmission is 5.5%, BS transmission is 50%, Recycling gain is ~10, pickoff fraction is ~100ppm, we have:
P mW * 5.5e-2 * 0.5 * 10 * 100e-6 = P * 2750e-8 mW = P * 2.7e-5 mW.
So, if P=10 (10mW through the Faraday), we should have 2.7e-4 mW = 2.7e-7 W = 0.27 microwatts = not so many watts.
If P = 100 (100mW through the Faraday), we should have 2.7 microwatts. Still, not so many watts.
We have the Watec pointed at POY right now, DRMI is flashing, I'm waving the IR card in front of the mirror, and Manasa isn't able to see anything on the monitor. The power into the vacuum is 100mW (we just measured and adjusted it), so even if we were getting a full 100mW through the Faraday, it would be hard to see. If we're assuming we get ~half the power through the Faraday, then we should only have 1 microwatt
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Thu Sep 20 17:05:26 2012 |
Jenne | Update | General | REFL, IPANG are coming out of the vac | [Jenne, Unni, Manasa]
I touched some in-vac steering mirrors, so we have REFL and IPANG coming out of the vacuum, not clipping. IPPOS was done yesterday. I re-checked a few optics in the AS path that were hard to see yesterday while the plastic light access connector was in place, and AS still looks good.
Except for POX, POY, POP, and putting the regular EQ stops back on PRM, I think we're done with the in-vac stuff. |
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Thu Sep 20 14:55:06 2012 |
Jenne | Update | General | Pickoffs are hard to see |
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My hope is that the DRMI flashes will be bright enough to see on the PO beams. IF we get 10 mW through the Faraday, you should get some buildup when the carrier resonates in the DRMI.
If the recycling gain is 10 and the pickoff fraction is 100 ppm you ought to get ~10 uW on PO. How much of the recycling cavity power gets out of POP?
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[Manasa, Jenne]
We think this math is wrong.
If we have P mW through the Faraday, PRM's transmission is 5.5%, BS transmission is 50%, Recycling gain is ~10, pickoff fraction is ~100ppm, we have:
P mW * 5.5e-2 * 0.5 * 10 * 100e-6 = P * 2750e-8 mW = P * 2.7e-5 mW.
So, if P=10 (10mW through the Faraday), we should have 2.7e-4 mW = 2.7e-7 W = 0.27 microwatts = not so many watts.
If P = 100 (100mW through the Faraday), we should have 2.7 microwatts. Still, not so many watts.
We have the Watec pointed at POY right now, DRMI is flashing, I'm waving the IR card in front of the mirror, and Manasa isn't able to see anything on the monitor. The power into the vacuum is 100mW (we just measured and adjusted it), so even if we were getting a full 100mW through the Faraday, it would be hard to see. If we're assuming we get ~half the power through the Faraday, then we should only have 1 microwatt |
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