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Fri Oct 26 09:49:47 2018 |
Aidan | Misc | Optics | Starting 80C cure of epoxy | I've started an 80C cure of two materials
bonded by EPOTEK 353ND. The objective is
to see (after curing) how much the apparent glass |
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Tue Dec 4 16:57:08 2018 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Updated GIT version of HWS code | I changed the HWS code to the new git.ligo
HWS version.
Object files are in ~/hws
scripts |
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Fri Feb 8 10:48:33 2019 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | General | Water damage repair work in the TCS Lab | Caltech Facilities has determined that
the walls in the SE corner of the TCS Lab
in West Bridge were water damaged during |
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Tue Sep 3 10:49:57 2019 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | General | Exhaust duct added for new bake area in TCS lab | Facilities came in on Friday and teed off
a new duct to provide exhaust for the proposed
new vacuum bake area in the TCS Lab. Photos |
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244
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Tue Jun 15 08:47:27 2021 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | General | Cleaned up HWS table in preparation for lab move | I cleaned up the HWS table in preparation
for replacement with the 4x10 table. We still
need to move the cabinet and get the enclosure |
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245
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Mon Jul 26 16:23:03 2021 |
Aidan | Misc | Flood | Lab flooded from broken pipe leading to sump room |
Koji: QIL/TCS entrance flooding. |
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246
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Tue Jul 27 08:39:33 2021 |
Aidan | Misc | Flood | Tuesday (27-Jul) morning check - lab looks okay | I checked the lab this morning. It was
dry and there wall was in the same state
as yesterday. |
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Thu Aug 12 16:13:44 2021 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | Flood | Carpentry shop removed wet plaster sections from the wall - it's drying for a few days | The carpentry shop removed wet plaster
sections from the wall following the flood
(process was gentle scraping of wet plaster |
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Wed Aug 25 11:28:56 2021 |
Aidan | Misc | Flood | Lab flooded from broken pipe leading to sump room | 11:29AM - Lab has flooded again this morning.
I'm calling PMA. Looks to be the same
issue as before. |
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Thu Aug 26 09:00:39 2021 |
Aidan | Misc | Flood | Lab flooded from broken pipe leading to sump room | Some photos of water and clean-up.
Summary: I came into the lab around
11:30AM and found water on the floor in the |
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250
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Wed Apr 27 11:41:53 2022 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | General | Lab clean-up to get ready for PD testing in old TCS Lab | We (Aidan, Koji, Radhika, Aaron) partially
tidied up the TCS Lab. The front table is
clean and ready to recieve PD tesitng optics, |
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Tue Feb 28 09:44:43 2023 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | General | Added lighting and tidied West Desk | I added LED stip lighting above the desk
on the West wall. I also tidied that
desk up (mostly in the drawers). |
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88
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Wed Aug 4 09:57:38 2010 |
Aidan, James | Computing | Hartmann sensor | RMS measurements with Hartmann sensor | [INCOMPLETE
ENTRY]
We set up the Hartmann sensor and |
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142
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Mon Apr 25 16:28:27 2011 |
Aidan, Joe | Computing | Network architecture | Fixed problem network drive fb1:/cvs on Ubuntu & CentOS machines | With Joe's help we fixed the failure of
princess_sparkle to mount the
fb1:/cvs directory when relying |
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251
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Wed May 11 19:46:21 2022 |
Aidan, Radhika, Jordan | Lab Infrastructure | Vacuum chamber | Leak cleaning on IR labs vacuum chamber - suspects | [Aidan, Jordan, Radhika]
Radhika and Jordan identified some
particulates (hair and flecks of foil) on |
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157
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Tue Jun 5 17:25:43 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/5/12 Daily Summary | - Had a meeting to talk about the basics
of LIGO (esp. TCS) and discuss the project
- Created COMSOL model for the test |
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158
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Wed Jun 6 16:54:09 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/6/12 Daily Summary | - Got access to and started working with
SIS on Rigel1
- Fixed SVN issues |
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Thu Jun 7 16:50:16 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/7/12 Daily Summary | - Created a COMSOL model with thermal deformations
- Added non-symmetrical heating to
cause astigmatism |
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Fri Jun 8 16:36:47 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/8/12 Daily Summary | - Tried to fix COMSOL error using the (ts)
module, ended up emailing support as the
issue is new in 4.3 |
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Mon Jun 11 17:11:01 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/11/12 Daily Summary | - Fixed the (ts) model, got strange results
that indicate that the antisymmetric heating
mode is much more prominent than previously |
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166
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Wed Jun 13 16:36:14 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/12 and 6/13 Daily Summary | - Realized that the strange deformations
that we were seeing only occur on the face
nearest the ring heater, and not on the face |
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168
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Thu Jun 14 16:51:03 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/14/12 Daily Summary | - Plugged the output of the model with
uniform heating into SIS using both modification
of the radius of curvature, and direct importation |
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Mon Jun 18 16:30:36 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/18/12 Daily Summary | - Verified that the SIS output does match
satisfy the equations for Gaussian beam propagation
- Investigated how changing the amount |
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Tue Jun 19 16:24:52 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/19/12 Daily Summary | - Did more modeling for different levels
of heating and different mesh densities for
the SIS input. |
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Wed Jun 20 16:44:58 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/20/12 Daily Summary | - Attended a lot of meetings (Safety, LIGO
Orientation)
- Finished draft of week 3 report |
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Thu Jun 21 16:54:45 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/21/12 Daily Summary | - Paper edits and more data generation
for the paper (lower resolution grid data)
- Attended a talk on LIGO |
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Wed Jun 27 16:43:56 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/27/12 Daily Summary | Plan for building the model
- Find the fields that would be incident
on the beam splitter from each arm (This |
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Thu Jun 28 16:27:37 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 6/28/12 Daily Summary | - Finished the MatLab code that both combines
two fields and simulates the adjustment of
the beamsplitter to minimize the power out |
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Mon Jul 9 16:54:17 2012 |
Alex Mauney | Misc | aLIGO Modeling | 7/9/12 Summary | Made a COMSOL model that can include CO2
laser heating, self heating, and ring heating
Figured out how to run SIS out of |
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Tue Jul 10 17:49:13 2018 |
Aria Chaderjian | Laser | General | July 10, 2018 | Went down to the lab and showed Rana the
setup. He's fine with me being down there
as long as I let someone know. He also recommended |
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Thu Jul 12 18:48:21 2018 |
Aria Chaderjian | Laser | General | July 12, 2018 | The beam reflecting off the test mirror
was clipping the lens between gold mirror
and test mirror, so I reconfigured some of |
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Fri Jul 13 16:42:50 2018 |
Aria Chaderjian | Laser | General | July 13, 2018 | The table is set up. The HWS and SLED were
moved slightly, and a minimal angle between
the test mirror and HWS was achieved. |
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218
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Mon Jul 23 10:04:19 2018 |
Aria Chaderjian | Laser | General | July 20, 2018 | With Jon's help, I changed the setup
to include a mode-matching telescope built
from the f=60mm (1 inch diameter) lens and |
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219
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Tue Jul 24 16:52:44 2018 |
Aria Chaderjian | Laser | General | July 23, 2018 and July 24, 2018 | Attached the grid array of the HWS.
Applied voltage (5V, 7V, 9.9V,
14V) to the heater pad and took measurements |
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Fri Aug 3 15:46:12 2018 |
Aria Chaderjian | Laser | General | August 3, 2018 | To the best of my ability, calculated the
magnification of the plane of the test optic
relative to the HWS (2.3) and input this |
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110
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Thu Feb 24 10:23:31 2011 |
Christopher Guido | Laser | Laser | LTG initial noise | Cheryl Vorvick, Chris Guido, Phil Willems
Attached is a PDF with some initial
noise testing. There are 5 spectrum plots |
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232
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Mon Jul 22 18:44:53 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Things to Buy | General | Need to Order Gloves | Small/Medium size gloves need to be ordered
in order to handle the optics carefully. |
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233
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Mon Jul 22 18:46:23 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Lab Infrastructure | | Laser-Lens-HWS Setup | Today, I set up a system consisting of
the 520 nm laser, a 2'' mirror and
two lenses of focal lengths f1 = 40 cm and |
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234
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Wed Jul 24 16:25:13 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Lab Infrastructure | Optics | Updated 2-lens setup | The previous 2-lens setup focused the beam
to a tight spot, however due to the divergence
angle of the laser beam, a significant amount |
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236
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Mon Jul 29 18:53:16 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Lab Infrastructure | Optics | Mounted Reflector and Heater | Since we set up the 2-lens system focusing
the laser beam to the CCD, the next step
was to mount the spherical reflector (31 |
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237
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Thu Aug 1 15:20:39 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Lab Infrastructure | Optics | Reflector Mount and DC Supply | Yesterday, we were able to take some data
using the 120 V DC power supply. The reflectors
cut at the focal point and radius were both |
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240
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Mon Aug 12 21:15:12 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Electronics | | Determining heater/reflector focus | I took images of the heat pattern projected
on a piece of paper produced by the semi-circle
reflector. I used 108V to drive current throught |
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Fri Aug 16 17:05:14 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Electronics | | FLIR Images of new reflector focusing heat | We got 11 new semi-circle cut reflectors
of radius ~3.6 cm. I glued a screw to the
back of one reflector using the same epoxy |
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Tue Dec 29 16:05:09 2009 |
Frank | Computing | DAQ | booting VME crates from fb1 | http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/AdhikariLab/514 |
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Thu Jun 23 10:53:17 2022 |
JC | Lab Infrastructure | General | Seat For Photodiode Testing | [JC, Chub, Radhika]
Chub and I ordered a few parts
from McMaster in order build a handrail-like |
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Wed Jul 13 15:19:49 2022 |
JC | Electronics | General | Desktop Computer | [JC]
The desktop computer is now running
Debian Linux |
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Fri Mar 24 14:57:11 2023 |
JC | Lab Infrastructure | Floor work | Lab Preparation for floor work | I prepared the East Side optical table on
one half. The other half will be completely
saran wrapped. The computer desk and Crackle |
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Draft
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Wed Mar 29 14:21:29 2023 |
JC | Lab Infrastructure | Floor work | Lab Preparation for floor work | [Koji,Yehonathan,JC]
The lab space has been cover and protected |
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Thu Jun 17 07:40:07 2010 |
James K | Misc | Hartmann sensor | SURF Log -- Day 1, Getting Started | For Wednesday, June 16: |
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Thu Jun 17 22:03:51 2010 |
James K | Misc | Hartmann sensor | SURF Log -- Day 2, Getting Started | For Thursday, June 17:
Today I attended a basic laser safety
training orientation, the second Introduction |
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