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15835
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Tue Feb 23 20:55:19 2021 |
Koji | Update | SUS | OSEM testing for SOSs | I can't obtain a consistent view between the existing drawings/photographs and your pin assignment. Please review the pin assignment again to check if yours is correct.
Looking from the back side and the wires are going down, the left bottom pin is "Coil Start" and the upper right adjacent pin is "Coil End". (See attachment)
So in your picture 1 should be the coil start and 4 should be the coil end, but they are not according to your table. |
15836
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Tue Feb 23 23:12:37 2021 |
Koji | Summary | SUS | SUS invacuum wiring | This is my current understanding of the in-vacuum wiring:
1. Facts
- We have the in-air cable pinout. And Gautam recently made a prototype of D2100014 custom cable, and it worked as expected.
- The vacuum feedthrough is a wall with the male pins on the both sides. This mirrors pinout.
- On the in-vacuum cable stand (bracket), the cable has a female connector.
2. From the above facts, the in-vacuum cable is
- DSUB25 female-female cable
- There is no pinout mirroring
Accuglass has the DSUB25 F-F cable off-the-shelf. However, this cable mirrors the pinout (see the datasheet on the pdf in the following link)
https://www.accuglassproducts.com/connector-connector-extension-cable-25-way-female
3. The options are
- ask Accuglass to make a twisted version so that the pinout is not mirrored.
or
- combine Accuglass female-male cable (https://www.accuglassproducts.com/connector-connector-extension-cable-25-way-femalemale) and a gender changer (https://www.accuglassproducts.com/gender-adapter-25d)
4. The length will be routed from the feedthrough to the table via the stacks like a snake to be soft. So, it will require some extra length.
5. Also, the Accuglass cables don't have a flap and holes to fix the connector to a cable post (tower). If we use a conventional 40m-style DSUB25 post (D010194), it will be compatible with their cables. But this will not let us use a DSUB25 male connector to mate. In the future, the suspension will be upgraded and we will need an updated cable post that somehow holds the connectors without fastening the screws... |
15837
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Wed Feb 24 10:09:16 2021 |
yehonathan | Update | SUS | OSEM testing for SOSs | Yes, my phone camera mirrored the image. Sorry for the confusion.
I see you already uploaded the correct pin assignment.
Quote: |
I can't obtain a consistent view between the existing drawings/photographs and your pin assignment. Please review the pin assignment again to check if yours is correct.
Looking from the back side and the wires are going down, the left bottom pin is "Coil Start" and the upper right adjacent pin is "Coil End". (See attachment)
So in your picture 1 should be the coil start and 4 should be the coil end, but they are not according to your table.
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15838
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Wed Feb 24 10:23:03 2021 |
Yehonathan | Update | SUS | OSEM testing for SOSs | Continuing with the new rig, I measure the resistance of the cable leading to the coil to be 0.08+(0.52-0.08)+(0.48-0.08)=0.9ohm.
S/N
|
Coil Resistance
(ohm)
|
Coil Inductance
(mH)
|
PD Voltage
(V)
|
LED spot image
(Attachment #)
|
LED perfectly centered |
Ready for C&B and install |
Short/Long |
Notes |
078 |
13.0 |
2.8 |
1.86 |
1 |
N |
Y |
L |
Reengraved |
280 |
13.3 |
2.8 |
1.92 |
2 |
Y
|
Y |
L |
|
117 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
2.12 |
3 |
Y |
Y |
L |
Reengraved |
140 |
inf |
|
|
|
N |
N |
L |
|
146 |
12.8 |
2.8 |
1.83 |
|
Y |
Y |
L |
Reengraved |
093 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
2.19 |
|
N |
Y |
L |
Reengraved |
296 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
2.19 |
|
N |
Y |
L |
|
256 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
2.0 |
|
N |
Y |
L |
|
060 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
2.0 |
|
Y |
Y |
L |
Reengraved |
098 |
13 |
2.8 |
1.95 |
|
N |
Y |
L |
Reengraved |
269 |
13.2 |
2.8 |
1.92 |
|
Y |
Y |
L |
|
260 |
13.2 |
2.8 |
2.03 |
|
Y |
Y |
L |
|
243 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
1.94 |
|
N |
Y |
L |
|
080 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
2.38 |
|
Y |
Y |
L |
Reengraved |
292 |
13.3 |
2.8 |
2.06 |
|
N |
Y |
L |
|
113 |
13 |
2.8 |
2.08 |
|
Y |
Y |
L |
Reengraved |
251 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
2.04 |
|
Y |
Y |
L |
|
231 |
13.3 |
2.8 |
1.89 |
|
Y |
Y |
L |
filter not covering the entire PD area |
230 |
13.3 |
2.8 |
1.92 |
|
Y |
Y |
L |
|
218 |
13.3 |
2.8 |
2.13 |
|
Y |
Y |
L |
|
091 |
13.2 |
2.8 |
1.98 |
|
Y |
N |
L |
No pigtail. Reengraved |
118 |
13.3 |
2.8 |
2.15 |
|
Y |
N |
L |
No pigtail. Reengraved |
302 |
13.2 |
2.8 |
2.06 |
|
Y |
Y |
L |
|
159 |
13 |
2.8 |
2.15 |
|
Y |
N |
S |
No pigtail. One cap screw too long. Reengraved. |
016 |
13 |
2.8 |
2.54 |
|
Y |
N |
S |
No pigtail. Reengraved. |
122 |
13.1
|
2.8 |
2.04 |
|
N |
N |
L |
No pigtail. Reengraved. |
084 |
13 |
2.8 |
1.94 |
|
N |
N |
L |
No pigtail. Reengraved. |
171 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
2.20 |
|
Y |
N |
L |
No pigtail. Reengraved. |
052 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
1.75 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
106 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
1.62 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
096 |
13 |
2.8 |
2.05 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. The OSEM fell on the floor. I rechecked it. Everything seems fine except the PD voltage has changed. It was previously 1.76 |
024 |
13 |
2.8 |
1.81 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
134 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
1.82 |
|
N |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
081 |
12.9 |
2.7 |
1.85 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
076 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
1.91 |
|
N |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
108 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
1.83 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
020 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
1.98 |
|
N |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
031 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
1.74 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
133 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
1.65 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
007 |
13 |
2.8 |
1.74 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
088 |
12.8 |
2.8 |
1.77 |
|
N |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
015 |
12.9 |
2.7 |
1.81 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
|
115 |
13 |
2.8 |
1.89 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
009 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
1.78 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
099 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
2.00 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
103 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
1.82 |
|
N |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
143 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
1.80 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
114 |
12.8 |
2.8 |
2.04 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
|
155 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
1.90 |
|
N |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
121 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
1.86 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
130 |
13 |
2.7 |
1.78 |
|
N |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
022 |
13 |
2.8 |
1.92 |
|
N |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
150 |
12.8 |
2.8 |
1.90 |
|
N |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
144 |
12.7 |
2.7 |
1.86 |
|
N |
Y |
S |
|
040 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
1.70 |
|
N |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. way off-center |
125 |
12.8 |
2.8 |
1.75 |
|
N |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
097 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
1.81 |
|
N |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
089 |
12.9 |
2.8 |
1.51 |
|
Y |
Y |
S |
Reengraved. |
095 |
13 |
2.8 |
1.96 |
|
Y |
Y |
L |
Reengraved. |
054 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
1.86 |
|
Y |
N |
L |
Have a long screw going through it. Reengraved. |
127 |
13.1 |
2.9 |
1.82 |
|
N |
N |
L |
Have a long screw going through it. Reengraved. |
135 |
12.7 |
2.8 |
1.75 |
|
N |
N |
L |
Have a long screw going through it. Reengraved. |
046 |
13.1 |
2.8 |
2.08 |
|
Y |
N |
L |
Have a long screw going through it. Reengraved. |
000 |
13.1 |
3.1 |
6.6 |
The LED light looks totally scattered. No clear spot |
N |
N |
S |
Made out of Teflon? Looks super old. Didn't engrave |
Total: 63 OSEMS. Centered working OSEMS: 42. Will upload a more detailed summary to the wiki soon.
Note: The Olympus camera is eating the AA camera very quickly (need to replace every 1.5 days). I'm guessing this is because of the corrosion in the battery housing.
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15839
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Wed Feb 24 11:53:24 2021 |
gautam | Update | General | Demod char part 2 | I measured the noise of the I/F outputs of all the LSC demodulators. I made the measurement in two conditions, one with the RF input to the demodulators terminated with 50 ohms to ground, and the other with the RFPD plugged in, but the PSL shutter closed (so the PD dark noise was the input to the demodulator). The LO input was driven at the nominal level for all measurements (2-3 dBm going in to the LO input, measured with the RF power meter, but I don't know what the level reaching the mixer is, because there is a complicated chain of ERA amplifiers and attenuators that determine what the level is).
As in the previous elog, I have grouped the results into boards that do not (Attachment #1) and do (Attachment #2) have the low noise preamp installed. The top row is for the "Input terminated" measurements, while the bottom is with the RFPD plugged in, but dark. I think not a single board shows the "expected" noise performance for both I and Q channels. In the case where the preamp isn't installed and assuming the mixer is being driven with >17dBm LO, we expect the mixer to demodulate the Johnson noise of 50 ohms, which would be ~1nV/rtHz, and so with the SR785, we shouldn't measure anything in exceess of the instrument noise floor. With the low noise preamp installed, the expected output noise level is ~10nV/rtHz, which should just about be measurable (I didn't use any additional Low Noise front end preamp for these measurements). The AS55_I channel shows noise consistent with what was measured in 2017 after it was repaired, but the Q channel shows ~twice the noise. It seemed odd to me that the Q channels show consistently higher noise levels in general, but I confirmed that the SR785 channel 2 did not show elevated instrument noise at least when terminated with 50 ohms, so seems like a real thing.
While this is clearly not an ideal state of operation, I don't see how this can explain the odd PRMI sensing.
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15840
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Wed Feb 24 12:11:08 2021 |
gautam | Update | General | Demod char part 3 | I did the characterization discussed at the meeting today.
- RF signal at 100 Hz offset from the LO frequency was injected into the PD input on the demod boards.
- The digitized CDS channels were monitored. I chose to look at the C1:LSC-{PD}_I_OUT and C1:LSC-{PD}_Q_OUT channels. This undoes the effect of the analog whitening, but is before the digital phase rotation.
- Attachments #1 and Attachments #2 are for the case where the analog whitening is not engaged, white Attachments #3 and Attachments #4 are for when the whitening is engaged, and they look the same (as they should), which rules out any crazy mismatch between the analog filter and the digital dewhitening filter.
- I have absorbed the flat whitening gain applied to the various PDs in the cts/V calibration indicated on these plots. So the size of the ellipse is proportional to the conversion gain.
I think this test doesn't suggest anything funky in the analog demod/whitening/AA/digitization chain. We can repeat this process after the demod boards are repaired and use the angle of rotation of the ellipse to set the "D" parameter in the CDS phase rotator part, I didn't do it today. |
15841
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Wed Feb 24 12:29:18 2021 |
gautam | Update | General | Input pointing recovered | While working at the LSC rack, I lost the input pointing into the IFO (the TT wiring situation is apparently very fragile, and this observation supports the hypothesis that the drifting TTs are symptomatic of some electronics issue). After careful beam walking, it was recovered and the dither alignment system was used to maximize TRX/TRY once again. No lasting damage done. If I can figure out what the pin-mapping is for the TT coils in vacuum, I'm inclined to try installing the two HAM-A coil drivers to control the TTs. Does anyone know where I can find said pin-out? The wiki page links seem broken and there isn't a schematic available there...
Ok it should be possible to back it out from the BOSEM pin out, and the mapping of the in-vacuum quadrupus cable, though careful accounting of mirroring will have to be done... The HAM-A coil driver actually already has a 15 pin output like the iLIGO coil drivers that are currently in use, but the pin mapping is different so we can't just replace the unit. On the bright side, this will clear up 6U of rack space in 1Y2. In fact, we can also consider hooking up the shadow sensor part of the BOSEMs if we plan to install 2 HAM-A coil drivers + 1 Dual satellite amplifier combo (I'm not sure if this number of spares is available in what we ordered from Todd). |
15842
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Wed Feb 24 22:13:47 2021 |
Jon | Update | CDS | Planning document for front-end testing | I've started writing up a rough testing sequence for getting the three new front-ends operational (c1bhd, c1sus2, c1ioo). Since I anticipate this plan undergoing many updates, I've set it up as a Google doc which everyone can edit (log in with LIGO.ORG credentials).
Link to planning document
Please have a look and add any more tests, details, or concerns. I will continue adding to it as I read up on CDS documentation. |
15843
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Thu Feb 25 14:30:05 2021 |
gautam | Update | CDS | new c1bhd setup - diskless boot | I've set up one 2U server unit received from KT in the control room area (the fans in it are pretty loud but other than that, no major issues with it being tested here). The IPMI interface is enabled and the machine is also hooked up to the martian network for diskless boot (usual login creds). I also installed a Dolphin interface card and the one-stop-systems host side card, and both seem to be recognized (the OSSI card has the "PWR" LED on, the Dolphin card shows up in the list of PCIe devices, but has no LEDs on at the moment). I actually can't find the OSSI card in the list of PCI devices, but maybe I'm not looking for the right device ID, or it needs the cable to be connected to the I/O chassis side to be recognized. Anyways, let the testing begin.
The machine previously christened c1bhd has been turned off and completely disconnected from the martian network (though I didn't bother removing it from the rack for now).
BTW - I think most of our 19" racks are deformed from years of loading - I spent 5 mins trying to install the rails (at 1Y1 and 1X7) to mount the supermicro on, and couldn't manage it. I could be missing some technique/trick, but i don't think so. |
15844
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Thu Feb 25 16:50:53 2021 |
gautam | Update | General | PRMI sensing matrix | After all the work at the LSC rack over the last couple of days, I re-locked the PRMI (ETMs misaligned), and measured the sensing matrix once again. The PRMI was locked using 1f error signals, with AS55_Q as the MICH sensor and REFL11_I as the PRCL sensor. As shown in Attachment #1, the situation has not changed, there is still no separation between the DoFs in the REFL signals. I will measure the MC lock point offset using the error point dither technique today to see if there is something there. |
15845
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Thu Feb 25 20:37:49 2021 |
gautam | Update | General | Setting modulation frequency and checking IMC offset | The Marconi frequency was tuned by looking at
- The ~3.68 MHz (= 3*f1 - fIMC) peak at the IMC servo error point, TP1A, and
- The ~25.8 MHz (= 5*f1 - fIMC) peak at the MC REFL PD monitor port. The IMC error point is not a good place to look for this signal because of the post-demodulation low pass filter (indeed, I didn't see any peak above the analyzer noise floor).
The nominal frequency was 11.066209 MHz, and I found that both peaks were simultaneously minimized by adjusting it to 11.066195 MHz, see Attachment #1. This corresponds to a length change of ~20 microns, which I think is totally reasonable. I guess the peaks can't be nulled completely because of imbalance in the positive and negative sidebands.
Then, I checked for possible offsets at the IMC error point, by injecting a singal to the AO input of the IMC servo board (using the Siglent func gen), at ~300 Hz. I then looked at the peak height at the modulation frequency, and the second harmonic. The former should be minimized when the cavity is exactly on resonance, while the latter is proportional to the modulation depth at the audio frequency. I found that I had to tweak the MC offset voltage slider from the nominal value of 0V to 0.12 V to null the former peak, see Attachment #2. After accounting for the internal voltage division factor of 40, and using my calibration of the IMC error point as 13 kHz/V, this corresponds to a 40 Hz (~50 microns) offset from the true resonant point. Considering the cavity linewidth of ~4 kHz, I think this is a small detuning, and probably changes from lock to lock, or with time of day, temperature etc.
Conclusion: I think neither of these tests suggest that the IMC is to blame for the weirdness in the PRMI sensing, so the mystery continues. |
15846
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Fri Feb 26 16:31:02 2021 |
gautam | Update | Electronics | Production version of the HV coil driver tested with KEPCO HV supplies | Koji asked me to test the production version of the coil driver with the KEPCO HV supplies. See Attachment #1 for the results. For comparison, I've added a single trace from the measurements made with the HP supplies. I continue to see excess noise with the KEPCO supplies. Note that in the production version of the board that was tested, there are a pair of 10uF bypass capacitors on the board for the HV supply lines. It is possible that one or both KEPCO supplies are damaged - one was from the ASY setup and one I found in the little rack next to 1X2. The test conditions were identical to that with the HP supplies (as best as I could make it so). |
15847
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Fri Feb 26 20:20:43 2021 |
Koji | Update | Electronics | Production version of the HV coil driver tested with KEPCO HV supplies | This is very disappointing. Even with KEPCO linear supply with the improved HV driver circuit, the noise level is significantly higher than the 20kOhm R thermal noise.
What is special with the HP supplies? Can you replace KEPCOs with the HP supply, one by one to specify which one is making the noise bad? |
15848
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Sat Feb 27 17:25:42 2021 |
gautam | Update | Electronics | Production version of the HV coil driver tested with KEPCO HV supplies | I will try the test of switching out KEPCOs one at a time for the HP. Given that the passive RC filter doesn't filter out the excess, I am wondering if the KEPCO is somehow polluting the circuit ground? The measurement was made between the circuit side of R24 (see schematic) and a ground testpoint, so the passive R23/C15 pole should filter the noise above ~15 Hz.
Quote: |
This is very disappointing. Even with KEPCO linear supply with the improved HV driver circuit, the noise level is significantly higher than the 20kOhm R thermal noise.
What is special with the HP supplies? Can you replace KEPCOs with the HP supply, one by one to specify which one is making the noise bad?
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15849
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Sun Feb 28 16:59:39 2021 |
rana, gautam | Update | LSC | more PRMI checks here: what it is ain't exactly clear | On Friday evening we checked out a few more things, somewhat overlapping with previous tests. All tests done with PRMI on carrier lock (REFL11_I -> PRC, AS55_Q-> MICH):
- check that PRC drive appropriately minimizes in REFL55_Q. I:Q ratio is ~100:1; good enough.
- put sine waves around 311 and 333 Hz into PRCL and MICH at the LSC output matrix using awggui and LSC osc. not able to adjust LSC/OSC output matrix to minimize the MICH drive in REFL_I.
- measured the TF from BS & PRM LSC drive to the REFL55_I/Q outputs. very nearly the same audio frequency phase, so the problem is NOT in the electronics || mechanical transfer functions of the suspensions.
Further questions:
- is this something pathological in the PRMI carrier lock? we should check by locking on sidebands to REFL55 and REFL165 and repeat tests.
- Can it be a severe mode mismatch from IMC output to PRMI mode? the cavity should be stable with the flipped folding mirrors, but maybe something strange happening. How do we measure the mode-matching to the PRC quantitatively?
- huge RAM is ruled out by Gautam's test of looking at REFL demod signals: dark offset vs. offset with a single bounce off of PRM (with ITMs mis-aligned)
- if there is a large (optical) offset in the AS55_Q lock point, how big would it have to be to mess up the REFL phase so much?
- what is going on with the REFL55 whitening/AA electronics?
unrelated note: Donatella the Workstation was ~3 minutes ahead of the FE machines (you can look at the C0:TIM-PACIFIC_STRING on many of the MEDM screens for a rough simulacrum). When the workstation time is so far off, DTT doesn't work right (has errors like test timed out, or other blah blah). I installed NTP on donatella and started the service per SL7 rules. Since we want to migrate all the workstations to Debian (following the party line), lets not futz with this too much.
gautam, 1 Mar 1600: In case I'm being dumb, I attach the screen grab comparing dark offset to the single bounce off PRM, to estimate the RAM contribution. The other signals are there just to show that the ITMs are sufficiently misaligned. The PRCL PDH fringe is usually ~12000 cts in REFL11, ~5000cts in REFL55, and so the RAM offset is <0.1% of the horn-to-horn PDH fringe.
P.S. I know generally PNGs in the elog are frowned upon. But with so many points, the vector PDF export by NDS (i) is several megabytes in size and (ii) excruciatingly slow. I'm proposing a decimation filter for the export function of ndscope - but until then, I claim plotting with "rasterized=True" and saving to PDF and exporting to PNG are equivalent, since both yield a rasterized graphic. |
15850
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Sun Feb 28 22:53:22 2021 |
gautam | Update | LSC | more PRMI checks here: what it is ain't exactly clear | I looked into this a bit more and crossed off some of the points Rana listed. In order to use REFL 55 as a sensor, I had to fix the frequent saturations seen in the MICH signals, at the nominal (flat) whitening gain of +18 dB. The light level on the REFL55 photodiode (13 mW), its transimpedance (400 ohm), and this +18dB (~ x8) gain, cannot explain signal saturation (0.7A/W * 400 V/A * 8 ~ 2.2kV/W, and the PRCL PDH fringe should be ~1 MW/m, so the PDH fringe across the 4nm linewidth of the PRC should only be a couple of volts). Could be some weird effect of the quad LT1125. Anyway, the fix that has worked in the past, and also this time, is detailed here. Note that the anomalously high noise of the REFL55_Q channel in particular remains a problem. After taking care of that, I did the following:
- PRMI (ETMs misaligned) locking with sidebands resonant in the PRC was restored - REFL55_I was used for PRCL sensing and REFL55_Q was used for MICH sensing. The locks are acquired nearly instantaneously if the alignment is good, and they are pretty robust, see Attachment #1 (the lock losses were IMC related and not really any PRC/MICH problem).
- Measured the loop OLTFs using the usual IN1/IN2 technique. The PRCL loop looks just fine, but the MICH loop UGF is very low apparently. I can't just raise the loop gain because of the feature at ~600 Hz. Not sure what the origin of this is, it isn't present in the analogous TF measurement when the PRMI is locked with carrier resonant (REFL11_I for PRCL sensing, AS55_Q for MICH sensing). I will post the loop breakdown later.
- Re-confirmed that the MICH-->PRCL coupling couldn't be nulled completely in this config either.
- The effect is a geometric one - then 1 unit change in MICH causes a 1/sqrt(2) change in PRCL.
- The actual matrix element that best nulls a MICH drive in the PRCL error point is -0.34 (this has not changed from the PRMI resonant on carrier locking). Why should it be that we can't null this element, if the mechanical transfer functions (see next point) are okay?
- Looked at the mechanical actuator TFs are again (since we forgot to save plots on Friday), by driving the BS and PRM with sine waves (311.1 Hz), one at a time, and looking at the response in REFL55_I and REFL55_Q. Some evidence of some funkiness here already. I can't find any configuration of digital demod phase that gives me a PRCL/MICH sensing ratio of ~100 in REFL55_I, and simultaneously, a MICH/PRCL sensing ratio of ~100 in REFL55_Q. The results are in Attachments #5.
- Drove single frequency lines in MICH and PRCL at 311.1 and 313.35 Hz respectively, for 5 minutes, and made the radar plots in Attachments #2 and #3. Long story short - even in the "nominal" configuration where the sidebands are resonant in the PRC and the carrier is rejected, there is poor separation in sensing.
- Attachments #2 is with the digital REFL55 demod phase set to 35 degrees - I thought this gave the best PRCL sensing in REFL55_I (eyeballed it roughly by looking at ndscope free-swinging PDH fringes).
- But the test detailed in bullet #4, and Attachments #2 itself, suggested that PRCL was actually being sensed almost entirely in the Q phase signal.
- So I changed the digital demod phase to -30 degrees (did a more quantitative estimate with free-swinging PDH fringes on ndscope, horn-to-horn voltages etc).
- The same procedure of sine-wave-driving now yields Attachments #3. Indeed, now PRCL is sensed almost perfectly in REFL55_I, but the MICH signal is also nearly in REFL55_I. How can the lock be so robust if this is really true?
- Attachments #4 shows some relevant time domain signals in the PRMI lock with the sidebands resonant.
- REFL11_I hovers around 0 when REFL55_I is used to sense and lock PRCL - good. The m/ct calibration for REFL11_I and REFL55_I are different so this plot doesn't directly tell us how good the PRCL loop is based on the out-of-loop REFL11_I sensor.
- ASDC is nearly 0, good.
- POP22_I is ~200cts (and POP22_Q is nearly 0) - I didn't see any peak at the drive frequency when driving PRCL with a sine wave, so no linear coupling of PRCL to the f1 sideband buildup, which would suggest there is no PRCL offset.
- Couldn't do the analogous test for AS110 as I removed that photodiode for the AS WFS - it is pretty simple to re-install it, but the ASDC level already doesn't suggest anything crazy here.
Rana also suggested checking if the digital demod phase that senses MICH in REFL55_Q changes from free-swinging Michelson (PRM misaligned), to PRMI aligned - we can quantify any macroscopic length mismatch in the PRC length using this measurement. I couldn't see any MICH signal in REFL55_Q with the PRM misaligned and the Michelson fringing. Could be that +18dB is insufficient whitening gain, but I ran out of time this afternoon, so I'll check later. But not sure if the double attenuation by the PRM makes this impossible. |
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Mon Mar 1 11:40:15 2021 |
Anchal, Paco | Summary | IMC | getting familiar with IMC controls | [Paco, Anchal]
tl;dr: Done no harm, no lasting change.
Learn burtgooey
- Use /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1psl/autoBurt.req as input to test snapshot "/users/anchal/BURTsnaps/controls_1210301_101310_0.snap" on rossa after not succeeding in donatella
- Browse /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/TODAY just to know where the snapshots are living. Will store our morning work specific snapshots in local user directories (e.g. /users/anchal/BURTsnaps)
Identifying video monitors
- Switched channels around on video controls; changed C1:VID-MON7 to 16, back to 30, then C1:VID-QUAD2_4 to 16, to 18, then 20, back to 16, to 14 (which identified as PMCT), to 1 (IMC). Anyways, looks like IMC is locked.
[Yehonathan, Paco, Anchal]
Unlocking MC
- From IOO/LockMC, MC_Servo, FSS --> closed PSL shutter, reopen it and see the lock recovers almost instantly. Try MCRFL shutter, no effect. Toggled PSL shutter one more time, lock recovered.
- From IOO/LockMC, MC_Servo, toggle OPTION (after IP2A), lose and recover lock in similar fashion. MCRFL gets most of the light.
- Looked at IFO_OVERVIEW just to get familiar with the various signals.
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Mon Mar 1 12:36:38 2021 |
gautam | Summary | IMC | getting familiar with IMC controls | Pretty minor thing - but PMCT and PMCR were switched on Quad 2 for whatever reason. I switched them back because I prefer the way it was. I have saved snapshots of the preferred monitor config for locking but I guess I didn't freeze the arrangement of the individual quadrants within a quad. This would be more of a problem if the ITMs and ETMs are shuffled around or something like that.
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- Switched channels around on video controls; changed C1:VID-MON7 to 16, back to 30, then C1:VID-QUAD2_4 to 16, to 18, then 20, back to 16, to 14 (which identified as PMCT), to 1 (IMC). Anyways, looks like IMC is locked.
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Mon Mar 1 16:27:17 2021 |
gautam | Update | LSC | PRM violin filter excessive? | The PRM violin filter seems very suboptimal - the gain peaking shows up in the MICH OLTF, presumably due to the MICH-->PRM LSC output matrix. I plot the one used for the BS in comparison in Attachment #1, seems much more reasonable. Why does the PRM need so many notches? Is this meant to cover some violin modes of PR2/PR3 as well? Do we really need that? Are the PR2/PR3 violin modes really so close in frequency to that for the 3" SOS? I suppose it could be since the suspension wire is thinner and the mass is lighter, and the two effects nearly cancel, but we don't actuate on PR2/PR3? According to the earlier elog in this thread, this particular filter wasn't deemed offensive and was left on.
Indeed, as shown in Attachment #2, I can realize a much healthier UGF for the MICH loop with just a single frequency notch (black reference trace) rather than using the existing "PRvio1,2" filter (FM2), (live red trace). The PR violins are eating so much phase at ~600 Hz.
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Tue Mar 2 13:39:31 2021 |
rana | Update | LSC | PRM violin filter excessive? | agreed, seems excessive. I always prefer bandstop over notch in case the eigenfrequency wanders, but the bandstop could be made to be just a few Hz wide.
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Tue Mar 2 19:52:46 2021 |
gautam | Update | LSC | REFL55 demod board rework | There were multiple problems with the REFL55 demod board. I fixed them and re-installed the board. The TFs and noise measured on the bench now look more like what is expected from a noise model. The noise in-situ also looked good. After this work, my settings for the PRMI sideband lock don't work anymore so I probably have to tweak things a bit, will look into it tomorrow. |
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Wed Mar 3 11:51:07 2021 |
Yehonathan | Update | SUS | OSEM testing for SOSs | I finished testing the OSEMs. I put all the OSEMs back in the box. The OSEMS were divided into several bags. I put the OSEM box next to the south flow bench on the floor.
I have uploaded the OSEM catalog to the wiki. I will upload the LED spot images later.
In summary:
Total 64 OSEMS, 31 long, 33 short.
Perfectly centered LED spots, ready for C&B OSEMS: 30, 12 long, 18 short.
Perfectly centered LED spots, need some work (missing pigtails, weird screws) OSEMS: 7, 5 long, 2 short.
Slightly off-centered (subjective) LED spots, ready for C&B OSEMS: 20, 7 long, 13 short.
Slightly off-centered (subjective) LED spots, need some work (missing pigtails, weird screws) OSEMS: 4 long
Defective OSEMS or LED spot way off-center: 3. |
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Wed Mar 3 12:00:58 2021 |
Paco, Anchal | HowTo | IMC | MC_F ASD | [Paco, Anchal]
- Saved BURT backup in /users/anchal/BURTsnaps/
- Copied existing code for mode cleaner noise budget from /users/rana/mat/mc. Will work on this from home to convert it inot new pynb way.
Get baseline IMC measurements (passive):
- MC_F:
- What is MC_F? Let's find out.
- On MC_F Cal window titled 'C1IOO-MC_FREQ', we turned off ON/OFF and back on again.
- Using diaggui, we measured ASD of MC_F channel in units of counts/rtHz.
[Rana, Paco]
- Using diaggui, measured ASD from a template (under /users/Templates) and overlay the 1/f noise of the NPRO (Attachment 1)
[Anchal, Paco]
- WFS Master
- Went through the schematic and tried to understand what is happening.
- Accidentally switched on MC WF relief (python 3). Bunch of things were displayed on a terminal for a while and then we Ctrl-C it.
- The only thing we noticed that change is a slight increase in WFS1 Yaw, and a corresponding decrease in WFS1 Pitch, WFS2 Pitch, and WFS2 Yaw.
- We need to find out what this script does.
Future work:
- Create an automated script for taking MC_F_DQ spectrum and refer it against reference trace.
- Use pynb to create a noise budget for mode cleaner.
- Identify excess noise between 10-40 Hz.
- Configure output matrix in WFS Master to reduce the noise. Automate this process as well.
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Wed Mar 3 22:13:05 2021 |
gautam | Update | LSC | REFL55 demod board rework | After this work, I measured that the orthogonality was poor. I confirmed on the bench that the PQW-2-90 was busted, pin 2 (0 degree output) showed a sensible signal half of the input, but pin 6 had far too small an output and the phase difference was more like 45 degrees and not 90 degrees. I can't find any spares of this part in the lab - however, we do have the equivalent part used in the aLIGO demodulator. Koji has kindly agreed to do the replacement (it requires a bit of jumper wiring action because the pin mapping between the two parts isn't exactly identical - in fact, the circuit schematic uses a transformer to do the splitting, but at some unknown point in time, the change to the minicircuits part was made. Anyway, until this is restored, I defer the PRMI sideband locking.
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Wed Mar 3 23:23:58 2021 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Arm cavity scan | I see no evidence of anything radically different from my PSL table optical characterization in the IMC transmitted beam, see Attachment #1. The lines are just a quick indicator of what's what and no sophisticated peak fitting has been done yet (so the apparent offset between the transmission peaks and some of the vertical lines are just artefacts of my rough calibration I believe). The modulation depths recovered from this scan are in good agreement with what I report in the linked elog, ~0.19 for f1 and ~0.24 for f2. On the bright side, the ALS just worked and didn't require any electronics fudgery from me. So the mystery continues. |
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Thu Mar 4 10:54:12 2021 |
Paco, Anchal | Summary | LSC | POY11 measurement, tried to lock Green Yend laser | [Paco, Anchal]
- First ran burtgooey as last time.
- Installed pyepics on base environment of donatella
ASS XARM:
- Clicked on ON in the drop down of "! More Scripts" below "! Scripts XARM" in C1ASS.adl
- Clicked on "Freeze Outputs" in the same menu after some time.
- Noticed that the sensing and output matrix of ASS on XARM and YARM look very different. The reason probably is because the YARM outputs have 4 TT1/2 P/Y dof instead of BS P/Y on the XARM. What are these TT1/2?
(Probably, unrelated but MC Unlocked and kept on trying to lock for about 10 minutes attaining the lock eventually.)
Locking XARM:
- From scripts/XARM we ran lockXarm.py from outside any conda environment using python command.
- Weirdly, we see that YARM is locked??? But XARM is not. Maybe this script is old.
- C1:LSC-TRY-OUTPUT went to around 0.75 (units unknown) while C1:LSC-TRX-OUTPUT is fluctuating around 0 only.
POY11 Spectrum measurement when YARM is locked:
- Created our own template as we couldn't find an existing one in users/Templates.
- Template file and data in Attachment 2.
- It is interesting to see most of the noise is in I quadrature with most noise in 10 to 100 Hz.
- Given the ARM is supposed to be much calmer than MC, this noise should be mostly due to the mode cleaner noise.
- We are not sure what units C1:LSC-POY11_I_ERR_DQ have, so Y scale is shown with out units.
Trying to lock Green YEND laser to YARM:
- We opened the Green Y shutter.
- We ensured that when temperature slider og green Y is moved up, the beatnote goes up.
- ARM was POY locked from previous step.
- Ran script scripts/YARM/Lock_ALS_YARM.py from outside any conda environment using python command.
- This locked green laser but unlocked the YARM POY.
Things moving around:
- Last step must have made all the suspension controls unstable.
- We see PRM and SRM QPDs moving a lot.
- Then we did burt restore to /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/today/08:19/*.snap to go back to the state before we started changing things today.
[Paco left for vaccine appointment]
- However the unstable state didn't change from restore. I see a lot of movement in ITMX/Y. PRM and BS also now. Movement in WFS1 and MC2T as well.
- I closed PSL shutter as well to hopefully disengage any loops that are still running unstably.
- But at this point, it seems that the optics are just oscillating and need time to come back to rest. Hopefully we din't cause too much harm today :(.
My guess on what happened:
- Us using the Lock_ALS_YARM.py probably created an unstable configuration in LSC matrix and was the start of the issue.
- On seeing PRM fluctuate so much, we thought we should just burst restore everything. But that was a hammer to the problem.
- This hammer probably changed the suspension position values suddenly causing an impulse to all the optics. So everything started oscillating.
- Now MC WFS is waiting for MC to lock before it stablizes the mode cleaner. But MC autolocker is unable to lock because the optics are oscillating. Chicken-egg issue.
- I'm not aware of how manually one can restore the state now. My only known guess is that if we wait for few hours, everything should calm back enough that MC can be locked and WFS servo can be switched on.
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Thu Mar 4 11:59:25 2021 |
Paco, Anchal | Summary | LSC | Watchdog tripped, Optics damped back | Gautam came in and noted that the optics damping watchdogs had been tripped by a >5 magnitude earthquake somewhere off the coast of Australia. So, under guided assistance, we manually damped the optics using following:
- Using the scripts/SUS/reEnableWatchdogs.py script we re-enabled all the watchdogs.
- Everything except SRM was restored to stable state.
- Then we clicked on SRM in SUS-> Watchdogs, disabled the Oplevs, shutdown the watchdog.
- We changed the threshold for watchdog temporarily to 1000 to allow damping.
- We enabled all the coil outputs manually. Then enabled watchdog by clicking on Normal.
- Once the SRM was damped, we shutdown the watchdog, brought back the threshold to 215 and restarted it.
Gautum also noticed that MC autolocker got turned OFF by me (Anchal), we turned it back on and MC engaged the lock again. All good, no harm done. |
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Thu Mar 4 15:48:26 2021 |
Koji | Summary | PEM | Watchdog tripped, Optics damped back | EQs seen on Summary pages
https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:30889/detcharsummary/day/20210304/pem/seismic_blrms/ |
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Thu Mar 4 23:16:08 2021 |
Koji | Update | LSC | REFL55 demod board rework | A new hybrid splitter (DQS-10-100) was installed. As the amplification of the final stage is sufficient for the input level of 3dBm, I have bypassed the input amplification (Attachment 1). One of the mixer was desoldered to check the power level. With a 1dB ATTN, the output of the last ERA-5 was +17.8dBm (Attachment 2). (The mixer was resoldered.)
With LO3dBm. RF0dBm, and delta_f = 30Hz, the output Vpp of 340mV and the phase difference is 88.93deg. (Attachment 3/4, the traces were averaged) |
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Thu Mar 4 23:57:35 2021 |
Koji | Summary | Electronics | Inspection of the new custom dsub cables | I made the inspection of the new custom DSub cables (came from Texas).
The shelled version gives us some chance to inspect/modify the internal connections. (good)
The wires are well insulated. The conductors are wrapped with the foils and then everything is in the braid tube shield. The braid is soldered on one of the connectors. (Attachment 3/4 shows the soldering of the conductor by intentionally removing one of the insulations).
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Fri Mar 5 00:53:09 2021 |
Koji | Summary | Electronics | A bunch of electronics received | Received additional front/rear panels. Updated the original entry and Wiki [Link]
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gautam | Update | LSC | REFL55 demod board rework | 0 dBm ~ 0.63 Vpp. I guess there is ~4dB total loss (3dB from splitter and 1dB from total excess loss above theoretical from various components) between the SMA input and each RF input of the JMS-1-H mixer, which has an advertised conversion loss of ~6dB. So the RF input to each mixer, for 0dBm to the front panel SMA is ~-4dBm (=0.4 Vpp), and the I/F output is 0.34Vpp. So the conversion loss is only ~-1.5 dB? Seems really low? I assume the 0.34 Vpp is at the input to the preamp? If it's after the preamp, then the numbers still don't add up, because with the nominal 6dB conversion loss, the output. should be ~2Vpp? I will check it later.
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Fri Mar 5 15:03:28 2021 |
gautam | Summary | Electronics | A bunch of electronics received | The PCBs for the D1002593 BIO I/F (5pcs ea of D1001050 and D1001266) were received (from JLCPCB) today. idk what the status of the parts (digikey?) is.
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Fri Mar 5 15:31:23 2021 |
Koji | Update | LSC | REFL55 demod board rework | Missed to note: The IF test was done at TP7 and TP6 using pomona clips i.e. brefore the preamp.
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Koji | Summary | Electronics | A bunch of electronics received | The parts will be ordered by Koji The components for the additional BIO I/F have been ordered.
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Fri Mar 5 16:24:24 2021 |
gautam | Update | LSC | REFL55 demod board re-installed in 1Y2 | I don't have a good explanation why, but I too measured similar numbers to what Koji measured. The overall conversion gain for this board (including the +20dB gain from the daughter board) was measured to be ~5.3 V/V on the bench, and ~16000 cts/V in the CDS system (100Hz offset from the LO frequency). It would appear that the effective JMS-1-H conversion loss is <2dB. Seems fishy, but I can't find anything else obviously wrong with the circuit (e.g. a pre-amp for the RF signal that I missed, there is none).
I also attach the result of the measured noise at the outputs of the daughter board (i.e. what is digitized by the ADC), see Attachment #2. Apart from the usual forest of lines of unknown origin, there is still a significant excess above the voltage noise of the OP27, which is expected to be the dominant noise source in this configuration. Neverthelesss, considering that we have only 40dB of whitening gain, it is not expected that we see this noise directly in the digitized signal (above the ADC noise of ~1uV/rtHz). Note that the measured noise today, particularly for the Q channel, is significantly lower than before the changes were made. |
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Fri Mar 5 17:48:25 2021 |
Jon | Update | CDS | Front-end testing | Today I moved the c1bhd machine from the control room to a new test area set up behind (west of) the 1X6 rack. The test stand is pictured in Attachment 1. I assembled one of the new IO chassis and connected it to the host.
I/O Chassis Assembly
- LIGO-style 24V feedthrough replaced with an ATX 650W switching power supply
- Timing slave installed
- Contec DO-1616L-PE card installed for timing control
- One 16-bit ADC and one 32-channel DO module were installed for testing
The chassis was then powered on and LED lights illuminated indicating that all the components have power. The assembled chassis is pictured in Attachment 2.
Chassis-Host Communications Testing
Following the procedure outlined T1900700, the system failed the very first test of the communications link between chassis and host, which is to check that all PCIe cards installed in both the host and the expansion chassis are detected. The Dolpin host adapter card is detected:
07:06.0 PCI bridge: Stargen Inc. Device 0102 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=07, secondary=0e, subordinate=0e, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c0200000-00000000c03fffff
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [60] Express Downstream Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] Subsystem: Device 0000:0000
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
However the OSS PCIe adapter card linking the host to the IO chassis was not detected, nor were any of the cards in the expansion chassis. Gautam previously reported that the OSS card was not detected by the host (though it was not connected to the chassis then). Even now connected to the IO chassis, the card is still not detected. On the chassis-side OSS card, there is a red LED illuminated indicating "HOST CARD RESET" as pictured in Attachment 3. This may indicate a problem with the card on the host side. Still more debugging to be done. |
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Fri Mar 5 22:25:13 2021 |
gautam | Update | LSC | PRMI 1f SB locking recovered | Now that the REFL55 signal chain is capable of providing balanced, orthogonal readout of the two quadratures, I was able to recover the 1f SB resonant lock pretty easily. Ran sensing lines for ~5mins, still looks weird. But I didn't try to optimize anything / do other checks (e.g. actuate MICH using ITMs instead of BS) tonight, and I'm craving the Blueberry pie Rana left me. Will continue to do more systematic tests in the next days. |
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Sat Mar 6 12:34:18 2021 |
gautam | Update | LSC | Sensing matrix settings messed with | To my dismay, I found today that somebody had changed the oscillator frequencies for the sensing matrix infrastructure we have. The change happened 2 days and 2 hours ago (I write this at ~1230 on Saturday, 3/6), i.e. ~1030am on Thursday. According to the elog, this is when Anchal and Paco were working on the interferometer, but I can find no mention of these settings being changed. Not cool guys 😒 .
This was relatively easy to track down but I don't know what else may have been messed with. I don't understand how anything that was documented in the elog can lead to this weird doubling of the frequencies.
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gautam | Update | LSC | Housekeeping + more PRMI |
- Beam pointing into PMC was tweaked to improve transmission.
- AS110 photodiode was re-installed on the AS table - I picked off 30% of the light going to the AS WFS using a beamsplitter and put it on the AS110 photodiode.
- Adjusted ASDC whitening gain - we have been running nominally with +18dB, but after Sept 2020 vent, there is ~x3 amount of light incident on the AS55 RFPD (from which the ASDC signal is derived). I want to run the dither alignment servos that use this PD using the same settings as before, hence this adjustment.
- Adjusted digital demod phases of POP22, POP110 and AS110 signals with the PRMI locked (sideband resonant). I want these to be useful to debug the PRMI. the phases were adjusted so that AS110_Q, POP22_I and POP110_I contain the signal (= sideband buildup) when the PRMI is locked.
- Ran the actuator calibration routine for BS, ITMX and ITMY - i'll try and do the PRM and ETMs as well later.
- With the PRMI locked (sidebands resonant), looked at the sideband power buildup. POP22 and POP110 remain stable, but there is some low frequency variation in the AS110_Q channel (but not the I channel, so this is really a time varying transmission of the f2 sideband to the dark port). What's that about? Also unsure about those abrupt jumps in the POP22/POP110 signals, see Attachment #1 (admittedly these are slow channels). I don't see any correlation in the MICH control signal.
- Measured the loop shapes of the MICH (UGF ~90 degrees, PM~30 degrees) and PRCL (UGF~110 Hz, PM~30 degreees) loops - stability margins and loop UGFs seem reasonable to me.
- Tried nulling the MICH-->PRCL coupling by adjusting the MICH-->PRM matrix element - as has been the case for a while, unable to do any better, and I can't null that line as we expect to be able to.
- Not expecting to get anything sensible, but ran some sensing matrix lines (at the correct frequencies this time).
- Tried locking the PRMI with MICH actuation to an ITM instead of the BS - I can realize the lock but the loop OLTF I measure with this configuration is very weird, needs more investigation. I may look into this later today evening.
I was also reminded today of the poor reliability of the LSC whitening electronics. Basically, there may be hidden saturations in all the channels that have a large DC value (e.g. the photodiode DC mon channels) due to the poor design of the cascaded gain stages. I was thinking about using the REFL DC channel to estimate the mode-matching into the PRC, but this has a couple of problems. Electronically, there may be some signal distortion due to the aforementioned problem. But in addition, optically, the estimation of mode-matching into the PRC by comparing REFL DC levels in single bounce off the PRM and the PRMI locked has the problem that the mode-matching is degenerate with the intra-cavity loss, which is of the same order as the mode mismatch (a percent or two I claiM). If Koji or someone else can implement the fix suggested by Hartmut for all the LSC whitening channels, that'd give us more faith in the signals. It may be less work than just replacing all the whitening filters with a better design (e.g. the aLIGO ISC whitening filter which implements the cascaded gain stages using single OP27s and more importantly has a 1 kohm series resistance with the input to the op amp (so the preceeding stage never has to drive > 10V/1kohms ~10mA of DC current) would presumably reduce distortion. |
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Anchal | Update | LSC | Sensing matrix settings messed with | I understand this mst be frustrating for you. But we did not change these settings, knowingly atleast. We have documented all the things we did there. The only thing I can think of which could possibly change any of those channels are the scripts that we ran that are mentioned and the burt restore that we did on all channels (which wasn't really necessary). We promise to be more vigilant of changes that occur when we are present in future.
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To my dismay, I found today that somebody had changed the oscillator frequencies for the sensing matrix infrastructure we have. The change happened 2 days and 2 hours ago (I write this at ~1230 on Saturday, 3/6), i.e. ~1030am on Thursday. According to the elog, this is when Anchal and Paco were working on the interferometer, but I can find no mention of these settings being changed. Not cool guys 😒 .
This was relatively easy to track down but I don't know what else may have been messed with. I don't understand how anything that was documented in the elog can lead to this weird doubling of the frequencies.
I have now restored the correct settings. The "sensing matrix" I posted last night is obviously useless.
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Paco, Anchal | Summary | training | Investigate how-to XARM locking | [Paco, Anchal]
- Started zoom stream; thanks to whoever installed it!
- Spent some time trying to understand how anything we did last thursday lead to the sensing matrix change, but still cannot figure it out.
- Tracking back on our actions, at ~10:30 we ran burt Restore with the 08:19/.*snap and in lack of a better suspect, we blame it on that action for now.
# ARM locking??
- Reading (not running) the scripts/XARM/lockXarm.py script and try to understand the workflow. It is pretty confusing that the result was to lock Yarm last time.
- It looks like this script was a copy of lockYarm.py, and was never updated (there's a chance we ran it for the first time last thursday)
- *Is there a script to lock the Arms?* Or should we write one? To write one, we first attempt a manual procedure;
1. No need to change RFPD InMTRX
2. All filters inputs / outputs are enabled
3. Outputs from XARM and YARM in the Output matrix are already going to ETMX and ETMY
- Maybe we can have the ARM lock engage by changing the MC directly?
4. Change C1:SUS-MC2_POS_OFFSET from -38 to -0, and enable C1:SUS-MC2_POS_OFFSET_ON
5. Manually scan MC2_POS_OFFSET to 250 (nothing happens), then -250, then back to -38 (WFS1 PIT and YAW changed a little, but then returned to their nominal values)
- Or maybe we need to provide the right gain...
6. Disabled C1:SUS-MC2_POS_OFFSET_ON (back to nominal state)
7. Look into manually changing C1:LSC-XARM_GAIN;
From the command line using python:
>> import epics
>> ch_name = 'C1:LSC-XARM_GAIN'
>> epics.caput(ch_name, 0.155) # nominal = 0.150
- Could be unrelated, but we noted a slow spike on C1:PSL-FSS_PCDRIVE (definitely from before we changed anything)
- Still nothing is happening
8. Changed the gain to 0.175, then back to 0.150, no effect... then 0.2, 0.3 ...
- Stop and check SUS_Watchdogs (should not have changed?) and everything remains nominal
- Revert all changes symmetrically.
- Could we have missed enabling FM1?
- Briefly lost MC lock, but it came back on its own (probably unrelated)
- Wrap it up for the day. In summary; no harm done to our knowledge. |
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Mon Mar 8 12:40:35 2021 |
gautam | Summary | training | Investigate how-to XARM locking | For the arm locking, the "Restore Xarm (XARM POX)" script from the "IFO_CONFIGURE" MEDM screen should get you there (I just checked it and it works fine). It is worth getting a hang of the PDH signal chain (read what the script is doing and map it to the signal chain) so you get a feel for where there may be offsets, saturations, what the trigger logic is etc. The LSC overview screen is supposed to be pretty intuitive (if you think it can be improved, I'd love to hear it but please don't change it without documenting) and there are also the webviews of the simulink models (these are RO so feel free to click around, for the LSC the c1lsc model is the relevant one). |
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Mon Mar 8 12:54:54 2021 |
gautam | Update | Equipment loan | 40m-->Cryo |
- Busby box
- SR554 transformer preamplifier
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Mon Mar 8 17:09:29 2021 |
gautam | Update | SUS | PRM coil actuators heavily imbalanced | I realized I hadn't checked the PRM actuator as thoroughly as I had the others. I used the Oplev as a sensor to check the coil balancing, and I noticed that while all 4 coils show up with the expected 1/f^2 profile at the Oplev error point, the actuator gains seem imbalanced by a factor of ~5. The phase isn't flat because of some filters in the Oplev electronics I guess. The Oplev loops were disabled for the measurement, and the excitations were small enough that the beam stayed reasonably well centered on the QPD throughout. This seems very large to me - the values in the coil output filter gains lead me to expect more like a ~10% mismatch in the actuation strenghts, and similar tests on other optics in the past, e.g. ETMY, have yielded much more balanced results. I'm collecting some free-swinging PRM data now as an additional check. I verified that all the coils seem actuatable at least, by applying a 500 ct step at the offset of the coil output FM, and saw that the optic moved (it was such a test that revealed that MC1 had a busted actuator some time ago). If the eigenmode spectra look as expected, I think we can rule out broken magnets, but I suppose the magnets could still be not well matched in strength? |
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Mon Mar 8 19:22:56 2021 |
rana | Summary | SUS | IMC suspension characterization | Herewith, I describe an adventure
- Balance the OSEM input matrix using the free swinging data (see prev elogs).
- Balance the coil actuation by changing the digital coil gains. This should be done above 10 Hz using optical levers, or some IMC readout (like the WFS). At the end of this process, you should put a pringle vector into the column of the SUS output matrix that corresponds to one of the SUS OSC/LOCKIN screens. Verily, the pringle excitation should produce no signal in MC_F or da WFS.
- use the Malik doc on the single suspension to design feed-forward filters for the SUS COIL filter banks. You can get the physical parameters using the design documents on DCC / 40m wiki and then modify them a bit based on the eigenfrequencies in the free swinging data.
- Model the 2x2 system which includes longitudinal and pitch motion. Consider how accurate the filters must be to maintain a cross-coupling of < 3% in the 0.5-2 Hz band.
- Is this decoupling forsooth still maintained when you close the SUS damping loops in the model? If not, why so?
- Make step response measurements of the damping loops and record/plot data. Use physical units of um/urad for the y-axes. How much is the step response cross-coupling?
- Consider the IMC noise budget: are the low pass filters in the damping loops low-passing enough? How much damping is demasiado (considering the CMRR of the concrete slab for seismic waves)?
- Can we use Radhika's AAA representation to auto-tune the FF and damping filters? It would be very slick to be able to do this with one button click.
gautam: For those like me who don't know what the AAA representation is: the original algorithm is here, and Lee claims his implementation of it in IIRrational is better, see his slides. |
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Mon Mar 8 20:11:51 2021 |
rana | Frogs | Computer Scripts / Programs | activate_matlab out of control on Megatron | there were a zillion processes trying to activate (this is the initial activation after the initial installation) matlab 2015b on megatron, so I killed them all. Was someone logged in to megatron and trying to run matlab sometime in 2020? If so, speak now, or I will send the out-of-control process brute squad after you! |
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Mon Mar 8 22:01:26 2021 |
gautam | Update | LSC | More PRMI | There are still many mysteries remaining - e.g. the MICH-->PRCL contribution still can't be nulled. But for now, I have the settings that keep the PRMI locked fairly robustly with REFL55I/Q or REFL165I/Q (I quadrature for PRCL, Q for MICH in both cases), see Attachment #1 and Attachment #2 respectively. For the 1f locking, the REFL55 digital demod phase was fine-tuned to minimize the frequency noise (generated by driving MC2) coupling to the Michelson readout (as the Michelson is supposed to be immune) - the coupling was measured to be ~60dB larger at the PRCL error point than MICH. There was still nearly unity coherence between my MC2 drive and the MICH error point demodulated at the drive frequency, but I was not able to null it any better than this. With the PRMI (ETMs misaligned) locked on the 1f signals, I measured Attachment #1 and used it to determine the demod phase that would best enable REFL165_I to be a PRCL sensor. Rana thinks that if there is some subtle effect in the marginally stable PRC, we would not see it unless we do a mode scan (time consuming to set up and execute). So I'm just going to push on with the PRFPMI locking - let's see if the clean arm mode forces a clean TEM00 mode to be resonant in the PRC, and if that can sort out the lack of orthogonality between MICH/PRCL in the 1f sensors (after all, we only care about the 3f signals in as much as they allow us to lock the interferometer). I'll try the PRMI with arms on ALS tomorrow eve.
I have no idea what to make of how the single frequency lines I am driving in MICH and PRCL show up in REFL11 and REFL33 - the signals are apparently completely degenerate (in optical quadrature). How this is possible even though the PRMI remains stably locked, POP22/POP110/AS110 report stable sideband buildup is not clear to me. |
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Tue Mar 9 10:57:06 2021 |
Paco, Anchal | Summary | IMC | XARM lock and POX spectra | [Paco, Anchal]
- Upon arrival, MC is locked, and we can see light in MON5 (PRM) (usually dark).
# XARM locking
- Read through "XARM POX" script (path='/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/c1configure/c1configureXarm')
- Before running the script, we noticed the PRM watchdog is down, so we manually repeat the procedure from last time, but see more swinging even though the watchdog is active.
- Run a reEnablePRMWatchdogs.py script (a copy of reEnableWatchdogs.py with optics=['PRM']), which had the same effect.
- We manually disable the watchdog to recover the state we first encountered, and wait for the beam in MON5 to come to rest.
- The question is; is it fine to lock Xarm with PRM watchdog down?
- To investigate this, we look at the effect of the offset on the unwatchdog-PRM.
- Manually change 'PRM_POS_OFFSET' to 200, and -800 (which is the value used in the script) with no effect on the PRM swinging.
- Moving on, run IFO > CONFIGURE > ! (X Arm) > RESTORE XARM (XARM POX), and ... success.
# MC-POX noise spectra
- With XARM locked, open diaggui and take spectra for C1:LSC-POX11_I_ERR_DQ, C1:LSC-POX11_Q_ERR_DQ, C1:IOO-MC_F_DQ
- Lost XARM lock while we were figuring out unit conversions...
- Assuming 2.631e-13 m/counts (6941) and using 37.79 m (arm length), 1064.1 nm wavelength, we get a calibration factor of 2.631e-13 * c / (2*L*lambda) ~ 0.9809 Hz/count
- (FAQ?, how to find/compute/measure the correct calibration factors?)
- Relock XARM, retake spectra. Attachment 1 has plots for POX11_I/Q_ERR_DQ spectrum (cts/rtHz, we couldn't find relevant calibration) and MC_F_DQ in (Hz/rtHz from referring to 15576, we couldn't get the units to show on y scale.)
# MC-POY noise spectra (attempt)
- Now, run IFO > CONFIGURE > ! (Y Arm) > RESTORE YARM (YARM POY), and XARM locks (why?)
- Could PRM watchdog being down be the cause?
- Try C1ASS > (YARM) ! More Scripts > ON, and looked at YARM PIT/YAW striptool.
- C1ASS > (YARM) ! Freeze Outputs, then OFF
- Go back to IFO > CONFIGURE > ! (Y Arm) > Align YARM (ASS ON: Unfreeze), try running this then Freeze, then OFF Zero Outputs.
- Try RESTORE YARM (POY) again, still not working.
- Try RESTORE YARM ALS, then try again after opening the shutter, but also fail to lock AUX.
- Is the PRM WD behind some evil misalignment? Will move forward with XARM bc it is happy.
# ARM locking
- Attempted the IFO > CONFIGURE > ! (X Arm) > RESTORE Xarm (XARM ALS) but green failed to lock and we lost XARM lock.
- Try to recover XARM lock... success. It's nice to have a (repeatable) checkpoint.
- Attempt YARM lock. Not successful. It just seems like the lock Triggers are not raised (misalignment?)
- From C1SUS_ETMY, try changing the bias "C1:SUS-ETMY_YAW_OFFSET" manually to reduce the OPLEV_YERROR. Changed from -47 to -57.
- Retry YARM lock script... no luck
- From C1SUS_PRM, try changing the bias "C1:SUS-PRM_PIT_OFFSET" manually to reduce OPLEV errors. Changed from 34 to 22 with no effect, then realized the coil outputs are disabled because the WD is down...
- So we do the following BIAS changes "C1:SUS-PRM_PIT_OFFSET" = 34 > 770 and "C1:SUS-PRM_YAW_OFFSET" = 134 > -6
- Enable all Coil Outputs, turn WD to Normal, turn OPLEVs ON, (this time the beam does not swing like crazy).
- Fine tune BIASes "C1:SUS-PRM_PIT_OFFSET" = 770 > 805 and "C1:SUS-PRM_YAW_OFFSET" = -6 > 65
- Saw YARM locking briefly, then unlocking, but we stopped once the OPLEV_ERRs no longer overloaded (from magnitudes > 50 to ~ 40).
- Retry YARM lock... no luck
- From C1SUS_ETMY, try changing the bias "C1:SUS-ETMY_PIT_OFFSET" from -1 to 6.
Stop for the day. Leave XARM locked, MC locked. |
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Tue Mar 9 12:41:29 2021 |
Koji | Summary | Electronics | Investigation on the invacuum Dsub cables | I believe the aLIGO style invac dsub cables and the conventional 40m ones are incompatible.
While the aLIGO spec is that Pin1 (in-vac) is connected to the shield, Pin13 (in-vac) is the one for the conventional cable. I still have to check if Pin13 is really connected to the shield, but we had trouble before for the IO TTs https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/40m/7864.
(At least one of the existing end cables did not show this Pin13-chamber connection. However, the cables OMC/IMC chambers indicated this feature. So the cables are already inhomogenious.)
- Which way do we want to go? Our electronics are updated with aLIGO spec (New Sat amp, OMC electronics, etc), so I think we should start making the shift to the aLIGO spec.
- Attachment Top: The new coil drivers can be used together with the old cables using a custom DB25 cable (in-air).
- Attachment Mid: The combination of the conventional OSEM wiring and the aLIGO in-vac cable cause the conflict. The pin1 which is connected to the shield is used for the PD bias.
- Attachment Bottom: This can be solved by shifting the OSEMs by one pin.
Notes:
o The aLIGO cables have 12 twisted pair wires, but paired signals do not share a twisted pair.
--- No. This can't be solved by rotating the connectors.
o This modification should be done only for the new suspension.
--- In principle, we can apply this change to any SOSs. However, this action involves the vent. We probably want to install the new electronics for the existing suspensions before the vent.
o ^- This means that we have to have two types of custom DB25 in-air cables.
--- Each cable should handle "Shield wire" from the sat amp correctly.
Related Links:
Active TT Pin Issue
https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/40m/7863
and the thread
Hacky solution
https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/40m/7869
Photo
https://photos.google.com/u/1/album/AF1QipOEDi7iBdS4EHcpM7GBbv9l6FiJx-Tkt1I2eSFA
Active TT Pin Swapping (December 21, 2012)
TT Wiring Diagram (Wiki)
https://wiki-40m.ligo.caltech.edu/Suspensions/Tip_Tilts_IO |
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