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H2 ISC
matthew.evans@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:16, Thursday 19 July 2012 - last comment - 15:17, Thursday 30 August 2012(3490)
OAT - first dither alignment

It is a long way from being robust, and it is quite slow, but the cavity dither alignment worked this evening.  The commands are:

YAW
./tdsdither 1.9 30 4 0 300 H2:SUS-ITMY_M0_TEST_Y_EXC H2:ISC-ALS_EY_REFL_PWR_MON_OUT H2:SUS-ITMY_M0_OFFSET_Y 10 5
./tdsdither 2.3 50 5 0 300 H2:SUS-ETMY_M0_TEST_Y_EXC H2:ISC-ALS_EY_REFL_PWR_MON_OUT H2:SUS-ETMY_M0_OFFSET_Y 10 5

PIT
./tdsdither 1.9 30 4 90 300 H2:SUS-ITMY_M0_TEST_P_EXC H2:ISC-ALS_EY_REFL_PWR_MON_OUT H2:SUS-ITMY_M0_OFFSET_P 10 5
./tdsdither 2.3 50 5 30 300 H2:SUS-ETMY_M0_TEST_P_EXC H2:ISC-ALS_EY_REFL_PWR_MON_OUT H2:SUS-ETMY_M0_OFFSET_P -10 5
 

The new tdsdither is a perl script replacement for the malfunctioning ezcademod which currently lives in userapps/trunk/isc/common/scripts.  The attached image shows the power increase as the ITM and ETM alignment are dithered.

Images attached to this report
Comments related to this report
alberto.stochino@LIGO.ORG - 15:17, Thursday 30 August 2012 (4042)

With the new channels names the commands are:

PIT

./tdsdither 1.9 30 4 90 300 H2:SUS-ITMY_M0_TEST_P_EXC H2:ALS-Y_REFL_B_PWR_OUT H2:SUS-ITMY_M0_OFFSET_P 10 5

./tdsdither 1.9 30 4 90 300 H2:SUS-ETMY_M0_TEST_P_EXC H2:ALS-Y_REFL_B_PWR_OUT H2:SUS-ETMY_M0_OFFSET_P -10 5

 

YAW

./tdsdither 1.9 30 4 90 300 H2:SUS-ITMY_M0_TEST_Y_EXC H2:ALS-Y_REFL_B_PWR_OUT H2:SUS-ITMY_M0_OFFSET_Y 10 5
./tdsdither 1.9 30 4 90 300 H2:SUS-ETMY_M0_TEST_Y_EXC H2:ALS-Y_REFL_B_PWR_OUT H2:SUS-ETMY_M0_OFFSET_Y 10 5

H2 AOS
matthew.evans@LIGO.ORG - posted 22:12, Wednesday 18 July 2012 (3489)
Beam on ETMY

After a lot of work from Dave and the Jeffs, we got the SUSs running again.  Keita and Bram also finished revamping the ALS WFS telescopes, so there is now beam on ETMY and some power in the cavity.  It should be ready for Hartman work in the morning.

LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:52, Wednesday 18 July 2012 (3487)
plots of dust counts
Attached are plots of dust counts > .5 microns in particles per cubic foot.
Non-image files attached to this report
LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:47, Wednesday 18 July 2012 (3486)
Operated LVEA East crane from ~1530 to ~1630 hrs. local


			
			
H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:13, Wednesday 18 July 2012 (3485)
H1 HAM3 HEPI Actutors Attached & Released--IAS says OK!
Completed the Horizontal Actuator attachment and release of all the Actuators today.  Jason (IAS) checked and we are in spec.  I still want to do to a final Vertical Elevation & Level check of the Table.
H1 AOS
jason.oberling@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:11, Wednesday 18 July 2012 (3484)
Initial Alignment of HAM3 ISI
IAS: J. Oberling
SEI: H. Radkins
 
Initial alignment of the HAM3 ISI has been completed, pending a final level/elevation check by Hugh.  Alignment was done by using 2 sets of crossed scales for x-axis position and rotation measurements and a corner cube for distance measurements for the y-axis position.
 
A smaller scale is mounted perpendicular to a larger scale with the smaller scale sitting horizontally and centered on the edge of the larger scale.  This assembly is then attached to a fixture (a "scale mounting fixture") designed to place the crossing point of the two scales on the centerline of the ISI table.  2 of these assemblies are used and mounted at opposite ends of the ISI table, ~2m apart.  This allows us to measure both x-axis (North/South) position and yaw rotation.  Measurements from both scales will be given, denoted by the side of the ISI table the scale is mounted on, East or West.  For the y-axis position, we know the location of the monument our equipment is set up on and the location of the East scale mounting fixture on the ISI table.  It is then a simple subtraction to calculate the required distance from the total station to the first scale mounting fixture to zero the ISI table on the y-axis; the distance is 2009.3mm.  Since the total station only reports distance to 1mm, we used 2009mm.  All specs for table position are ±1 mm (totat station EDM accuracy for y-axis position is ±2 mm, it's the best we can do with this equipment); specs for table rotation are ±100 µrad.
 
The measurements are:
LHO General
alexan.staley@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:05, Wednesday 18 July 2012 (3483)
Moved Broadband Photodetector S1200235
Broadband photodetector S1200235 has been removed from MY, and is now in the LSB for testing of the ALS fiber distribution chassis. 
H2 ISC
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:44, Wednesday 18 July 2012 - last comment - 12:44, Wednesday 18 July 2012(3480)
Cavity Motion Noise Budget -- getting there!
J. Kissel, F. Matichard, P.Fristchel

After putting together information from all over the everywhere, I've produced (dare I call it) a NoiseBudget for the H2 OAT Y Arm cavity. Attached are the results. 
[[Editorial Note: I've uploaded -v2 of the plots. Now the calibration for the cavity length signal is just 1e-9 [m/nm], as Matt suggests in his comments below. Also removed the free-running laser frequency noise from SARM L budget since it's not applicable when the PLL is on, and corrected the ylabel typo on the Pitch estimate, so it now reads [rad/rtHz] as expected.]]

All data was measured starting at 2012-07-17 04:50UTC (7 averages, BW 0.005, 50% overlap), which we believe is the second stretch of cavity lock shown in LHO aLOG 3463.

Captions (labeled by page number):

(1) The Money Plot, showing the my predicted cavity length against the directly measured cavity length, in [m/rtHz]
(2) A similar model of the cavity pitch, but still a prediction without a measurement that directly confirms it

[[The remaining plots are merely for support of the first two:]]
(3 - 5) For ITMY, individual NoiseBudget breakdown of test mass motion degree of freedom used in the model (L, V, and P)
(6 - 8) For ETMY, individual NoiseBudget breakdown of test mass motion degree of freedom used in the model (L, V, and P)
(9) A comparison between the BSC-ISI's input spectra for Y (projected to L in the model), and RX (projected to P in the model)
(10 - 11) For ITMY and ETMY respectively, the contribution of every degree of freedom input to pitch of the test mass
(12 - 13) Directly measured spectra of BSC8- and BSC6-ISI's ST2 GS-13s,
(14 - 15) Model transer function between all DOFs at the SUS point and the test mass.


Calibration Details:

ISI ST2 GS13s
     - Channels: H2:ISI-$(OPTIC)_ST2_DAMP_$(DOF)_IN1_DQ
     - Input filter calibration: ON (creates an ideal 1 Hz geophone, that asymptotes to 1 [(nm/s) / ct] at high frequency)
     - DTT: (Based on LHO aLOG 3458)
         units: [m]
         gain: 1.59e-10 [m/ct] (1e-9 [m/nm] * 1/(2pi) [rad / (rad/s)])
         poles: 0,0,0
         zeros: 0.7 0.7
         (I gathered/plotted/calibrated the data in DTT for sanity check, then exported the data, uncalibrated, to Matlab)
     - Matlab:
         Used production calibration file:
         $(SeiSVN)/seismic/BSC-ISI/Common/Calibration_BSC_ISI/aLIGO/aLIGO_BSC_ISI_Calibration.mat
         code snippet:
              isiCalibration = load(bscCalibFile);
              gs13Model_nm = abs(squeeze(freqresp(isiCalibration.GS13_Model,2*pi*freq)));
              rawData = load(bscDataFile);
              rawFreq = rawData(:,1);
              for  iChan = 2:size(rawData,2)
                  interpData(iChan,:) = interp1(rawFreq,rawData(:,iChan),freq);
              end 

              for iDOF = 1:6
                  % X Y RZ Z RX RY
                  bscData(1).ST2.CART(iDOF,:) = interpData(iDOF+1,:) ./ abs(gs13Model_nm' * 1e9);
                  bscData(2).ST2.CART(iDOF,:) = interpData(iDOF+7,:) ./ abs(gs13Model_nm' * 1e9);
              end 

Cavity Length Signal 
     - Channel: H2:SUS-ETMY_M0_LOCK_L_IN1_DQ (which is the control signal from the VCO FMON [[I think]], but passed directly to the M0 TOP stage of the QUAD)
     - DTT: (Based on LHO aLOG 3482)
         units: [m]
         gain: 1e-9 [m/nm]
         poles: (none)
         zeros: (none)
     - Matlab: (Based on above)
         code snippet:
              % H2:SUS-ETMY_M0_LOCK_L_IN1_DAQ is already calibrated into [nm], so we just
              % need to multiply by 1e-9 [m/nm]
              cavityData = interpData(14,:) .* 1e-9; % [m] 


Data collection details:

The original data collection .xml can be found here:
$(SusSVN)/sus/trunk/Common/Data/2012-07-17_H2OAT_ASDs.xml

which has been exported to 
$(SusSVN)/sus/trunk/Common/Data/2012-07-17_H2OAT_ASDs.txt


Model script: $(SusSVN)/sus/trunk/QUAD/Common/MatlabTools/plotsinglearmmotion.m
Non-image files attached to this report
Comments related to this report
matthew.evans@LIGO.ORG - 09:55, Wednesday 18 July 2012 (3482)

The output of PDH_FMON, and ISC input to the ETM, is already calibrated in nm.  That, this part:

cavityModel_m.gain      = 6.1e-10;   % [m/ct]
              cavityModel_m.poles_Hz  = [1.6 10 10];
              cavityModel_m.zeros_Hz  = [40 100 100];

Is already in the PDH_FMON filter bank.
H2 SUS
jeffrey.garcia@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:17, Wednesday 18 July 2012 (3481)
H2 SUS ETMY burt restore file updated
The safe-state burt backup file for H2SUSETMY was updated yesterday after some newly-installed Simulink parts were added to the "h2susitmy" user model.  The damping filters were turned off and DC alignment offsets zeroed for the snapshot.  The snapshot file is under SVN control locally in:
'/opt/rtcds/userapps/release/sus/h2/burtfiles/etmy/h2susetmy_safe.snap'.

The DC alignment offsets on the ETMY M0 stage used to align the beam were initially:
H2:SUS-ETMY_M0_PIT_OFFSET = -2820
H2:SUS-ETMY_M0_YAW_OFFSET = 1215

These values were set to zero for the safe snapshot file.  This file is used by the start-up process when rebooting the user model "h2susetmy".  The intention is to have the system in a state that is not actuating on the suspension when rebooted.
H2 SUS
keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 21:45, Tuesday 17 July 2012 - last comment - 08:01, Wednesday 18 July 2012(3478)
What's going on with ETMY?

Nothing seems to work (MEDM screen all white), and from Dave's alog entry it sounds as if RFM work was not the direct cause of this.

Why no alog?

Comments related to this report
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 08:01, Wednesday 18 July 2012 (3479)
Attempts were made to both upgrade the h2susitmy and h2susetmy models, in addition to adding RFM parts. The attempt to upgrade the SUS was left incomplete and non-functional, unbeknownst by those adding the RFM parts who also tried upgrading. The result is the current disaster you found. I will dive in an rectify, in concert with Dave B., this morning. 

All apologies.
LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:54, Tuesday 17 July 2012 (3476)
plots of dust counts
Attached are plots of dust counts > .5 microns in particles per cubic foot. I have also included plots of the modes for dust monitors 10 and 16 in the LVEA (H0:PEM-LVEA_DST10_MODE, H0:PEM-LVEA_DST16_MODE) to show when they were probably swapped by Michael R. for dust monitors without internal pumps.
Non-image files attached to this report
H2 ISC
bram.slagmolen@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:49, Tuesday 17 July 2012 (3470)
Swapped RF LSC Diode

Keita and Bram.

We replaced the the RF LSC Diode, as we could not work out if it was behaving ok (edit: working badly was not the correct wording). We check the power cable (15-pin connector) and all seemed fine. 

We pulled out S1000885 and inserted S1000881.

This was done prior the power measurements mentioned in entry 3471.

H2 ISC
bram.slagmolen@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:48, Tuesday 17 July 2012 - last comment - 19:47, Tuesday 17 July 2012(3471)
ISCTEY (ALS table at EY) optical power measurements

Keita and Bram

We measured the power inthe optical train on the ISCTEY (after the RF LSC Diode swap, see entry 3470).

Forward path: Laser -- FI1 --- 30 mW --- FI2 --- EOM --- 27 mW --- FI3 --- Mirrors + lenses --- 20 mW ---- retro mirror

Return path to RF LSC Diode: retro mirror --- FI3 --- 7 mW --- R=80% mirror --- 4 mW -- RF LSC Diode

Return path to WFS: FI3 -- 7 mW --- T=20% mirror --- 3 mW --- to both WFS.

The DC output gives us 45 mV (48 mV with lens), resulting in 3 mW (3.2 mW) of power being 'converted'. About 0.3 mW is being reflected and dumped.

Comments related to this report
bram.slagmolen@LIGO.ORG - 19:47, Tuesday 17 July 2012 (3477)

We added a half waveplate just before the R=80% beam splitter, as all mirrors are coated for vertical polarised light (it becomes apperant that there are tom any waveplates on the table!!)

With this, we get 6.3 mW on the RF LSC Diode and 1.07 mW into the main WFS path (this will get split by a 50-50 beam splitter, so ~0.5 mW per WFS).

This in turn gives 69 mV (edit: removed the 0.) on the DC output of the LSC diode, e.g. 0.69 / (10 * 5 * 0.3) = 4.6 mW.

H2 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:42, Tuesday 17 July 2012 (3474)
H2 maintenance summary

DAQ: staggered shutdown of both frame writers to remove memory from the ldas gateway machines.

Added slow temperature channels to the H2 frame.

booted h2boot machine to see if this would fix the FE EPICS slow down when h2boot is being backed up; result- it didnt

extended the EY RFM reflective memory loop from EY into the LVEA. The path is (starting with the 5595 RFM switch at EY):

single mode patch through to the VEA patch panel.

In MSR, patch between the EY to H2B patch panels (single mode)

Install of 5595 RFM switch in H2B in computer racks.

Patch cable from H2B's patch panel to new 5595 unit.

multimode fiber from new 5595 unit through hole-in-the-wall directly to the h2susb478 front end.

Installation of a 5595 RFM pcie card in h2susb478 (required replacement of 3 slot riser with 4 slot riser).

I attempted to make an IPC change to the h2susitmy model to test this, but other model/medm changes are happening which is confuscating things.

Performed patch of new cdsssh 2FA login machine.

H1 DAQ
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:37, Tuesday 17 July 2012 (3473)
Added more memory in H1 DAQ frame writers

Jim moved 48GB of memory from the H2 LDAS gateway machines to the h1 frame writers (h1fw0, h1fw0) to give them the same amount as the H2 frame writers. This has been on our to-do list for some time, but because it required the shutdown of both H1 and H2 DAQs it was delayed until it became a stability issue with the H1 frame writers.

H1 PSL
michael.rodruck@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:21, Tuesday 17 July 2012 (3472)
FSS (continued)

After increasing the power into the ref cav yesterday and religning the FSS path today, we can lock the ref cav with 5.65V on the transmitted PD. Visibility is low, around 66%, so that will have to be worked on next.

I adjusted WP4 to change the DC voltage on the RFPD to 460mV. Common gain was set to 18dB giving a UGF of 180kHz. I don't believe this to be ideal so it will also have to be changed.

H1 SUS
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:37, Tuesday 17 July 2012 - last comment - 17:46, Tuesday 17 July 2012(3467)
MC2 glass suspension alignment

Today, the guys finished fully suspending the glass MC2 and took a preliminary look at it's height and pitch alignment.  With the optical autolevel and a height guage (standard HXTS alignment procedure), the height measured to be at nominal (214mm to better than +/- 1mm). 

The roll of the optic is out by 0.8mm over the distance from the left prism to the right. 

The pitch was measured via looking at the pitch of the side scribe line on the optic (which is known to be crooked by ~0.1mm over it's length) so is estimated at ~4.5mRad.  Independently, an optical lever was set up near the top edge of the optic (above the FC, so yes, high on the 27m ROC surface) and the pitch again measured to be 4.5mRad +/- 1mRad.

We're not sure what the IAS requirements are, so we'll need to find those before determining what errors to improve.

Comments related to this report
jeffrey.bartlett@LIGO.ORG - 17:46, Tuesday 17 July 2012 (3475)
 The actual measured height of the top of the Bottom Mass is 215mm from the tabletop. The target height is 215mm +/- 1mm. I sent Betsy the incorrect height.   
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