It took several extra hours to get the beam aligned, because I changed a bit the angle of the periscope mirror inside the cryo (pressed 4 copper strips between the periscope mount and the bottom of the heat shield).

I identified the following modes at room temperature:

When the pressure reached 2e-4 torr (Tue May 14 22:30:43 2019) I began cooldown.

All RTDs are dysfunctional, so we only have the eigenfrequency temperature probe.

I refill the dewar (Tue May 14 23:38:43 2019), but somewhat before it was full the large dewar ran empty. This is surprising, the gauge on the dewar reads just under half full. Won't be cold tomorrow; I've ordered a new dewar.

Note for all Qryo Modellers

Several of the SURFs this summer will want to model the experiment in COMSOL, or look at the solidworks drawings of the cryostat to get a sense for what's going on.

Once you have access to Pleione and ligo.org credentials, you should be able to access all our files.

Solidworks drawings

These are on Pleione. To access:

1. Talk with Larry to get access to Pleione, the remote desktop with Solidworks and COMSOL
2. Login via Microsoft Remote Desktop
3. Files are located in C:Users/Public/PublicDocuments/Qryo_Shared/
4. the suspension system (our custom parts) are in GeNS_Parts
5. The drawings of the cryostat are in Cryostat_Parts
6. The assembly are in Qryo_Assembly.
   1. You might need to modify the assembly file, because it might not have linked the parts correctly when I moved them to the public folder

COMSOL Models

We have several working COMSOL models you can get started with.

1. On Pleione in the same directory as above, there is a model of the disk in COMSOL_models
2. There are some heat transfer models of the disk on nodus, which you can log in to via ssh from Caltech's network (or vpn).
   1. The directories are detailed here.
   2. Ask me or another group member for the nodus credentials.

Is there anything stopping us from using these printed circuits for the entire RTD leads?

So we would have two holes for the RTD leads to solder into, and 4 traces along a ~10cm piece of Kapton tape. As long as we can choose something like phosphor-bronze for the traces (lower conductivity), I don't think the extra Kapton should affect our temperature measurement, and it would help the wire management.

[shubha, anna, aaron]

We gathered this morning to clean up the cryo lab a bit. We spend some time moving optics from the NW cabinet (which will contain optoelectronics and Si fab materials) to the SW optics cabinet.

The FE were down, so I ran killAll. Cymac1 became unresponsive to ssh and commands from the existing session, and I did a hard reboot, then startAll.

The lab should be ready for Shubha to start measuring the laser noise of the green pointer, and I showed him what disk to use to measure temperature as a function of laser power (in air first). The SiQ experiment should be ready for Anna to measure Qs.

Mon Jul 1 17:19:57 2019

Anna and Shubha reported that cymac1 never woke up. I did an Advanced Reboot (unplugged the machine, in addition to rebooting), and monitored the startup directly via VGA.

As had happened once before, cymac1 was getting stuck in emergency boot mode. This had happened once before, I entered the root password, plugged in the external hard drive (this was the backup drive, which cymac1 was searching for during boot), and am now able to finish booting cymac1. Please do not unplug the external hard drive behind cymac1. We will make the backup drive internal when we reorganize the rack.

[aaron, shubha]

I pulled the second laser driver circuit box from the cryo cavs table, and we took it to the EE shop. We tested it in stages:

• Power supply is giving the voltage we want (+-18V for the L7812 in the circuit)
• this voltage makes it to the power switch on the box
• The polarity on the connector on the board is correct (78** gets positive, 79** gets negative)
• When we power on the board, the op amp power legs get the correct voltages
• We attached an LED where the laser diode would go, and when we give it the nominal voltage at the control point (~3V) it illuminates.

Shubha will post about what's still undiagnosed (including the real circuit diagram) and what is to come.

[aaron, anna]

Anna wasn't able to get modes exciting on the disk, so I'm taking a look. Shubha and I had disconnected the cable carrying the ESD excitation signal to the HV driver, so we could temporarily use that channel for the laser driver circuit. When we went to replace the cable, I noticed that the janky DB9-to-BNC I'd made had finally broken, so we replaced it with a PCB DB-BNC breakout.

The ESD excitation still wasn't reaching the HV drive, and though the DAC TP channels were reading the correct values, we weren't seeing any voltages out of the DAC chassis. I ran killAll/startAll, but am getting the characteristic increasing checksum errors (code 0x1000 on the DC status part of the GDS_TP screens). There were no bad frames, and in the past we've narrowed this down to a timing issue. At some point while digging through old elogs to find what we did last time, cymac1 crashed (all white boxes, no ping).

We pressed (not held down) the power button once, waited 5 minutes, then did it once more. With no response, we held down the power button for a hard reboot.

When the system came back online, I ran startAll and burtwb the 'measureReady' snapshot. All (usual) indicators green (attachment 1), but we still aren't getting any signal out of the DAC.

[anna, aaron]

Thu Jul 11 10:39:36 2019 we filled the nitrogen.

Anna mentioned today that she is getting errors when running diaggui in the past. I don't find any problems, and cymac1 has been running with no problems for an unusually long time. Note that only the _DQ channels are saved to frames, so only those channels can be viewed in the past. 

I did find that the pressure channel is reading 0. Not sure if it's just not plugged in, we can check later today.

What crimp pins go with that kind of connector?

Shubha - CONTACT SOCKET 20-24 AWG CRIMP connectors

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/te-connectivity-deutsch-connectors/M39029-32-260/1506-1046-ND/4840025

Anchal and I started the process of building the new cryo stand. The result is attached, and that we determined I need to order (or modify from the cryo graveyard) a plate to clamp the bottom of the cryostat.

I also mostly finished up the reorganization of the cryo lab, up to some electronics parts to be sorted into the EE shop, a couple boxes in the vacuum cabinet, and projects in progress. Please try to follow the new organization scheme (see the labels; if you don't know where something goes don't just put it anywhere but find the appropriate place or talk to the other lab members about where it should go).

Following the discussion with Anchal on Friday about the new cryostat mount, I found the calibrated leak and associated buffer gas piping in the vacuum cabinet. We need some more careful planning to set up buffer gas cooling, and since it may change the space requirements in the cryostat I've returned to the new GeNS design with a buffer gas in mind. Loosely, I think we need to design/decide on the following (working list)

• Are we designing something that can accommodate GeNS and/or a clamped disk (for eg the metamaterials project)?
• How will we enclose the disk?
  • Case needs a clamping/latching mechanism
  • Photon-tight gas outlet
  • Cold windows--how should we design the flanges/periscope? Heating beam optics?
• How to get in the buffer gas?
  • Need to mount the feedthrough piping
  • If we don't use lN2 boiloff (maybe we want eg He or Ne), how to cool it?

To tackle any of those, I'd like to review a bit more the cryostat design literature. I've picked up these from the library:

• DeWitt and Nutter, Theory and Practice of Radiation Thermometry
• Wood and Cork, Pyrometry
• Bailey, Advanced Cryogenics 
• Hoare, Jackson, Kurti, Experimental Cryophysics (old, first diagram I saw suggested asbestos tape)0
• Hudson, Principles and Applications of Magnetic Cooling (too cold for us)
• Does someone from our group have Experimental Techniques for Low Temperature Measurements?

I've attached a screenshot of the design so far, please come discuss how it should go.

Today I've been reading up on light-tight seals for cryostat design. I'll compile some resources here:

• Intro to Cryogenics manual
• IRTF cryostat design doc
• CERN design principles doc
• Cold welded indium window seal
• CMR-Direct on how to make an indium seal
• Superconducting Super Collider N15 cryo system and technical drawings
• Thermal design of SCUBA-2
• Practical Cryogenics -- best drawings of indium seal flanges, also in Advanced Cryogenics
• Experimental Techniques in Low Temperature Physics -- not sure why I didn't see this on the shelf,  there are still several copies at SFL
• Alternative indium sealed flange design

Here's a working copy of the eDrawing.

The ESD should look like a capacitor from the outside, so I would expect a very large (~infinite) resistance. On the curernt pins--are there three RTD installed? Recall that the RTD are wired in series, so removing a single RTD will leave the current leads with an open circuit.

The ESD can be stuck near 0 for a few reasons

• There's a short circuit. It sounds like that's not going on, because you're measuring an open circuit across the ESD pins (good).
• The sign of the excitation is wrong, which you've checked.
• There's something turning 'off' the excitation just before the DAC. If the channel X1:SIQ-ESD_OUTPUT is not reading zero, there should be a signal from the DAC, but just in case you can check the DAC channels directly.
• The signal is getting to the DAC, but there's no DAC output. Sounds like this is the mostly likely at this point, and that means the front ends may need to be restarted. To do this, use the following scripts (/opt/rtcds/tst/x1/scripts/)
  • ./killAll.sh
  • ./startAll.sh
  • If that doesn't work (or if cymac freezes up/you get an error), restart cymac1(the computer) from the command line.
• If there's a signal from the DAC, you can continue checking the rest of the signal chain. Is the BNC faulty? Can the HV driver do anything, even if disconnected? Is there a short downstream that the driver can't drive, but that goes away when you unplug the driver from the cryostat? Etc.

Cool! Models! Data! Here are some thoughts/suggestions:

• If you include more parameters, you'll probably also want to include more modes--more modes than parameters, preferably.
• The nominal wafer thickness is 280um, 
• What was the ID number of the disk you measured? It's written on the wafer cassette, if memory serves it was #7. You can find this disk's history on the cryo wiki. It probably has an aSi or SiNx passivation layer, which also has some stress. The nominal thickness is probably 280um, but I'll have to dig up the spec'ed tolerance. Those nonidealities aside, good confidence check!

I unplugged the BNC from the HV driver input, and observed the driver output drop from 0.52V to 0V (according to the digital display). Probing the BNC with the multimeter, indeed the DAC is giving only 2mV instead of the expected 5V.

Attachment #1 is the state of the testpoint screens before I restarted the FE. After taknig that screenshot, I did the following:

Screenshot #2 is the state after startAll finishes running. I'm still seeing the FE lights red on the SIQ_GDS_TP screen, but looking back at some previous instances of this problem I think everything is nominal now. I probed the BNC again and get the expected 5V output. I ran

to restore the settings from before this FE restart, and the system should be ready to go!

Yesterday Anna measured some disk eigenfrequencies at room temperature, then we cooled down.

I topped off the nitrogen at Fri Aug 16 13:20:15 2019 . Temperatures were still above 200K at the RTDs (nitrogen had boiled off this morning), so it's going to take some time to cool still.

I disconnected the SS-8BS leak valve from the shutoff valve so I could bake it, but found an unpleasant surprise. The photos probably tell it best. The labelled parts in attachment 1 are:

There was a glass sleeve of some kind inside the valve, shattered; I can't find mention of it on the elog, but maybe I don't know what it was used for in the past?

[aaron, raymond]

Tue Oct 8 11:20:52 2019. We restarted the FE after seeing the same failure mode as before.

We were able to excite two modes, optimized the phase on MR0, and calibrated the temperature of MR0; mode was at ~973 Hz. At the last minute we excited MR1 as well, but didn't do much playing around.

Looks pretty good. I suspect you're getting the diverging solution because the Q term in the denominator of your resonator TF is not imaginary. This means that the resonator has no damping, and any drive would indeed lead to diverging amplitude.

You might need to define the TF from the command line function, rather than in the simulink block; I think the block throws an error when you give it complex coefficients. This is surprising to me, so maybe I'm missing something.

Edit: That's not it, I just wasn't thinking in s-domain.

Here are a few other things I notice about this model that might be important:

• The first BP filter is specified in Hz, rather than rad/s. This means you're inadvertently BPing well away from the plant's resonance.
• You're computing the 'amplitude' by low passing the bandpassed signal. But what's done in the model is an RMS followed by lowpass. That is, the squared signal is scaled and lowpassed. Otherwise, you should get zero (BP near 1kHz followed by LP at 10s of Hz, with no nonlinear steps => 0)
• You don't have the loop shaping filter, typically included in the PWRCTRL filter module. This contains the integrator needed to reach the correct setpoint (on long time scales, else you'll reach some offset from the setpoint) and an extra zero to increase the UGF.
• The butterworth LP on the lower path has a pretty high cutoff, usually I set this at a few to 10 Hz.
• The saturation gives a clean square wave iff there is a large gain just before, otherwise it gives a square wave with some rise/fall time where the original sine was crossing zero.
  • This is the source of at least some problems. Whenever I was increasing this gain, I found the output of differentiator decreased proportionally. I was also eventually getting some errors from the saturation block about detecting too many zero crossings. Turning off zero crossing detection at the saturation block solved both of these issues. In retrospect, this makes sense -- zero crossing detection is meant to smooth out discontinuities by decreasing the step size until they go away; this block is intentionally introducing such a discontinuity.
• The laplace transform of an exponentially decaying sine has all positive real coefficients in the denominator. While the frequency-domain transfer function is what Rana posted above and has a (omega_0^2-omega^2) term, in the laplace domain it's different. I'd guess this is why you're geting a divergence.

Cryo reopening

Following discussion last week with Rana and Shruti, we would like to set up the early version on PSOMA in the Cryo lab. Working in cryo offers the following benefits:

• Existing eyewear and controls for 1550nm laser. We identified 1550nm as a good wavelength choice, since it will eventually ease our transition from room temperature to cryogenic operation.
• Access to cryo cantilevers apparatus
• Possibility that cryo Q will move to the large cryostat down the hall in QIL (non-inverted cold plate)

What we need

I'm reviewing the existing COVID-19 guidelines from PMA and LIGO, and would like to develop a set of procedures for the people using the cryo lab to follow as we return to West Bridge. This includes:

• Checklist of procedures for entering and exiting the lab (additional PPE, surfaces to clean, what to note on the elog)
• Procedure for controlling lab access
  • for example, how many users may enter the lab per day or week, and how they should coordinate
  • One-way access to lab (hallways will become one-way corridors)
  • Daily record of contacts, symptoms, and work locations
• What work needs to be done to prepare the lab for use? such as
  • Fixing the HEPA filter for HVAC
  • Restocking PPE
  • Post signage about new procedures
  • Sanitizing station near door
• Other considerations?

Resources

Here are some of the resources available for answering these questions:

• LIGO COVID-19 sharepoint page
• Recommendations from the Caltech committee on reopening
• PMA laboratory activity restart plan template
• PMA lab activity additional resources
• Supposedly other labs restart plans will be made available, so we can learn from what other groups are doing.
• Caltech "Returning to Campus" webpage
• Required training video on returning to campus
• Health Attestation log
• "What's open at Caltech?" info page

Developing reopening plans

According to the plan for reconstituting lab activities in PMA, labs should plan with the following in mind. Open questions for cryo are in bold.

• All work that can be done remotely should be done remotely.
• Limit the total number of people with lab access, and the density of people at any time.
  • Establish designated individual work areas separated by ~10ft, depending on duration and type of activity. Use clear floor markings to delineate individual areas.
  • Establish traffic patterns (on-way aisles) to minimize contact.
  • How many people will be working In the lab? One is a natural start.
• Establish shifts to minimize density, and break research groups into cohorts that have minimal overlap with each other.
  • Eg, 4 days in lab 10 days out; 3 days in 4 days out in two groups
  • Also, how will shared lab spaces like the electronics shop be used and scheduled?
• Establish cleaning and disinfecting practices
  • High touch surfaces:
    • Doorknobs -- disinfect on entry and exit
    • tool boxes -- can we move to individual carts of tools?
    • Computers (keyboard, mouse) -- disinfect on entry and exit
    • Optics tables -- can we divide tables into individual zones, or give individuals their own table?
    • Chairs -- disinfect on entry and exit
    • Light switches -- disinfect on entry and exit
  • Disinfection strategy:
    • Cleaning with 70% iso (no higher or lower) from a spray (not squirt) bottle
• Establish a plan for ordering and receiving supplies
  • ​One option could be to 'quarantine' deliveries in our personal, unused offices before bringing to lab. Cardboard boxes should never be brought to lab anyway.
• Reassess lab safety hazards to address both COVID and effects of reduced numbers of people in labs
  • Maintain a log of all people in the lab (check-in and check-out). This can be done on the elog, I'll post a template elog entry shortly.
  • Require use of face coverings / masks, gloves, goggles, lab coat. We usually don't require lab coat in lab when not working on optics, but we should launder and use the lab coats on reopening. PPE should not be shared, and we already have plastic bins for individuals to store PPE between uses.
  • Require frequent handwashing and sanitation
  • Notify the safety office when a risky experiment is scheduled, and alert other lab members when working alone in the lab. (Eg, when venting an experiment, especially that contains HV).
  • Address safety hazard of unattended experiments. 
• Establish a research continuity plan, including critical functions, communication plan, and data backup strategy. We have existing backups of things like our software and data which should be revisited.
• Develop a communication plan. All lab activity should be documented on the elog, as always.
• Identify a lab safety officer. This might be done at the LIGO-X level, rather than the cryo lab level?
• Certify that the HVAC system complies with the standards attached (1). The cryo lab HEPA filter is currently leaky, needs repair.
• Follow the back-to-lab checklist (attachment 2) for procedures on 'starting up' the lab again, including initial safety checks.
• Additional guidance for developing plans for return to work is in attachment 3.

Back-to-Lab checklist

This section is an unpacking of attachment 2, with the specifics of the cryo lab in mind.

1. Have a research group level 'back to work' plan developed. Have a schedule for starting up certain processes, equipment, etc, and avoid starting up alone (for safety). Take things slow.
2. Perform a thorough walkthrough of the lab on first reentry, and note anything out of place, missing, damaged, leaking, etc. Record this In the elog, and make a plan for repair.
3. Ensure the lab has adequate PPE for near-term use
4. Ensure an adequate supply of hand soap, towels, 70% isopropyl, kim wipes, and other disinfecting equipment.
   1. We need to purchase a spray bottle, I don't know of one in cryo.
   2. We could designate the sole sink for hand washing, but may instead focus on hand sanitizer based washing and always wearing gloves in the lab. In any case, the sink should be flushed out until it doesn't run rusty on reopening.
5. Complete an inventory of lab supplies
   1. I'll add that we should continue our campaign of reorganizing and labeling the cryo lab.
   2. Check levels of pressurized N2 (and liquid nitrogen, if needed).
   3. Discard expired chemicals, replenish supply of any depleted chemicals In addition to both high purity and low grade (70%) isopropyl.
   4. Replenish supply of PPE
   5. Supply of 1550nm optics, related optomechanics
   6. Inventory equipment used in old or unused experiments -- preserve experiments that are close to a functioning state, safely store experiments that are not
   7. Optics shelves
   8. Vacuum supply cabinet
   9. 'projects boxes' cabinet
   10. Toolbox
   11. Electronics racks
   12. Silicon sample and processing cabinet
6. Verify all emergency equipment is accessible and functioning
   1. Eyewash station and safety shower in the hallways
   2. Sprinkler heads in lab
   3. Fire extinguisher
   4. Pull stations
7. Check chemical and biological containers for damage, leaks, or pressure build up (we just have one flammables cabinet, and waste storage under the sink)
   1. Replace hazardous waste containers
   2. ensure compressed gas cylinders are chained and stored
   3. Maintain separation of non-compatible substances (oxidizers / flammables, acids / bases, etc)
   4. Review startup procedures for compressed gas cylinders
   5. Leak test compressed gas piping, especially going to floating optics benches
8. Power up electrical equipment slowly and one at a time.
9. Pour a small amount of water down dry traps and floor drains. Run all water faucets for a few minutes.
10. Turn water back on slowly. Check water connections for leaks. Do not leave site right away, wait at least several minutes -- some connections may burst after few min. Immediately report all leaks.
11. Check closed environments for accumulated condensation and/or mold.
12. Check that utilities (house vacuum, H2, etc) are functioning.
13. Equipment startup
    1. Review equipment manuals
    2. Verify "Laser in Use" lights, door interlocks, and other safety controls are functioning
    3. Verify heat sources do not have damaged cords. These include:
       1. 2x hot plates
       2. 1x variac heater, associated resistive straps
    4. Check vacuum equipment.

Here's my first attempt at a template / checklist for logging cryo lab entry / exit. In practice, perhaps the full checklist can be stored on a wiki page and also posted in the lab, rather than repeated many times on the elog. In that case, we can just include user name, time in and out, and purpose for lab use. Please provide changes, additions, comments, etc.

Cryo lab use log

Prerequisites to using the lab

By posting this elog, I confirm that I am eligible for returning to campus work by meeting the following:

1. Have not shown flu- or cold-like symptoms, or been in close contact with anyone showing such symptoms, for at least 14 days.
2. Watched Caltech's training video on returning to work safely.
3. I am one of the allowed users in the LIGO instrument science group's plan approved by PMA.
4. I have gotten the flu (and/or COVID) vaccine, unless medically prohibited from doing so
5. I maintain a log of my activities on campus, including route travelled, buildings visited, and rooms visited, for each day that I am on campus.
6. I wear a face covering at all times when on campus (is this right? is the requirement broader than on campus?)
7. I know how to put on gloves, because I read the Glove Usage Guidelines attached (1)
8. I have mastered the cleaning / sanitizing protocols outlined in attachment 2
9. Usual lab safety measures apply, including long pants, closed-toe shoes, lab coats, and no food or beverage.

Lab entry checklist

By posting this elog, I confirm that on entering the cryo lab, I did all of the following, in order

1. Check in with myself. I am not symptomatic and haven't come into contact with anyone showing flu- or cold-like symptoms. I meet all the above prerequisites for entering the lab.
2. Check the elog for important updates -- is there any reason I cannot use the lab as planned?
3. Apply hand sanitizer before entering the lab
4. Donned personal protective equipment (PPE) in the following order
   1. Face covering / mask (worn before entering West Bridge)
   2. Gloves
   3. Hair covering
   4. Goggles (general or laser, depending on work)
   5. Lab coat
   6. Shoe covering
5. Clean and sanitize shared work surfaces with 70% ethanol / water spray and wiping down.
   1. Doorknobs and light switches
   2. Keyboard, monitor, and mouse of shared computers
   3. Any chair I use
   4. Toolbox, cabinet, and drawer handles
   5. Work surfaces (benchtop on the south wall, computer desk, any other surface being worked on).
   6. Phone, personal electronic or other devices
   7. [list other shared surfaces necessary for today's work 
6. Clean and sanitize my gloved hands, or change gloves

Lab exit checklist

By posting this elog, I confirm that on exiting the cryo lab I did all of the following, in order:

1. Clean and sanitize my gloved hands, or change gloves
2. Clean and sanitize shared work surfaces, including the ones listed above
3. Remove personal protective equipment in reverse order from the above

Bathroom breaks checklist

By posting this elog, I confirm that on briefly leaving the cryo lab to use the restroom (or another room with users not from our lab), I did all of the following, in order

1. Remove PPE (except for face mask) in the reverse order as above
2. Put on a fresh pair of gloves before exiting the cryo lab
3. Dispose of gloves before reentering the cryo lab
4. Don PPE, in normal order as above

Cleaning and sanitizing protocol

The cleaning and sanitizing protocol is defined in attachment 2. Note that these apply to preventative measures to remove visible debris and reduce the number and growth of bacteria, virus, and fungi. Measures for disinfecting, or killing pathogens on a known contaminated surface, are defined elsewhere (see Caltech EHS).

1. Clean the material to remove visible debris, dirt, or dust
   1. Use an EPA approved (dead link on the Caltech doc) cleaner, or either a 70% ethanol or 10% bleach solution.
   2. Use paper towels or wipes with cleaning solution
   3. Cleaning is performed whenever work surfaces or frequently touched surfaces are visibly dirty
2. Sanitize the material to kill and reduce the growth of pathogens
   1. Wipe or spray surfaces with cleaning solution (70% ethanol, OR 10% bleach, OR another approved cleaning product), leaving the surface moist for at least one (1) minute
      1. For water sensitive equipment, use wipes
   2. Sanitation should be performed on any object used in the lab before and after use. Examples of these are:
      1. Bench tops
      2. Light switches, door handles
      3. Laboratory hand tools (wrenches, IR viewcards, etc)
      4. Waste container lids
      5. Equipment panels / controls, rack mounted electronics, cables
   3. Sanitation of commonly used surfaces (listed above) should take place before and after entry to the lab. 
3. Discard used wipes, cleaning supplies, and gloves in regular waste.

Notice of lab entry

Some of the above plans or guidance are now out of date. Here are some updates:

• LIGO lab's research activities and restarting plan for PMA are outlined in a spreadsheet on the dcc.
• There are also many additional or finalized training materials.
  • Collection of LIGO COVID related docs
  • Guidance for CIT campus restarting research activities
  • LIGO's COVID-19 sharepoint page
  • Updated LIGO PPE, lab and restroom use, and clean room protocols
  • Level 1 training materials from LIGO is required for those working less than 6 feet from others (shared spaces). Level 2 is not required for currently planned activity in cryo.
  • Updated procedures for returning to campus from Caltech.
    • Includes a more extensive guide than before
  • There is a work permit process. The list of work permits can be found here.
• Most of the open questions raised above have been addressed
  • List of EPA approved cleaning products
  • Per the PPE and air flow requirements, since the Cryo lab will be a single person workspace we have no time constraint from COVID risk, and need only wear face covering when working solo. Other PPE requirements for clean optics still apply.
  • Shruti and I will be using the cryo lab on alternating days. Shruti will take Monday and Tuesday, Aaron will be Thursday and Friday. We will keep one unused day between our lab uses, at least for now.
  • We will set up a station with what we need from the electronics shop in the Cryo lab
  • LIGO has training and resources on best cleaning and disinfecting practice.
  • We can mostly use separate computer work stations, and keep personal tools at our own stations.
  • We will set up "in/out" boxes near the entry to cryo, so people can request supplies being stored there and pick them up after disinfecting. Information about shipping and receiving is on Sharepoint.
  • Rana has approved us to work in cryo 

TLDR: I sealed the leaks around the HEPA filter. I did an inventory of PPE and cleaning supplies in cryo, and separated two sets of personal PPE for Shruti and myself from the common supply. I did not receive PPE or cleaning supplies from Downs or 40m, but have inquired after both. Any anticipated work not explicitly mentioned here was not done; I tried to take care, but still strongly suggest that Shruti wipe down anything I placed in your personal supplies, just in case.

Next steps: See prior elog

After clearing the temperature check at home, still showing no symptoms, and starting the daily log in the reporting app, I head to West Bridge.

I entered the lab at 13:10 PT, using the N (olive walk) entrance to W Bridge. I am wearing a disposable mask, applied hand sanitizer on entering the lab, and don nitrile gloves. I locate the ISO and Kim wipes and wipe down

• personal devices
• glasses
• keyboard, mouse, spirou workstation
• door handles
• Orange-brown lab chair
• Common cabinet handles
• label maker

Existing PPE and cleaning supplies in cryo

I located the following in the cryo lab, and am storing all PPE in the staging area at the entrance.

• 4x laser glasses suitable for 1550nm. 2 are over-glasses, 2 are not, and I've labeled the glasses and storage cubby for myself and Shruti to have one of each.
• 4x laser glasses for 1064. 2 are labeled '40m' and will be placed clean in the outbox for pickup with the circuit, the other 2 are also in labeled cubbies.
• 1 pair of lN2 safety googles, 1 pair of ordinary sunglasses. These are not in regular use, and can be used occasionally with proper cleaning.
• Limited supply of blue shoe covers (1 package)
• 56 boxes of small dry Kim wipes, 4 box supply of large dry Kim wipes
• 1 box of large nitrile gloves, nearly depleted
• 2 Kimtech lens cleaning stations (34623; need to check whether this is just anti fog or also EPA approved sanitizing spray)
• Various Tyvek coveralls (PN IC 182 BWH SM 00250C) size small to XL
• 2 polyester lab coats (M, L)
• Variety of Single-wrapped latex gloves, size 7, 8, 8.5, 9, 
• hair nets
• sleeve covers
• 1 Willson face shield
• disposable frocks size S 
• limited supply of shop wipes
• 1 package pre-wetted polyester wipes
• dust catcher floor mats

Personal tools and PPE

Any tool I used that we have multiple copies of, I labeled "[aaron/shruti]" and set aside one copy for me and one for Shruti. My tools are on the blue cart holding Spirou. Shruti's are on the tan cart formerly holding screws and power supples (which I moved onto the remaining cart, the work bench, and the middle optics bench). Personal toolkit currently includes:

• scissors
• large flat head screwdriver
• glasses cleaning station
• dry kim wipes
• small IPA spritz bottle 

Personal PPE are in clear bins labeled "Shruti" or "Aaron" and with the box contents. Currently each set includes

• 2 disposable (but multi use) frocks
• 2 disposable (but multi use) coveralls
• 1 washable lab coat (where to launder?)
• several pairs of AccuTech ultra-clean latex gloves
• several hair nets
• several blue shoe covers
• several white sleeve covers

The remaining PPE are in clear boxes near the entrance labeled "common" and with the box contents. Extra AccuTech gloves and a few more coveralls are on the shelf below the HEPA filter.

Any tool with only one copy, I am noting here for a future order. I sanitized these tools before and after use. Common tools will remain in the tall blue Crafsman tool box.

• label maker. The batteries were badly corroded (we usually run on power supply), I set them aside for disposal.
• ladder

HEPA filter

The model of the HEPA filter is not visible from the exterior, and I will have to look up its cleaning schedule. The tape sealing the edges of the filter does not adhere to the textured paint surrounding part of the filter [attachment 1] . The smooth paint on the far wall appears to support adequate adhesion. To create a seal on the textured surface, I first cleared the supplies from the shelf under the filter and pealed back the non-adhering tape. I applied rubber cement to the sticky side of the tape, and held the tape in position for drying using the small boxes of Kim wipes from before. I applied rubber cement along the entire edge wherever there was textured paint, but not on the region with smooth paint. Air flow through the filter was noticeably increased following this procedure and seal was intact after a few hours, though I did not make a quantitative measurement. 

Stopped by Downs

at 1500 I exited the lab to use the restroom, eat, and pick up PPE from Downs 318. I swapped gloves on exit, and resanitized my hands after using the restroom in W Bridge basement, which is designated for our lab's use. After eating, I entered Downs and took the elevator to the 3rd floor, but was not able to access room 318 for PPE. I emailed Chub and Calum (listed contacts for Thomas lab) to coordinate a pickup at a later date. Specifically, I am requesting:

• Nitrile gloves, M and S
• 4 cloth face coverings, 2 for me and 2 for Shruti
• Cleanroom masks (can also obtain from 40m PPE supply)
• Beard covers (can also obtain from 40m PPE)
• IPA wipes (some available in 40m supply)
• disposable frocks size M (available at 40m)
• 2x Disinfectant spray can
• 2x hand sanitizer
• 2x face shield
• 2x no touch tools
• 2x door adapter
• 2x shop safety glasses
• Signage
• Borrow air flow meter if available 
• anti-fog disinfecting wipes for glasses (is this the same as the Kimtech station?)

Misc

• I found one function generator (SRS DS345) plugged into a power strip that was not connected to power. I've plugged it in to the wall and labelled it "check battery"

Exit

At 17:15, I begin wiping down the common tools and surfaces I used and exit at 17:25, upon which I disinfect hands again.

Notice of lab entry

[anticipated]

Purpose: finish up the steps outlined above (2533)

[note: date is correct, I needed to remake the entries for July 23 but the content of 2541 is nearly identical. I had a backup.]

entered W Bridge 264

I stopped by my office (W Bridge 364E) to pick up the new workstation computer and a mini monitor that might be handy. Stayed < 15 min and wore fresh gloves, mask, etc; also recorded entry by door.

I entered the lab around 3:15pm and wiped down the common surfaces. I sanitized and sorted my set of PPE from the box Liz dropped off -- thank you!

We should try not to bring cardboard Into the lab, and remove any cardboard we find. I got rid of a couple boxes.

lab temperature is high

The thermostat is doing its usual thing. It is set to 'cool,' but despite the temperature reading 71.2 F at the thermostat, the temperature at the particle counter is 80F and it feels warm. When I try to lower the set point, the thermostat requests a password. I found online that the default password for is 9995. The thermostat seems to accept the password but won't let me change the setpoint.

The rubber cement at one corner of the HEPA filter delaminated, but the edge held by the kim wipes set in place. I reapplied glue and fixed the tape more securely, and noticed improved air flow through the filter again. The lab temperature also improved a bit -- the leak seems directs cold air down to the floor, while the filter sends cool air across the top of the room.

misc reopening steps

These cover most of the recommended reopening steps. I'll do some general cleaning and organization, and make some new signage, then will call it 'reopen.' 

• ran the sink hot and cold for about 10 min. There are no noticeable leaks or dampness under the sink, along the edges of the lab, or in any of the major cabinets in the lab.
• Valved off the cryo Q vacuum and turned off the pump. Pressure reached 2e-3 torr in ~3 hours
• strain relieved cables of spirou workstation, moved the station, ethernet, etc closer to PSOMA electronics rack
• checked level of compressed He (1900 psi) and N2 (we don't have a cylinder). I will coordinate with Chub to get an N2 delivery
• Added isopropyl, methanol, other solvents to the PSOMA inventory
• Confirmed that our fire extinguisher still has pressure. Where is our eye wash and emergency shower station?  There's one on the basement level, is there one in the subbasement?
• Not sure about sprinklers, gas, and vacuum utilities. I checked the utility with a yellow valve at NE corner of the lab, but opening the valve releases neither gas nor vacuum. I did not touch the sprinkler system, and did not test the compressed gas tubing (such as for the optics benches).
• Laser 'in use' lkight at the lab entrance is functioning.
• Checked that the hot plate (1) and variac cables were not under stress or damaged

exit lab Thu Jul 23 18:09:38 2020

Notice of lab entry

[actual]

Purpose: PSOMA hardware inventory, find out what we can turn on

PSOMA hardware inventory

I located the materials for stage 1 PSOMA on the West optics table. I recorded what we have in the hardware inventory, and what we don't have is flagged for purchase. I start by cleaning up the electronics rack, removing anything I think is not in use.

Electronics rack

• Both laser current drivers are D1500207
• The E laser has a TED 200 C temp controller. The W laser is not plugged in to TEC, but there is a spare ITC 502 combination controller on the rack, and cryo cavs has a additional ITC 510.
• There are three universal PDH servo boxes on the W rack: 1x D0901351 and 2x D1700219-v1. All of the boxes need lids and proper rack mount hardware.
  • Innards
    • Inside the *1351, the board matches the front panel DCC number (serial number 1437)
    • Both the *0219 have matching boards: D1700192-v2, D1700195-v2, D1799182-v2, D1700131-v2
  •  
• Power supplies
  • The +- 15V power strip is currently unplugged. I don't see a low noise DC supply on this rack, but there is a Tenma 72-6615 on the ground. The closed-ring connector of the power strip is incompatible with this supply, so likely it was powered off of something else.
  • There's a NewFocus 1901 +- 15V supply on the W table itself. I think this should be located not on the table? The outputs are 0.1 A max to banana, plus 2x 0.3A max to a coax cable. The NewFocus was only supplying the PDs on the table. 
  • Cryo cavs has a dedicated rack for its power supplies (2x Sorensen DCS33-33E), separated from the laser control and PDH electronics. Is this an important choice, and should we also move our power supplies?
  • On the bottom of the rack, there's a Mech-Tronics NIM power supply. Seems out of use, only a PD power supply and readout board is plugged in, but this has no corresponding PD. 
  • I found on the elog that Chris moved the two Sorensens from the cryo cantilevers (W) rack to the cryoaux (central, rolling) rack after the supplies Johannes bought in 2017 died (fans not running). Do these usually die right after their 2 year warranty expires, or were we especially hard on them?
    • sidenote, great to see a potential solution to cryo lab timing woes, and that the overheated Sorensens were causing cominaux hard drive failures. Thanks Chris!
    • I've added 2x Sorensen supplies to our purchase list for PSOMA
  • For now, I moved all existing power supplies onto the electronics rack, and power the strip with the Tenma. In the future, we can discuss a remote location for power supplies, and will buy 2x additional Sorensens.
• Misc
  • a bunch of old and open circuit boards, in cases compatible with the NIM supply. One power amp II; one PDH2 servo board (D1100996); 2 channel low noise amplifier (contains D1101396-v2 and another hand made board); a general filter board claiming to be from the gyro experiment. 
  • There were a few loose minicircuits components connected to the OCXO preamp (D1500064). These were providing 33.59 and 32.7 MHz modulation to Zach's experiments. I removed these from the preamp so we can give them a more permanent box later.

W optics bench

• vacuum pump
  • I don't see the pumping station that used to be by the W optics bench. I don't remember using it elsewhere, and don't find any elog mentioning it being borrowed or moved. Has anyone seen this pump? It's one of the HiCube all-in-ones; it should have LIGO property tag C21832.
  • Similarly, what happened to the IR labs cryostat that housed the cantilever Q measurement (property tag)? I see maybe the glint of a cantilever in the short gryo vacuum can, and I have the cantilever Q HV driver and feedthrough, but no cryostat.
• Photodiodes
  • PDA50B (Ge, 800-1800 nm)
  • 2x PDA255
  • Found 2 loose (unmounted) photodiodes wrapped in foil near the "optical contact razorblade test" setup (SE corner of W table).
  • NewFocus 1811, 1611
  • 1 home brewed QPD and breakout board, (PN on the circuit board is 10-00146 rev 1)
• Put away or onto the workbench any loose optics, unused optomechanics, and most cables. Anything that wasn't a stock part I placed in a clear plastic box labeled 'Cryo Cantilevers' in the projects cabinet (2-part wooden cabinet on S wall). Stock parts went into the respective optics cabinets.

Misc

• The lab temperature is still way too high. The temperature at the particle counter is reading 78, the thermostat still reads 71 F. The filter is not leaking substantially.j
• Got the speaker working -- there was an aux adapter in the headphone port, so system was confused
• Raymond requested a CF16 blank. I couldn't find one, but gave him a CF40-to-CF25 adapter that had a CF25 blank epoxied onto it, along with a CF16 to CF40 adapter and some gaskets. Here was the disinfection procedure for sending these items to QIL:
  1. Found a large plastic bag and disinfected inside and out with Phenomenal (TM) spray
  2. Disinfected the unpackaged UHV components with 70% isopropyl alcohol and a Kim wipe, wrapped them in foil, and placed in the disinfected bag
  3. Disinfect the outside of the bag with Phenomenal spray and leave outside the door to cryo for same-day pickup.
• noted that pressure in cryo Q vacuum is 24 utorr after about a day valved off
• Emailed Jordan and Liz about anemometer, to measure air flow in cryo. If we can compute the time for air to circulate through the cryo lab, we can reduce the length of time between lab entries (currently Shruti and I are leaving 1 day between our lab uses). 
• Starting piling up seemingly unused components from W table onto the S workbench. These need a new home.
• Found some historical documents, sticky notes from Zach. Took photos of these just in case (attached, later) and placed along with the miscellany on the workbench.
• Checked with other W Bridge lab users before entering EE shop at 3:30pm. Disinfected surfaces I touched before and after use. I retrieved 3x 9V rechargeable batteries for the cryo lab multimeters.
• Found a cardboard boxed fiber polarization controller (FPC032), which I placed in the NW optics cabinet sans box. Is this safe for storage (attachment 3)? What about things like Kim wipes, are those an acceptable amount of cardboard, or should they be eliminated?
• Moved any cantilevers, etc into the silicon storage cabinet (NW corner cabinet)

Notice of lab entry

[anticipated]

Conclusions

• I propose we continue scheduling cryo lab use with one individual using the lab per day, and announcing who will be in lab the day before.
  • If needed, this analysis suggests we could schedule two people to use the lab during the same day, but not at the same time. (of course, we are not yet cleared for shared use of the lab)
• Use the air scrubber near the workstations, or wherever in the lab has stagnant air and prolonged use
• Increase air circulation in the lab
  • I can order fans this week.
  • Can we open an additional port for air flow out (and possibly in) to the lab? What's behind the old cryo access in the NW corner, could we put a vent for out flow?
  • Change the HEPA filter
• Before returning the anemometer, perhaps should measure air flow in the interior of the lab.
• Check out the new cryo lab group and repo(s) on the github!

Liz dropped off an air scrubber (Medify Airx MA-40) and an anemometer (Digi-sense 20250-15) today. I'm using the instructions on the DCC to measure the air flow and assess the occupancy limits of the cryo lab. I calculate an acceptable amount of time between lab uses, and for two people to occupy the cryo lab simultaneously. For these calculations, I use a conservative threshold of P<1% for the acceptable probability that a second person becomes infected, given one infected lab occupant who sheds virus at 10 nL/min. I measured the dimensions of the lab at about 30x20x10' (l, w, h), for a 6000 ft^3 volume. I expect that's a high estimate, as it doesn't account for things like the awkward geometry of the staircase, volume of lab equipment, or stagnant air inside cabinets.

Result

I plugged in the electronics, but only turned on DC power to the laser driver. I just left them on long enough to confirm a bright green (on viewcard) beam spot for both lasers -- we're in business!

Turned off the lasers, disinfected the common surfaces and objects.

PS, the anti-fog wipes work wonders. My goggles went from fogging in seconds to no fog at all.

Notice of lab entry

Purpose: Measure optical table dimensions, start to assess what we need for an enclosure. Set up EOM/EOAM to take some transfer functions. Set up realtime model. Figure out why particle counter isn't logging to frames. Turn on the HEPA for cryo cavs table.

Entered the lab at 11:00 am. The lab is far too hot (78F) and humid (45%)! 

Inventoried available photodiodes in the cryo lab, on the PSOMA wiki.

Pretty tired honestly, I submitted an order for a few things we want in the lab, such as:

• 2x "ultra quiet" fans to circulate air
• longer ethernet cable for reaching far end of PSOMA table
• headset web cam so we can take video while doing lab activities
• more plastic storage bins
• food and water for our emergency kit

The PSOMA optics table is from TMC vibration control (TMC 784-29701-01). I sent them an inquiry for the datasheet, and also asked whether they sell clean enclosures or have application notes that might help us put one together. Also talked with Arian Jadbabaie a bit about the Hutzler lab enclosures, and got some photos.

Exit ~430 pm

Notice of lab entry

Measurements around table

• Clearance of lights -- 100''
• clearance of  beam -- 105''
• distance between lights -- 6'
• there's also a sprinkler head a few inches lower than the lights
• distance from top of table to ground -- 35''
• distance from bottom of table to ground -- 24''
• distance between sprinklers -- 8'

Could probably move the table a few inches from the wall and make use of the space between the lights for the enclosure. There also isn't much room in the back corner in the NS direction, and we may want to shift in either direction. Orientation seems as good as it could be. The ceiling above PSOMA is lower than above cryo cavs.
Will mark up photos and post.

Notice of lab entry

Purpose: Inventory lens supply, identify some combination of optics that will let us mode match to our ring cavity. Picked up some books on silicon from the library.

The inventory is in Clickup, which is a new organizational tool I'm trying out. There' an easy csv export, so I can get it elsewhere if/when we want. We have a wide variety of lenses:

I found fewer curved mirrors, but there were a couple.

Steps I took for the temperature sensor:

1. Tried to see what's the temperature by reading the current temperature in ndscope or dataviewer. In dataviewer, go to 'Signal' tab, and enter the channel name or find it on the list of slow channels. For ndscope...

No data appears on either. I restart cymac1, which seemed frozen, but still nothing.

2. What's going on with these channels?

Looks like the channel is reading zero.

3. I traced the cable from the particle counter and found that it sends data to cominaux, the common auxiliary machine for the lab.

This is the database file that defines the channels on cominaux. I search for 'LAB_TEMP_F' and find the epics record for the temperature channels. The epics records are all "calc" records, and the temperature in Kelvin is taken from X1:AUX-ACROXT_AI_15. This corresponds to channel 15 of the acromag slow ADC.

 That's starting to make sense, the cable from the particle counter didn't go to the acromag ADC. Starting from the ADC channel 15, I traced the cable back to what used to be the AD590 temperature transducer.

4. Where did the IC temperature sensor go? Searching the elog and my dusty memory... neither readily recalls where it went. Let's get another one, they are cheap and easy to use.

Notice of lab entry

Date of entry: 18 Aug 2020

The cameras were unfortunately lost in the mail, but we can use my laptop or other camera. Ended up leaving to do a couple comsol things that needed completing today.

Notice of lab entry

Date of entry: 24 Aug 2020

Did some mode matching, see the git.

I started a cryo lab inventory that is separate from the PSOMA hardware inventory, and intended for stock items in the lab (optics, electronics, clamps, general safety and cleaning supplies, etc). It will be a work in progress. Both are accessible to anyone logged in to google drive with their ligo.org credentials.

• Cryo lab inventory
• PSOMA inventory

Both are also linked on the PSOMA project wiki.

setting up PSOMA beam path

I took some photos of the existing layout. I'll just take apart the E beam path, and leave the W path unchanged for now as reference.

I moved the E fiber output coupler closer to the edge of the table, to make this path easier to reach.

Hopped around on the laser hysterisis curve for a minute. To optimize the temperature,

1. Started with TEC on near room temperature, then turned on the laser driver with the current set to maximize power on the meter (S122C)
2. increased the temperature setpoint (decrease resistance setpoint) slowly until the laser power starts to decrease.
3. Turn off the laser driver. Decrease temperature setpoint to just below the maximum power setpoint.
4. Turn on the laser driver. Total power is now 4.6mW, compared to ~2mW with TEC off.

• aligned beam along the NS axis using two irises and the existing 2x f=100 lenses from the E path.
  • HWP->steering mirror-> 90-10 BS -> iris -> lens -> lens -> iris -> PD
  • all transmitted beams dumped
• Mounted a 1'' x 1m FL Si mirror in a polaris mount. Made a ring cavity with that and 2x mirrors coated for 45 deg.

optics

Can anyone tell me the specs / history of some of the custom optics in cryo? I'm mounting the 1m Coastline mirror and will start with that in the PSOMA cavity.

• Laseroptik 1'' mirrors. Batch # 19028Kel. Part(?) numbers L-13997, L-13998. (these are in red boxes cases w clear lid)
• Coastline Optics 1.0''x0.25'' FS substrates. Coated for 1550nm at 45 degrees. (these are in stacks cylindrical clear cases, and include some witness and rejected samples)
• Coastline optics 1'' silicon substrate, 1 meter focal length. SN 1.0-Si-1.0M
• Photon Laseroptik 1'' FS substrates (~50), labeled 75S308926. Also labeled with a wedge angle or what looks like a focal length (no unit)
• Two stacks from Gooch & Housego, taped in bubble wrap with the data sheet. These are coated for 1550nm, transmission ~1% S and ~5% P at 45 deg.

Not sure how, but none of the drawers of the blue optomechanics cabinet are opening. I don't have a key. Here's what happened

1. I closed one drawer ("A") and opened the drawer below it ("B")
2. Closed B
3. Opened A and B simultaneously; I could not open only B, only A and B together. Close A and B.
4. Open both A and B. Close only A.
5. Close B
6. None of the drawers now open, even A and B together. seems locked

Found someone who's had this problem before, might give it a try...

[update]

This worked, I used the metal meter stick to unlock the drawer.

[Stephen's updates]

--> note that link formatting breaks link for me, so here it is - https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/general/help-my-lista-locked-me-out-how-do-i-open-201606/

--> wrote up a similar experience with additional detail ENG_Labs/260

I measured the transmission of the Coastline 1m mirror at 180. ppm (S122C).

Alignment procedure while setting location of optics:

1. use 2x irises to constrain a beam path at the locations of the eventual MZ input BS and the cavity BS.
2. Place the first (R~1) flat mirror at 45 degrees centered on the beam line. Use this mirror to steer into an iris at the location of the cavity's curved mirror.
3. Use steering optics to direct the eventual transmission beam into the trans mon PD (PDA 20CS)
4. Place the curved mirror at near normal incidence. Use this mirror to steer the beam through irises at the location of the MZ output BS and cavity BS.
5. Use steering mirrors to send the beam to the refl PD (PDA255).
6. Place the cavity BS and steer the reflected beam to the refl PD.

Alignment procedure subsequently:

1. Misalign the cavity BS
2. Use the cavity mirrors to steer the circulated reflection into refl PD.
3. Use cavity BS to align prompt reflection into refl PD.

Here's the layout.

Some easy things that should be changed:

• Transmission through the cavity end mirror should go to a steering mirror before PDA20CS
• Should clamp the cables (eg power to PDA255) with something soft so they stay in place and aren't strained
• Need to dump the reflection from transmon PD. Do we really need to dump transmission through mirrors with frosted backs?

I updated the stage 1/2 optical layout to be more detailed after getting a sense of the sizes of things again last week. Even though this isn't how the table is currently set up, it might be good to accommodate future vacuum chambers in our earlier designs to minimize how much we need to move and realign optics. 

• just for convenience, I gave all of the vacuum chambers the footprint of the gyroscope vacuum chambers. I chose this footprint rather than the cantilever cavity cryostat footprint to allow 45 deg aoi on the mach zehnder BSs (the cryostat windows are all parallel)
• The chamber containing the output BS and BHD is cramped. If these all need to be in the same vacuum, we should get a larger vacuum; if the BHD and LO path can be moved to air that works too.
• If output BS chamber is larger and input MMT allows, the entire MZ can be shifted to the right (north). 
• Picked off LO from input BS AR surface
• Need additional mode matching lenses into some of the photodiodes -- certainly into PL_RFPD, but I think also into the other PDs?
• The beam to TRANS_DCPD is probably geometrically unphysical. 
• The cavity length is limited by the size of the cryostat.
• Perhaps want free-space EOM, EOAM, Faraday isolator?
• Not sure I've dumped all beams properly, for example the reflection from BHD_PD1 and from BHD_BS AR surface.

I will update the PSOMA hardware inventory tomorrow to reflect the additional details in the new drawing. The updated diagram is available on git LFS, and the hardware inventory now reflects the diagram up through stage 1.

Yesterday into today, I've been shopping for laminar flow HEPA fan filter modules for the PSOMA optical enclosure. I didn't find a lot of LIGO documentation listing specific filters, but here's what I've found online with some downselection on 'low vibration / high filter quality'. Please let me know If there's a company we often use, or if you can help direct this search at all. 

Another consideration is flow rate relative to our volume. I can do this calculation, but what is the particle density (eg at 0.3 um) we want to achieve inside the enclosure? I realize that I never got the particle counter recording despite it being on my list, so I'll try to do that remotely today. We need to know the ambient particle count and the clean volume in the enclosure.

*all prices listed here are from publicly available pages

notice of lab entry

Tue Sep 22 21:33:30 2020

inventory

I'm cleaning a bit, and gathering items not in use or in need of repair. They would make less mess in my office.

took an inventory of optics cleaning supplies, first aid kit, general cleaning supplies, wipes, etc. I found most were included in the first round inventory, but I took photos this time to convince my future self of object permanence. Will add to the wiki and update in a bit.

entered QIL, CTN

gloved up, shoe covers, went to QIL to check out the sprinklers and CTN to grab a GHz spectrum analyzer (HP8560E).

out: Wed Sep 23 00:20:03 2020