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Reports until 16:27, Thursday 28 May 2015
H1 PSL (DetChar, PSL)
edmond.merilh@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:27, Thursday 28 May 2015 (18670)
PSL Weekly Report

These are the past 10 days trends.

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H1 SUS
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:33, Thursday 28 May 2015 - last comment - 12:50, Thursday 11 June 2015(18669)
More ETM charge measurements

After a measurement of charge on each ETM yesterday, I took a few more on each today.  Attached show the results trended with the measurements taken in April and Jan of this year.  There appears to be more charge on the ETMs than in previous measurements, although there is quite a spread in the measurements.  The ion pumps at the end stations are valved in.

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betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - 11:53, Friday 29 May 2015 (18695)

Note, the measurement was saturating on ETMy so Kiwamu pointed me to switch the ETMy HI/LOW Voltage mode and BIO state.  This made the measurement run with saturation.  Attached is a snapshot of the settings I used for the ETMy charge measurement.

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leonid.prokhorov@LIGO.ORG - 12:50, Thursday 11 June 2015 (19076)
1. I think that the results of charge measurements of ETMY on May, 28 are probably mistaken. I haven't see any correlation in dependence of pitch and yaw from the DC bias. 
2. It seems like there was very small response at ETMX LL quadrant at this charge measurements. Other ETMX quadrants are ok. It correlates with results of June, 10 https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=19049 
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H1 SUS
travis.sadecki@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:24, Thursday 28 May 2015 (18668)
SUS Driftmon updated

I updated the SUS Drift Monitor with values from a shortish lock stretch last night, 1116855522.  In addition, I updated the threshold updating script to widen the thresholds for PR2 and BS per Betsy's suggestion.  The IMs and OMs are still showing alarm, but we assume they will come back to green during a lock.  As part of the background to get the Drift Monitor back to functional, we (TJ at the keyboard and Betsy, Hugh, and myself in the peanut gallery) reassigned the alarm severity states (.HSV, .LSV, .LLSV, .HHSV) to their appropriate values (MINOR, MINOR, MAJOR, MAJOR respectively).  At sometime during the past month, these values were lost (i.e. NO_ALARM), presumably during some bootfest. 

We need to update the appropriate database such that these values are not lost during bootfests in the future.

H1 PSL
jeffrey.bartlett@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:04, Thursday 28 May 2015 (18667)
PSL Chiller Conductivity & Flow
Rick, Peter, Jason, Jeff B.

   A series of apparent glitches and dropouts of the PSL chiller water flow caused the PSL to shut down several times. We swapped out the online chiller (Gromit) with the backup chiller (Wallace) from 05/07/15 until 05/20/15. During this time, we replaced Gromit’s Central Chiller Controllers (for both the Crystal and Diode chillers). The older turbine flow sensors, which were flagged as the source of the PSL shut downs, were also replaced with new vortex flow sensors.

   After the upgrades, we swapped Gromit back in as the online chiller and put Wallace into backup. Gromit has been running for the past 8 days without any glitches or dropouts. The turbine flow sensors in Wallace will be replaced by new vortex flow sensors. 

   The Di-Water cartridges in both chillers have not been replaced in sometime, and there was concern for their proper functioning. The attached plots show the 180 and 30-day trends for the flow rates and the conductivity of the Di-cartridge’s for both chillers. 

   The Diode chiller is functioning within operational parameters. The conductance ranges between 4 and 7 µs/cm (the low/high set points) during a 14 to 15 day period. The flow rate is very steady at 21 l/min. The fluctuations at the right of the plots are when Gromit and Wallace were swapped on 05/07 and then swapped back on 05/20. The conductance appears to be normal, although we need a longer periods of data to reconfirm the previous trends. The flow rate appears to have climbed from 21 l/min to around 30 l/min. The flows through the diodes are all normal. This appears to be a calibration issue with the new vortex flow sensors. 

   The data for the Crystal chiller appears to have the same patterns as the Diode chiller, with two notable exceptions. (1) The conductance rise and regeneration period is three to four months (vs 14 to 15 days for the Diode chiller) and (2) the flow rate for the Crystal chiller has dropped from 18 l/min to 10 l/min. Again, this is likely to be a calibration issue as the flows through the PSL components are all in normal ranges.
 
   We will discuss this calibration question with the laser group in Germany. 

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H1 SEI
thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:37, Thursday 28 May 2015 (18664)
BRS damper looks like it caused the BRS to ring up

The BRS was very rung up this morning so I went to investigate. It looks like the damper may have caused the BRS to ring up.

People were at End X yesterday but left around 1230 pst, where as the BRS didnt start to dramatically ring up till around 1900 pst. The damper seemed to be on before the large amplitudes seen on both the INMON and the DRIFTMON. Siesmometers aren't showing any signs of an earthquake within the past 24 hours, so that seems to be be out.

I went to EX to turn OFF the damper by uncommenting the line of code, and adjust the damper masses (about 75 degrees out of position). I left the damper OFF to allow the BRS to ring down on its own like we have done previousily.

Screenshots attached: 1st - A 4.5 hour view around the event. 2nd - 24 hour trend. In the 2nd, you can see when people were at EX and the damper seemed to relax the signals back down to normal where they stayed for a little over 4 hours before everything picked up again.

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H1 CAL (CAL)
richard.savage@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:24, Thursday 28 May 2015 (18665)
Short Pcal test at Yend

DarkhanT, RickS

We are running a short (hour or two) test at Yend.

The Rx PD assembly is back in the Rx module.  The outer beam is blocked inside the Tx module so only the inner (upper) beam is reflecting from the ETM into the Rx PD assembly.

We are trying to identify the source of variations we have seen in the received power, but not in the transmitted power.

H1 AOS
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 04:33, Thursday 28 May 2015 - last comment - 10:07, Sunday 31 May 2015(18660)
A2L measurements tonight

Dan, Evan, Sheila

Tonight we started to look at the angle to length couplings of our test masses.  We injected lines into pitch and yaw on the PUMs, and adjusted the A2L gains to minimize them.  Using the math in the 40 meter alog and Jax's alog, we can estimate the miscentering from these measurements

  Gain P2L vertical miscentering (mm) Gain Y2L horizontal miscentering (mm)
ETMX 1.6 21 1.1 14.4
ETMY 0.69 9 -0.3 -3.9
ITMX 2.4 31.5 1.15 15
ITMY 1.5 19.7 N/A (-1.7 to -2)  

After we had adjusted these, we saw an improvement in the spectrum below 20 Hz.  The line in the attached screen shot at 16.6 Hz with sidebands at half a hertz are the excitation.  Keep in mind that this is on the new ESD driver and we haven't redone the calibration yet, but clearly this improved the noise below 20 Hz.  

Earlier in the evening we were having difficuulty powering up because of a pitch instability at the main suspension resonant frequency that showed up in all the test masses.  We moved the QPD offsets for pitch back to what they were may 15th, (they had been changed last tuesday).  We then remeasured the miscentering for pitch only, things were a little bit better.  Once we increased the power to 17 Watts, the IFO was stable and we repeated some of the measurements.  We were able to power up to 23 Watts without seeing the instability twice, but lost the lock quickly for other reasons.

  Gain P2L vertical miscentering (mm) 17 Watts P2L  
ETMX 0.7 9.18 0.8  
ETMY -0.57 -7.5 -0.49  
ITMX 2.1 27.6 2.4  
ITMY 1.2 15.7 NA  
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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 05:32, Thursday 28 May 2015 (18661)
Note that it seemed like the key to increasing our power stably tonight was to revert the transmon qpd offsets for pit to what they were before alog 18613, but we haven't reverted the green cameras, green qpd offsets or the yaw IR qpd offsets. It might be best to revert those as well if there are any difficulties durring the day time
evan.hall@LIGO.ORG - 06:31, Thursday 28 May 2015 (18662)

DARM OLTF file attached. This template has reduced drive strength so that the ESD does not saturate in the LVLN state.

At last I was able to switch the DARM actuation over to ETMY at 25 W with the LPF engaged on the LVLN driver. We had discovered that the L1 LOCK filters on the ETMs were charging up because of small amounts of ringing in the lower stage filters. Therefore, the L1 filter for ETMX is zeroed after actuation is moved to ETMY, and the lock filters for ETMY are cleared after lockloss. Also, the INCREASE_POWER state now automatically increases the power to 25 W once again.

I tried the LOWNOISE_ESD_ETMY state at 25 W once, and it seemed to work. I then turned on some pieces of the LSC_FF state (namely the SRCL gain reduction, the SRCL cutoff, and the MICH FF). I am leaving the IFO locked with the intent bit undisturbed.

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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 10:42, Thursday 28 May 2015 (18666)
One more note for the day shift - we added roll mode damping to the guardian, it was working consistently last night with settings that also worked over the weekend, but if there are any difficulties it would be a good idea to comment this out
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 17:20, Thursday 28 May 2015 (18673)

One last note: the power was 3 Watts in the spectrum attached, and to repeat, the calibration is not updated since the actuator change.  They're working on it

sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 15:08, Friday 29 May 2015 (18701)

The displacements in mm are wrong here, we were measureing from the PUM.

evan.hall@LIGO.ORG - 21:10, Friday 29 May 2015 (18709)

Another DARM OLTF, this time with the ETMY LPF off.

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jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 10:07, Sunday 31 May 2015 (18735)ISC
There are two DARM Open Loop Gain TFs attached as comments to this entry that represent the first two DARM OLGTFs taken with the new low noise ESD driver and the new L1L2L3 hierarchical control scheme. 

I've downloaded them and submitted them to the CalSVN for use later:
- From LHO aLOG 18662, DcDarmLVLN.xml, measured starting 2015-05-28 13:17:00 UTC, has been copied to 
/ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/PreER7/H1/Measurements/DARMOLGTFs/2015-05-28_H1_DARM_OLGTF_LHOaLOG18662_ETMYL3LPON.xml
- From LHO aLOG 18709, DcDarmLVLN.xml, measured starting 2015-05-30 03:07:00 UTC, has been copied to 
/ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/PreER7/H1/Measurements/DARMOLGTFs/2015-05-30_H1_DARM_OLGTF_LHOaLOG18709_ETMYL3LPOFF.xml.

I attach conlogs of all relevant DARM filter banks and BIO switches, where the date in the file name corresponds to each measurement.
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LHO General
cheryl.vorvick@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:20, Thursday 28 May 2015 (18659)
Ops Eve Summary

- commissioners had the IFO, working on EY

- Rick and crew returned from EY(?) early in the shift

- currently an instabillity is preventing the IFO from going beyond 10W

H1 CAL (AOS)
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 23:51, Wednesday 27 May 2015 (18658)
Cal Team Day 2 Debriefing
K. Izumi, S. Karki, J. Kissel, R. Savage, D. Tuyenbayev

Lots more work done today -- still a fire hose of measurements that we're furiously trying to understand quickly enough to make a statement about them and/or use them in our loop models, but we're falling behind the analyzing / documenting as expected.

What we accomplished today:
J. Kissel, S. Karki
Finished measurements of ETMX PCAL electronics, as had been done for ETMY yesterday (AA and AI data finished being processed, still need to process full-chain measurements; both end station's work need aLOGs)

K. Izumi, J. Kissel
Gathered Free-Swinging Michelson calibration of ETMY L2 stage between 2 and 7 [Hz] (by the usual daisy chain of measurements), tried to get L3 stage but it's just too weak -- will have to do an ETMX to ETMY propogation using the full IFO. (measurement processed, needs aLOG for procedure and results)

K. Izumi
Gathered data for calibration of ETMY L2 stage using ALS DIFF VCO (preliminary aLOG is LHO aLOG 18656, but still needs process and results aLOG)

R. Savage, D. Tuyenbayev
Compared response of standard ETMY PCAL PDs against other broadband PDs to check for high-frequency frequency dependence. Still needs more time (and an aLOG).

R. Savage, D. Tuyenbayev, J. Kissel
Begun looking at changes to be made to CAL-CS model and PCAL models. Accidentally updated ${userapps}/cal/common/models/ and found new library parts which need new connections and IPC at the top level that we don't know the details about.

Goals for tomorrow:
B. Weaver
Measure ETM charge

R. Savage, D. Tuyenbayev
Continue at EY, and move to EX comparing high frequency response of PDs.

J. Kissel, K. Izumi
Measure Simple Michelson Technique again, but propagate to stronger ETMX this time (and get all three stages), then lock of DARM to propagate from ETMX to ETMY (again all three stages)

J. Kissel, R. Savage, D. Tuyenbayev
Call up J. Betzwieser and S. Kandashamy and figure out what the heck they've done to the CAL-CS and PCAL library parts, so that we can absorb the changes and have functional front end models.
H1 CAL
kiwamu.izumi@LIGO.ORG - posted 20:26, Wednesday 27 May 2015 (18656)
ETM calibration using ALS diff VCO round 1

Jeff, Kiwamu,

In addition to the classic free-swing-Michelson technique, we did another calibration of the ETM responses using the ALS diff VCO.

We locked ALS diff and drove various stages of ETMs. The plan is to take out the loop suppression by using a measured open loop transfer function and calibrate data into meters through the known VCO calibration. The data and results will come later. A conclusion from todays's calibration is that the calibration of the ETMY ESD in the low voltage configuration is difficult to measure since the strength is so weak. So for the reason, we ended up measuring only the ETMY L2 stage and ETMX L3 stage. Sigh. In order to get a reliable calibration on ETMY ESD, we probably need the DARM loop closed in fully locked interferometer and need to make a comparison between well-calibrated ETMX ESD and ETMY ESD.

H1 SYS (DetChar, GRD, ISC, SUS, SYS)
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:30, Wednesday 27 May 2015 (18655)
suspension saturation lockloss tool

Adrew Lundgren has written a script that can be easily used to identify which suspensions saturate in which order in a lockloss.  The script is in USERAPPS/sys/common/scripts/ and should work for LLO as well.   The script is called with a time which can be either a gps time or any format that tconvert accepts, it checks for suspension MASTER_OUT_DQ channels that go above 2^17 for 10 seconds before or after the time given.  This may be integrated with the summary pages and/or the graphical lockloss tool soon, but now it is ready to go from the command line.  For now it is not checking things like RMs, OMs, IMs, but they can be added if anyone wants them. 

Thanks to Andy for putting this together so quickly, and to Jamie, Johnathan Hanks, and Greg Mendell for helping to get it running here.  

sheila.dwyer@opsws2:/opt/rtcds/userapps/release/sys/common/scripts$ lockloss list
2015-05-27 03:47:29.151290  ISC_LOCK  INCREASE_POWER -> LOCKLOSS
2015-05-27 05:55:09.044630  ISC_LOCK  DC_READOUT -> LOCKLOSS
2015-05-27 06:26:54.136390  ISC_LOCK  DC_READOUT -> LOCKLOSS
sheila.dwyer@opsws2:/opt/rtcds/userapps/release/sys/common/scripts$ ./lockloss-sus-sat 2015-05-27 06:26:54.136390
First saturation at 1116743228.92 by SRM M3 LL
SRM M3 UR saturated at +0.0015
OMC M1 LF saturated at +0.0361
OMC M1 RT saturated at +0.0361
SRM M3 LR saturated at +0.1064
SRM M3 UL saturated at +0.1528
SR2 M3 LL saturated at +0.2544
SR2 M3 UR saturated at +0.2549
SR2 M3 UL saturated at +0.2563
SR2 M3 LR saturated at +0.2563
OMC M1 T2 saturated at +0.3252
OMC M1 T3 saturated at +0.3252
ETMY L2 LL saturated at +0.3545
ETMY L2 UL saturated at +0.3560
ETMY L2 LR saturated at +0.3579
ETMY L2 UR saturated at +0.3706
ETMY L3 UL saturated at +0.3730
ETMY L3 UR saturated at +0.3730
ETMY L3 LL saturated at +0.3730
ETMY L3 LR saturated at +0.3730
MC2 M3 UL saturated at +0.4136
MC2 M3 UR saturated at +0.4185
MC2 M3 LL saturated at +0.4375
MC2 M3 LR saturated at +0.4424
SR2 M1 T2 saturated at +1.2725
SR2 M1 T3 saturated at +1.2725
ETMX L1 LR saturated at +1.2959
ETMX L1 LL saturated at +1.2969
ETMX L1 UR saturated at +1.3232
ETMX L1 UL saturated at +1.3242
ETMY L1 LL saturated at +1.5869
ETMY L1 LR saturated at +1.6074
ETMY L1 UL saturated at +1.6123
ETMY L1 UR saturated at +1.6318
PRM M3 UR saturated at +2.5864
PRM M3 UL saturated at +2.6104
PRM M3 LR saturated at +3.2441
PRM M3 LL saturated at +3.2832
PRM M2 LR saturated at +3.6689
PRM M2 LL saturated at +3.7305
PRM M2 UR saturated at +3.7900
PRM M2 UL saturated at +3.8564
 
H1 AOS (ISC)
eleanor.king@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:01, Wednesday 27 May 2015 (18651)
SRC length results summary

Keita, Kiwamu, Daniel, Elli

We have measured the SRC length to be 56.013+/-0.0035m.  This is 4.8+/-3.5mm longer than the design SRC length of 56.008m.   
This result is consistent with an earlier measurement of the LHO SRC length of 56.015(+/-.005)m (alog17451).  (This earlier measurement which was considered questionable due to signal-to noise issues and a lack of SRMI angular control.)

Method:
See alog 18263 DRMI was locked with wavefront sensors on for alignment control.  An auxiliary NPRO on IOT2R was sent into the interferometer through the back of IM4.  The Aux laser was coaligned with the PSL using the PSL transmission through IM4 onto IOT2R, and the prompt reflection of the Aux laser onto IM4. The auxiliary laser frequency was locked at a frequency offsets to the PSL using a PLL, and this frequency offset was swept to measure the Aux laser power reflected from DRMI as a function of frequency.

The DRMI reflection coefficient is a function of frequency because Mich reflectivivty varies with frequency. This is due to the 8.9cm Schnupp asymmetry, and Michelson reflectiviy = cos(2*pi*f//c*ScnuppAsymmetry). When DRMI is locked, the PSL light is totally reflected from Mich, and DRMI reflectivity looks the same as the PRC reflectivity.  At 842.7 MHz offset from the PSL frequency, Mich transmissivity is 100%, and DRMI looks like a cavity between the PRM and SRM mirrors and with the length of SRC+PRC combined.  As the PRC length is already known (alog 10642), we can measure the DRMI reflectivity around 842.7MHz by sweeping the Aux laser through +/-842.7MHz offset from the PSL frequency.

The reflected  beatnote of the PSL and the Aux laser read out at relfair path. The frequencies of the transmission dips closest to +/-842MHz were fitted using a lorentzian function. The number of fsrs (N) between peaks at ~+842MHz and -842MHz were determined.  This determines the fsr and the length of the combined PRC/SRC cavity.

df=positive_peak_frequency-negative_peak_frequency
vfsr=N*df
LSRC=c/2/vfsr-LPRC;

Analysis:

Graphs of the reflected beatnote power vs aux laser frequecy offset are attached.  There is an 11MHz osciallation in the reflected power which is not yet explained.   The phase has had a linear phase term removed, but is not continous from sweep to sweep, perhapse due to small changes in the alignment of the aux laser to the psl over time.  There are peaks which appear every fsr, which I am assuming ar ehigher order modes, but I haven't looked closely at these yet.
Peaks were fitted at -842.14(0.02)MHz and +841.933(0.02)MHz, graphs attached.  
The number of fsrs between these peak frequencies is 1277.  (If the number of fsrs wer off by +/-1, the cavity length would differ by +/-10cm.  We had already estabilished from previous measurements that the SRC length is not off by this much.)
This corresponds to a combined PRC/SRC cavity vsfr=1.319MHz, and length=113.664(0.0027)m.  The PRC length was already measured by Evan et al (alog 10642) to 57.6508+/-0.0007m, so the SRC length is 56.013+/-0.0035m.
 

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H1 General
nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:59, Wednesday 27 May 2015 (18654)
Ops Summary

[Morning Meeting]

SUS BSC 1 2 3 down

 

[Safety Meeting]

DON'T GET HURT!

 

[Activities]

8:41 Jeff & Sudarshan to EX (Calibration work)

8:45-9:20 Richard & Fili in CER working ITMX SUS

9:35 Richard to SUS 2B power (Electronics room)

10:00 Jeff & Sudarshan temprary back

10:12 Jeff & Sudarshan back to EY

10:28 Richard back

10:46 Rick et al. to EY to measure transfer functions

11:48 Fred and a guest to LVEA

12:16 Fred back

12:42 Jeff & Sudarshan back

12:58 Jeff B. to optic room

14:08 Kyle rolled up receiving door

14:17 Kyle done, receiving door closed

 

Happy Calibration Day

H1 SEI (CDS)
filiberto.clara@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:57, Wednesday 27 May 2015 (18650)
Powered cycled ISI Coil Drivers for HAM4/5
Will taking some current measurements for SUS racks this morning, Richard noticed that the ±24V power supplies for HAM4/5 (ISI Coil Drivers) had some oscillation in the current meter. We power down the ISI coil drivers (HAM 4 and 5), and the oscillation in the current meter disappeared. We powered the ISI coil drivers back on and oscillation in the current meter is no longer present.
H1 SUS (CDS, SUS)
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 23:04, Tuesday 26 May 2015 - last comment - 10:36, Wednesday 27 May 2015(18640)
ITMX PUM AI chassis not working

Evan, Kiwamu, Sheila, Jeff

We noticed that we weren't really driving ITMX PUM.  Evan and I went to the racks and saw that the DAC outputs were changing, but the LED that says DAC WD next to the DAC input was not lit and there was nothing coming out of the AI board.  This is probably why Dan was unable to damp ITMX violin modes last night.

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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 23:46, Tuesday 26 May 2015 (18641)

h1susb123 has stopped running, the symptoms are verry similar to what happened yesterday.  There are several red block on the CDS overview screen, front end models are not synced to the IOP. 

This coincided with kiwamu pulling out the AI chassis for ITMX L2, although we aren't sure if this is related or not.  We don't know how to restart this without causing a problem for the dolphin network, so we're done locking for tonight. 

daniel.hoak@LIGO.ORG - 00:41, Wednesday 27 May 2015 (18645)

AH-HA!

filiberto.clara@LIGO.ORG - 10:36, Wednesday 27 May 2015 (18649)
Replaced the 18-bit DAC Anti-Image interface board (possible bad optocoupler) for AI Chassis S1103818.
 
Board removed S1103833
Board installed S1105351

Chassis was reinstalled and powered up. Verified both DAC WD LED's were on.
H1 ISC
evan.hall@LIGO.ORG - posted 06:33, Tuesday 26 May 2015 - last comment - 22:45, Wednesday 27 May 2015(18613)
Trying to power up

Dan, Kiwamu, Evan

Summary

Tonight we worked on getting the interferometer back to its low-noise state. We are stable at 10 W, but there is some instability at higher powers.

Details

ITM steering

First, at 3 W we manually steered the ITMs to a good recycling gain (38 W/W), and then updated the TMS QPD offsets. We also locked the arms in green, adjusted the green QPD offsets for maximum buildup, and then updated the ITM camera references. Then we re-enabled the ITM loops in the guardian. This allowed us to power up all the way to 21 W without significant degredation of the recycling gain.

After that, we were able to consistently engage the ASC with the guardian.

Power-up issues

However, we found that at 21 W the interferomter suddenly unlocks in a matter of minutes. There seems to be no instability in the arm or sideband buildups before the lockloss. We looked at OMC DCPD signals for signs of PI, but we did not see anything ringing up during any of our short high-power locks. Some times to look at are 02:29:50, 02:59:50, 04:57:30, 06:55:00, all 2015-05-26 UTC. But any of the other 21 W locklosses in the past 12 hours follow this pattern.

We measured the OLTFs of PRCL, MICH, SRCL, and DARM before and after powering up, but they all look fine and did not change with power. For CARM, we start at 3 W with a UGF of 14 kHz with 47° of phase. Then during power-up, the electronic gain is automatically adjusted to compensate for the increased optical gain. The algorithm for this was shooting a little high, so after power-up the UGF was more like 27 kHz with 30° of phase. This is probably fine, but we adjusted the algorithm anyway, so that the UGF is placed at 19 kHz, with 45° of phase. Anyway, this did not solve the lockloss issue.

We also tried locking at some lower powers. At 15 W the interferometer lasted for about 15 minutes before unlocking. At 10 W, the lock time seems to be indefinite (at least 90 minutes).

DARM crossover

Using FM9 in ETMY L1 LOCK L (zero at 2 Hz, pole at 5 Hz), we were able to push the L1 crossover from <1 Hz to 1.7 Hz by adjusting the filter gain from 0.16 to 0.31. Measurement attached, showing before and after. This is not included in the guardian. By pushing up the crossover, the rms drive to L2 decreases from >10000 ct to about 6000 ct or so.

Other

For the record, we did not notice any kicks to the yaw of IMC REFL tonight.

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daniel.hoak@LIGO.ORG - 08:02, Tuesday 26 May 2015 (18614)

New Damping Settings for Bounce, Roll, Violin modes

Over the weekend we were able to re-commission the damping of the bounce, roll and violin modes.  The bounce & violin damping settings have been propagated to the ISC_LOCK guardian, and should be stable (maybe).  The roll mode settings have already changed once over the weekend, so I'll list what's been working, but your mileage may vary.

The attached spectrum (for 10W, low-noise ESD, *not calibrated*, no LSC FF, so don't study it too closely) shows the mode-damping progress.  Note this was before the 2.4k and 2.8k violin harmonics were damped.

 

Bounce modes:

After struggling to apply very narrow band-pass filters a la Jeff's approach from alog:18483, we reverted to the method of very broad band-passes.  These are loaded as FM3 in the DARM_DAMP_V filter banks.  The frequencies follow those listed by Sheila in alog:18440 (we confirmed these frequencies were correct through the course of our damping exercise).

  ETMY ETMX ITMY ITMX
Frequency [Hz] 9.73 9.77 9.81 9.85
Filters FM1 (+60deg), FM3 FM3 FM1 (+60deg), FM3, FM6 (+30deg) FM2 (-60deg), FM3
Gain -0.3 -0.5 +1.0 +0.3

The real key to squashing the bounce mode peak was to work out the damping settings for ETMX and ITMY (the optics which couple bounce --> longitudinal motion the least).  The extra 30deg of phase for ITMY turned out to be important.

 

Roll modes:

We were able to damp the ITMX roll mode, thus breaking the unpaired set of frequencies for roll modes and assigning each peak to an optic.  The ITMX roll mode wasn't rung up this weekend, so we didn't have a chance to work out damping settings.  The sign for damping the ETMY roll mode flipped between Sunday and Monday night, otherwise these damping settings were pretty stable.

For all the TMs the FM4 filter is a broad band-pass from 13.5 to 14.5Hz.

  ETMY ETMX ITMY ITMX
Frequency [Hz] 13.816 13.889 13.930 13.978
Filters FM3 (-100dB), FM4, FM6 (+30deg) FM3 (-100dB), FM4 FM3 (-100dB), FM4 ??
Gain -20 +600 -80 ??

The roll mode is rung up after every lockloss (usually it's ETMY), so these settings need to be manually applied before the transition to DC readout.  The gains listed in the table above are the "high-gain" damping state, if the mode is very rung up you need to start at a lower gain setting or you might saturate the M0 stage.

 

Violin Modes

Recall that violin mode frequencies and their associated test masses were given in alogs 17365, 17502, and 17610.

All the identified modes are well-damped and have been enabled in the Guardian code, with the exception of ITMX.  Despite many attempts I haven't been able to actuate on the ITMX modes at all.  Before the realignment/recycling gain work the ITMX modes damped very easily, now I can't find a DOF (longitude, pitch, or yaw) or a phase setting to move the modes either up or down.  It's hard to believe the L2 stage of ITMX isn't working, so we're not sure what the problem is.  Maybe we just need more patience.

The complete set of violin mode damping settings is too large to list here; the various filters and gains are recorded in the guardian code.  Some modes require a specific filter to get the right phase, others can be grouped together with broad band-pass filters without much trouble.  In particular, ITMY requires separate filters for each mode, it's very difficult to construct a broad band-pass that catches more than one mode with the correct phase.  We need to add more filter banks to the L2 DAMP section of the quad models if we want to squash the violin modes and their harmonics.

We did identify some new modes -- since we started feeding DARM back to the ETMY L2 stage we rang up the 4th, 5th, and 6th harmonics of that optic.  These modes were easily damped and have been notched in the actuation path. The specific frequencies and damping settings were:

2424.38, 2427.25 Hz: Use FM6 of ETMY L2 DAMP MODE1, +60deg of phase, +100dB, gain=+20k, longitudinal direction

2878.7, 2882.5 Hz: Use FM6 of MODE2, no phase, gain=+10k, longitudinal direction

3330.6 Hz: Use FM5 of MODE3, -60deg of phase, gain=+20k, longitudinal direction

3335.7 Hz: Use FM6 of MODE3, no phase, gain=+20k, longitudinal direction

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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 22:59, Tuesday 26 May 2015 (18630)

Keita, Sheila

In three of last night's 10 Watt locklosses, as well at the 15 Watt lockloss, the CARM loop dropped first, when IMC-F reached something around +/- 1440 kHz (the first screen shot attached is typical, 2015-05-26 15:23:17, 13:228:28, 12:10:29, and 7:38:16 at 15 Watts).  Now that Jeff has fixed the model and we are using tidal again, this type of lockloss has not been bothering us tonight. 

The slope of IMC-F is larger in the 15 Watt lockloss than the 10 Watts ones.  A trend of IMC F and arm transmission from last night shows there are some inflection points in the slope of IMC F, although these don't corespond to changes in input power or changes in the state of the tidal state machine.

The other 4 locklosses that I looked at were not due to the IMC VCO, and I didn't come up with any good explanation for them.  One notable feature in all of the others is the half a hertx oscillation in the ITM oplev damping loops, that starts when the power increased to 21 Watts, but it doesn't seem like this was the cause of the lockloss. 

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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 22:45, Wednesday 27 May 2015 (18657)

Tonight we were able to damp the roll modes with all of these settings, as well as ITMX for which we used -100 dB, bp13.9 (FM3+FM4) and a gain of 20.  We also increased the gain for ETMX to 1000

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evan.hall@LIGO.ORG - posted 05:25, Monday 09 February 2015 - last comment - 14:50, Wednesday 27 May 2015(16569)
1 hour lock on analog CARM, 4 kHz bandwidth

Sheila, Alexa, Evan

Summary

We have transitoned CARM from digital normalized REFLAIR9I to analog REFLAIR9I, with a 4 kHz bandwidth and 50 degrees of phase. An OLTF is attached [the last data point is spurious, so ignore it]. This lock started at about 2015-02-09 12:24:00 UTC. We are leaving the IFO locked.

There is plenty of phase to push the bandwidth higher, but we have encountered large offsets induced by switching on the common-mode and summing-node boards.

We can also improve the low-frequency fluctuations of the CARM error signal by introducing an integrator somewhere; we need more dc gain.

Details

Analog REFLAIR9I is plugged into input B2 on the summing-node board (SNB), with polarity "off". The output of B goes into input #2 on the common-mode board (CMB), with positive polarity. Digital normalized REFLAIR9I is plugged into input A1 on the SNB, with polarity "on". The output of A goes to input #1 on the CMB. [See LHO#16489 for a review.]

According to our reckoning, the shape of the digital CARM loop at the start of the transition is roughly 1/f above a few hertz. At a few hertz and below, it has a number of boosts and integrators which make it tricky to engineer a stable crossover with the analog signal.

Transition procedure is as follows, starting right after the guardian has brought the interferometer into resonance.

Also, the use of DHARD WFS (pitch and yaw) has removed the need for touching up the ETMs. However, since the AS36Q WFS feedback to the BS has not worked for the past couple of days, the BS had to be touched up by hand every so often.

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peter.fritschel@LIGO.ORG - 09:25, Monday 09 February 2015 (16572)

In fact this lock lasted about 2.5 hours.

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lisa.barsotti@LIGO.ORG - 11:55, Monday 09 February 2015 (16574)ISC
The lock broke due to a ~ 5kHz oscillation in the CARM loop (first plot).

The second plots shows several locking attempts from last night. The drop in the sideband power observed during  the first long lock last Friday , correlated with the increase of the carrier build-up during acuqisition, is not present anymore now that the locking sequence is much faster, so it might have been some thermal-induced effect.

The third plot shows the trend of the power recycling sideband and carrier power, whose fluctuations are well correlated with angular PIT motion of the BS (ASC BS loops not yet closed, as Evan was saying).

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eleanor.king@LIGO.ORG - 13:38, Monday 09 February 2015 (16579)

Here are some numbers for arm buildup on resonance, recycling gain and stored arm power for last night's lock:

-IMC input power was 2.81W.  Given modulation depths of Γ9 = 0.219(12) and Γ45 = 0.277(16), from alog 15674, the power in the sidebands is (Γ92452)/2=6%, there was 2.64W carrier power into IMC.  88% of this power is transmitted through the PSL-IMC-Faraday chain to PRM as measured in alog 13495.

-Arm buildup (X-arm) was 1200 x single arm power (1210 at the beginning of the lock).   LSC-TR_X_QPD_B_SUM_OUTPUT was an average of 1035(10) cts during the lock stretch.  This QPD is already roughly calibrated to arm buildup, but can be corrected for new input power levels as per Evan's alog 16450, so [arm buildup]=TR_X_QPD_B_SUM_OUTPUT*(10.95/2.82)*(3/10).

-Recycling gain was 36 W/W.  [Recycling gain]=[arm buildup]/[PRM transmissivity], assuming PRM transmissisivty of 2.97% from galaxy page.

-X-arm cavity gain is 276 W/W.  G_arm=( ti / (1-ri*re) ) ^2. Transmissivities Ti=1.39% and Te=3.6ppm according to galaxy webpage.  re=sqrt(1-Te-Le)  where Le is the x-arm loss is assumed to be 120(30)ppm based on alogs 16082, 15937, 15919.

-Power stored in the X-arm was 11.5kW. P_arm=[carrier power into PRC]*[recycling gain]*[0.5 (beamsplitter)]*[arm cavity gain]=2.64*0.88*36*0.5*276.

eleanor.king@LIGO.ORG - 14:50, Wednesday 27 May 2015 (18653)

I made a typo in the equation for recycling gain, which should read:    [Recycling gain]=[arm buildup]*[PRM transmissivity]

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