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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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13573
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Wed Jan 24 00:58:59 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | X Green PDH modulation depth | On Friday, while Udit and I were doing
some characterization of the EX+PSL IR beat
at the LSC rack, I noticed that there were |
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13574
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Wed Jan 24 10:45:14 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Fiber ALS assay | I was looking into the physics of polarization
maintaining fibers, and then I was trying
to remember whether the fibers we use are |
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13583
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Thu Jan 25 13:18:41 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Fiber ALS assay | I was looking at this a little more closely.
As I understand it, the purpose of the audio
differential IF amplifier is: |
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13586
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Thu Jan 25 23:59:14 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Fiber ALS assay | I tried to couple the PSL pickoff into
the fiber today for several hours, but got
nowhere really, achieved a maximum coupling |
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13587
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Fri Jan 26 20:03:09 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Fiber ALS assay | I think part of the problem was that the
rejected beam from the PBS was not really
very Gaussian - looking at the spot on the |
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13591
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Wed Jan 31 15:45:22 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Fiber ALS assay | Attachment #1 shows the current situation
of the PSL table IR pickoff. It isn't
the greatest photo but it's hard to get |
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13593
|
Wed Jan 31 16:29:42 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Modulation depths | I used the Beat
Mouth to make a quick |
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13594
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Wed Jan 31 16:33:53 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | ALS electronics at LSC rack | [steve,
gautam]
We installed some |
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13595
|
Wed Jan 31 22:32:11 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | ALS signal chain + power budget | Summary:
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13596
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Thu Feb 1 01:24:56 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | D0902745 revamp underway | I effected the change to the Audio IF preamp
stage on channels 3 and 4 (Xarm and Yarm
respectively) using the resistors Steve ordered |
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13597
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Thu Feb 1 15:31:12 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | ALS signal chain + power budget | Summary:
A |
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13599
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Fri Feb 2 00:26:34 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | D0902745 revamp underway | I saw some interesting behaviour of the
Audio IF amplifier stage on the demod board
today, by accident. I was testing the board |
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13600
|
Fri Feb 2 13:16:55 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | ALS signals whitening switching | While setting up for this measurement,
I noticed something odd with the whitening
switching for the ALS channels. For the usual |
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13606
|
Mon Feb 5 14:11:01 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Huge harmonics in ALS channels | I've been trying to setup for the THD
measuremetn at the LSC rack for a couple
of days now, but am plagued by a problem |
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13608
|
Mon Feb 5 22:57:28 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Huge harmonics in ALS channels | Did some quick additional checks to figure
out what's going on here.
The SOS/dewhite board for |
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13609
|
Tue Feb 6 11:13:26 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Possible source of ground loop identified | I think I've narrowed down the source
of this ground loop. |
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13612
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Tue Feb 6 22:55:51 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Possible source of ground loop identified | [koji, gautam]
We discussed possible solutions |
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13613
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Wed Feb 7 10:16:26 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | ALS signal chain + power budget | After emailing the technical team at Menlo,
I have uploaded the more detailed information
they have given me on our wiki. |
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13616
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Wed Feb 7 15:51:15 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | D0902745 revamp complete | Summary of my tests of the demod boards,
post gain modification:
DC tests (supply voltage, |
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13621
|
Thu Feb 8 00:33:20 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | D990694 characterization / THD measurement plan | I decided to try doing the THD measurement
with a function generator. Did some quick
trials tonight to verify that the measurement |
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13622
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Thu Feb 8 01:27:16 2018 |
Koji | Update | ALS | D990694 characterization / THD measurement plan | >
So my question is - should we just cut the |
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13623
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Thu Feb 8 12:00:09 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | D990694 is NOT differential receiving | Correcting a mistake |
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13625
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Thu Feb 8 13:13:14 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | D990694 pulled out | After labeling all cables, I pulled out
one of the D990694s in the LSC rack (the
one used for the ALS X signals, it is Rev-B1, |
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13627
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Thu Feb 8 18:10:36 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | D990694 pulled out | This is proving much more challenging than
I thought - while Cut #1 was easy to identify
and execute, my initial plan for Cut #2 seems |
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13628
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Fri Feb 9 13:37:44 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | THD measurement trial | I quickly put together some code that calculates
the THD from CDS data and generates a plot
(see e.g. Attachment #1). |
|
13635
|
Fri Feb 16 01:09:55 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | EX green locking duty cycle | I have been puzzled as to why the duty
cycle of the EX
green locks are much |
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13636
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Fri Feb 16 01:34:40 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | D0902745 in-situ testing | Having implemented the changes to the audio
amplifier stage, I re-installed this unit
at the LSC rack, and did some testing. |
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13644
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Tue Feb 20 23:08:27 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | D0902745 in-situ testing | Attachment #1 shows
the ALS noise measurement today. Main differences
from the spectrum posted last week is that |
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13648
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Thu Feb 22 00:09:11 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | D0902745 in-situ testing | I thought a little bit about the design
of the preamp we want for the demodulated
ALS signals today. The requirements are: |
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13655
|
Sun Feb 25 00:03:12 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Daughter board prototyping | Using one of the prototype |
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13657
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Mon Feb 26 20:55:56 2018 |
rana | Update | ALS | Daughter board prototyping | Looks good.
* for bypass type applications,
you don't have to use Wima caps (which |
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13658
|
Tue Feb 27 21:10:45 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Daughter board testing | I thought a little bit about the next steps
in testing the daughter board. The idea is
to install this into the existing 1U chassis |
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13661
|
Wed Feb 28 19:13:25 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | ADC test for differential receiving in c1lsc | [koji,
gautam]
we did a bunch of tests to figure |
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13663
|
Fri Mar 2 01:45:06 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | new look ALS electronics | I spent today making another daughter board
(so that we can use the new scheme for I
and Q for one arm), testing it (i.e. measuring |
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13666
|
Mon Mar 5 17:27:34 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | new look ALS electronics - characterization | I did a quick test of the noise of the
new ALS electronics with the X arm ALS. Attachment
#1 shows the results - but something looks |
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13668
|
Thu Mar 8 00:40:25 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | new look ALS electronics - characterization | I am almost ready for a digital test of
the new ALS electronics. Today, Koji and
I spent some time tapping new +/-24VDC DIN |
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13673
|
Thu Mar 8 19:38:37 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | digital unwhitening of daughter board | I made a LISO fit of the measured TF of
the daughter board, so that I can digitally
invert the daughter board whitening. Results |
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13674
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Thu Mar 8 23:50:27 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | First look at new ALS electronics |
Locked single arms, dither aligned,
and saved offsets to EPICS (slow) sliders
in anticipation of having to reboot all vertex |
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13675
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Fri Mar 9 01:07:01 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | First look at new ALS electronics | [koji,
gautam] |
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13679
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Mon Mar 12 22:08:31 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Noisy POX | [kevin, gautam]
we tested my noisy POX hypothesis
tonight. By locking the single arm with POX, |
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13680
|
Mon Mar 12 23:57:31 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Noisy POX | [kevin,
gautam] |
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13688
|
Mon Mar 19 15:02:29 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Noisy MC sensing | The working hypothesis, since the excess
noise in single arm locks is coherent between
both arms, the excess sensing noise is frequency |
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13749
|
Thu Apr 12 18:12:49 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | NPRO channels hijacked | Summary:
Today,
the measured IR ALS noise for the X arm was
dramatically improved. The main change was |
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13751
|
Fri Apr 13 11:02:41 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | EX fiber polarization drift | Attachment #1 |
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13752
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Fri Apr 13 16:59:12 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | EX green mode-matching | THIS CALCULATION |
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13753
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Fri Apr 13 17:56:26 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Fibers switched out | I swapped the EX fiber for the PSL fiber
in the polarization monitoring setup. There
is a lot more power in this fiber, and one |
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13754
|
Sat Apr 14 14:42:09 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Fibers switched out | It looks like the drift in polarization
content in the PSL pickoff is actually much
higher than that in the EX pickoff. Note |
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13757
|
Tue Apr 17 14:08:29 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Fibers switched out | A follow-up on the discussion from today's
lunch meeting - Rana pointed out that rotation
of the fiber in the mount by ~5degrees cannot |
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13773
|
Fri Apr 20 00:26:34 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Fibers switched out | Summary:
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13779
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Sat Apr 21 20:25:12 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | PSL fiber pickoff status | Seems like there is still a bit of variation
in the power in the two polarizations, though
it is much smaller now, at the ~5% level |
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