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Tue Apr 4 09:53:37 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | Laser intensity/polarization drift measurements | The set up for the next round of beam characterization
measurements has begun. The beam is initially
passing through a half waveplate, is split |
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Thu Apr 6 10:20:43 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | Laser intensity/polarization drift measurements | More optical components were added to the
optical set up for laser intensity / polarization
drift measurements. Both lenses and both |
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83
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Fri Apr 28 11:21:01 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | Laser intensity/polarization drift measurements | The Digi-key cables have arrived, and I have
began implementing them in the intensity
drift measurements.
There was a slight |
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101
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Thu May 18 14:07:08 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | 532nm Intensity Measurement | I figured out a method in which to capture
power measurements including the initial
seconds in which the beam is first turned |
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116
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Tue Jun 6 16:15:09 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | Launch Optics for Visible Light Cavity | I assembled the first few components of the
launch optics for the visible light cavity.
Below is an image of the current table configuration, |
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221
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Thu Sep 7 19:24:25 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | VLC Launch Chain | The launch optics up to the Faraday Isolator
have been added to the breadboard. In the
first image, the optics are (from L to R) |
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234
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Mon Oct 9 11:06:17 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | VLC Launch Chain | Implemented the new stage for the EOM. Took
power data at different positions in the
launch chain. Beam waist: 0.066mm (beam waist |
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242
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Mon Oct 23 07:28:57 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | VLC Mode Matching | I have attached a pdf with slides of my latest
updates. |
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256
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Mon Nov 6 11:31:25 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | VLC Mode Matching | See Update Attached |
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263
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Mon Nov 13 06:15:45 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | VLC Mode Matching | Weekly Updates Attached in pdf |
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288
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Fri Dec 8 11:15:21 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | VLC Assembly | The optics of the visible light cavity have
been assembled. The mode matching telescope
is folded through the two stirring mirrors |
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304
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Tue Jan 16 10:01:21 2024 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | VLC Faraday Isolator and Mode Matching | Attached is a PDF of my weekly updates. |
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360
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Mon Apr 15 11:51:03 2024 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | VLC | An update on the VLC project is attached below: |
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368
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Mon May 13 14:53:29 2024 |
Peter | Update | VLC Update | VLC | VLC Update WEEK 7 attached below |
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21
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Sat Feb 4 17:01:03 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Electronics | Laser Data | Peter and Ryan took laser beam data. Configuration:
100mm focal length lens is ~100mm from lens.
150mm focal length lens is ~200mm from first |
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36
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Tue Feb 28 19:31:05 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Electronics | 532 M2 Measurements | Took M2 measurements today. Configuration:
Lens 1 (f = 50mm) at 0mm. Lens 2 (f = 150mm)
at 200mm, camera at 350mm. The laser beam |
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Thu Mar 9 12:03:59 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Electronics | 532 M2 Measurements | Took more M2 Data today. Picture of the optical
set up is shown below. lens1 f = 100mm, lens2
f = 50mm, lens3 f = 150mm. There was a nice |
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50
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Fri Mar 10 12:08:09 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Electronics | 532 M2 Measurements | Took more M2 laser data today. The configuration
is the same as before except now the beam
camera is the only component moving. Pictures |
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Tue Apr 4 09:39:58 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Electronics | 532 M2 Measurements | Final M squared measurements were taken Wednesday,
3/29/23 by Peter and Ryan Hinosawa. 5 separate
sets of data were taken, and upon discussion, |
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63
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Tue Apr 4 16:43:53 2023 |
Jon | Update | VLC Electronics | Additional Thorlabs PDA10A2 | I ordered a second PDA10A2 and mounting post
+ spacer (which puts the aperture at the
VLC's standard 3" beam height). These arrived |
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78
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Tue Apr 25 11:56:37 2023 |
Jon | Update | VLC Electronics | Red Pataya has arrived | The Red Pataya 125-14 starter kit that we
ordered for locking the 532 nm cavity has
arrived. I left it laying on the optical |
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Mon May 1 18:56:57 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Electronics | 532nm Intensity Measurement | I've configured the two PDA's to the Red Pitaya.
I put a 50 ohm resistor connector to each
red pitaya input port. This was because the |
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Tue May 2 15:55:33 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Electronics | 532nm Intensity Measurement | I changed the 1/2 wave plate from the lens
mount to the rotational optic mount. This
allowed me to rotate the 1/2 wave plate, |
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92
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Thu May 4 14:01:10 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Electronics | 532nm Intensity Measurement | I adjusted the rotational mount of the wave
plate to see if the power can be 100% coupled
into either S or P polarization. The images |
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Tue May 16 11:56:33 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Electronics | 532nm Intensity Measurement | With the configuration the exact same as before,
I used the Jupyter notebook in the red pitaya's
development package to collect data from |
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Mon May 22 16:43:28 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Electronics | Laser intensity/polarization drift measurements | In order to fully analyze the polarization
data taken last Thursday, I needed to convert
the signal output (which is in volts) to |
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107
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Wed May 24 14:28:26 2023 |
Peter | Update | VLC Electronics | Laser intensity/polarization drift measurements | I went in and took polarization drift data
for 16 hours. The run started at 6:08pm and
finished at 9:15am the next day. The four |
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70
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Wed Apr 12 16:13:19 2023 |
Cao | Physics | VAC | Vacuum prep and installation | Aiden, Pamella, Peter, Shane, Cao
Today
we started vacuum chamber assembly work
10:16 am: Particle count measurement of clean |
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74
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Fri Apr 21 00:06:43 2023 |
Jon | Update | VAC | Vacuum prep and installation - parts have arrived | The two parts needed to complete the vacuum
assembly (ELOG
70) have arrived. |
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81
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Thu Apr 27 16:23:44 2023 |
Cao, Pamella and Julian | Physics | VAC | Installing vacuum system (cont.) |
[Pamella, Cao and Julian, Shane]
Particles account
10:37 am: Starting the particles account |
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82
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Thu Apr 27 21:43:07 2023 |
Jon | Physics | VAC | Grounding vacuum system | This afternoon I made up a green 10 AWG
grounding cable and connected it to the vacuum
system. |
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84
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Fri Apr 28 18:16:57 2023 |
Cao | Physics | VAC | Grounding vacuum system |
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85
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Fri Apr 28 19:00:13 2023 |
Cao | Physics | VAC | Tighten CF ports on vacuum chamber | [Cao]
After Jon's comment yesterday
that some of the connection did not seem
to have good metal-metal contact, in particular |
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87
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Mon May 1 17:10:25 2023 |
Julian, Cao | Physics | VAC | Installing Pirani gauge and RGA probe onto to vacuum chamber | [Julian, Cao]
03:00 pm: Particle
count
: Zone 3
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90
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Tue May 2 17:03:14 2023 |
Jon, Cao | Physics | VAC | First pump-down test of vacuum chamber | [Jon, Cao]
1. Re-routing of cables
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91
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Wed May 3 19:03:47 2023 |
Julian,Pamella and Cao | Physics | VAC | Modify vacuum asssembly and install RGA | [Pamella, Julian, Cao]
Today we
started re-configuring the vacuum chamber
components.
Particle count |
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94
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Tue May 9 15:49:20 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | VAC | Permanent cable routing | Today I brought in a fresh supply of zip
ties (we now have 1500 in the tool chest)
and used them to permanentize the cable routing |
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95
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Tue May 9 20:55:12 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | VAC | Calibrated Ar leak rate | For future reference, the calibrated Argon
source has a leak rate of 7.55E-8
atm cc/s, or equivalently |
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97
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Fri May 12 20:28:34 2023 |
Aiden, Cao | Physics | VAC | Vacuum chamber Helium leak test | [Aiden, Cao]
1. Helium leak test
2:00 pm: Uninstall regulator from nitrogen |
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122
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Tue Jun 13 21:08:46 2023 |
Pamella | Infrastructure | VAC | Heater system - Installation | [Pamella, Cao and Jon]
Heating system
installation
Today we
started installing the equipments for the |
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124
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Wed Jun 14 15:35:36 2023 |
Pamella | Update | VAC | Heating system installation | [Pamella and Cao]
Heating system
installation - Second day.
Today we kept installing the equipment |
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129
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Tue Jun 20 22:14:24 2023 |
Pamella, Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Short term testing of vacuum heater controller units | [Pamella, Cao]
Fuse replacement
Replace blown 10A fuse
in ucontroller outside cleanroom
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130
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Wed Jun 21 20:25:05 2023 |
Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Vacuum chamber bake attempt 1 | TL;DR:
We are not yet able to
bake the chamber at 150 deg C due to some
current limit, most likely caused power supply |
6x |
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136
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Tue Jun 27 21:47:56 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | VAC | Vacuum chamber bake attempt 1 | The electrical overload problem encountered
in ELOG 130
has been resolved. The two heater controllers, |
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137
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Wed Jun 28 15:58:56 2023 |
Shane, Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Power trip problem remains, source of smoke is insulation | [Shane, Cao]
With the new change
in wiring configuration described in elog
136, |
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Thu Jun 29 18:27:26 2023 |
Jon, Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Vacuum bake attempt 3: success! | [Jon, Cao]
Summary : We resolved
problems with heaters tripping power and
were able to proceed with chamber baking
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Mon Jul 3 14:32:24 2023 |
Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Cooling down vacuum chamber | [Cao]
After leaving the the chamber
to bake at 120 deg C from Thursday 3:41 pm.
Today I started to cool the chamber down |
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145
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Wed Jul 5 15:46:47 2023 |
Aiden, Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update |
Cao and Aiden put the RGA back on to
the chamber and measured the outgassing rate
after the chamber has cooled down from its |
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Thu Jul 6 16:16:03 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update |
Pressure Measured Before Removing Gauge
2.31 E-7 Torr.
Went in and turned
on the heating tape in increments of 30 degC |
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Fri Jul 7 15:11:39 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update |
The temperature of the flange connecting
to the turbo pump after reaching equilibrium
is 74 degC. This means that it is safe to |
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