Dripta and I went to EY yesterday (Feb 3rd) to do both an ES and a TX module maintanence. We followed T1500062-v21 with out much deviation until the end when we started the TX module maint.
Obligitory Before and After beam spots on the apature of RX sphere.
Data Analysis:
python3 generate_measurement_data.py --WS PS4 --date 2025-11-03
Reading in config file from python file in scripts
../../../Common/O4PSparams.yaml
PS4 rho, kappa, u_rel on 2025-11-03 corrected to ES temperature 299.4 K :
-4.701912257515925 -0.0002694340454223 2.686163396659873e-05
Copying the scripts into tD directory...
Connected to h1daqnds1
martel run
reading data at start_time: 1454177475
reading data at start_time: 1454177902
reading data at start_time: 1454178300
reading data at start_time: 1454179000
reading data at start_time: 1454179400
reading data at start_time: 1454179750
reading data at start_time: 1454179900
reading data at start_time: 1454180530
reading data at start_time: 1454180888
Ratios: -0.5341330662181019 -0.5436335114505099
writing nds2 data to files
finishing writing
Background Values:
bg1 = 18.796205; Background of TX when WS is at TX
bg2 = 5.033949; Background of WS when WS is at TX
bg3 = 18.801656; Background of TX when WS is at RX
bg4 = 5.198797; Background of WS when WS is at RX
bg5 = 18.803508; Background of TX
bg6 = -0.514446; Background of RX
The uncertainty reported below are Relative Standard Deviation in percent
Intermediate Ratios
RatioWS_TX_it = -0.534133;
RatioWS_TX_ot = -0.543634;
RatioWS_TX_ir = -0.526715;
RatioWS_TX_or = -0.535124;
RatioWS_TX_it_unc = 0.054072;
RatioWS_TX_ot_unc = 0.053357;
RatioWS_TX_ir_unc = 0.053158;
RatioWS_TX_or_unc = 0.054774;
Optical Efficiency
OE_Inner_beam = 0.986243;
OE_Outer_beam = 0.984385;
Weighted_Optical_Efficiency = 0.985314;
OE_Inner_beam_unc = 0.041515;
OE_Outer_beam_unc = 0.041813;
Weighted_Optical_Efficiency_unc = 0.058922;
Martel Voltage fit:
Gradient = 1637.852893;
Intercept = 0.265584;
Power Imbalance = 0.982524;
Endstation Power sensors to WS ratios::
Ratio_WS_TX = -0.927845;
Ratio_WS_RX = -1.384820;
Ratio_WS_TX_unc = 0.044117;
Ratio_WS_RX_unc = 0.038945;
=============================================================
============= Values for Force Coefficients =================
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Key Pcal Values :
GS = -5.135100; Gold Standard Value in (V/W)
WS = -4.701912; Working Standard Value
costheta = 0.988362; Angle of incidence
c = 299792458.000000; Speed of Light
End Station Values :
TXWS = -0.927845; Tx to WS Rel responsivity (V/V)
sigma_TXWS = 0.000409; Uncertainity of Tx to WS Rel responsivity (V/V)
RXWS = -1.384820; Rx to WS Rel responsivity (V/V)
sigma_RXWS = 0.000539; Uncertainity of Rx to WS Rel responsivity (V/V)
e = 0.985314; Optical Efficiency
sigma_e = 0.000581; Uncertainity in Optical Efficiency
Martel Voltage fit :
Martel_gradient = 1637.852893; Martel to output channel (C/V)
Martel_intercept = 0.265584; Intercept of fit of Martel to output (C/V)
Power Loss Apportion :
beta = 0.998844; Ratio between input and output (Beta)
E_T = 0.992056; TX Optical efficiency
sigma_E_T = 0.000292; Uncertainity in TX Optical efficiency
E_R = 0.993204; RX Optical Efficiency
sigma_E_R = 0.000293; Uncertainity in RX Optical efficiency
Force Coefficients :
FC_TxPD = 9.154540e-13; TxPD Force Coefficient
FC_RxPD = 6.225064e-13; RxPD Force Coefficient
sigma_FC_TxPD = 4.888564e-16; TxPD Force Coefficient
sigma_FC_RxPD = 3.063586e-16; RxPD Force Coefficient
data written to ../../measurements/LHO_EndY/tD20260203/
TX module maintenance of End Y was done with reference to T1600436-v12.
| Date | Feb 3rd 2026 | |
| Laser Shutter Check | Pass | |
| Max OFS Offset | 8 | |
| 95% OFS Offset | 7.6 | |
| Operating OFS Offset | 3.8 | |
| Laser Output Power | 1.94W | |
| After-Laser Rejected Power | 3.96mW | |
| AOM Input Power | 1.88W | |
| Max Diffracted Power | 1.58 W | |
| Un-Diffracted Power | 155mW | |
| AOM Diffraction Efficiency | 84.04% | |
| After-AOM Rejected Power | 13.9mW | |
| TxPD Power | 13.7mW | |
| OFSPD Power | 6.59mW | |
| Outer Beam Power | 0.747W | |
| Inner Beam Power | 0.744W | |
| Output Beam Power Ratio | 0.995 | |
| OFS Gain | 37.79 | |
| OFS Phase Margin | 57.6 |
TITLE: 02/05 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY: HAM7 door is on!
LOG:
| Start Time | System | Name | Location | Lazer_Haz | Task | Time End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22:49 | SAF | LVEA IS LASER SAFE | LVEA | NO* | LVEA IS LASER SAFE *BIFURCATED HAM1/2 bring ur LASER GOGGLES | 16:49 |
| 15:44 | FAC | Randy | LVEA | n | Prepping for HAM7 door | 16:11 |
| 16:07 | FAC | Nellie | OpticsLab, LVEA | n | Tech clean | 17:21 |
| 16:13 | FAC | Kim | LVEA | n | Tech clean | 17:29 |
| 16:36 | FAC | Randy | LVEA | n | Craning Emod | 17:12 |
| 17:02 | TCS | Matt | JOAT Lab | n | Inventory | 17:59 |
| 17:30 | SUS | Rahul | LVEA | YES | PM1 troubleshooting | 19:00 |
| 17:32 | JAC | Keita | LVEA | YES | JAC work | 20:59 |
| 17:40 | JAC | Jennie | LVEA | YES | JAC work | 20:52 |
| 17:57 | SQZ | Sheila | LVEA | n | Checking on HAM7 | 18:11 |
| 18:08 | FAC | Nellie | EY | n | Tech clean | 18:48 |
| 18:28 | SEI | Jim | LVEA | n | Unlocking ISI and taking measurements | 17:43 |
| 18:44 | JAC | Masayuki | LVEA | YES | JAC work | 20:59 |
| 19:06 | EPO | Corey | LVEA | n | Taking photos of HAM7 | 19:52 |
| 19:17 | VAC | Gerardo | LVEA | n | Checking on Corey | 19:22 |
| 19:34 | BHD | Elenna | OpticsLab | n | BHSS optics | 20:18 |
| 19:35 | SQZ | Camilla, Sheila | LVEA | n | SQZ rack grounding loop checks | 20:45 |
| 20:21 | JAC | Elenna, Mitchell | Optics lab | n | Getting parts (Mitchell out 20:34) | 21:16 |
| 20:25 | JAC | Jason, RyanS | LVEA | n | Populating JAC table | 18:25 |
| 20:27 | PCAL | Tony | PCAL Lab | y(local) | Starting a measurement | 23:50 |
| 20:45 | VAC | Gerardo | LVEA | n | HAM7 door | 22:45 |
| 20:58 | VAC | Jordan | LVEA | n | HAM7 door | 23:07 |
| 20:59 | FAC | Randy | LVEA | n | HAM7 door | 23:08 |
| 21:07 | VAC | Travis | LVEA | n | HAM7 door | 23:07 |
| 21:44 | TCS | Camilla, Matt | LVEA | n | Turning eye-safe HWS lasers on | 21:52 |
| 22:07 | JAC | Masayuki, Jennie | LVEA | YES | JAC work | ongoing |
| 22:07 | JAC | RyanS, Jason | LVEA | n | JAC table work | 00:17 |
| 22:10 | JAC | Keita | LVEA | YES | JAC work | ongoing |
| 22:48 | BHD | Elenna | OpticsLab | n | BHSS optics | ongoing |
| 22:59 | BHD | Camilla | OpticsLab | n | BHSS optics | ongoing |
Squeezed in a quick photoshoot of HAM7 (right after ISI-unlocking/measurements by Jim + purge air being turned up and before Door Team sealed it up). HAM7 was open roughly from 11:16am-11:48amPDT for photos. Since there was only one door off, lighting wasn't great and limited to shots from the -X side of HAM7. Used Canon DSLR camera followed by iPhone shots; snapped a handful of macro lens shots for fun.
Photo Album (109photos) uploaded to Google folder HERE.
The HAM7 suspensions are good to go. I am only presenting the results for the OPO (in 89015), ZM1, ZM3, and ZM4 since those are the four suspensions that were adjusted/in the way of the HAM7 work.
I accidentally remeasured ZM4 (RyanC had already measured it after it was moved 88827), so I processed my measurement along with the others I did.
I had remeasured ZM4 instead of ZM3 when the ISI was stil locked, so I had to measure ZM3 with the ISI unlocked and DAMPED, but it didn't seem to affect the measurements.
A before vs after comparison for these three ZMs(regular, zoomed) shows that they all look the same today as they did back in 2022.
ZM1 TF measurements
Settings
- ISI LOCKED
- SUS DAMP OFF
Data
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HXDS/H1/ZM1/SAGM1/Data/2026-02-04_1700_H1SUSZM1_M1_WhiteNoise_{L,P,Y}_0p02to50Hz.xml
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Results
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HXDS/H1/ZM1/SAGM1/Results/2026-02-04_1700_H1SUSZM1_M1_ALL_TFs.pdf
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ZM3 TF measurements
Settings
- ISI DAMPED
- SUS DAMP OFF
Data
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HXDS/H1/ZM3/SAGM1/Data/2026-02-04_2000_H1SUSZM3_M1_WhiteNoise_{L,P,Y}_0p03to50Hz.xml
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Results
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HXDS/H1/ZM3/SAGM1/Results/2026-02-04_2000_H1SUSZM3_M1_ALL_TFs.pdf
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ZM4 TF measurements
Settings
- ISI LOCKED
- SUS DAMP OFF
Data
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HXDS/H1/ZM4/SAGM1/Data/2026-02-04_1730_H1SUSZM4_M1_WhiteNoise_{L,P,Y}_0p02to50Hz.xml
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Results
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HXDS/H1/ZM4/SAGM1/Results/2026-02-04_1730_H1SUSZM4_M1_ALL_TFs.pdf
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Comparison with last measurements
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HXDS/Common/Data/allhxdss_2026-02-04_ZM1ZM3ZM4CloseoutComparison_ALL_TFs.pdf
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HXDS/Common/Data/allhxdss_2026-02-04_ZM1ZM3ZM4CloseoutComparison_ALL_ZOOMED_TFs.pdf
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Jeff, Oli
We were a bit unsure yesterday about the OPO but after some more measurements today I've confirmed that it is looking good. It still doesn't look like it did in 2022, but it works for us.
After some cable redressing last week the OPO was looking a lot better (88921), and then some further redressing was done (88957), which didn't seem to help, but at least didn't make Yaw worse. Those measurements were all taken with the ISI Locked. Yesterday I took what were supposed to be closeout measurements with the ISI now unlocked and DAMPED, but those measurements looked different from last week's, and not in a good way. There were two sets of measurements taken yesterday, one with the OPO damping all off (2026-02-03 1815UTC), and one where the DOF being measured was turned off, but the other DOFs were left damping (aka semi-off) (2026-02-03 1730UTC). Both measurement sets looked about the same besides a small increase in the highest frequency peak, but nowhere near the height it had been at last week(regular, zoomed).
In both sets of measurements, the lowest- and highest-frequency peaks (cross-coupling from T and V, respectively) were much smaller than they had been last week (last week we had thought the lowest peak had been split off from the main Yaw peak, but it was actually a shifted T cross-coupling). This was unexpected. The only (known) difference between last week's measurements and these two sets is the difference in the ISI, Locked vs Unlocked and DAMPED.
We decided to look at previous OPO measurements(regular, zoomed, txt explaining timeline from Jeff) taken with the ISI Locked, DAMPED, and ISOLATED, and found that the OPO resonances go down in Q when going from Locked to DAMPED. It also looks like once the ISI is ISOLATED, the resonances will rise back up(better zoom in). This could make sense as to why we're only seeing changes in the T and V resonances since the ISI moving side to side or up and down while in DAMPING would couple more directly into the OPO than when the ISI rotates.
The only way to confirm this idea was to take more measurements while the ISI was either Locked again or ISOLATED. Since yesterday afternoon the ISI had to be Locked again, I was able to take some measurements this morning(2026-02-04 1545UTC(all damping off), 2026-02-04 1630UTC(damping semi-off)), and they confirmed that the OPO looks like it did last week(regular, zoomed). So we're pretty sure once the ISI is back to ISOLATED it'll look like it did when the ISI was Locked earlier today and last week.
Yesterday's Measurements
- ISI Unlocked and DAMPED
2026-02-03 1730UTC
- OPO M1 DAMP all ON EXCEPT for DOF we are measuring (Semi-Off)
Data
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/H1/OPO/SAGM1/Data/2026-02-03_1730_H1SUSOPO_M1_WhiteNoise_{L,T,V,R,P,Y}_0p02to50Hz.xml
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Results
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/H1/OPO/SAGM1/Results/2026-02-03_1730_H1SUSOPO_M1_ALL_TFs.pdf
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2026-02-03 1815UTC
- OPO M1 DAMP all OFF
Data
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/H1/OPO/SAGM1/Data/2026-02-03_1815_H1SUSOPO_M1_WhiteNoise_{L,T,V,R,P,Y}_0p02to50Hz.xml
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Results
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/H1/OPO/SAGM1/Results/2026-02-03_1815_H1SUSOPO_M1_ALL_TFs.pdf
r12869
Today's Measurements
- ISI Locked
2026-02-04 1545UTC
- OPO M1 DAMP all OFF
Data
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/H1/OPO/SAGM1/Data/2026-02-04_1545_H1SUSOPO_M1_WhiteNoise_{L,T,V,R,P,Y}_0p02to50Hz.xml
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Results
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/H1/OPO/SAGM1/Results/2026-02-04_1545_H1SUSOPO_M1_ALL_TFs.pdf
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2026-02-04 1630UTC
- OPO M1 DAMP all ON EXCEPT for DOF we are measuring (Semi-Off)
Data
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/H1/OPO/SAGM1/Data/2026-02-04_1630_H1SUSOPO_M1_WhiteNoise_{L,T,V,R,P,Y}_0p02to50Hz.xml
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Results
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/H1/OPO/SAGM1/Results/2026-02-04_1630_H1SUSOPO_M1_ALL_TFs.pdf
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Comparison plots
2022 vs last week vs yesterday
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/Common/Data/alloposs_2026-02-03_H1SUSOPO_StillPossibleIssue_ALL_TFs.pdf
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/Common/Data/alloposs_2026-02-03_H1SUSOPO_StillPossibleIssue_ALL_ZOOMED_TFs.pdf
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ISI Locked v Damped v Isolated
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/Common/Data/alloposs_2026-02-03_H1SUSOPO_MaybeMysterySolved_ALL_TFs.pdf
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/Common/Data/alloposs_2026-02-03_H1SUSOPO_MaybeMysterySolved_ALL_ZOOMED_TFs.pdf
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Everything looking good today
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/Common/Data/alloposs_2026-02-03_H1SUSOPO_LookingGood_ALL_TFs.pdf
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/OPOS/Common/Data/alloposs_2026-02-03_H1SUSOPO_LookingGood_ALL_ZOOMED_TFs.pdf
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The front fan bearing in Fan 1 inside AHU-1 was replaced this morning. Fan is currently off since Fan 2 is running in the lead position.
All the whitening gain and filter are off.
at JAC-PZT_DRV_IN**/JAC-PZT_DRIVER_VOLTS: 532nm/179V = 2.97nm/V
at JAC-PZT_DRV_OUT_DQ = 532nm/8601cnts = 0.062nm/cnts
J. Kissel - D2500175 :: S3228003 . D2100573 . E2300345 - D2400281 I'm finally back in the optics lab, taking the next steps towards assembling the SPI. Specific to this entry -- I'm assembling the Class A clean components of the fiber-coupled seed laser light. In other words, I'm integrating (1) S3228003*** -- One of the 4.5" (inch) 1064nm V-FT Optical Fiber Feedthrough (Feedthru) Conflat Flange (DIAMOND) (D2500175) -- which includes the "off the shelf" (OTS) feedthru and integrated 3 [m] patch cord (the industry jargon for fiber optic cable), and its MIT-designed strain relief assembly D2100573 -- all delivered to LHO after class-A cleaning and assembly at Caltech per E2400159. (2) the ANU-designed Fiber Storage Spool assembly, D2400281, of which we have two. Sina characterized the power transmission of all three of the feedthrus at Stanford before the clean-n-bake process, and identified that S3228003 had 100% transmission, so I've chosen that to be assigned to the MEAS path, where we need the most input power (as it's distributed through the most number of beam splitters). I plan to further integrate the patch cord into the SuK fiber collimator S0272503 for no better reason that to "pair the S[...]03 feedthru with the S[...]03 fiber collimator." ***The serial numbers for the OTS feedthrus (D2500175) are of the alpha-numeric form 2153228V00n, where n = 1, 2, 3. That full version of the serial number is indicated in their ICS record, but in order to conform to the mold of the DCC S-numbers, I truncated the format to be numeric, S322800n, i.e. removing the identical leading 215 and misleading/unnecessary V character in the middle. Pictured here is - The pre-assembly components of the fiber storage spool (First) - The completed assembly of the spool with S3228003's patch cord wound up within it (Second and Third) The feedthru's patch cord still has a Thor Lab Narrow-Key Mating sleeve (but NOT polarization maintaining) ADAFCB3 that is not intended to be a part of the final assembly, just there for fiber storage during shipment. I'd yet to detach it in these pictures. Commentary: - Coiling the fiber within the spool was nerve racking. It feels like you're trying to coerce dry spaghetti into a curve without it snapping. If you let it go, it "sproings" into a wild relatively straight mess. In the end, holding it all mid-air with both hands, I used the weight of the mating sleeve to slowly pull the coil tighter as I rotated the coil nudging the rest of the coil into the newer smaller circle, until I met the radius of the storage spool. I had the goal of coiling it with one end "on top" and the other "on the bottom" of the stack, but I gave up on that. Once to the desired radius and no smaller, I used the securing cross, resting loosely across only 1/4 of the spool to hold the bulk of the coil of fiber in place while I tucked the rest of the length into the guiding channel. This is doable with a chair and patience in the open space of the optics lab, but I'm not looking forward to ding this in chamber. - Thinking through the install, my current plan is as follows :: WHAM3 D5 is currently a 12 inch blank with no 4.5 inch flange adapters. So it *needs* to be replaced by a 12 inch to 3x 4.5 inch flange adapter. So let's create the full 12 inch flange assembly with the 2x, MEAS and REF, fiber feedthroughs and 1x 4.5 blank -- and spool the fibers -- in the optics lab. Then we bring and install the whole 12 inch assembly on to HAM3 as a whole.
Took HAM7 close out measurements this morning. They look ok, like the measurements taken in 2024. I believe there are known OPO plant interactions with the ISI plant that make it difficult to get clean tfs like other chambers. We should be ok to close.
Wed Feb 04 10:07:32 2026 INFO: Fill completed in 7min 29secs
Gerardo confirmed a good fill curbside.
TITLE: 02/04 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
Wind: 6mph Gusts, 5mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.03 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.43 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
Work continues in chamber
Reminder that the LVEA is LASER SAFE EXCEPT around HAM1/2 and at height.
Functionality test for the corner station turbo pumps, see notes below:
Output mode cleaner tube turbo station;
Scroll pump hours: 7287.3
Turbo pump hours: 7309
Crash bearing life is at 100%
X beam manifold turbo station;
Scroll pump hours: 3389.9
Turbo pump hours: 3394
Crash bearing life is at 100%
Y beam manifold turbo station;
Scroll pump hours: 4160.3
Turbo pump hours: 2829
Crash bearing life is at 100%
Jennie W, Masayuki N, Keita K, Betsy W
Today we worked on improving the mode matching of the HAM1 output beam to the IMC. We also noticed the beam was going through the EOM and clipping somewhere inside so had to move the EOM up and sideways by a small ampunt to fix this. We will need to redo the RF electrical testing and the modulation depth testing for the EOM.
We improved the mode-matching of the HAM 1 output beam to the IMC by moving the lens L2 further away from JM2. We did 3 moves of 1 inch each and regained the alignment into IMC each time by using JM3 and JM2 to regain the pointing. At the end of this process we had a mode-mis-match of 1.1 % into the IMC.
After this a clipping of the beam was spotted by Keita somewhere between JM2 and JM3. We traced this down to the beam clipping somewhere inside the EOM crystal. This was fixed by shimming up the EOM at three points, after this we checked the mode-mis-match and it was 0.7%.
Then we realised there was still some clipping in pitch and so moved the EOM towards the -Y side of the table slightly. After these moves the mode mismatch was still 0.63 %.
Then after some alignent checks Keita and Masayuki have realised we need to rotate the EOM relative to the beam. This will require a sawn-off allen key as one of the 3 bolts required to yaw the EOM on its base is too near the sma connector elbows.
Camilla informed me that the non-magnetic tools might have one clean sawn-off 1/4 " allen key so left these in a tote bagged up on the + Y side outside the clean room.
- We put two of 91080A026 MCMASTER OR EQ (parts#37 for EOM assembly) under the baseplate to sim up the EOM.
- The IMC scan for the mode mismatch estimation is shown in the attached plot fraction of the HOM in IMC scan is as follows:
[After JAC_L1 adjustment]
fraction mean ± sem (nseg=13)
TEM00: 0.946604 ± 0.00119 (n=13)
TEM10: 0.010114 ± 0.000345 (n=13)
TEM2nd: 0.0185568 ± 0.000474 (n=13)
TEM01: 0.0247254 ± 0.000723 (n=13)
[L2_pos2_MCalign] finesse (=2π/FWHM) mean ± sem over TEM00 peaks: 524.733 ± 15.6 (n=26)
[After_EOM_moved] fraction mean ± sem (nseg=32)
TEM00: 0.866311 ± 0.00153 (n=32)
TEM10: 0.113113 ± 0.00144 (n=32)
TEM2nd: 0.00915663 ± 0.000228 (n=32)
TEM01: 0.011419 ± 0.000204 (n=32)
[After_EOM_moved] finesse (=2π/FWHM) mean ± sem over TEM00 peaks: 519.284 ± 12.3 (n=64)
Note: Since we have >10% first order mode for the last measurement, the mode mismatch would be lower than 0.9%.
Randy, Sheila, Betsy, Kar Meng, Camilla
After Sheila and Kar Meng found an issue with FC QPD A segment 3 88991, and after discussion with Ali James, Sheila went into chamber to test it.
Started with flashlight to confirm A vs B. Then after unplugging QPDs at SQZ rack, Sheila removed the diode detector holder D2000384 from the enclosure D2000246 (marked part #4). Once the cables were plugged back in at the rack, the signals on segments 1, 2, and 4 fell to zero but the segment 3 signal stayed railed at +30. This shows the issue is most likely inside the sealed enclosure, which is not a trivial fix. We attempted to swap the in-vac cables on the diodes to be sure the issue isn't in the in-vac cables or feed-through the cable was hard to removed so we stopped. Finished with a flashlight test again.
After consulting Safety on the technique, we employed a plank on the stationary fork lift to add an extra seating-perch in order to reach and troubleshoot the issue. Photo attached of Sheila "surfing".
Tagging for EPO
TITLE: 02/04 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY: Lots of work towards finishing up in HAM1 and HAM7, including some surfing! LVEA is still LASER SAFE except behind the curtasins by HAM1/2 and at height.
LOG:
| Start Time | System | Name | Location | Lazer_Haz | Task | Time End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22:49 | SAF | LVEA IS LASER SAFE | LVEA | NO* | LVEA IS LASER SAFE *BIFURCATED HAM1/2 bring ur LASER GOGGLES | 16:49 |
| 15:54 | FAC | Kim, Nellie | LVEA | Y/N | Tech clean (Nellie out 17:04) | 17:06 |
| 16:37 | FAC | Mitchell | LVEA | n | Grabbing stuff | 17:19 |
| 16:39 | FAC | Randy | LVEA | YES | Craning near BSC2 | 20:30 |
| 16:55 | PCAL | Dripta, Tony | EY | YES | PCAL measurements | 19:56 |
| 17:00 | FAC | Chris, pest control | LVEA | Y/N | Pest control | 16:30 |
| 17:01 | FAC | Chris, pest control | XARM, YARM | n | Pest control | 18:31 |
| 17:03 | FAC | Nellie | MY | n | Tech clean | 17:10 |
| 17:06 | VAC | Gerardo | LVEA | Y/N | Turning down purge air for HAM1 and HAM7 | 17:21 |
| 17:29 | FAC | Eric | EX | n | Chiller yard work | 18:07 |
| 17:41 | SPI | Jeff, Jim | OptLab | y(local) | SPI work | 21:03 |
| 17:54 | FAC | Kim | EX | n | Tech clean | 18:57 |
| 17:55 | FAC | Nellie | MY | n | Tech clean | 18:42 |
| 18:11 | VAC | Gerardo | LVEA | YES | Turning up purge air | 18:16 |
| 18:19 | JAC | Masayuki, Keita | LVEA | YES | JAC mode-matching | 20:07 |
| 18:31 | JAC | Jennie | LVEA | YES | JAC work | 20:07 |
| 18:31 | JAC | Jason, RyanS | LVEA | n | JAC table | 20:04 |
| 18:33 | FAC | Chris | Mids, Ends | n | FAMIS tasks | 20:22 |
| 18:41 | VAC | Gerardo | LVEA | n | Turning HAM7 purge air up | 18:51 |
| 19:04 | SUS | Rahul, Fil | LVEA | YES | Troubleshooting PM1 | 19:11 |
| 19:24 | Betsy | OptLab, LVEA | YES | Cleaning up JAC stuff | 20:30 | |
| 19:39 | FAC | Kim | LVEA | n | Putting away garb | 20:13 |
| 19:41 | VAC | Gerardo | LVEA | n | Turning on turbo pumps for FAMIS | 20:41 |
| 20:46 | PCAL | Tony, Dripta | EY | YES | PCAL measurements | 01:32 |
| 21:01 | SUS | Rahul | LVEA | YES | SUSing out PM1 | 23:05 |
| 21:06 | FAC | Randy | LVEA | YES | Moving forklift to HAM7 and being the ocean that carries the surfboard | 23:13 |
| 21:07 | Jennie | LVEA | YES | Helping move barriers for Randy | 21:24 | |
| 21:26 | Betsy | LVEA | n | Going out to help with surfing | 23:42 | |
| 21:27 | SQZ | Sheila | LVEA | n | Surfing | 23:56 |
| 21:28 | JAC | Keita, Jennie | LVEA | YES | JAC work (jennie out 23:13) | 15:08 |
| 21:35 | JAC | Jason, RyanS | LVEA | n | JAC table work | 01:37 |
| 21:35 | SEI | Jim | LVEA | n | Locking HAM7 ISI | 22:25 |
| 21:35 | Camilla | LVEA | n | Watching Sheila surf | 00:19 | |
| 21:59 | JAC | Masayuki | LVEA | YES | JAC work | 01:18 |
| 21:59 | VAC | Gerardo | LVEA | n | Turning off turbo pumps | 22:32 |
| 22:00 | FAC | Tyler | LVEA | n | Talking to Betsy | 22:14 |
| 22:33 | FAC | Chris | MY | n | Snorkel lift work | 23:05 |
| 22:33 | SPI | Jeff, Jim | OpticsLab | y(local) | SPI work | 23:48 |
| 22:34 | FAC | Chris | LVEA | n | FAMIS tasks | 21:49 |
| 22:58 | BHD | Elenna | OpticsLab | y(local) | Putting away optics | 23:14 |
| 23:21 | JAC | Jennie | LVEA | YES | JAC work | 01:37 |
| 23:27 | KarMeng | LVEA | n | Checking out HAM7 | 00:19 | |
| 23:29 | Travis | LVEA | n | Grabbing parts | 23:48 | |
| 23:42 | Betsy | LVEA | YES | Helping with JAC | 23:56 | |
| 00:35 | Camilla | LVEA | n | Getting laptop | 00:38 |
As noted on Friday, RLF QPD A segment 3 railed Nov 29th, and has been railed since then.
Filiberto, Kar Meng, Marc and I went to the rack and swapped the two cables for WFS1 + WFS2 on D2000552. The saturaed segment moved with the cable which could indicate the problem is the in vacuum QPD.
The 105kHz segment went quiet at the same time as the problem on the DC segment. This happened on a Saturday, before the chamber was vented. It had been two days of not locking the squeezer or the IFO before this happened.
Edited to add: This is the QPD used for filter cavity length control. We did lock the filter cavity after the segment broke, December 4th.
The attached plot show that the 105kHz channels from Q3 went quiet at the same time that the DC channel saturated, 10:40 pacific time Saturday Nov 29th. Then, on Dec 3/4th, the squeezer and filter cavity were relocked, and the signal on the 105kHz channels for the other quadrants returned but not on the Q3 signals.
This, along with the observation that the saturation didn't change when the QPD was removed (89020) , could point to the transimpedance amplifier being the problem, as that is common to the DC and 105kHz channels. D2000341
Today Rahul and I worked on reducing the last bit of clipping in HAM7. The power budget shows a couple of percent more loss than we've expected previously, but I don't think we can improve it much right now so this is good enough. QPDA segment 3 is railed.
This morning we found that we had some loss on B:L2, see Rahul's power budget alog as of lunchtime: 88971. In hindsight, this was also possible in the power budget that Kar Meng reported before the suspension work this week, 88847. We translated the beam in the -Y direction in the SFI2 aperture, so it would make sense that we might need to translate the lens in the -Y direction. However, there is no space to move it because the mount is already as close as it can be to SFI2 (photo). So, we translated the beam using B:M3, using the power meter to judge when we were improving the alignment. We found that this aperture is very small, there isn't much of a plateau where we aren't clipping.
After doing what we could to reduce the yaw clipping here we did a careful power budget with the thorlabs power meter, we seem to have 8% loss to SQZT7, 11-14% loss from output of the OPO to the homodyne, which is a bit worse than past measurements ( 65066):
We attempted to move B:M3 in pitch to see if we could reduce clipping on B:L2 that way, but that did not improve the transmission. In pitch we also saw that we increased the clipping with small moves in either direction. I will try to look up the beam size and aperture size next week to see if this makes sense.
We adjusted B:B4 and ZM4 a bit to align onto the two irises on SQZT7.
We also walked the two picomirrors used to center the FC QPDs, with the seed beam which saturates the diode. From the control room I reduced the power and was able to mostly center, but it seems that QPDA segment three has been railed at 33.9 since November 29th.
After we finished up, I went back to check the FCGS alignment onto SQZT7, which was not good, so I went back in for a few minutes to get that beam onto the filter cavity reflection diode. I also had a look at the red + green co-alignment, which looks similar to what Kar Meng posted in 88859.
We also checked that the new cable routing doesn't block the beam onto H:PD1, we couldn't see the beam but we think it looks like a clear path. Rahul also took a photo of where the beam exits SFI2.
EPO tagging.
From the alog 59333, the waist (w) is 700um at 54mm away from BL2.
Beam diameter is 1.4mm on the BL2. The diameter of lens aperture is 0.2" (~5mm).
From the Gaussian beam equation, the ratio of of the clipping is given by e^[-2(R2/w2)]. For a beam centered in the iris, the loss is 0%.
Here is a photo of BL2 taken from above. We wondered if the lens mount being tilted could make the aperture smaller explaining losses, but it seems that this tilt is too small to explain a loss ~1%
From the calculation for clipping loss, I plotted the graph for clipping loss for the IR 700um waist versus lens aperture radius. This gives us rough estimate the loss.