After the alignment of PR3 (see alog 9146), I aligned PR2 and PRM to get PRX flashing with the infrared light. The resultant alignment sliders are shown in the attached.

I could lock PRX quite smoothly, but it seems that some optics are oscillating in pitch by a non-negligible amount. Due to this, the intracavity field spatially wobbles by almost its beam size in pitch according to the CCD camera attached on BS's chamber. In this condition, the intracavity power observed by the POP_A QPD fluctuates more than 10%. We need to identify which optic is the culprit by using the oplevs and witness sensors. It seems to me that it is hopeless to try locking PRMI without improving this wobbliness.

Greg G, Thomas V

I tricked Greg into helping me and we successfully installed and aligned the ETMX optical lever; it will need to be calibrated it next but that will not require the closure of a gate valve. At the first shot of alignment, there was some clipping on the edge of the viewport so we had to modify the transmitter mount which took a bit more time than I expected.  

Note:
We adjusted the height of the receiver pylon to line up the viewport to the optical lever enclosure, but this did not take into account what will be needed for the photon calibrator receiver so we might have to revisit this in the future.

Green arm transmission was first found on the Swiss cheese baffle while scanning PR3.

After centering the beam on the POP hole in the baffle (PIT was already good, YAW was off by 86urad), we looked inside HAM1 and found that the beam was already coming in that chamber. The beam was hitting somewhere on the green/IR separator M10, and some scattering or maybe specular reflection was hitting the beam duct of IR POP path, but nothing seemed to be hitting the green steering mirror M11.

Turning PR3 by +10urad in YAW and the beam was already blocked on the mirror holder of M11.

Turning PR3 by -10urad in YAW and the beam was nowhere to be found in HAM1, and we couldn't identify where the beam is blocked in HAM2, but it kind of seems from one of the GigE cameras that the beam might be blocked by one of the MC towers.

See attached if this helps.

Right now PR3 is set to the "neutral" position where the beam is centered in the baffle hole, but probably that's not the right thing to do (because the space between MC1 and MC3 tower gives us a tight aperture in YAW). We'll go in HAM1 tomorrow to find a right solution.

I went back to the end station to look into why the frequency comparator readback has not been reliable.  There was 1MHz oscillation on the readout of the PD that is similar in size to our beatnote, which was confusing the frequency comparator.  The oscillation goes away when the noise eater is on, and the frequency readback works well.  For now I have left it on, although this isn't a long term solution.

In alog 6669 I came to the opposite conclusion, that the nosie eater had to be off to avoid oscillations at 1 MHz that confuse the frequency comparator. A high pass in the path to the frequency comparator might take care of the problem.

Cyrus created a new EPICS gateway between the H1-AUX and H1-FE VLANS to permit the DAQ EDCU to acquire the new PSL Centroid EPICS channels created by Chris W. The new gateway is called h1aux-h1fe (client on h1aux, server on h1fe). The DAQ EDCU quickly connected to the new channels and became GREEN.

Today we were frought with more fiber pulling issues.  After sorting user errors with the profile math yesterday, today the fiber puller was cranky.  The latest problem this afternoon was that a piece of the mechanics on the bottom stage of the puller pulled out of place (a problem that has been seen before).  It will (again) take a few hours of their time to fix tomorrow.

Meanwhile at EY, Jason and I repositioned the UIM and PUM in prep for the rewelding scheduled for later this week.  When we went to position the test mass, Jason discovered that the HR return beam was very faint and the autocollimator could not get a reading off of it.  LLO reported this finding when they did their ETM.  We will pull the First Contact thin alignment sheet down a bit and try see if that improves the visability.  Otherwise, we may entertain the idea of sighting off of the AR surface for pointing which has a much better return for the 670nm autocol beam.

Oh, and the cookie cutter for repositioning the ETMy QUAD upper structure on the ISI appears to have been machined incorrectly.  I have time to fix it.

Fire Department on site doing maintenance
Installation and alignment of the GigE cameras at the HAM2 and HAM3 spools – Kiwamu
Centering SR2 BOSEMs at LVEA – Jeff B.
Baffle work at LVEA West bay – Mitchell
Electrician working at H1 electronics room
Work at End X – Sheila/Koji/Alexas
Turning Off aLOG, SVN, and awiki services due to hardware problems – Jonathan
Work on H1 PSL diode room – R. Savage
Cable pulling from Electronics room to HAM2 – Luis
aLOG, SVN, and awiki services have been turned ON – Jonathan
Remove the HAM1 viewport covers and/or camera cans – Keita/Kiwamu/Sheila/Koji/Alexa
Soft-close GV20  at End X- Kyle
Removing yellow cover from viewports on HAM1, HAM2 and HAM3 – Stefan
Fix to the ETMX, ETMXY, TMSX and TMSY models – Jeff K.
Hardware cabling at End X - Richard

In anticipation of some new changes to the ASC_MASTER library part, I updated it to the latest version from LLO. This includes pitch and yaw outputs for RM1,RM2,OM1,OM2. I updated our h1asc.mdl accordingly, recompiled and restarted it. SVN version number 6759.

Back on 23 December, Keita found the need to tilt the HEPI to pitch the TMS.  Attached is a plot showing the T240 signal going back 30 days from now.  The time keita tilted the HEPI is pretty obvious in the middle of the trends when tilted axes of the T240s are affected.  Much of the period since 23 Dec has the ISI off (tripped from T240 saturations) and so not the source of the increase in these T240 signals.

As I've logged before, the ETMX ISI has not managed to stay engaged for more than a few hours since this time.  Notice too on these trends, the signals with the largest amplification has a regular hit of the rail.  The second plot I've attached is a single channel of 15 days.  Notice the rail hit every 24 hours; this is to the minute as best I can tell from a 15 day dv trend.  I am suspicious that this is real given the periodicity.

Finally, the last plot zooms in to 8 days of this channel and I've added a channel indicating the HEPI tilt.  Notice in the middle of the plot where on 2 & 3 Jan I'm mucking about with tilts and ISI.  The noise of the T240 is reduced when there is no tilt applied.

J. Kissel, T. Vo, R. McCarthy

Both sites have simultaneously discovered that the optical lever signal wiring has changed between version 5 and version 6 of the ETM System Wiring Diagram, D1002741, specifically page 4. However, since we're just now turning on the EM optical levers (whose signal installation required the change), we discovered that the front-end Simulink model is still wired according version 5 as cables were plugged in according to version 6. Note that the drawing changes were made back in July of 2013, as a part of resolving Integration Issue 78, but this week is the first time the changes have been exposed to installation reality at either site. 

As such, I have re-wired the following models:
${userapps}/sus/h1/models/
h1susetmx.mdl
h1susetmy.mdl
h1sustmsx.mdl
h1sustmsy.mdl
such that, in the ETM models:
(1) Remove ADC1 from the top-level, since it no longer used in the ETM control models.
(2) Change the From tag for the optical lever signals from "ADC1_2_QUAD" to "ADC0_2_QUAD," such that it receives signals from ADC0.
(3) Re-selected ADC0 channels 0_24, 0_25, 0_26, 0_27, which are Quadrants A, B, C, D on D1002741, and Segments 1, 2, 3, and 4 in the QUAD simulink Library part, respectively.
and in the TMS models:
(1) From the ADC0_2_TMTS From tag, re-selected ADC0 channels 0_28 and 0_29 for M1 RT and M1 SD, respectively.

Richard has now swapped the analog cabling accordingly, such that now both analog and digital match version 6.

Note, the naively annoying signal shuffling that affects and separates the TMTS OSEM signals was done to preserve the last two channels on the ADC0 as open/spare required for the standard DAC and ADC duotone signals of every IO chassis.

All top-level models (which is all that was affected by these changes) have been committed to the userapps repo as of this entry.

H1 SUS ETMX AND H1 SUS TMSX have had their damping restored, and their alignment offsets restored to what they were just before the reboot. 

As the SEI/SUS watchdog system still stands, taking down the suspension models trips the HEPI and ISI, so I've restored the ISI to damping, and left HEPI untripped but requesting no actuation, since I don't know the state of these chamber's commissioning. I have not restored the 12000 nrad offset that Keita has installed to fix the differential alignment between ETMX and TMSX (see LHO aLOG 9064) that's need to lock the arm cavity on green (see LHO aLOG 9127) because he's put it in the hidden offset of the RY IPS blend filter bank, and I'm not sure whether position loops are functional. This should be moved to the DC BIAS location, and position loops should be run. I'll speak with Keita and the SEI team.

The aLOG is being turned off to examine possible hardware issues.

When aligning the X arm I thought that the green beam is too small on ITMX and ETMX, but when I actually looked at the data, the beam size on ITMX is not bad.

I adjusted the TMSX sliders to maximize one of the baffle PDs, moved TMSX in yaw such that the power on the PD drops, and assessed the beam size assuming that the beam is sufficiently smaller than the beam radius.

Attached plot shows that 4.4urad TMSX slider change in YAW makes one of the baffle PDs to drop from the peak by about half (.125/.240 = 0.521 to be more precise). From alog 9126 we know that the slider calibration for YAW is 1.07 [urad/urad], so the beam displacement is x=1.07E-6*4.4urad*4E3m=18.8mm.

exp(-2x^2/w^2) = 0.125/0.240= 0.521, x=18.8mm, therefore:

w=sqrt(-2/ln(0.521))*x=32.9mm.

I don't claim that the measurement has a mm accuracy, though, because I don't know the baffle PD size.

Sheila and Alexa reported issues seeing Beckhoff channels from the control room workstations, so I restarted the h1slow-cds EPICS gateway process.  This appears to have corrected the problem.

References: D1201036 (BSC9 ACB assy) and D1200314 (BSC3)

Gerardo read the distances between the baffle diodes off of CAD drawings for me (see the attached cartoon). 

ITM baffle PD1-PD4 separation is 11.3" over 4km (72 urad) both horizontally and vertically. For ETM the number is 11.8", so it's 75 urad.

Don't know why the patterns are different for ETM and ITM, but using these we can calibrate TMSX, ITMX and ETMX bias sliders. Note the factor of 2 between TMS and mirrors, this is because TMS moves with the beam but mirrors don't.

Calibration of ETMX is somewhat suspect (at 10urad level) because of the fact that the position loop of EX ISI got accidentally off before I did ETMX adjustment.