ID |
Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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17431
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Fri Jan 27 19:35:31 2023 |
yuta | Summary | BHD | 60 Hz noise investigations around IMC | So far different measurements are consistent
with the hypothesis that the 60 Hz noise
is from PSL frequency noise (40m/17423). |
6x |
17432
|
Fri Jan 27 21:22:57 2023 |
yuta | Summary | BHD | V beam dump installed for BH44 RF PD | One of these V beam dumps was installed
for BH44 RF PD.
The rest is now stored in the box |
|
17433
|
Mon Jan 30 10:59:15 2023 |
JC | Summary | PSL | PMC aligned, now PMC transmission is 0.7 | PMC hit a drop around mid-day on Saturday
and has been going down since. As of now,
C1:PSL-PMC_PMCTRANSPD - 0.664 |
|
17434
|
Mon Jan 30 18:08:56 2023 |
Paco | Summary | BHD | c1cal DAQ error 0x2000 | [JC, Paco]
I tried restarting all models this
afternoon to see if the DC error 0x2000 on |
|
17435
|
Tue Jan 31 11:02:16 2023 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | c1cal DAQ error 0x2000 fixed | The 0x2000 error happens when the rtcds
model can not acquire the requested number
of channels at their data rates. Basically, |
|
17441
|
Wed Feb 1 16:53:55 2023 |
Alex | Summary | General | Shadowing Anchal on developing a change for the c1ioo CDS computer | During my time shadowing Anchal, we discussed
the need for digital control systems on the
suspension systems for the 40 meter optics. |
|
17443
|
Thu Feb 2 19:41:49 2023 |
Anchal | Summary | PowerShutdown | Recovery from power outage events | [Anchal, JC, Radhika, Paco]
JC reported that power outage happened
twice in 40m today at around 4:17 pm. |
|
17446
|
Fri Feb 3 17:39:38 2023 |
yuta | Summary | BHD | 60 Hz noise investigations around IMC, part 2 | [Paco, Yuta]
We estimated the frequency noise of |
    |
17447
|
Fri Feb 3 17:41:26 2023 |
Paco | Summary | BHD | Systematic line noise hunting around BH44 | [Paco, Yuta]
We devised a plan to systematically |
|
17449
|
Sun Feb 5 10:25:49 2023 |
Anchal | Summary | PowerShutdown | Main laser tripping | Our main laser has tripped suspiciously
twice since the power shutdown. The last
time it happened on Thursday Feb 2 night |
|
17450
|
Sun Feb 5 18:02:46 2023 |
rana | Summary | BHD | 60 Hz noise investigations around IMC, part 2 | For the loop calculation, don't you
have to consider the IMC cavity pole? What
about the analog filter on the output of |
|
17451
|
Mon Feb 6 07:58:00 2023 |
JC | Summary | PowerShutdown | Main laser tripping | I came in today and it seems like the main
laser tripped again yesterday around 3:00
pm. |
|
17452
|
Mon Feb 6 11:50:44 2023 |
Anchal | Summary | PowerShutdown | Main laser tripping | [Anchal, JC]
During shimmer test yesterday,
the man laser tripped again. This morning, |
 |
17455
|
Tue Feb 7 20:10:05 2023 |
yuta | Summary | BHD | 60 Hz noise investigations around IMC, part 3 | [Anchal, Yuta]
We have measured OLTF of IMC loop, |
|
17458
|
Thu Feb 9 10:19:22 2023 |
yuta | Summary | BHD | 60 Hz noise investigations around IMC, part 4, using ALS BEAT | [Anchal, Yuta]
Yesterday, we have measured the frequency |
 |
17460
|
Thu Feb 9 17:33:34 2023 |
yuta | Summary | BHD | 60 Hz noise investigations around IMC, part 6, TTFSS | [Anchal, Yuta]
Measurements yesterday (40m/17458) |
  |
17461
|
Mon Feb 13 11:54:54 2023 |
yuta | Summary | BHD | 60 Hz frequency noise is coming from MC1 coils | [JC, Yuta]
We have found that MC1 coils are causing |
 |
17462
|
Mon Feb 13 17:35:20 2023 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | 60 Hz frequency noise is coming from MC1 coils | [Anchal, Yuta]
We think we have narrowed
down the source of 60 Hz noise to one fo |
|
17463
|
Tue Feb 14 10:49:04 2023 |
yuta | Summary | BHD | MC1 electronics diagram and cable diconnection tests | Below are summary of electronics around
MC1 and cable disconnection tests.
These suggest that the 60 Hz noise |
|
17466
|
Wed Feb 15 16:16:59 2023 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | IMC optics Coil Output Filter corrections | Overtime the coil output filters on IMC
optics have drifted into a bad configuration.
Today at the meeting, Rana told us the correct |
|
17481
|
Fri Feb 24 13:29:16 2023 |
Alex | Summary | IMC | Updated angular actuation calibration for IMC mirrors | Also reply to: 40m/17352
Tomohiro, Anchal, and I
did the following to make updates to the |
   |
17482
|
Fri Feb 24 13:33:22 2023 |
Tomohiro | Summary | IMC | Updated angular actuation calibration for IMC mirrors | Alex, Anchal, and I did the following to
make updated angular actuation calibration
for IMC mirrors. This is the revised version |
|
17491
|
Fri Mar 3 18:47:13 2023 |
Paco | Summary | BHD | LO phase POS noise coupling - I | I tried some LO PHASE noise coupling measurements
today. With MICH locked using AS55_Q, I control
the LO phase using the single RF (BH55_Q) |
   |
17517
|
Wed Mar 22 18:38:54 2023 |
Paco | Summary | BHD | "On why BH55 senses the LO phase, a finesse adventure of loss and residual DARM offsets" | [Paco, Yehonathan]
I took over the finesse calculations
Yehonathan had set up for BHD. The notebook |
  |
17518
|
Thu Mar 23 14:20:29 2023 |
Koji | Summary | BHD | "On why BH55 senses the LO phase, a finesse adventure of loss and residual DARM offsets" | This is interesting. With the FPMI, the
DARM phase shift is enhanced by the cavity.
Therefore, I suppose the effect on the BH55 |
|
17521
|
Thu Mar 23 19:15:39 2023 |
yuta | Summary | LSC | PRMI locked using REFL55 | [Paco, Yuta]
We
locked PRMI in sideband using REFL55_I and |
    |
17522
|
Fri Mar 24 12:54:51 2023 |
yuta | Summary | LSC | Actuator calibration of PRM using PRY | PRM actuator was calibrated using PRY by
comparing the actuation ratio between ITMY.
It was measured to be |
 |
17523
|
Fri Mar 24 15:05:41 2023 |
yuta | Summary | LSC | PRMI sensing matrix and RF demodulation phase tuning | PRMI sensing matrix was measured under
PRMI locked with REFL55_I and Q.
MICH actuator is 0.5*ITMX-0.5*ITMY |
|
17524
|
Sun Mar 26 19:13:48 2023 |
yuta | Summary | LSC | PRMI sensing matrix and RF demodulation phase tuning | that is really a lot of high precision
for the REFL_11 demod phase...
for this kind of measurement, I |
|
17525
|
Mon Mar 27 20:28:57 2023 |
Paco | Summary | BHD | "On why BH55 senses the LO phase, a finesse adventure of loss and residual DARM offsets" | Yuta pointed out that the BH55 signal was
weirdly never going to zero, so I actually
tuned the demod angle and made sure I was |
|
17526
|
Tue Mar 28 10:58:03 2023 |
rana | Summary | BHD | "On why BH55 senses the LO phase, a finesse adventure of loss and residual DARM offsets" | but what about including the DC reflectivity
imbalance of the arms? there would be another
BH55 term from that field maybe. |
|
17528
|
Wed Mar 29 16:36:04 2023 |
Paco | Summary | BHD | "On why BH55 senses the LO phase, a finesse adventure of loss and residual DARM offsets" | I repeated the calculations but with FPMI
(last
case was all MICH). The qualitative behavior |
  |
17532
|
Thu Mar 30 16:45:09 2023 |
Paco | Summary | LSC | PRMI gain estimates and expected flashing at BHD and POP ports | Here are our best estimates for the optic
transmission (power) coefficients.
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|
17533
|
Mon Apr 3 12:01:59 2023 |
Radhika | Summary | LSC | PRMI sensing matrix and RF demodulation phase tuning | [Paco, Radhika]
We
locked PRMI in carrier.
We |
|
17534
|
Tue Apr 4 11:03:35 2023 |
JC | Summary | Electronics | SR560: reworking | <p>I purchased some more of these from DigiKey.
These parts are currently in the EE shop.
These are replacements for the NDP5565 part |
|
17535
|
Tue Apr 4 11:10:19 2023 |
Anchal | Summary | NeuralNet | Testing neural network controller during day time | I ran two recently trained neural network
controllers today between 10 am and Noon.
Each test comprised of four segments: |
|
17536
|
Wed Apr 5 16:44:31 2023 |
Radhika | Summary | LSC | PRMI sensing matrix and RF demodulation phase tuning | [Paco, Radhika]
We
calibrated the PRM oplev. |
|
17537
|
Thu Apr 6 11:49:45 2023 |
Anchal | Summary | NeuralNet | Testing neural network controller during day time | I've turned on NN controller for MC
WFS PIT loops. One can disable this controller
and go back to linear controller by |
|
17538
|
Thu Apr 6 21:09:12 2023 |
Koji | Summary | NeuralNet | Testing neural network controller during day time | I'm going to get into the PSL enclosure.
Also turn on the HEPA for a while during
the intrusion. |
|
17539
|
Fri Apr 7 16:28:34 2023 |
Radhika | Summary | LSC | PRMI sensing matrix and RF demodulation phase tuning | [Paco, Radhika]
To determine the PRM angle-to-length
coupling for PRCL, we want to inject pitch/yaw |
|
17541
|
Wed Apr 12 16:11:41 2023 |
Radhika | Summary | LSC | PRMI sensing matrix and RF demodulation phase tuning | [Yuta, Radhika]
We copied the coil balancing procedure
found in /scripts/SUS/coilStrengthBalancing/AS1/CoilStrengthBalancing.ipynb |
|
17542
|
Wed Apr 12 21:32:22 2023 |
yuta | Summary | LSC | PRMI BHD power measurements | [Paco, Yuta]
We measured the power around BHD
PDs to see if the numbers make sense. |
|
17546
|
Tue Apr 18 17:37:58 2023 |
rana | Summary | ASC | RL controller left for overnight | Anchal and I turned on another RL policy
(ninedwarfs) with Chris's help.
It looks to be performing great, |
|
17550
|
Wed Apr 19 15:12:01 2023 |
yuta | Summary | SUS | Coil dewhitening check for PRM | [Mayank, Paco, Yohanathan, Yuta]
We checked if coil dewhitening
switch is working by measuring transfer function |
|
17551
|
Wed Apr 19 17:02:48 2023 |
Yehonathan | Summary | SUS | Coil dewhitening check for BS and ITMX | [Yehonathan, Paco]
Repeated the coil dewhitening check
for BS. Attachment #1 show |
 |
17560
|
Mon Apr 24 19:11:20 2023 |
Koji | Summary | BHD | LO/MI(DARM) signal strength comparison between the configurations | Yuta and I had a discussion last week about
the signal strength between the configurations.
Here are some naive calculations. |
|
17565
|
Wed Apr 26 11:27:49 2023 |
Paco | Summary | BHD | LO/MI(DARM) signal strength comparison between the configurations with finesse | I'm
checking Koji + Yuta's not-so-naive calculations
using finesse. |
|
17571
|
Fri Apr 28 20:17:37 2023 |
yuta | Summary | ASC | IFO alignment in bad shape | [Mayank, Paco, Yuta]
IFO alignment is not good. |
|
17572
|
Fri Apr 28 20:56:06 2023 |
Koji | Summary | ASC | IFO alignment in bad shape | I suppose ASS Y arm is using PR2/3 to align
the beam to the arm.
Can't we have ASS PRM bring the |
|
17574
|
Mon May 1 14:45:48 2023 |
Mayank | Summary | LSC | Attenuated BHD DC Beam | [Yuta, Mayank]
UPDATE: It turned out that the
pair of 0.3 OD ND filters we used were not |
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