Mark D. (Apollo), Kyle R. 

We moved most of the items needed for installation of the Turbo pump and RGA tree at CP4 to the Y-mid VEA.  Mark D. mounted the fan/filter box to the clean room and interfaced the curtains around CP4's 10" gate valve.  

The Technical cleaning crew will do an initial cleaning in the morning and I'll finish "Ameristating" the floor, setting up a stand-alone particle counter etc...  The plan is to have the 12" x 8" x 4.5" x 2.75" reducing cross, 450 L/s turbo pump, valves, gauges and RGA related stuff mounted to CP4's 10" gate valve by the E.O.B tomorrow.

Keita, Corey, TVo

We finished aligning the OMC Trans path, it was quite difficult to lock the OMC, even with purge air turned down, but Keita was able to lock long enough for me to trace the beam to the viewport emulator.  Keita will post a picture of the beam position in the emulator.

Yesterday we quoted a beam clearance for the fast shutter wire with the shutter closed, we've repeated the measurement with the shutter open and found that the clearance is grater than 12-13 mm, Keita wil post a picture of this as well.

We also took a ton of pictures of the table for future references, Corey will post pictures as a comment.

At the end of the day, we turned up the purge air and took the viewport emulator back down and placed it southwest of the PSL enclosure where Jason and I found it yesterday. 

19:25 Peter & Jason to optics lab

20:20 Richard to CER

20:30 Richard to LVEA

21:45 Sheila to optics lab, out 22:40

21:45 Jason to PSL anteroom

21:50 Cheryl to HAM2 cameras

22:15 Mark to MY

23:15 Betsy, Travis to EX

WP7325.

The time has come to upgrade our working directories under /opt/rtcds/userapps/trunk from SVN version 1.6 to 1.8. Increasingly svn clients and python-svn bindings on Debian only support 1.8, so the time has come to make the upgrade.

Remember that under /opt/rtcds/userapps/trunk each subsystem is a separate working directory, so I am upgrading each one at a time. I have completed als, asc and cal (skipping asc since Daniel is working on that system).

During the upgrade I am committing local modifications into the repository, adding files which should have been under svn, and documenting the files which remain outside of SVN. I'm taking special care with common files to ensure we don't break LLO. The old version of the directory is being renamed with an _1.6 suffix (e.g. cal_1.6), and the new system is checked out cleanly from the repository.

My progress can be monitored on the WIKI page https://cdswiki.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/wiki/UpgradeUserappsSVNVersion

Please email or call my cell phone if the upgrade causes any problems.

As part of the squeezer installation we lost all of our AS AIR LSC PDs. The ASC AS_A_RF45 SUM signals are now used to generate corresponding RF LSC signals. Since the ASC model is running at 2kHz sampling, we moved the ASC-AS_A_RF45 WFS block into ascimc which runs at 16kHz. This requires shared memory transceivers for the pitch and yaw signals as well as PCIe transceivers for the SUM signals. The pitch and yaw signals are fed to the ASC model, whereas the SUM signals are fed to the LSC and OMC models. In the process, we also removed all other traces of the AS AIR PDs. Sadly, assimc now suffers from a strange compilation error...

Daniel, Nutsinee

Here attached a fast path open-loop gain transfer function of a 4th gen TTFSS. The crossover between PZT and EOM is at ~30kHz, Common gain was 17dB, Fast gain was 22dB, and Boost 3 was not engaged.

   Updated the dust monitor AlarmHandler to reflect the post vent CS and ES vent configuration. Dust monitors currently being monitored by the AlarmHandler are:

   CS LVEA 5 = HAM5, CS LVEA 6 = HAM6, CS LVEA 10 = Biergarten, EX VEA 1 = EX VEA, EX VEA 2 = BSC Cleanroom, EY VEA 1 = EY VEA, EY 2 = BSC Cleanroom 

  There were no changes to the other dust monitors configurations, locations, or alarm levels.  
    

Kyle, Chandra

IP4 arrived from vendor after being fully rebuilt, baked, and shipped under vacuum. We connected it to a aux cart to pump out from found ~e-4 Torr to e-6 Torr and then applied 7 kV to both channels. Then vented with dry N2, pumped out and applied 7 kV to find that the current is a factor of ten higher than first test. This may be normal because of the exposure to gas, but LLO doesn't show the same results, and it reads higher than the other pumps in operation.

Sheila, Nutsinee, Terry,

This is an update on the progress so far on the VIP. We have aligned and mode matched both the CLF/seed 1064 path and the 532 pump path to the OPO, and are ready to think about swapping M1 for the higher green reflectivity version.  

• We have collimators which were labeled SN18 for 1064 and SN4 for 532.  Maggie measured the modes out of these collimators and posted her data here.  Terry and I also measured both wavelengths in both collimators, here, but at that time the 1064 and 532 collimators were somehow swapped (so the collimator called "supposedly for 1064" in that log is now being used for 532 nm and vice versa.).  Nutsinee also made a better measurement of the mode out of the collimator now being used for 532 in the far field here.
• The first attached photo shows the path from the 1064 collimator to M2 where it is injected into the OPO.  The distance from the collimator to the steering mirror is 173mm, the total distance from the collimator to the AR side of M2 is 270 (+/-~1) mm, from the collimator to the edge of the OPO mounting block is 226mm, and the distance from the collimator to the ROC+150mm lens (f=334mm according to this) is 41mm.  After the lens is a thin film polarizer type 2 which transmits P polarized light, followed by a half wave plate to rotate the polarization back to vertical as required for the OPO.  
• The second attachment shows the 532 pump path.  The distance from the collimator to the first steering mirror is 180mm, the total distance from the collimator to the edge of the metal block the cavity sits on is 190mm, the total distance to the AR surface of M1 is ~234mm.  The first lens is ROC+75mm (f=162.8mm) 152mm from the collimator, while the second lens is 199 mm from the collimator (19 mm from the steering mirror).  This path has a thin film polarizer and half wave plate similar to the 1064 path.  
• We scanned the cavity using the M2 PZT and a thorlabs PZT driver.  Using the free spectral range of the OPO 853.452MHz from T1700104, I did a quadratic fit of the measured 00 peaks of 1064 transmission through M1 to rescale the voltage applied to the PZT driver into resonant frequency of the OPO.  The higher order mode peak is the mode mismatch. From these four measurements the mode matching is 81.1+/- 0.2% standard error.  We did not try to optimized the mode matching of this path, but we can come back and attempt to adjust it if there is time before installation.  
• The dips in reflected power are 95.7+/-0.1% of the power off resonance, without correcting for the higher order modes.  While this is consistent with our expectation for a 99.8% reflectivity M2 and 87.2% reflectivity M1, this give us a measurement of the cavity losses which is dominated by the transmission through M1, and doesn't give us a good measurement of the OPO escape efficiency. 
• Although the documentation calls for two dichorics in the squeezing path, we had only one superpolished dichroic so we used it to separate the green and red and use 1064 HR mirrors for the rest of the squeeze path. 
• Nutsinee has and will post data from the 532nm cavity scans. 

With Bubba and Mark's help, Betsy and I reinstalled the newly welded and AERM'd ETMy quad lower structure into BSC10 and mated it to the upper structure.  The whole process went very smoothly and took ~2 hours total.

Sheila, TVo

I had trouble locking the IMC yesterday when increasing the input power.  So we measured the OL TF at the Common Mode board and found that the UGF was about 100 kHz with maybe 20 degrees phase margin while locked at 1 W.  So we changed the guardian common mode gain calc by -4db to get a little more phase margin and match what Kiwmau's suggestion was in aLOG-36354 of about 50 kHz nominal, it now stably working at 10W.  I've attached the plots of different power levels input into the IMC.

15:45 - 17:41 UTC Jeff B. to end X for work on dust monitors
16:10 - 16:19 UTC Peter to optics lab to get lens tissue
16:43 - 17:30 UTC Filiberto to end X to help Jeff B. with dust monitors
17:00 UTC Terry to squeezer bay (most of morning)
17:07 - 17:15 UTC Travis to LVEA to retrieve parts for HAM6 work
18:06 UTC Pepsi delivering vending machine
18:07 UTC Filiberto to LVEA to inspect illuminator cabling
18:09 - 18:36 UTC Sheila, Thomas to LVEA to measure IMC open loop gain
18:12 - 18:25 UTC Nutsinee to squeezer bay
18:17 UTC Kyle to mid Y
18:21 UTC Travis, Betsy, Bubba, Mark to end Y to put quad back in chamber
18:55 UTC Karen to mid Y
19:00 UTC Handoff OPS to Jim

Dave B., Filiberto C., Jeff B. 

   The in cleanroom dust monitor(VEA 2) has been installed at End-X to support the up coming vent. Dave did the updates to dust monitor software to remove the unused monitors from the LVEA and add monitors for the end stations. 

   The End-X monitors were (1) incorrectly connected to the RS485 serial network, and (2) A wire loop in an unused but connected RS232 box was shorted. Filiberto and I reconnected the dust monitors correctly for the RS485 serial network. While trouble shooting network intermittent lockups, we found and isolated the shorted RS232 wiring. 

   Both end stations dust monitors are up and running. The AlarmHandler and "check_dust_monitors-are-working" scripts are being edited to reflect the current operating environment.       

This morning the pre-modecleaner reflected spot looked like it had moved compared to yesterday.  This led to the suspicion
that the output of the laser had dropped - it had.  I increased the diode currents by 1A to bring the power back up.  Did
a quick diode temperature check but things are pretty good where they are right now.

Keita TVo

We first set the final position of the fast shutter and the cable routing as well as position the reflection of the shutter to the center of the beam dump.  This is done and the fast shutter has one tightened dog clamp on each side.  The incoming beam from HAM5 clears the shutter wire by 10 mm and the structure is even further than that.  We had similar difficulties with closing and opening the shutter as yesterday but Keita seems to have found a way to make it work with some odd logic that he will post about in a comment.

We've also aligned the AS_AIR path through to the viewport simulator as well as the beam diverter and the beam dump.  Note of caution, when Jason and I installed the viewport emulator, it was already well aligned to three blank flanges on the other door of HAM6. Keita reminded me that this is not the same as an actual viewport with its viewport protector housing attached so we tried our best guess to account for this by eye when aligning the beam coming out of the chamber.  I've attached a picture that shoes where the beam is coming out of the emulator, it is at the bottom most corner of the laser card.

Next step was OMC_TRANS path which was particularly difficult because the OMC would not stably lock with the purge air on and even when it was locked, we were not able to see anything coming out of the shroud.  It was getting a bit late by this point and this alignment should be done with three people

Chandra, Gerardo, Kyle 

We would like the option of removing GV12's external gate annulus piping so as to relieve a potential interference with the to-be-installed bake enclosure that will encompass GV12, CP4 and GV11.  This enclosure will allow the bake-out of CP4 as part of its decommissioning.  Removing this external piping requires venting the annulus volume for a long enough duration as to remove the piping, blank-off one of two ports and then install a valve on the unblanked port which would allow the re-evacuation of the vented volume.  Unfortunately, as was the case with GV11, GV12's gate annulus O-rings leak into the adjacent vacuum volumes (Y2 beam tube module and CP4) and thus limit how much time we could tolerate the annulus volume being vented.  We recently demonstrated this by admitting UHP N2 into GV12's gate annulus and then observing the pressure response in the adjacent vacuum volumes.  

Today, in an effort to reduce or eliminate GV12's poor sealing gate, we "slow" opened it by letting the variable speed electric actuation motor ramp up from 0 rpm up to 1000 rpm and then pausing for 30 seconds to allow the "sticky" O-rings to pull away from sealing surface.  This gets repeated a few times until the adjacent volume's pressure gauges confirm that the gate is no longer in contact with the sealing surface.  Once the gate is freed, we then "hard closed" GV12.  Next, we administered ~ 1 LPM of UHP N2 into the entirety (combined) annulus volume for 3 minutes before aborting the gas admission and evacuating.  

This afternoon, Travis and I rolled the ETMY/PUM monolithic main chain from the weld room around to it's AERM/PenRe reaction chain pal in the staging room next to the chamber.  We used the Genie duct jack to lift the ETMY set from it's trolley and place it next to the AERM double.  After some alignment checks, we pushed them together and fastened up their 8 mating screws.  We left the newly married couple covered and ready for tomorrow's big adventure back into the chamber to meet their upper half.

Thanks Peter for the photo assay of today's work on this!

Nutsinee Marc Daniel

The (hopefully) final version of the TTFSS V4 has been installed. The modifications are described in E1700364. To increase the beat note strength the first directional coupler in the TTFSS preamplifier has been replaced by a splitter which results in 8dB more gain.

The ugf is around 500kHz with a crossover around 30kHz. The autolocker seems to be working fine too. Plots to follow.