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Date |
Author |
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Category |
Subject |
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634
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Thu Jul 3 18:48:09 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | Beats of the two lasers in the absolute length measurement observed | I adjusted the alignment of the flipper mirror
as suggested by Koji making the two beam
spots match. I also aligned all the IFO mirrors |
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635
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Thu Jul 3 22:54:45 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | Beats of the two lasers in the absolute length measurement observed | Great! Conguraturation! I wish if I could
see it! It's nice if you can put the photo
or anything of the RF spectrum analyzer.
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637
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Mon Jul 7 11:22:02 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | Beats of the two lasers in the absolute length measurement observed | I didn't post a screenshot from the RF SA
because I had troubles with the interface
with the computer (unfortunately the network |
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638
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Mon Jul 7 13:06:38 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | Beats of the two lasers in the absolute length measurement observed | One may need an RF filter after the mixer.
I expect the SR560 does work for this purpose.
If it does not, a passive LPF can be used.
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643
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Mon Jul 7 19:15:38 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | Optics alignement on the ABS length experiment | Today I started setting up the PLL instruments
to lock the frequency of the NPRO beam to
the IFO beam. with no need of a new alignment |
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650
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Tue Jul 8 21:58:22 2008 |
alberto | Update | General | Secondaty beam aligned to the IFO beam again | Yesterday the alignment of the secondary beam
to the IFO was completely lost and today
I had to realign all the optics before I |
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653
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Wed Jul 9 17:58:19 2008 |
John | Summary | General | Illuminator alarms | This morning some time was wasted on alignment
due to the illuminators.
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656
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Thu Jul 10 19:12:07 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | abs cavity length measurement experiment | Yesterday morning, when I started, I found
the IFO beam on a different position and
the beam spot at the AS port looked very |
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664
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Sun Jul 13 22:39:16 2008 |
John | Summary | General | Edited medm screens | I've edited the FSS and PMC screens so that
red boxes are shown around the appropriate
slider if a gain or offset is not within |
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668
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Mon Jul 14 19:15:43 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | abs cavity length measurement experiment | Lately I've been dealing with the alignment
of the interferometer to have a good beam
spot at the AS port. Today the alignment |
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669
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Mon Jul 14 21:34:10 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | abs cavity length measurement experiment | [quote]Lately I've been dealing with the alignment
of the interferometer to have a good beam
spot at the AS port. Today the alignment |
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674
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Tue Jul 15 12:23:22 2008 |
Jenne | Update | General | MC2 Watchdog tripped | Alberto, Jenne
Mode Cleaner was unlocked. We checked, and |
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683
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Wed Jul 16 16:59:07 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | Aligment | I think the two beams are aligned again -
they both pass the Faraday, they match at
the irises and all along the optical path |
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687
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Thu Jul 17 00:59:18 2008 |
Jenne | Summary | General | Funny signal coming out of VCO | While working on calibrating the MC_F signal,
Rana and I noticed a funny signal coming
out of the VCO. We expect the output to |
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706
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Mon Jul 21 11:54:00 2008 |
Jenne | Update | General | MC Servo Board | I pulled the MC Servo Board again, to check
the components that are on the board, and
compare them with the schematics. The filters |
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727
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Wed Jul 23 21:48:30 2008 |
rob | Configuration | General | restore IFO when you're done with it |
[SIZE=3][B]when you are done with the IFO,
please click "Restore last auto-alignment"[/B][/SIZE] |
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738
|
Fri Jul 25 10:48:13 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Realignment / beating / PLL trial | Alberto and Koji
o We worked for the abs length measurement |
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748
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Mon Jul 28 15:54:04 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ More on the beat / the PLL setup | Alberto and Koji,
Last Friday evening, Koji found that the |
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774
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Thu Jul 31 10:24:32 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | IFO status | Last night I used the Y-arm for the abs length
measurement. The Yarm was aligned by the
script.
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776
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Thu Jul 31 11:19:30 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Resonance search trial | Last night, I tried to find the resonance
of Yarm by sweeping the frequency of the
injection beam.
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782
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Sat Aug 2 12:53:43 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ New PLL at the PSL table | [B]Report of the work last night:[/B]
The new heterodyne interferometer on the
PSL table was built.
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783
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Sat Aug 2 13:07:23 2008 |
Koji | Configuration | General | The AP table cleaned | During the construction of the independent
PLL I cleaned up some of the unused optics
from the AP table. Essentially this should |
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787
|
Mon Aug 4 00:37:58 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ RF PD at the Y end / Manual frequency scan | [B]Work log on August 2nd[/B]
o Just remind you:
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788
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Mon Aug 4 00:56:07 2008 |
Koji | HowTo | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Auto freq scanner with GPIB | [B]Work log on August 3rd - Part1[/B]
o Yesterday I was too much tired of changing |
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789
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Mon Aug 4 05:23:57 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Measurement for Y-arm completed | Finally, I have completed the abs length and
g-factor measurements for Y-arm.
[COLOR=green][B]>>>GO FOR THE VENT<<<[/B][/COLOR]
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793
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Mon Aug 4 21:48:24 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Scan for TEM00/01/10 | [B]Work log on August 3rd - Part2[/B]
o I tried to measure the frequency of the |
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794
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Mon Aug 4 22:31:10 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Simple Test for TEM01/10 split | [B]Work log on August 3rd - Part3[/B]
[B]Question:[/B]
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795
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Tue Aug 5 00:05:57 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ IFR2023A calibration | [B]Work log on August 4th[/B]
o IFR2023A (Marconi) was calibrated by the |
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796
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Tue Aug 5 02:39:55 2008 |
Koji | Configuration | General | 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 |
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798
|
Tue Aug 5 10:56:05 2008 |
Alberto | Configuration | General | 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, |
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800
|
Tue Aug 5 17:56:23 2008 |
Alberto | Configuration | General | SRM and PRM inspection | Yoichi, Koji, Rana, Steve, Alberto
Today we opened the [B]BSC[/B] to inspect |
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801
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Wed Aug 6 11:10:34 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ analysis of the TEM00 scan | [B]Analysis of the data on August 3th ~ Part
1[/B]
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802
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Wed Aug 6 11:43:52 2008 |
Koji | Update | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ analysis of the TEM01 scan | [B]Analysis of the data on August 3th ~ Part
2[/B]
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805
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Wed Aug 6 19:01:15 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | ITMX and SRM OSEM post-earthquake diagnostic | Koji, Yoichi, Alberto
Today we reset the OSEMs on ITMX and SRM |
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838
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Thu Aug 14 21:52:51 2008 |
Koji | Summary | General | Abs. Len. Meas. ~ summary of my Summer | I have made the summary of the absolute length
measurement.
It is attached here. The file is a bit big |
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875
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Mon Aug 25 10:23:53 2008 |
steve | HowTo | General | cable killer | Rack 1Y7 double violation:
BNC cables left to be jammed by door
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938
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Wed Sep 10 08:57:03 2008 |
steve | Update | General | etmy illuminator turned off | The ETMY illuminator was left on yesterday.
I just turned it off. |
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940
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Wed Sep 10 19:53:53 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | abs length experiment | Update of the last days work on the experiment
to measure the absolute length of the cavities.
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943
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Thu Sep 11 23:28:35 2008 |
alberto | Update | General | abs cavity length experiment | The MC lost lock for some reason not related
to either the FSS or the PMC I'm done with
my measurement for tonight. I've shut the |
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944
|
Fri Sep 12 11:09:20 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | abs cavity length experiment | I'm leaving the lab for a couple of hours.
I shut the NPRO. The interferometer is available
to anyone. |
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945
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Sat Sep 13 23:13:01 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | abs cavity length experiment | The Y arm was locked all time today but, suddenly,
this afternoon it lost lock and since then
I've been unable to restore it. I tried unsuccessfully |
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946
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Sun Sep 14 18:30:32 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | ABSL: measured X arm | Today I measured the X arm FSR.
Hi moved the fast PD (Thor Labs PDA255) from
the Y end table to the X end table. I had |
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947
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Sun Sep 14 19:29:07 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | ABSL: measured X arm | [quote]Today I measured the X arm FSR.
Hi moved the fast PD (Thor Labs PDA255) from
the Y end table to the X end table. I had |
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956
|
Wed Sep 17 13:58:36 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | ABSL: results from the X arm | Today I repeated the measurement of the FSR
on the X arm cavity. The noise in the transmitted
power that made the measures fluctuate was |
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960
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Wed Sep 17 19:13:47 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | ABSL: status | I installed the setup for measuring TEM01/10
on the X end table.
I'm leaving. I shut the laser, flipped down |
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962
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Thu Sep 18 09:30:12 2008 |
steve | Update | General | low noise metal film resistors are in | Low noise metal film resistor and capacitor
kits from www.garrettelec.com are in.
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979
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Mon Sep 22 20:00:35 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | ABSL: running measurement | I'm leaving the X arm locked on the TEm01
mode while a measurement is running. Just
please wait for 40 minute if you need the |
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987
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Wed Sep 24 17:57:04 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | ABSL: FSS Slow Actuator Control | Rana, Alberto
Today when I started working with the PLL |
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994
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Thu Sep 25 17:14:31 2008 |
rana | Configuration | General | new sitemap | |
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1030
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Tue Oct 7 10:49:29 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | Displaced Photodiode | This morning I found that the photodidode
of the PLL in the PSL table was not aligned
to the beam anymore. The PD support was not |
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