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Thu Feb 29 17:16:48 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | MEDM screen for FROSTI T/P readouts | Here's the latest draft of the MEDM screen
for the FROSTI temp and power readouts, now
with a button linking to the c1msc file display. |
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362
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Wed Apr 17 15:07:04 2024 |
Shane | Update | Cleanroom | Cleanroom cleaning and particle count |
[Mohak, Luke,
Luis, Shane, Cynthia, Michael, Xuesi]
cleaning
cleanroom and particle count |
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369
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Thu May 16 15:23:14 2024 |
Shane | Update | Cleanroom | Cleanroom cleaning and particle count |
[Luis, Michael,
Luke, Shane]
cleaning cleanroom
and particle count |
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383
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Tue Jun 25 12:34:18 2024 |
Shane | Update | Cleanroom | cleanroom cleaning and particle count |
[Luke, Shane,
Xuejun, Mohak, Michael, Tyler, Cynthia]
cleaning
cleanroom and particle count |
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388
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Thu Jun 27 13:42:02 2024 |
Shane | Update | Cleanroom | cleanroom 5 zone particle count measurement | Here's today's 5 zone measurement of the cleanroom.
We're above the limit by a bit in zone three
(all three size ranges), likely as a result |
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398
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Mon Jul 8 17:01:45 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | New CyMAC internal layout | [Jon, Shane]
Internal layout of CyMAC has
been updated (labeled image attached) to
accommodate the replacement of the two ribbon |
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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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419
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Fri Aug 2 13:50:22 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | Serial Comm. Test (Agilent Turbo Pump) | Did a brief communication test with the agilent
turbo pump today, to see if we could get
serial communications up and running for |
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Draft
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Tue Oct 1 19:41:23 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | CyMAC Timing Chassis Issue | [Shane, Luis]
Summary of the issue we've
been having with the timing chassis: when
we connect only the Valon 5015 to power, |
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456
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Thu Oct 3 19:35:04 2024 |
Shane | Update | Cleanroom | Cleanroom cleaning and particle count |
[Luke, Michael,
Cynthia, Mary]
cleaning cleanroom
and particle count |
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461
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Thu Oct 17 13:24:23 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | Timing Chassis issue identified |
[Ma,
Luis, Shane]
Working theory for the
timing chassis issues had been that the 1A |
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465
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Fri Oct 25 10:56:30 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | Timing Chassis fixed and reinstalled |
[Ma, Shane]
We
replaced the 1A breaker in the timing chassis
today with a 4A one, and tested that all |
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473
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Thu Nov 14 11:58:05 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | Turbo pump connection troubleshooting | Attempted connection to the TV551 turbo pump
through Varian/Agilent's software on spica.
Successful connection established, and we |
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484
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Wed Dec 4 16:01:23 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | Vac serial interfacing troubleshooting update | Update on the issue with serial interfacing
for the TV 551 turbo pump: Tried a new test
today, to see if the commands being sent |
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518
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Wed Feb 19 13:44:48 2025 |
Shane | Update | CDS | Vac serial interfacing update |
[Jon, Shane]
Debugging update for vac system serial
communications: we were able to successfully |
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527
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Thu Feb 27 18:22:21 2025 |
Shane | Update | CDS | Ongoing work in server rack and desk area (1119) | As part of the vacuum communications debugging
process, there is ongoing work in the server
rack and desk area in 1119. Please be careful |
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532
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Tue Mar 4 10:47:03 2025 |
Shane | Update | CDS | Vac system pinouts | Attached here are the pinouts, as we currently
know them, for the vacuum system. The three
items focused on here are the Agilent TwissTorr |
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533
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Wed Mar 5 12:16:28 2025 |
Shane | Update | CDS | Vac system communications update |
[Shane, Jon]
Update on the serial interfacing
with the vacuum system: both turbo pumps |
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534
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Wed Mar 5 18:13:20 2025 |
Shane | Update | CDS | vac system comms |
[Shane, Jon]
Update on the serial interfacing with
the Inficon VGC503 pressure gauge: We began |
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535
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Mon Mar 10 17:03:52 2025 |
Shane | Update | CDS | Pressure Gauge successful connect | Vac system serial interfacing update: the
pressure gauge is now able to communicate
successfully through the code. It's been |
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565
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Wed Apr 30 13:42:45 2025 |
Shane | Update | CDS | UPS comms successful | Update on UPS1 serial interfacing: communication
is now successful. On 4/15/25 we connected
to UPS1 via ethernet rather than USB, and |
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1
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Sun Apr 10 15:39:49 2022 |
Rutuja Gurav | HowTo | Computer Scripts/Programs | HowTo: Renew the Let's Encrypt SSL certificate using certbot | Port 80 is kept closed by default. This
might be causing the certbot auto-renewal
cronjob to fail. Therefore we must renew |
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326
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Tue Feb 13 13:02:41 2024 |
Pooyan | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Cacity sacn of Fabry-Perot | Created a simple model of Fabry-Perot cavity
in SIS, and did a cavity scan. Total power
in the cavity, 00 mode, and HOMs is measured. |
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356
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Wed Mar 27 00:03:57 2024 |
Pooyan | Update | Computers | Chimay relocation to Physics 1129 | [Jon, Pooyan]
Moved Chimay from
the server rack in Physics 1119 to a new
rack in Physics 1129. It is connected to |
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358
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Mon Apr 8 14:43:29 2024 |
Pooyan | Update | Interferometer Simulations | SIS update single and coupled cavities | [Pooyan, Cynthia]
Attached is a brief
recap PDF file. A video file showing separate
HOMs plots for the cavity scan with ETM08 |
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382
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Mon Jun 24 21:38:25 2024 |
Pooyan | Infrastructure | Computers | Computer server changes in 1119 and 1129 | [Jon, Pooyan, Tyler]
A few computer machine changes have |
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406
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Mon Jul 15 14:28:32 2024 |
Pooyan | Update | Interferometer Simulations | aLIGO test mass surface profiles | Created a Google Slides presentation to
summarize all the mirror surface map information
that we use for simulating interferometers. |
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407
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Mon Jul 15 14:49:06 2024 |
Pooyan | Update | Computers | Synology NAS server setup | Installed a Synology NAS server (Synology
RackStation RS1221) in lab room 1129, with
host name “scribe” and ip “192.168.1.17”. |
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437
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Mon Sep 9 14:27:36 2024 |
Pooyan | Infrastructure | Computers | Chimay backup attempt | One ongoing work is to make all lab machines
automatically backed-up on Scribe on a daily
basis. The updates should be boatable and |
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585
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Tue Jun 3 11:50:08 2025 |
Pooyan | Update | CDS | CDS update | There are three major issues with the lab's
CDS system that should be addressed. They
are ordered from the highest priority to |
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590
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Tue Jun 10 12:11:14 2025 |
Pooyan | Update | CDS | CDS update |
The MEDM models issue was fixed.
The issue was that building the c1msc model
alone was not enough and we had to re-build |
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592
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Wed Jun 11 16:19:37 2025 |
Pooyan | Update | CDS | CDS update |
Fast channels recorded to .gwf frame
files
Had to add a DAQ Channels
block to the c1msc model for those channel |
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593
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Wed Jun 11 16:33:45 2025 |
Pooyan | Update | Computers | Luke's ray tracing hosting |
Hosted Lukes model on Chimay. It's
available at https://richardsonlab.ucr.edu/real-time-frosti
The
sourcecode is at Github. |
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10
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Wed Aug 17 16:04:30 2022 |
Phoebe Zyla | Summary | Lore | Testing the Cartridge Heater and Collecting FLIR Data | We have tested the heater to find emissivity,
mounted the heater system to the optical
table, and have taken irradiance maps of |
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8
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Fri Jul 22 13:20:28 2022 |
Phoebe | Update | | Comsol | I will be using comsol until 1:30 pm today.
I will be updating the model for the heater
mount to be thicker in certain areas, so |
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16
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Mon Jan 23 17:26:15 2023 |
Peter Carney | Update | General | Oven cleaning | Aiden and Cao
Turned on the oven to 120
deg C for 12 hours. After 12 hours, put it
at 200 deg C for 48 hours. |
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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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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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62
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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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65
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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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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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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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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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