End-Y: The faulty ETM-Y ESD connector was repaired (see aLOG #15656).   
The first cleaning of the ETM-Y optic with First Contact was completed with some success. There are still several areas of concern left on the optic. A second First Contact application will be removed today. 

End-X: Preparations (cleaning, cleanrooms, garb, etc.) for entry into End-X are underway in case it is decided to clean the End-X optics.
    
HAM1: The work in HAM1 is finished. The door will be reinstalled today.

EE: PEM cabling work in the LVEA.

Seismic: Hugh adding CPS ground straps to the HAMs in the LVEA. 

The #1 instrument air compressor was changed out at Mid X yesterday afternoon.

no restarts reported. Conlog frequently changing channels report attached.

No evidence this morning, almost 24 hours.

The outdoor units and transformer for the DCS addition are set in place. The partition wall is taped and ready for paint.

Elli, Sheila, Kiwamu,

We went in the HAM1 chamber this afternoon and completed the following tasks:

• Alignment of POP_A diode.
• Alignment of a beam dump for POP_A
• installation of the collar in all four pico-motors
• installation of the kapton washers in all four pico-motors.
• open/close test on the two beam diverters.

The HAM1 is ready for the door to be back on.

(Some notes)

We aligned the POP beam onto the diode when the PRMI was locked on the sidebands, 10W. The beam was visible on a laser card so that it was not a difficult job (though we had to spend sometime trying to re-acquire the PRMI lock). I steered the picomotor that was in front of POP_A to center the beam. After we coarsely adjusted the mirror, we then did a fine adjustment by looking at dataviewer and brought the beam to the center of the PD. This was done by locking a simple Michelson as this was easier to lock and bright enough to see the POP DC signal in the digital system. The beam dump was already in the designed position and I steered the reflection to the dump by rotating the POP_A diode, probably by 1 or 2 deg. Note that at the beginning, beam was barely hitting the dump.

Since none of the pico motors had the collars or kapton washers installed, we installed them this time. After the installation, three picomotors, out of four, still had a room of more than 5 mm in the thread. The last one in front of POP_A had approximately 2 mm in the thread both pitch and yaw.  We opened and closed both REFL and POP beam diverters to make sure that they don't easily get stuck. We did 5 or 6 times of open/close operations and they did not fail.

After we finished the in-vac work, we realigned the PRMI and locked it on the sidebands. We confirmed that the POP was still receiving the light.

Kiwamu, Stefan

Tonight we copied the BS OPLEV filters to the BS M2 LOCK pitch and yaw filters, and modified them slightly to get some moderate DC gain on top of a significant suppression at the optics resonances.
 - The modification we made is
   PIT and YAW: FM1: zpk([0],[100],1,"n") was replaced with zpk([0.1;0.1],[4000;100],0.2,"n") . Together with the WFS filter bank (a simple 1/f integrator) this results in very weak DC feed-back.
   PIT: We added a 1.2Hz resonance peak compensation and a p0.1:z1.5 low frequency boost to FM10:
      zpk([0.02+i*1.2;0.02-i*1.2],[0.200028+i*1.18338;0.200028-i*1.18338],1,"n")* zpk([1.5],[0.1],15,"n")
   The results in a reasonable secondary UGF crossing.

Pitch was tested, and resulted in a unconditionally stable loop.
Yaw wasn't tested yet. A snapshot of the engaged filters is attached.

Betsy, Travis, Rick

How today went:

We spent a few hours this morning working on the in-vac side of the new ESD connector termination checkouts. 

At ~2pm we pulled the FC sheet off of the ETMy-HR (painted on last night).  We immediately saw that the 3 larger FC remnants that were causing all of the glint in the cavity arm were removed.  Yay!  However, it was also immediately clear (with the green flashlight) that the 3" ring feature and mottled haze were still there. 

We took a break at 3pm and spoke to a wider SYS+ audience where it was determined we would attempt to do a test drag wipe on the mottling nearer the edge of the optic.  We worked on getting pictures of numerous mottled areas in the haze of the donut shape on the ETMy-HR before doing some test drag wipes.  Then we chose an area toward the top of the optic where there was another relic IAS window circle print near the 12 o'clock position to test drag wiping.  After numerous failed attempts at performing the light-duty friction-only drag wiping technique on this area I resorted to folding the lens wipe a few times and applying pressure during the drag wipe.  This made a smudge where I wiped which I then had to spend another ~5 wipes removing.  We then reevaluated the mottling and found that we might have improved it in one small place, but not the entire area I had been working on.  We then redirected a streaky area at the bottom of the optic to see if I could get a better technique down.  No such luck and I again had to resort to applying pressure numerous times in order to see an improvement.  Since we had better pictures of the 12 o'clock position mottling area that I had been working on earlier, we decided to revisit that area.  I again made an attempt at friction-only drag wiping of this top area.  In the process I must have lightly swiped the optic with my glove because when inspecting the optic after the drag wipe, we found a ~2mmx2mm patch of particulate just outside of the 3" ring near the center of the optic.  Brilliant.  We also found more particulate on the optic from the waving lens tissues.  We tried to blow them off with a few minutes of N2.  This did not seem to work.  One of the particles was quite large and even a light dab with an swab did not move it (in fact, ~5 attempts to snatch it off via dabbing failed).  Rick captured a few pictures of the "new" features.

At this point we aborted the drag wipe testing and carefully repainted FC back on.  I was very careful to not brush across the large particle nor the "patch" area very much.  I applied very thick ~1 inch long strokes which at first were more like dabs near these areas.  (All other saturated sloppy strokes were ~1-2" in length, repeated.)

I do not think we can drag wipe the full surface (or even the central ~8") of the ETMy-HR.  We were not sucessful in ~25 attempts to get a good pull on the optic except for in the localized areas I mentioned above when I used finger pressue.  And after these attempts we added contaminant to the surface by accident.

The optic size obviously makes it hard to work with.  The working area is too small for 2 hands, elbows, flashlights, your head, etc.  Then, the task is too hampered by suspension brackets and braces to get good surface tension with the flat lens tissue.  The wipe wants to continue to pull off the surface and ripples easily.  As well (or worse), we had a hard time getting the wetted wipe to the surface before the acetone dried.

Rick plans to attach some pictures to this alog so check back later or tommorrow.

 (Doug Jason)
The HAM5 oplvr mirror must have been bumped in situ as we were unable to get the reflected beam out of the viewport to the receiver. It is far enough off that the reflected beam cannot be seen hitting anywhere. We will need to adjust it with the next vent opportunity.

Betsy, Filiberto, Gerardo, Richard, Travis

1. The old vacuum feedthrough was removed by Gerardo
2. Continuity test were done on each pin to verify each section LR, UR, BIAS, UL, and LL.
3. The in-vacuum cables were re-terminated for installation of the new UHV 5-way coaxial connector.
4. Gerardo installed new feedthru (has not been leaked checked).
5. In-vacuum and in-air cables were connected to feedthru.
6. All pins were HIPOT to 1K and passed (some pins had to be reterminated).
6. Pin layout for ESD is as follow:
   Pin 1 - LR
   Pin 2 - UR
   Pin 3 - BIAS
   Pin 4 - UL
   Pin 5 - LL

Hugh, Sheila, Stefan, Elli, Kiwamu,

The mysterious IMC misalignment event happened again. We are speculating that there may be a loose optical component in the IMC refl path on the HAM2 in-chamber table.

Back in the last February, there was a strange misalignment event in IMC (see alog 10335) where the IMC reflection path seemed to have significantly moved for some reason. This happened again this morning. This time, it was associated with the HAM1 activity of taking the door off from the HAM1 chamber. It tripped the HAM2 ISI and HEPI. After untripping them, we noticed that the IMC reflection was misalgined so much that the beam was almost missing the reflection camera and WFS diodes. However, like the previous event, the IMC power build-up was still reasonably high (it was at 820 counts in MC2 trans which is usually 830 counts or so) when it was locked.  Sheila and Hugh then restored the HEPI back to the previous positions using the IPSs as a reference. At this point we could already see a reasonable DRMI flash at the dark port and also the IM4 trans seemed to have come back to the previous position. Based on these observations, we determined that the misalignment was only in the IMC refl path which is exactly the same conclusion as the previous event. So we realigned the refl path on IOT2L. Now IMC is locking fine and ASC loops were engaged without an issue.

In addition to those recovery activities, we did a brief test where we steered the HEPI by a big amount (~200 urads or so) in each rotational degree of freedom to see if we can reproduce such a big misalignment in the IMC refl, but we could not move the spot on the camera back to the center. Also, we quickly checked the mirrors in the IMC refl path on IOT2L to see if there is a loose component or something easily movable, but we could not find any. The misalignment was mainly in the horizontal direction on the table. The spot position on all three diodes (REFL, WFS_A and WFS_B) had almost the same amount of displacements horizontally, by half a cm toward the East. The attached is 3 hours trend of various sensors. At one point, both the WFSs got misaligned and at the same time the MC1 witness sensors saw a jump in both pitch and yaw (which I think is me untripping the HEPI and ISI).

The leak at the electrical break was still leaking yesterday so I ramped down the pumps, loosened the hose clamps and shifted their position.  Restart would have been faster but my medm was partially frozen giving live data readbacks but unresponsive button pushing.  I mistakenly decided to restart the controller and still had an unresponsive medm.  Medm would not restart and then restarting the AirBook was equally painful.  Once it was restarted and I could get a fresh medm, everything came back easilly.  While the pressures were down, recorded some pressure zero offsets for the database.

[Mackenzie, Paul]

Yesterday we had trouble getting a large enough beat signal between the aux laser and the main PSL. After discussions with Dave O., Stefan and Daniel, we were convinced that the aux laser was not operating monochromatically. This can apparently occur if the aux laser is close to a "mode hop" region when we bring its frequency close to the PSL frequency using the temperature control. We then end up observing the beat frequency between the PSL and one of the "parasitic" modes of the aux laser, which has a much smaller amplitude than the main mode.

On Daniel's advice, we adjusted the diode input current as well as temperature, in order to give us an additional frequency control option that affected the proximity to the mode hopping region differently to the temperature. After some searching around, we suddenly observed a forest of peaks, with one especially large peak.

This forest appears to have been a combination of a) saturation of the 1811 AC output exciting harmonics of the base beat frequency and b) contributions from RF sidebands of the PSL light. We reduced the power on the 1811 using the filter wheel (we ended up using the OD 2.5 filter), resulting in the spectrum shown in the attached figure. The VCO offset frequency was 20MHz. Interestingly, the beat between aux laser and 9, 45MHz sidebands are quite visible.

The dominant beat frequency now registers a -22dBm signal at the AC PD output on the spectrum analyzer, even with the power on the PD attenuated such that the DC output from the PD produced by the PSL beam is less than 1mV (the PSL beam is the weaker of the two beams at the PD). This may still seem a little weak, but it is much better than yesterday, when we had ~-50dBm AC on a ~100mV DC signal.

After some adjustment of the servo box gains, we were able to achieve stable PLL locks. There is no slow temperature servo path included yet, so the PZT on the aux laser will go out of range rapidly if the temperature dial is not adjusted by hand. By adjusting the temperature dial, it was possible to keep the PLL locked for tens of minutes. 

Next, we switched the frequency reference for the PLL offset from the Marconi VCO to the swept sine output of the network analyzer. This presents a new challenge, because now not only does the aux laser have to phase lock to the PSL, but it also has to track the offset frequency generated by the NA. After playing around with IF BW, sweep ranges, source power etc., we were eventually able to get the aux laser to reliably phase lock to the PSL and track the NA frequency through a ~2MHz frequency range (almost enough for a full PRC sweep). We convinced ourselves that the PLL was locked and tracking the NA frequency by observing the TF from NA drive signal to 1811 AC output. When the PLL is locked, the TF is flat, high, and smooth, since the 1811 AC output is coherent with the NA signal at the same frequency. When the PLL is unlocked, the same TF is many decades smaller.

Each time the NA reaches the end of a sweep and flips back to the start frequency, the lock drops. I'm not sure there's much we can do about that. It would help to have the slow path enabled though, in order to compensate for slow drifts of the aux laser frequency away from the PSL frequency. 

Next we plan to try some PRC sweeps if there is PRMI locked time available. For this, we will take the TF from NA drive signal to one of the REFL AIR broadband detectors, with the PRMI locked and the PLL locked. Depending on how that goes, we may pursue the slow temperature feedback development.