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H1 ISC
alexan.staley@LIGO.ORG - posted 21:08, Friday 07 March 2014 (10628)
COMM PLL Noise

I took another amplitude spectrum of the noise out of the PFD IMON in the COMM PLL to VCO loop. The PLL was locked; however we had not handed off. The two compensation filters were on and the input gain was 27dB. I have attached the data. The flatness which we were puzzled by last time has disappeared...

I did also see the traveling noise that seems to come from electronics cross-talk. This moving peak was about 3kHz wide (approzimately 12 degrees).

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H1 SUS (ISC)
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:22, Friday 07 March 2014 (10625)
H1 SUS ITMX UIM/L1, H1 SUS ITMY PUM/L2, and H1 SUS ITMY UIM/L1 Coils Balanced
J. Kissel

Following the same procedure outlined in LHO aLOGs 9453 and 9079, I balanced the coils on SUS ITMY UIM/L1, ITMX PUM/L2, and ITMX UIM/L1. The final balanced gains are

             ITMX UIM     ITMY UIM    ITMY PUM
UL            -0.965      -0.997       +1.028
LL            +1.025      +0.976       -0.911
UR            +0.970      +1.019       -1.091
LR            -1.030      -0.998       +0.968

The precision on the ITMX UIM and ITMY PUM numbers is within the usual +/- 0.5%, but for some reason I was able to get a crazy amount of SNR on ITMY UIM, so the numbers are good to with 0.05%. 

This balancing has reduced the L3 P and Y caused by pringle excitation at 4 [Hz] by
Optic    Stage      DOF       Reduction Factor @ 4.0 [Hz]
ITMX      UIM        P               > 24.2 (peak below noise, totally incoherent)            
                     Y               > 1.39 (already balanced well, totally incoherent after balance)

ITMY      PUM        P               25.6 (peak still 95% coherent*)
                     Y               37.4 (peak still 80% coherent*)

ITMY      UIM        P               > 124.2 (peak still 68% coherent, but buried)
                     Y               19. 0 (peak still 90% coherent)

* For ITMY PUM, I could not reduce the Q phases to as small as I normally get, implying there is some other noise contributing to the imbalance unrelated to the knob I'm tuning. Unclear what that could be, but I guess this is why I couldn't reduce the imbalance low enough that the excitation became buried in the noise as I could with the other stages.

I attach the figures of merit for reducing the imbalance. All SUS have had these values captured in there safe.snaps, which have been committed to the repository... except for ITMY PUM which I found not stored while writing this entry. Will store them ASAP.
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H1 INS (SEI)
jim.warner@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:20, Friday 07 March 2014 (10626)
More tf's running on ETMY ISI

Running from OPSWS0. Already had a peek with DTT, and no change after todays fiddling with TMS cables. But, maybe more data will tell us...more. TMS is plugged in and damping now, as well as the quad.

LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:17, Friday 07 March 2014 (10624)
~1330 hrs local -> Pumped down flex-line connecting RGA to 10" gate valve on BT near GV6
PT124B increased(ing) as a result -> The removal of atmospheric pressure from the O-ring valve's O-ring may have released some dissolved gas -> Flex line connecting RGA to 1.5" O-ring valve doesn't look to be applying any torque to 1.5" valve -> I will be monitoring PT124B from home
H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:51, Friday 07 March 2014 (10623)
WHAM4 SEI HEPI Progress/Status

Got the final Actuators attached to HAM4 today.  I still need to install the position sensor that was experiencing an interference.  And then access the total position before final closeup.

H1 SEI (AOS, INS)
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:47, Friday 07 March 2014 (10622)
WBSC10 ETMY SEI HEPI Springs adjusted for ACB Load

Tweeked the DSCW Springs to pull the system back up from the additional ACB weight.  We adjusted things attempting to bring the Dial Indicators back to the post final alignment numbers Jim recorded on 5 March.  There is a 10mil (1/4mm) west shift but we are still well within the +-3mm tolerance.  Otherwise we have less than 0.1mm vertical shift and much less than that N/S.

So, ready for HEPI Actuators.

H1 ISC
jaclyn.sanders@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:41, Friday 07 March 2014 (10621)
EY RF power adjustment (and asst repairs)

(Jax, Daniel)

Today we measured the RF levels in the ISC field and remote racks at EY and set nominal RF values in the MEDM interface. 

Installed attenuators by cable number:

2dB: 

18-1B2 (RF to phase modulator), 18-1, 13B (RF Preamp to Phase/Freq Discriminator), 14-2B (RF to VCO), 19-1 (71 MHz RF Dist. Amp to Oscillator), 14-1 (24.4 MHz RF Dist. Amp to Oscillator)

3dB: 

16-1 (Freq Divider to Phase/Freq Discriminator)

8dB:

17-1 (VCO to Freq Divider)

15 dB*:

18-5B (RF to VCO)

*Here we would have preferred 12 dB to be consistent with EX as per alog 9466, but didn't have one on hand in the big box o' attenuators.

---

During this process, we discovered the delay line had no output. After cracking it open, we found that one of the ICs (U22) had fried in spectacular fashion - likely a victim of an upside-down power cable at some point. I grabbed a spare (S1103442) from MY, gave it a quick once-over to make sure it works, then installed it at EY.

LHO General
gerardo.moreno@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:38, Friday 07 March 2014 (10620)
Operation Summary

8:30 am, HFD department, fire hydrant flushing/testing.
9:00 am, Mitchell, Travis and Andres to Y-End, ACB install.
9:00 am, Aaron connect cables for new chassis, CM summing chassis by PSL area.
9:30 am, HFD department, second unit to check on RAFAR boxes ====> done by 11:15 am
10:08 am, Cyrus and Jim to Mid-Y, rack and stack work per WP#4466.===> break for lunch at 12:15 pm.
10:00 am, Thomas and Greg to LVEA North bay area, prep HEPA filter fan unit for craning.
10:55 am, Hugh to LVEA HAM4 area, HEPI installation.
11:21 am, Alexa, X-End, field rack measurements ====> done by 11:53 am.
11:30 am, Thomas and Greg to North bay area, crane HEPA filter on to a table.
11:37 am, Kyle to X-End, check up on access.  To Y-End, check up on purge air====> done by 12:10 pm.
11:40 am, Apollo crew moving ISI to high bay area ====> done by 11:59 am.
1:00 pm, Karen to Y-end, cleaning.
1:09 pm, Keita to Y-End, TMS cabling status.
1:24 pm, Andres to LVEA South and West bay area, hunting for SUS components ====> done by 2:28 pm.
1:30 pm, Alexa and Sheila to X-End, LVEA area.
1:48 pm, Jim and Cyrus, back to Y-Mid to continue with rack and stack ====> done by 3:14 pm.
1:50 pm, Hugh to LVEA HAM4 area, continue with work, then I saw him at Y-End, so who knows.
4:00 pm, Kyle done "making noise" West bay area of LVEA, on elevated BT slab near GV6.
 

H1 AOS (AOS, ISC, TCS)
thomas.vo@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:53, Friday 07 March 2014 (10617)
ITMX and ETMX OpLevs

THESE CALIBRATION FACTORS HAVE CHANGED

Per Keita's ALOG 10331 and 10454, I have adjusted the optical lever calibration gains for ETMX and ITMX to reflect a more accurate method of calibration that was performed by Keita with the baffle diodes.

ETM

  Old Delta New
Pitch 76.7 0.932 71.4844
Yaw 65.3 0.863 56.3539

 

ITM

  Old Delta New
Pitch 23.4 2.081 48.6954
Yaw 24.7 2.287 56.4889
H1 SUS
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:37, Friday 07 March 2014 - last comment - 15:49, Friday 07 March 2014(10615)
ETMy status

This morning Mitchell, Travis and Andres installed the ACB.  Mitchell and Travis aligned it with IAS in the afternoon.  Travis left the ETMy SUS unlocked such that final balance checks can be made (and or TFs) this weekend by SEI.  SEI is starting HEPI work there now.

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betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - 15:49, Friday 07 March 2014 (10619)

PS - Keita was able to enable the damping on the TMS even though it is not spectacular.  It looks like something is rubbing as the OSEMs are not well centered, but at least some damping will slow it in the event SEI needs that this weekend.

H1 AOS (AOS, SUS)
thomas.vo@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:36, Friday 07 March 2014 (10614)
ETMX OptLev Yaw Orientation Fixed
In Keita's ALOG 10454, he pointed out that the  ETMX optical lever yaw sign convention is backwards from the SUS convention.  I fixed this to make them match at 3:35 PM PT and Jeff K is did a save.snap.
H1 CDS
cyrus.reed@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:29, Friday 07 March 2014 (10613)
h1pemmy Rack and Stack

Cyrus R., Jim B.

We racked the computer and IO chassis for h1pemmy today at the mid-station.  All of the computing parts are connected, the computer is attached to the network, and the timing chassis is patched through to the master fanout in the MSR. We boot tested the front end as well, without running any models, and Jim verified the BIOS settings.  We are now waiting for an AA chassis with the appropriate PEM modifications to complete the physical install (and in-rack cabling for said chassis has not yet been done).  Models for the FE will also need to be completed/compiled, and the rtsystab/etc. updated.

H1 AOS
jason.oberling@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:28, Friday 07 March 2014 (10612)
WBSC10 ACB Alignment

Aligned the ACB in WBSC10 this afternoon after this morning's installation.  The errors are as follows:

H1 ISC
alexan.staley@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:23, Friday 07 March 2014 (10611)
More noise measurements at EX

(Alexa, Sheila)

 

For the noise budget, we had tried measuring the PDH shot noise by misaligning ITMX and reading out the amplitude spectrum from IMON of the demod. This amplitude spectrum was clearly not pure shot noise at low frequency; there seemed to be some scattering and fringe wrapping (see green line in plot). We went to investigate this by putting a HR 532nm mirror at the bottom of the periscope and repeating the measurement; the noise at low frequency subsequently decreased significantly (see red line in plot -- unfortunately I should have taken more frequency spans). There is stil some acoustic noise at around 100Hz but it's less than in the first measurement (and in the overall PDH noise, the fiber noise is dominant in this region anyway). We removed the HR mirror and tried misaligned ITMX to various different positions and saw that the amplitude spectrum changed around. Clearly, in this measurement we are picking up scattering in the cavity which comes about from misaligning ITMX. We have now convinced oursevles that we do not have any major scattering on the ISCTEX table. 

I have attached the data with the HR mirror in place.

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H1 CDS
james.batch@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:49, Friday 07 March 2014 (10608)
Awgstream updated
The awgstream software for the control room has been updated to increase the size of the channel list it reads.  This should solve the problem encountered Wednesday in which H1:SUS channels could not be excited using awgstream.
H1 SUS
arnaud.pele@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:32, Friday 07 March 2014 - last comment - 01:29, Monday 10 March 2014(10607)
ETMX and ITMX PUM measurements

Yesterday night and this morning some diagonalization measurements were taken with pum drive on etmx and itmx. The low coherence for the pitch drive described on the previous alog was due to the optic not centered enough on the oplev, so both ETMX p2p and y2y were remeasured. Those measurements can actually be really fast (15/20min each).
ITMX measurement has some calibration factor of 1.56 for Yaw and 1.83 in Pitch. T1100378 was the reference for calibrating the drive from cts to N.

Attached are the plots comparing the measurement and the model (wirerehang for itmx, fiber for etmx). Note that there is a sign error in ETMX Yaw, so we should double check if that comes from the Oplev sign convention.
 

ITMX : /ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/QUAD/H1/ITMX/SAGL2/Results/quad_{p2p/y2y}.mat

ETMX : /ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/QUAD/H1/ETMX/SAGL2/Results/quad_{p2p/y2y.mat

ITMX : /ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/QUAD/H1/ITMX/SAGL2/Data/2014-03-06_H1SUSITMX_{P2PY/Y2PY}_WhiteNoise.xml

ETMX : /ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/QUAD/H1/ITMX/SAGL2/Data/2014-03-04_H1SUSETMX_{P2PY/Y2PY}_WhiteNoise.xml

ITMX : /ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/QUAD/H1/ITMX/SAGL2/Scripts/itmx_L2_diag.m

ETMX : /ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/QUAD/H1/ETMX/SAGL2/Scripts/etmx_L2_diag.m

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keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - 15:26, Friday 07 March 2014 (10610)

PUM drivealign P2P and Y2Y filters were installed.

In each of the attached, foton screen shot to the left shows the actual filter installed, matlab plot to the right shows the P2P or Y2Y measurement, fit, model, and the expected TF from PUM to the test mass after the new filter takes effect.

As you see I made the filters such that ITM and ETM looks as if they share the same low Q (Q=3) resonance at 0.51 Hz for PIT and 0.6Hz for YAW. There's also a roll of at 30Hz, which is not that aggressive. If necessary you can easily add more.

I ignored the DC calibration of the measurement. I'll handle them in the gain.

The filters relevant are FM1 of H1:SUS-ETMX_L2_DRIVEALIGN_P2P, Y2Y and corresponding ITMX filters.

Scripts used for the fit and inversion as well as the filter definition files generated by the scripts are:

~controls/keita.kawabe/fit/[EI]XPUM_[PY]2[PY]fit.m

~controls/keita.kawabe/fit/[EI]XPUM_[PY]2[PY]inversion_soscoeffs.txt

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arnaud.pele@LIGO.ORG - 01:29, Monday 10 March 2014 (10643)

[Yuta Keita Arnaud]

ETMX ITMY ITMX top mass P2P drivealign filters installed

On friday, filters were designed the same way as Keita, in order to get a single pendulum transfer function from the top mass drive to the test mass displacement in pitch. The filters were installed in the top drivealign matrix in FM1 of the P2P bank filter. ITMX filter is a copy paste from ITMY, assuming they have the same P2P transfer function (both are wires). Attached are the plots showing the design of the filters and the foton version. The transfer function after filtering has its cut off frequency at 0.45Hz for ETMX and 0.55Hz for ITMY/ITMX.

ETMX Length to pitch decoupling was also designed and installed in L2P drivealign matrix. Plots of design pending.

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H1 ISC
corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:41, Friday 07 March 2014 - last comment - 15:46, Friday 07 March 2014(10604)
EY TMS Cable Inventory Map

With Jim needing to connect In-Vac cables to feedthrus today, I wanted to update the EY TMS Cable Table (mainly to show recent change of swapping damaged D1000223 cable with D1000225).  All of this follows the BSC10 Cable Routing Configuration (D12000111) & is in the following ICS Assy Load.

In-Air Cable
 
Chamber
feed-thru
Seismically-Responsible Cables Cable Bracket In-Vac Cable Cable Bracket
on TMS
In-Vac Component
: Not sure of name : E6-7C1 D1000225 s/n S1104782
*no feedthru screws?
CB-5 , 1st Floor D1000234 s/n96-911 no CB OSEMS:  Face1, Face2, Face3, Left
: Not sure of name : E6-7C2 D1000225 s/n S1104778
*no feedthru screws?
CB-5 , 2nd Floor D1000234 s/n96-901 no CB OSEMS:  Right, Side, ---, ---
: Not sure of name : F2-2C1 D1000924 s/n S1104106
*no feedthru screws?
CB2 , 1st Floor (was 3rd Floor of BSC6 CB) D1000568 s/nS1104468 CB-primary, 1st floor Green QPD (D1000231 s/n C2Q001 aka S1400085)
: Not sure of name : F2-1C2 D1000924 s/n S1104469 CB2 , 2nd Floor (was 2nd Floor of BSC6 CB) D1000568 s/nS1104109 CB-primary, 2nd floor Red QPD (D1000231 s/n C4Q001 aka D1400087)
: Not sure of name : F2-1C1 D1000223 s/n S1104077
*no feedthru screws?
CB1 , 1st Floor (was 1st Floor of BSC6 CB) D1000921 s/nS1104116 CB-entry, 2nd floor Picomotors (D1000238 s/n1104586)
: Not sure of name : F2-2C2

D1000225 s/nS1106887 (replacing D1000223)

 

CB1 , 2nd Floor (was 4th Floor of BSC6 CB) D1000921 s/nS1104114 CB-entry, 1st floor Beam Diverter (D1000237 s/nS1104289)
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betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - 15:41, Friday 07 March 2014 (10616)

Jim and Travis connected all of the TMS cables to the in-vacuum feedthrus.  This required completely rerouting 2 of the cables which were destined for feedthru's further away than where they were found mounted.  None of them are screwed in.  Although the ones that Corey mentions in the table above are missing hardware, they are a tight fit on the feedthru so I would advise just leaving them as is.  The task of adding the screws to the connectors is too risky for the cable this late in the game.  Adding the screws requires one to partially disassemble the cable which could cause a break inside of the connector.

keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - 15:46, Friday 07 March 2014 (10618)

And I enabled the damping and it's working.

However, it seems like LF coil is totally out, so TMSY might not be completely free.

H1 SUS (ISC)
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 19:57, Wednesday 22 January 2014 - last comment - 17:30, Friday 07 March 2014(9453)
H1 SUS PR2 Coil Balancing Complete
J. Kissel [with lots of help from K. Kawabe, K. Arai, S. Ballmer, and K. Izumi]

I've balanced the coils on the M2 and M3 stages of the H1 SUS PR2 using Keita's Technique (see LHO aLOG 9079 -- which, now that I understand -- I'll make sure to supplement this aLOG with kLOG comments about it). However, before I exercise my didactic tactics, the answer is:

H1 SUS PR2
Channel     Balanced COILOUTF Gain
M2 UL            -0.994 
M2 LL            +1.039 
M2 LR            +0.962
M2 UR            -1.005

M3 UL            -0.962
M3 LL            +1.043
M3 UR            +0.954
M3 LR            -1.034

I attach the results of the balancing as measured by the M3 OSEM sensors behind the optic, one for each stage of drive balancing. The left two panels of each attachment (Amplitude Spectral Density and Coherence) show the performance AFTER the balancing, and the right two panels show the performance BEFORE the balancing, where coefficients were just set to +/- 1.0. This balancing has reduced the coupling (at 4.1 [Hz]) as follows (using the M3 OSEMs as the figure of merit, which -- details in notes below -- are imperfect):

   DOF                  Reduction Factor @ 4.1 [Hz]
M2 Pringle to M3 P           > 178               (peak is in the noise, and only ~60% coherent)
M2 Pringle to M3 Y             35

M3 Pringle to M3 P             1.4
M3 Pringle to M3 Y             4.5

The next step is to take a full suite of M2 and M3 L/P/Y to P/Y, "off-diagonal" transfer functions with the newly balanced coils, as has been done with *unbalanced* coils on H1SUSBS and H1SUSPRM.

I have captured a new safe.snap that includes these new gains and committed it to the userapps repo.

Expert Notes for next time:
- Three different suspensions, three different people, and three different options for sensors resulted in three different details of how the the process was done, but the process is the same, in principle. With PR2, the only option for sensor demodulation were the sensor side of the OSEMs at the bottom stage. Because these sensors are not perfectly balanced, the precision to which I could improve the balancing was limited -- much more so on the M3 stage than the M2 Stage. I'll explain the details below.

- These coefficients were established to higher precision, but were rounded off to the nearest 1000th's digit because they will be easier to track, entirely visible on the MEDM screen, and the higher precision had little-to-no affect on the goodness of balancing. 

- The templates for measuring the performance can be found here:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HSTS/H1/PR2/Common/Data/
2014-01-22_H1SUSPR2_M2_CoilBalancing.xml
2014-01-22_H1SUSPR2_M3_CoilBalancing.xml

- The script used to perturb the coil balancing based on the results of the LOCKIN tool (authored by Kiwamu, made slightly more generic by me),
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/Common/PythonTools/perturbcoilbalance_fourosem.py
Note, the script isn't fancy enough to perturb the gains automatically to minimize the demodulated error signal, that's done by-eye using a few by-hand iterations of this script and watching the results in StripTool.

- I've used a compromise of filters than Kiwamu and Keita inside the LOCKIN, which I'll motivate in the comments below. For the oscillator clock frequency band pass (in the DEMOD_SIG banks) I used
butter("BandPass",2,3.5,4.5)
and called it "BP4.1Hz," and for the I and Q low-pass filter, I used
cheby1("LowPass",2,3,0.05)
and called it "CLP50mHz."
These seem to have worked out well (for my patience level), and can be copied as long as the clock frequency remains the same (which should be assessed anew for every SUS type.) 
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jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 20:27, Wednesday 22 January 2014 (9454)ISC
On which sensor to use for your demodulated signal

In order to best balance the coils one wants a sensor that captures what affects the cavity alignment the best. This is typically some sensor measuring the optic motion. However, each suspension type tried thus far has had different options.

- H1 SUS BS, a BSFM (Balanced by Keita) has only an optical lever measuring the optic. So this was the obvious choice, and as such, the LOCKIN part is directly hooked up to it. Good.

- H1 SUS PRM, an HSTS (Balanced by Kiwamu) does not have an optical lever. However, it *does* have OSEMs on the bottom stage. These are hooked up to the LOCKIN as the optical levers are on the BS. HOWEVER, the OSEM sensors, which are in the same location as the actuators, so if the basis transformation from UL LL UR LR to Optic P and Y are imperfect, then that limits the precision to which you can balance the coils. As such, Kiwamu constructed a make-shift optical lever using the REFL WFS at DC, which act like a QPD and the light source is the transmitted light from the IMC: because PRM is a 3% transmission mirror, it reflects tons of light into HAM1 when the PRC is not locked. A rather expensive light source, but GENIUS! As Kiwamu mentioned however, this work-around wasn't hooked up to the demodulator, so he just used the ASD as his figure merit.

- H1 SUS PR2, which has also has no optical lever, and because of the transmissions of the mirrors in the PRC, one can't get enough light on any nearby WFS or QPD to pull the same Izumi trickery, so we're stuck with the imperfect OSEMs. 

Once we get cavities under stable lock, we can revisit these optics which have no lever (i.e. all HSTS), because then we'll have the full ASC system with light everywhere at our disposal. But in summary, PRM is the only mirror lucky enough to do this trickery. Thankfully, as shown above, the M3 OSEMs can get some of improvement by themselves (as reported by themselves; of course we should check the improvement with global control loops and interferometers).

*nudge*nudge* Integration Issue 461 *nudge*nudge*
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 22:37, Wednesday 22 January 2014 (9457)ISC
On the signal processing filters and OSC frequency for the LKIN part

In the lock-in amplifier process, we want the average amplitude of the product of the oscillator and the response signal (filtered at that same frequency). This average value provides a metric of the linear coupling to the drive at the oscillator frequency which one can minimize, with the benefit of directionality. In order to isolate this DC, average value of the product from the bilinear term, we low-pass the output of the demodulator. The design metrics of this low-pass are a function of the oscillator frequency chosen and, in our case, the patience of the user:
(1) One wants a significant amount of isolation at twice the oscillation frequency, such that the 2f "noise" does not interfere with the average DC value, but
(2) The response time of the low-pass filter defines how many cycles which the average includes, and therefore the response time of your metric to the knobs you have to change it.
As such, one wants a high oscillation frequency with respect to the corner frequency of the low pass. 

However, we have further design constraints: 
(3) Given that the SUS actuators are weak and the particular, off-diagonal, mechanical response to our excitation is so small at high-frequency, signal-to-noise and/or coherence limit how high we can push of oscillator frequency to roughly 5 [Hz]. 
(4) Ideally, the SUS response to pringle excitation should be frequency-independent, if we've done a proper job of digitally compensating for the analog frequency response of the actuation chain. But, if one chooses a low oscillator frequency -- say 0.1 [Hz] -- then the averaging low-pass filter will have to be much lower, and the response time becomes unbearably slow -- hundreds of seconds.
(5) In the middle, between ~0.5 [Hz] and ~5 [Hz] is a forest of SUS resonances, which, if excited, might result in all sorts of unexpected coupling to degrees of freedom not of interest, saturations of sensors, etc.

This leaves a tiny region between the given suspensions' resonant forest and where coherence drops off to stick the oscillation frequency. Keita chose 2.9 [Hz] on H1 SUS BS, and Kiwamu chose 4.1 [Hz] on H1 SUS PRM after considering these constraints, and because H1 SUS PR2 was the same SUS type as H1 SUS PRM, I stuck with Kiwamu's frequency of 4.1 [Hz].

Once the oscillation frequency is chosen, and the response signal, band-pass filter can be designed. Here, you want to isolate the response signal at the given oscillator frequency, but you need to be mindful that the impulse response of the band-pass filter is shorter than of the demodulated signal's low-pass filter. Here's how we each designed our filters:

Keita's approach (for H1 SUS BS): Lots of isolation on both the response signal band-pass and demodulated low-pass, and forgo patience. With a sharp cut-off, elliptic, band-pass the response time was greater than 5 seconds. The a sharp cut-off, elliptic low-pass, the averaging time was more than 100 sec.

Kiwamu's approach (for H1 SUS PRM): Less isolation for the less patient. Reduce the sharpness of the cutoff of both the band-pass to second order Butterworth filters, and increase the corner frequency of the low=pass to 300 mHz to reduce the averaging time to ~20 seconds. Note that he had started with an oscillator frequency of 10 [Hz] (hence the center frequency of his band-pass), but found the could not get enough coherence, reduced the oscillator frequency, and got enough response signal at 4.1 [Hz] to leak through to make a viable demodulated signal, so he didn't bother to change the design of the band-pass.

Since I just learned all of this today, and had Kiwamu, Stefan, and Keita telling me different metrics for their design, I chose what made sense to me (for H1 SUS PR2): Compromise. Move the center frequency of Kiwamu's band-pass to the oscillator frequency, but leave the shallow isolation in order to preserve the short impulse response time. Take the happy medium regarding patience and move the corner frequency of the demodulated low-pass to 50 [mHz]. This gave me plenty of SNR, lots of averages, and a impulse response time of the demodulated signal metric similar to Kiwamu's; about 10-20 seconds.

I attach bode plots and impulse response times for each of the three filters, color coded as above, with H1 SUS BS, H1 SUS PRM, and H1 SUS PR2.
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jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 23:46, Wednesday 22 January 2014 (9459)
Measurement Technique Expanded

Though Keita did a fairly good job explaining the principles of the technique in LHO aLOG 9079, I expand on his instructions with a little more detail below for the non-Jedi, and such that we might one day automate the process.

(A) Install the signal band-pass and demodulated I & Q filters; the same BPs in both oscillators' SIG bank, and the same LPs in both oscillators' I and Q banks.
SIG band pass: BP4.1Hz = butter("BandPass",2,3.5,4.5)
DEMOD I & Q low-pass: CLP50mHz = cheby1("LowPass",2,3,0.05)

(B) Turn on both the Pitch and Yaw Oscillators. 
As Keita mentions,
   (i) Only the amplitude of the oscillator you send out the coils matters, but the other must at least be *on* in order for the demodulation to happen,
   (ii) For each oscillator, the amplitude of the sin and cos don't matter, as long as they're the same,
   (iii) You want to demodulate both oscillators at the same frequency, so the oscillator frequency should be the same for both.
For sanity's sake, I just made both oscillators have exactly the same parameters
OSC     Frequency [Hz]     Amplitude [ct]     Sin [ct]      Cos [ct]
 P         4.1              200000 (2e6)       1000           1000
 Y         4.1              200000 (2e6)       1000           1000

(C) Turn on the EXC_SW for the stage you wish to balance, and filling out the associated stage's LKIN2OSEM matrix such that only one oscillator drives in a pringle configuration (I, like Keita, chose to use the Pitch oscillator),
     P   Y
UL  +1   0
LL  -1   0
UR  -1   0
LR  +1   0

(D) Open up two StripTool charts, one for each oscillator. Put the output of the I & Q demodulator banks for each oscillator on each tool, (e.g. H1:SUS-PR2_LKIN_Y_DEMOD_I_OUTPUT and H1:SUS-PR2_LKIN_Y_DEMOD_Q_OUTPUT). Be sure to set the y-scale for each channel to be consistent (+/- 10 [ct] worked for me, and then I zoomed in and out as necessary).

(E) Tune drive amplitude. I was initially scared of the large drive amplitudes Kiwamu had chosen, so I crept up on 200000. However, this meant when I started out with 10000 [ct], I got very little response when I began to tune the oscillator phase. So, crank up the drive to where you get lots of response to changing the oscillator phase, while making sure not to saturate the DAC. 

(F) Tune the oscillator phase
    (i) Again, drive hard enough that the separation between the I & Q phase is much larger than the noise (noise = wiggles around the DC value)
    (ii) Spin through the DEMOD Phase until you get the Q phase near zero
    (iii) Use Kiwamu's script mentioned in the main entry, perturbcoilbalance_fourosem.py, to put a *large* coil imbalance into the COILOUTF bank. This should cause a step in both the I & Q signals. The arctangent of the ratio between the the step sizes gives you the remaining distance you are away from the ideal phase:
             dPhi = 180/pi * atan( (Q_DC^{before} - Q_DC^{after}) / (I_DC^{before} - I_DC^{after}) )
The sign with which you add this to the current oscillator phase is unclear, so try both. A well-tuned oscillator phase means that abs(Q) is close to zero, and it doesn't respond [it's DC value doesn't change] to coil imbalance changes. Note, any offset the Q phase has from zero is noise that you can't tune away with the COILOUTF gain knobs. As mentioned in the above comments, this can be a result of, for example, imperfect sensors. As long as Q doesn't respond to coil unbalancing, then it's OK -- it's just one of limits on how well you can balance the coils. You'll need to tune the phase of each oscillator independently. 

(G) Set COILOUTF gains back to +/-1. Open up a DTT session (like the templates shown in the main entry), and set up a rolling averaged transfer function between the oscillator and the response sensor input. For PR2, that's H1:SUS-PR2_LKIN_P_LO (as the A channel) and H1:SUS-PR2_M3_WIT_P_DQ, H1:SUS-PR2_M3_WIT_Y_DQ. Take a reference measurement of 10-15 averages to show how badly the pringle excitation causes pitch and yaw in your response sensor. 
Remember: (as Keita says) A Pitch imbalance shows up in the Yaw oscillator's I phase, and a Yaw imbalance shows up in the the Pitch oscillator's I phase.

(H) Begin tweaking the COILOUTF bank gains (using perturbcoilbalance_fourosem.py) until the abs(I) phase goes to zero. You should stop when the noise is larger than the distance between the DC value ad zero. For the M2 and M3 stages of PR2, a perturbation of +/- 0.0005 was the precision I was able to achieve. If your oscillator phase is tuned correctly, a PIT imbalance should not affect the Pitch I phase, and Yaw imbalance should not affect the Yaw I phase. Therefore, you can do these degrees of freedom in succession, and not have to worry about going back and fourth.

(I) Because perturbcoilbalance_fourosem.py was quickly written, the perturbation increments are not exactly what you request. So by then end of the tuning process for both DOFs you'll have overly precise gains (check by caget-ing the gains in a terminal). Round off these gains to the nearest 1000th for reasons mentioned in the main entry.

(J) Making sure to have captured the "before" measurement as a reference, take a new DTT spectra to prove how well you've done!
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 23:58, Wednesday 22 January 2014 (9460)
Demod Phases and Resulting I & Q Values

After balancing the coils, I took a 300 second tds average of each I and Q channel just so I'd have a quantifiable number of "how good" I tuned the balancing. Unfortunately, there's no command line standard deviation tool, so I don't have a number for how much noise was on each channel. It was roughly +/- 0.5 [ct].
PR2 M2
     Demod Phase [deg]         Balanced Value
P       165              I         -0.017
                         Q         -0.088
Y       90               I          0.14
                         Q          0.52

PR2 M3
     Demod Phase [deg]         Balanced Value
P       160              I         0.15
                         Q         1.91
Y       87               I         0.11
                         Q         3.14

As one can see, the residual offset in the Q phase was much larger on the M3 stage than on M2. Unclear why this is, but this most probably is the reason why the results for M3 are not nearly as good as those for M2. It would be nice to have an independent sensor to verify the results, but we'll have to wait for resonant cavities and the full ASC system.
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 17:30, Friday 07 March 2014 (10627)ISC
Here're a few screenshots of the StripTool session during the tuning process. They're attached in chronological order, showing
(1) Aligning the optical lever, to show the difference between junk signal and plenty of signal, then after hand-tuning the demod phase to get the Q phases close to zero
(2) Before and after the big perturnations to gather the tweak needed in the demod phase, as determined by math
(3) The process of balancing the coils once the demod phase is perfect, bringing the I phases to zero as well, with little perturbations to the balance
(4) What balanced coils look like (strikingly similar to junk signal, but just signal doesn't respond to perturbations), also what it looks like to have saturations (sudden increase in I and Q phase signal amplitude).

You should be able to get a good amount of SNR exciting with an oscillator amplitude between 115000 and 125000, depending on the strength of your driver, and how much you've imbalanced the coils.
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