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Tue Apr 18 07:59:46 2023 |
Madeline Lesovsky | General | General | Test Cure Bake - Curved Mirror Subassembly Bonding | This is a test bake conducted in Air Bake
Oven A (ABO-A) held in the 40m Clean and
Bake facility. The overall objective is to |
6x |
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524
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Mon Apr 17 17:56:25 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC Piezos wedge angle | PZT dimension analyzed and characterized.
The blue dot in the images represents the
position of the cathode. The length of the |
19x |
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523
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Fri Apr 14 16:36:29 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | Determining the curvature bottom of the curved mirrors | Attached here with are relevant plots.
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21x |
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522
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Fri Apr 14 15:52:53 2023 |
Camille Makarem | Optics | Characterization | Determining the curvature bottom of the curved mirrors | [Camille, Thejas]
We repeated Zygo measurements (using
the same setup and method as below) for curved |
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521
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Thu Apr 13 07:47:28 2023 |
Camille Makarem | Optics | Characterization | Zygo setup for curved mirror measurements | [Camille, Thejas, Stephen]
We modified the Zygo setup for
measuring the sagitta of the curved mirrors. |
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520
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Tue Apr 11 16:18:25 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC Curved mirror radius of curvature | Curved mirror radius of curvature raw data
can be found in the DCC document: T2300050
The input beam falling on the curved |
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519
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Wed Apr 5 22:09:30 2023 |
Koji | Facility | General | HEPA Enclosure extension | Chub finished the HEPA enclosure extension
project. |
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518
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Tue Apr 4 16:14:06 2023 |
Koji | Optics | Loan / Lending | C7 mirror to Downs | I handed Camille the C7 mirror for the
cross-calibration of the ROC characterization
techniques. |
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517
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Mon Apr 3 11:06:47 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | Flat mirror flatness | Data can be found in DCC document T2300050.
On Friday. Camille and I measured |
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516
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Tue Mar 28 11:21:27 2023 |
Camille Makarem | Optics | Characterization | Sagitta measurements of curved mirrors | [Camille, Stephen, Thejas]
Curved mirror sn02 was used to test |
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515
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Fri Mar 24 07:47:37 2023 |
Camille Makarem | Optics | Characterization | ROC measurements of the curved mirrors | [Camille]
22 March 2023
Beam profile measurements were continued |
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514
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Fri Mar 24 07:38:54 2023 |
Camille Makarem | Optics | Characterization | ROC measurements of the curved mirrors | [Thejas, Camille]
21 March 2023
We made slight adjustments to the |
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513
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Fri Mar 17 15:01:21 2023 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC Curved mirror radius of curvature | Thanks Koji, the lenses available in the
cabinet in the lab actually sufficed.
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512
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Wed Mar 15 17:07:35 2023 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC Curved mirror radius of curvature | I hope you can find useful lenses from
the lens kit in the cabinet. If you need
more lenses and mounts, talk to our students |
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511
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Wed Mar 15 15:28:24 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC Curved mirror radius of curvature | Thanks for teh comment Koji. Yes, I did
see this effect by comparing the beam sizes
with and without the curved mirror. But the |
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510
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Tue Mar 14 20:06:03 2023 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC Curved mirror radius of curvature | If the mirror has the RoC, it works as
a lens. And you should be able to see the
effect in the beam profile. |
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509
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Tue Mar 14 18:24:03 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC Curved mirror radius of curvature | Today, I tried to measure the radius of
curvature of the curved mirror using the
input beam for the OMC test set-up. It was |
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508
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Tue Mar 14 12:12:41 2023 |
Koji | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC curved mirror characterization | RoC: 2.65m ! Interesting. I'll wait
for the follow-up analysis/measurements.
The RoC may be dependent on the area (diameter) |
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507
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Tue Mar 14 10:41:06 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC curved mirror characterization | [Camille, GarriLynn, Stephen, Thejas]
Folllowing the replacement of the
spherical transmission / reference mirror |
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506
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Fri Mar 10 11:12:57 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC Curvature minimum of curved optics | [GariLynn, Stephen, Thejas]
Yesterday, we placed an iris (borrowed
from OMC Lab) infront of the spherical transmission |
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505
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Fri Mar 10 10:23:08 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC curved mirror radius of curvature | OMC test set-up
Yesterday, laser beam output from
the fibre follwoing teh mode-matching lenses |
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504
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Wed Mar 8 17:27:51 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC Curvature minimum of curved optics | [Stephen, Thejas]
Today, a more rigorous effort was
made to re-measure the position of the optics |
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503
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Tue Mar 7 23:00:16 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | OMC Lab clean up | Today, Koji and I cleaned up the the lab
space and made some space on the
optical table for radius of curvature measurement |
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502
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Tue Mar 7 10:20:55 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC Curved mirror radius of curvature | [Camille, Stephen, Thejas]
Stephen returned the curved mirror
#6 to Liyuan for point transmission measurement. |
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501
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Mon Mar 6 16:02:56 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | General | OMC test setup locking | On Feb 16, Camille and I attampted at locking
the OMC cavity. It was quick to re-align
the beam to the cavity (by using only the |
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500
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Mon Mar 6 12:25:08 2023 |
Koji | Facility | General | HEPA Enclosure improvement | Chub, JC, and co worked on the HEPA enclosure
improvement. |
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499
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Wed Mar 1 10:23:10 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC curved mirror characterization | [Camille, Thejas, Stephen]
Yesterday, efforts were made to
measure ROC of curved mirrors (#6) in the |
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498
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Mon Feb 27 17:40:27 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC curved mirror characterization | [Camille, Stephen, Thejas]
Today, before the ZYGO lab was
cleaned and prepared for the cureved mirrors' |
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497
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Fri Feb 17 17:41:57 2023 |
Thejas | Electronics | Characterization | A+ OMC Piezos wedge angle | [Camille, Stephen, Thejas]
PZT model: Noliac 2124
Qty: 18 (Sr. No. 30 - 48) |
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496
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Fri Feb 17 17:25:39 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC Breadboard measuerements | Yesterday we also measured weight and dimensions
of breadboard. Error for the following measurements
is same as the least count of the instruments |
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495
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Fri Feb 17 17:11:28 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC beam-splitter prisms wedge angle measurement | [Camille, Stephen, Thejas]
Yesterday we measured wedge angle |
11x |
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494
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Wed Feb 15 17:40:21 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC perpendicularity of hole prisms | [Camille, Stephen, Thejas]
Contnuing the efforts to measure
and check perpendicularity: tombstone prisms |
20x |
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493
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Wed Feb 15 16:00:46 2023 |
Stephen | Electronics | General | OMC cables #4 inspected | Inspection
Updated ICS (Shipment-12578) and
moved those parts to Storage-9482. |
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492
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Tue Feb 14 22:52:35 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC Prism perpendicularity of HR Prisms and BS | [Camille, Stephen, Thejas]
Continuing with the efforts to
measure the perpndicularity. |
18x |
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491
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Tue Feb 14 10:45:00 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC Prism perpendicularity | [Camille, Stephen, Thejas]
Following the wedge angle measurements
of the prisms, perpendicularoty of their |
27x |
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490
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Thu Feb 9 15:54:41 2023 |
Thejas | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC, Parallelism of HR Prisms | [Camille, Thejas, Stephen]
Continuing yesterday's efforts
to measure the wedge angle of the back surface |
19x |
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489
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Wed Feb 8 16:10:52 2023 |
Stephen | Optics | Characterization | A+ OMC, Parallelism of HR Prisms | [Camille, Thejas, Stephen]
We set up the white light autocollimator
in the Downs B119 cleanroom. (Nippon Kogaku, |
7x |
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487
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Sat Feb 4 03:33:22 2023 |
Koji | General | General | OMC Lab Inventory | Attachment 1: North Cabinet 2nd from the
left
Attachment 2: North Cabinet 3rd |
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486
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Sat Feb 4 03:30:02 2023 |
Koji | Electronics | General | OMC cables #4 arrived | The OMC cables #4 arrived on Feb 3rd. (See
Attachment)
This shipment included two DCPD |
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485
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Sat Feb 4 03:22:46 2023 |
Koji | Facility | General | Ready for the HEPA enclosure expansion | HEPA is quite low for a tall person and
also the curtain on the back of us is always
heavy. It's very tough for anyone to |
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484
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Sat Feb 4 03:16:10 2023 |
Koji | Optics | General | OMC #4: One Invar block bonded with tilt | The attached photo shows the resulting
bond spread.
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483
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Thu Feb 2 03:09:41 2023 |
Koji | Optics | General | OMC #4: One Invar block bonded with tilt | [Camille, Thejas, Koji]
We added a reinforcement bar at
the back of the invar block which had the |
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482
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Wed Feb 1 01:44:14 2023 |
Koji | General | General | OMC (004) plan | 2/1 2:30PM~ Bonding reinforcement (Last
EP30-2 gluing)
2/2 1:00PM~ Peripheral attachment |
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481
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Wed Feb 1 01:39:41 2023 |
Koji | Mechanics | General | DCPD housing / QPD housing | Inserted 4-40 and 2-56 helicoils into the
DCPD/QPD housings for the 4th OMC. The retainer
caps were also fastened to the housings. |
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480
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Wed Feb 1 01:33:03 2023 |
Koji | Mechanics | General | 5th OMC Transport Fixture | The transport fixture was brought to the
40m clean room to use as an assembly reference. |
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479
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Sat Jan 28 00:46:21 2023 |
Koji | Mechanics | General | OMC #4: Replaced the locks of the transport fixture | Yesterday, we noticed that we could not
close the transport fixture for OMC #4. We
could not fully rotate the knobs of the locks. |
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478
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Sat Jan 28 00:38:56 2023 |
Koji | Mechanics | General | OMC #1 cable bracket replacement / OMC #1 repair completed | The AL metal bracket was replaced with
a PEEK version.
Attachments 1/2: Before the replacement. |
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477
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Thu Jan 26 23:46:13 2023 |
Koji | Optics | General | OMC #1 input beam dump bonding | A beam dump was stacked on the base of
the previous beam dump. The angle was determined
so that the main transmission goes through |
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476
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Thu Jan 26 23:16:35 2023 |
Koji | Optics | Configuration | OMC #4: Top side bonding. | [Camille, Koji]
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475
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Thu Jan 26 23:07:14 2023 |
Koji | Optics | General | OMC #4: Input beam dump bonding | [Camille, Koji]
During the second UV epoxy session,
we did not bond the input beam dump. This |
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