ID |
Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
 |
630
|
Tue Aug 12 13:49:24 2025 |
Mary | Update | | point absorber and coated aperture in A# | |
|
629
|
Tue Aug 12 13:46:56 2025 |
Christina | Update | | | |
 |
628
|
Tue Aug 12 13:32:43 2025 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | | Differences in Fused Silica parameters. |
 |
627
|
Tue Aug 12 13:28:00 2025 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | RH Fenicsx v. HV | |
  |
626
|
Tue Aug 12 12:35:19 2025 |
Tyler | Update | | CyMAC ADC Update | [Christina, Ma, Tyler]
Updated CyMAC
measurement, comparing 260 hrs of measurement
time vs. 405 hrs. |
 |
625
|
Tue Aug 12 12:16:21 2025 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Multi-ring FROSTI optimization for A# | Multi-ring FROSTI optimization for A# with
static polishing |
|
624
|
Mon Aug 11 22:19:50 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | Red Pitaya Data Streaming | [Ma, Tyler, Christina]
This past week, we were able to
set up the data streaming for continuous |
 |
623
|
Wed Aug 6 16:31:37 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Update | | |
Date and Time:
Around 4:20 PM on Auguest 6, 2025
Location and Temperature: |
    |
622
|
Tue Aug 5 12:21:04 2025 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | FROSTI A# optimization | A# multi-ring FROSTI optimization |
|
621
|
Tue Aug 5 11:25:17 2025 |
Mary | Update | | point absorber and coated aperture in A# | Simulating how point absorber defects on
Advanced LIGO mirrors affect cavity performance
by modeling a 4km LIGO-like arm cavity with |
|
620
|
Thu Jul 31 14:26:58 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Update | | | [Tyler, Ma, Christina, Maple, Cece, Mary,
Pooyan, Audrey]
We started by cleaning outside of |
|
619
|
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 |
|
617
|
Tue Jul 29 11:45:19 2025 |
Maple | Update | TCS | Meeting update | |
|
616
|
Tue Jul 29 11:27:57 2025 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Multi-ring FROSTI optimization for A# | |
  |
615
|
Tue Jul 22 12:20:29 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | | [Ma, Christina, Tyler]
Figure
1 shows the following PSDs for channels 0-15
from the 14 hour test. Figure 2 shows the |
 |
614
|
Tue Jul 15 13:13:48 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | Photodetector optical post assembly | |
|
613
|
Tue Jul 15 11:47:53 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Infrastructure | | |
Date and Time:
Around 4:50 PM on July 1, 2025
Location and Temperature: |
   |
611
|
Tue Jul 15 10:40:23 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | | [Christina, Ma, Tyler]
Yesterday,
Ma and I started taking data for the PSD/CSD
measurements while the photodetectors and |
|
610
|
Mon Jul 14 23:50:22 2025 |
Tyler | Update | | Cymac ADC update | I've been looking into the performances
of individual channels on the Cymac by computing
their individual PSDs and corresponding CSDs |
 |
609
|
Mon Jul 14 20:45:20 2025 |
Luke | Summary | Cleanroom | HEPA filter performance metrics | [Luke, Luis]
We’ve been looking into methods
for evaluating the performance of the HEPA |
|
608
|
Thu Jul 10 16:41:18 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | | [Christina, Ma, Tyler]
Pomona
Box completed and is now on the server rack
in 1119. Additionally, the photodetectors |
  |
607
|
Tue Jul 8 12:15:04 2025 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | CyMAC ADC Noise Update | [Tyler, Christina, Ma, Mary]
Below is
attached the ADC noise floor of two CyMAC
channels vs the Red Pitaya. |
|
606
|
Tue Jul 8 11:46:55 2025 |
Maple Matzner | Update | TCS | Update on SURF progress for Jul 8 | |
|
605
|
Mon Jul 7 17:44:04 2025 |
Tyler | Update | General | Lab Organization | [Tyler, Pooyan, Ma, Cece, Luke, Luis, Christina,
Maple]
After acquiring some new equipment
for the labs, a few of us spent time on Thursday |
  |
604
|
Mon Jul 7 16:39:18 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | Pomona Box Drawings | Below are the drawings for the pomona
box modifications |
 |
603
|
Tue Jul 1 13:41:36 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Update | | | [Ma, Liu]
Slides |
|
602
|
Tue Jul 1 12:39:42 2025 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | A# FROSTI Profile Optimization Update | [Tyler, Liu]
Slides |
|
601
|
Tue Jul 1 11:04:00 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | FROSTI Reconstruction II | [Ma, Tyler, Christina]
Finished
external reconstruction of the FROSTI by
installing all the pins to the 2 DB 25 connectors. |
|
600
|
Fri Jun 27 15:38:22 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | FROSTI Reconstruction | [Tyler, Ma, Christina, Luke]
We threaded the wiring of the
heater elements through the reflective surfaces |
|
599
|
Wed Jun 25 15:44:47 2025 |
Luke | Update | Cleanroom | Cleanroom cleaning | [Luke, Luis, Tyler, Ma, Christina, Maple]
We started by cleaning outside of
the cleanroom wiping down the cable channel |
|
598
|
Tue Jun 24 13:47:58 2025 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Alternative FROSTI A# optimization approach | Alternative FROSTI A# optimization approach |
|
597
|
Tue Jun 24 12:45:16 2025 |
Tyler | Update | General | Updated ADC spectra | [Tyler]
Updated ADC noise spectra measurements
using diaggui.
NOTE: Will update plots |
 |
596
|
Tue Jun 24 11:50:15 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Update | | |
|
   |
595
|
Tue Jun 17 12:46:47 2025 |
Tyler | Update | Electronics | CyMAC ADC Noise | Below are results from power spectra measurements
of the CyMAC ADC, computed form 30 hours
of time series data, compared to the performance |
 |
594
|
Tue Jun 17 12:22:43 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Update | | |
|
12x |
593
|
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. |
|
592
|
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 |
 |
591
|
Tue Jun 10 12:13:00 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Update | | |
By measuring the resistance of the
ladder, I obtained a graph of resistance
as a function of voltage. |
  |
590
|
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 |
|
589
|
Tue Jun 3 13:16:53 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Infrastructure | | |
Date and Time:
Around 3:50 PM on June 2, 2025
Location and Temperature: |
    |
588
|
Tue Jun 3 13:08:47 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Update | | | We currently have the parts for a DB9 connector
but need parts for a DB25 connector, where
did we get the parts for the DB9 connector? |
 |
587
|
Tue Jun 3 12:16:13 2025 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Point absorber simulation on radially averaged profile | |
|
586
|
Tue Jun 3 11:54:06 2025 |
Cece Ochoa | Update | | CE Cavity Design Update | Update on the design for the CE Cavity Mirrors |
|
585
|
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 |
|
584
|
Mon Jun 2 09:45:06 2025 |
Luke | Update | Scripts/Programs | Ringheater modeling Update | Slides
I have added some slides to my meeting
updates. The updates include: my choice in |
|
583
|
Tue May 27 12:52:22 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Update | | | Using the configuration in section 2.11.1
in the Sorensen installation and operation
manual (attached below), I'm able to remote |
6x |
582
|
Mon May 26 23:24:33 2025 |
Michael | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Initial Monte Carlo Simulations for Toroidal Mirrors Project | I've run an initial Monte Carlo simulation
for statistical comparison of toroidal mirrors
for the dual FROSTI TCS case. Below is the |
|
581
|
Mon May 26 11:15:28 2025 |
Luke | Update | Scripts/Programs | Update to optimization plots | I have created some new optimization plots.
I have also started on a model like the previous
Desmos model, but in python.
Slides |
|
580
|
Wed May 21 14:40:38 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Infrastructure | Cleanroom | Cleanroom Temperature |
Date and Time:
Around 2:20 PM on May 21, 2025
Location and Temperature: |
 |
579
|
Mon May 19 10:59:14 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Infrastructure | | |
Status Update
Previous Status: |
|