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Wed Aug 16 17:17:02 2023 |
Shane, Jon | Update | CDS | Binary input chassis powering correctly | Binary input chassis passed power-on test,
and is lighting up as expected. Binary output
chassis also successfully powered on. AA |
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197
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Tue Aug 8 17:03:22 2023 |
Shane, Jon | Update | CDS | Binary input chassis finished | Finished assembly of the binary input chassis
today, including DC on/off switch and LED
installation. external cable assemblies still |
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700
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Thu Apr 16 14:04:46 2026 |
Mary | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Beam position optimization algorithm | |
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537
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Mon Mar 10 21:32:29 2025 |
Nathan | Physics | Electronics | Beam Profiling and PBS Measurements | Beam wasn't diverging, however maybe was about
to diverge when measurements stopped? Will
discuss the PBS measurements and how the |
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80
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Thu Apr 27 09:48:34 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Batch 12 Bagging | I took batch 12 out of the oven and put them
in a bag and placed the bag inside the clean
room in the first large stainless steel container.
I |
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510
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Tue Feb 11 08:07:02 2025 |
Luis | Update | VAC | Bake stopped | [Luis, Ma]
Feb/10/25 4:00pm
Bake was stopped. |
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327
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Fri Feb 16 18:37:28 2024 |
Jon | Update | VAC | Bake ended 6:23 pm | I ended the bake of the UHV system (that
began on Monday) at 6:23 pm today by switching
OFF both PID controllers. The heaters elements |
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25
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Fri Feb 10 15:15:30 2023 |
Aiden | Update | General | Bagging First Batch | Aiden Bagged and Tagged the first batch of
stainless steel parts shown on the google
spread sheet.
1. Removed two parts from |
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324
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Tue Feb 13 12:26:23 2024 |
Tyler | Update | Interferometer Simulations | BS Code Update | I reproduced Cao's CE beamsplitter code
(see below for example plots). I received
the current info on the beamsplitter parameters |
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396
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Mon Jul 8 10:39:14 2024 |
Xuejun | Update | FLIR | Average Temperature Profile | After taking data for each of the individual
heater elements, I imported them into python
and overlayed them to produce an average |
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191
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Thu Aug 3 18:03:42 2023 |
Shane, Jon | Update | CDS | Anti-Aliasing chassis complete | We finished installing the internal power
supply cables in the anti-aliasing chassis
today, which concludes its assembly. Work |
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154
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Thu Jul 13 15:31:21 2023 |
Jon | Update | General | Ant traps placed around lab | In response to reports that ants have been
observed in the lab, I placed five ant bait
traps around the room today. Each is sitting |
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155
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Thu Jul 13 16:59:03 2023 |
Jon | Update | General | Ant traps placed around lab | Update: After seeing the
strong response to the first set, I redistributed
them to the hottest spots and added one more |
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598
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Tue Jun 24 13:47:58 2025 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Alternative FROSTI A# optimization approach | Alternative FROSTI A# optimization approach |
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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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14
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Wed Dec 14 18:34:33 2022 |
Jon | Configuration | Electronics | Adapter for 532 nm laser power supply | I installed an EU-to-US plug adapter for the
532nm laser's 9V power supply. I then re-measured
the laser's power with the correct supply |
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142
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Mon Jul 3 16:26:21 2023 |
Cao | Infrastructure | DAQ | Access and control Red Pitaya remotely and run it on local machine | [Cao]
To access and control the Red
Pitaya using Python locally on a machine
within the local network, one should follow |
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399
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Tue Jul 9 18:19:50 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | ADC-DAC loopback testing and IOLAN installation | [Shane, Jon]
Finished ADC-DAC loopback
testing today (see attached xlsx file or
access directly here). |
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410
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Tue Jul 16 18:43:07 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | ADC-DAC loopback testing and IOLAN installation |
UPDATE:
Follow up ADC-DAC loopback testing
now complete, matching all the ADC channels
to a single DAC channel, and then matching |
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285
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Mon Dec 4 21:27:53 2023 |
Shane | Update | CDS | ADC-DAC loopback test results | Here are the test results from today's ADC-DAC
loopback tests. Channels 14 and 15 were the
only ones behaving abnormally. Not sure what |
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176
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Thu Jul 27 14:46:55 2023 |
Shane, Jon | Update | Electronics | AA chassis DC on/off switch assembled | Made the first DC on/off switch assembly today
and installed in anti-aliasing chassis. Second
switch assembly to be completed later. |
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247
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Fri Oct 27 15:28:30 2023 |
Shane | Update | CDS | AA and AI chassis for CyMAC powered on and functional | CyMAC updates: Switched out the faulty power
regulator boards in the Anti-Aliasing and
Anti-Imaging chassis. Both chassis are now |
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696
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Thu Apr 9 12:40:24 2026 |
Xuesi Ma | Update | TCS | A# Ring Heater Design |
Slides
discussing for A# Ring Heater design.
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577
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Tue May 13 12:41:06 2025 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | A# Profiles Update | Slides on the A# ITM FROSTI profile modeling
efforts can be found here. |
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694
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Wed Apr 1 15:02:30 2026 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | A# FROSTI Profiles Optimization 04/02/2026 |
Slides
discussing SURF, OPD, and SURF+OPD optimizations
for idealized FROSTI A# profiles.
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699
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Thu Apr 16 13:14:42 2026 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | A# FROSTI Profiles Optimization 04/02/2026 |
Slides
discussing including overlapped irradiance
profiles at the center of an A# ITM.
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690
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Thu Mar 5 13:01:14 2026 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | A# FROSTI Profiles Optimization |
Slides
discussing updates on FROSTI A# profile optimizations.
In particular, a new RMS function is defined |
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668
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Thu Jan 15 12:52:58 2026 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | A# FROSTI Profiles 01/15/26 | Slides |
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674
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Wed Jan 28 11:29:30 2026 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | A# FROSTI Profiles 01/15/26 |
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678
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Thu Feb 5 13:12:28 2026 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | A# FROSTI Profiles 01/15/26 | Slides
updating progress on FROSTI A# irradiance
profiles and reflector design. Edge roll-off |
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687
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Thu Feb 19 12:59:47 2026 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | A# FROSTI Profiles 01/15/26 |
Slides
covering a new approach to optimizing for
A# FROSTI profiles. In particular, we start |
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602
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Tue Jul 1 12:39:42 2025 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | A# FROSTI Profile Optimization Update | [Tyler, Liu]
Slides |
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632
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Tue Aug 19 12:33:59 2025 |
Pooyan | Update | TCS | A# BS Update | |
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209
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Tue Aug 15 16:10:06 2023 |
Celeste | Update | TCS | 8/15/2023 Simulation Progress | |
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204
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Fri Aug 11 10:57:20 2023 |
Celeste | Update | TCS | 8/11/23 Simulation Progress | |
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200
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Thu Aug 10 14:13:38 2023 |
Celeste | Update | TCS | 8/10/23, Simulation Graphical Progress | |
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88
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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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89
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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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99
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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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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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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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37
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Tue Feb 28 19:33:51 2023 |
Peter | Update | | 532 M2 Measurements | Y axis of plot in units of micrometers. X
axis in units of millimeters. |
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48
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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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230
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Fri Sep 29 11:53:54 2023 |
Shane | Update | Cleanroom | 5 zone particle count measurement in cleanroom | Today's 5 zone measurement of cleanroom particulate
concentration is attached |
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270
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Fri Nov 17 14:06:01 2023 |
Shane | Update | Cleanroom | 5 zone particle count | Here's today's 5 zone particle count measurement
for the cleanroom. Zone 5 (closest to back
wall by fire cabinet) is still above the |
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260
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Thu Nov 9 19:06:46 2023 |
shane | Update | Cleanroom | 5 zone cleanroom measurement | Here's today's five zone measurement, taken
~5 hours after the cleaning. Zone 5 (closest
to fire cabinet and back wall) is a bit over |
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Tue Jul 29 12:30:00 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | 260 hour ADC update | [Ma, Christina, Tyler]
ADC CyMAC
260 hr, 8192Hz sampling rate channels V3
and Vref6 |
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