[Matteo, Eleonora]

- We added a new DAC module both on the master model (k1x01) and slave model ( k1fds).

- We added a PCiexpresse DAC board to the last slot availabe on the standalone. Now we have 2 ADC and 2 DAC.

- We installed and powered an AI filter in the DGS rack. Only 8 channels are available. (Pic 1).

- We connected the DAC timing box to the DAC baord in the standalone. We could not connect the timing box to the AI filter because we miss the cable. (It will arrive tomorrow from Kamioka).

- We installed and powered a BNC to Dsub converter into the rack in the clean room. (Pic 2).

- We restarted the standalone and the model didn't show any problem.

We will test the signal from the new DAC as soon as we receve the missing cable.

I started pumping down this mornig and the pumps were working properly.
It seems that the vacuum gauge has a problem...

Although the pressure seemed decreasing, the pressure showen on the display was 9.8*10^-1 Pa.
In addition to that, the output voltage from the ANELVA showed strange behavior.
Therefore I am suspecting the gauge has a problem.

Pengbo, Simon

On Friday (Nov. 15th) we reset the PCI system to do absorption measurements. The main purpose was basically to confirm the absorption maps with those Manuel measured before and to see whether the birefringence maps really do correlate with the absorption patterns.

The results can be seen attached. The map is quite similar to the "center"-map from Manuel and it the similarity of the patterns to the birefringence maps is obvious (elog 1843).

An interesting fact may be that the mean absorption coefficient is 77 ppm/cm which is ~30% smaller than the value Manuel has calculated from his' map. We are quite sure that this is due to the calibration factor we derived before starting the measurement.

This mornig the pressure was 9.8*10^-1 Pa, though it was 5.0*10^-3 Pa yesterday...
I am suspecting the residual water caused the problem.

I took a data during thus vacuum test.
The measured output voltage from ANELVA M-601GC has a relationship between the pressure which is described as

P = 10^2*V-12,

where P is the pressure and V is the output voltage.
I roughly checked the pressure using this relation and it was like 10^-6 Pa, though the displayed pressure was ~10^-3 Pa.
The output voltage was not correct for some reason,

I will check the measured voltage and do the test again without venting.

Yesterday I found a timed-out error on diaggui. DGS was restarted to reset timing syncronization 

Yesterday, while testing an improveed filter for BS optical lever control, I found that, after closing the loop, there was an increese of the noise level in the spectrum (as I already observed in entry 1642), the level stayed high also after I open the loop and reset the filter. It went back to normal after I switch on and off the coildriver, but it got high again if I close the loop ( no matter whcih filter I use)

Pic1:  blue curve open loop spectra before with normal noise level (YAW top/PIT bottom). Red curve closed loop spectra with increased noise.

I installed the another double-pass AOM — to be precise, I installed a lens, QWP, and mirror for composing double-pass AOM system.
The attached picture shows the installed optics.
The following is the procedure.

1. Adjusted the alignment to maximize the -1st order diffracted beam power.
   The diffraction efficiency was about 85%.
2. Then put a lens (f=75mm) and QWP to collimate the beam.
3. Put a mirror and adjusted the alignment to let the diffracted beam enter the AOM.
4. Adjusted the alignment with two STMs and one end mirror by monitoring double-passed beam power.
5. I got about 72% double-pass diffraction efficiency at the end.

I have not investigated the beam jitter of this system.
So I gonna measure the beam jitter with frequency scan and then install optics for ISS.

Today I restarted pumping down.
I turned on the scroll pump at 15:40 and waited until the pressure level became less than 10 Pa.
Then I turned on the turbo pump at 16:00 and the pressure is getting lower.

I will leave them running until tomorrow morning.

I measured the beam jitter induced by AOM frequency scan by using beam profiler.
I set the requirement of beam jitter as 0.05mrad/MHz .
This value corresponds to 0.1mm shift at folded cavity input mirror though there exists 1MHz frequency shift (I assumed that the distance from AOM to folded cavity is 2m).
This beam jitter is small enough from the view point of alignment during the DC locking.

The measured beam shifts at 0.5m distance from the AOM was about 0.2mm with 15MHz frequency shift.
So the beam jitter is about 30urad/MHz with current configuration.
This seems small enough for the moment.

The next step is implement another double-pass AOM and measure the beam jitter.
Then construct ISS using AOMs.

Yaochin, Yuhang

In the attached file, I calculated the loss comes from a spatial mismatch between OPO and IRMC. The calculation is revised by following Eleonora's suggestion. The result shows a loss of 0.000014% from this issue.

I tried to improve the efficiency of double-pass AOM.
Before this work, the efficiency was about 65%.

Today, I modified the position of the mirror which is used to re-inject the beam to the AOM.
Now, the mirror is located closer position to the AOM than before.
After that, the double-pass efficiency became about 72% which is satisfactory value.

So I will tackle on the beam jitter measurement.

I stopped the pumps around 16:00.
At that time, the pressure was 1.9*10^-3 Pa.

After stopping the pumps, the pressure level increased gradually.
In this time, I did not record the pressure.
I wiil do the vacuum test one more time and take the data.

[Takahashi-san, Tanioka]

Takahashi-san kindly installed the another roughing pump yesterday.
We turned it on this morning.
After several minutes, the pressure became below 10 Pa.
Then we turned on the turbo pump.
Now the two pumps are working and I plan to leave the pumps running for a while.

Aritomi, Yaochin, and Yuhang

Since we found there may be an issue of scattering from OPO(entry 1842), we did this check.

From the thesis of Emil,  they had 8% of power loss due to the higher-order modes from the damaged OPO. If we have the same situation with GEO600, we should have the problem reported in entry 1842. At a farther distance, the measurement of power will go down since the higher-order modes are much larger than TEM00. An easy check to tell if we have the same problem is to check OPO transmission by the camera.

We checked two positions, one is just after the dichroic mirror. Another is at some distance after the new Faraday isolator. They give almost the same result. However, as shown in the attached figures(the first is a picture taken by the camera by using the OD5 filter, the second is a picture taken by the camera by using the OD3 filter). OPO transmission doesn't have a special problem. (There are some points in the photo, the reason to have this is still unknown)

Simon, Pengbo

This week we finished the characterization of the KAGRA-size Shinkosha sample #7.  We did several polarization maps with different incident polarization angles.( 0 degrees represents the pure p polarization)

As can be seen, both S- and P- polarization maps show an apparent offset, which is reasonable due to the birefringence effect. And the other three mixtured maps are well-matched with the incident polarization angles.

Noted that, each time when I adjusted the polarization, the DC signal keeps a relatively stable state but the AC signal seems very unstable, either goes up or goes down for a long time. 

[Aritomi, Yaochin, Yuhang]

Yesterday we found that loss from dichroic mirror is 6.7%, so we investigated loss of dichroic mirror. We used two dichroic mirrors: one is HBSY11 from thorlabs which we are using and another one is from newport.

We measured BAB transmission of dichroic mirror and tried to minimize it. To remove green generated by BAB inside OPO, we put OPO temperature in the region with no parametric gain. This time we set 9.36kOhm of OPO temperature. We tweaked angle of dichroic mirrors a lot, but reflection power almost didn't change. By looking at transmission of dichroic mirror, we somehow found the minimum point and measured loss. We measured BAB power in two ways: one is to scan OPO and measure the BAB peak height, another one is to lock OPO by hand. For both cases, we had still ~3% loss from dichroic mirrors.

To characterize HBSY11, we checked reflectivity of HBSY11 with LO. We measured reflection from HBSY11 with power meter and PD. The result is as follows. Reflection power with power meter didn't depend on angle of HBSY11, but reflection power with PD changed from 380mV to 392mV by tweaking angle. Note that distance between HBSY11 and PD is 4cm.

For both cases, reflectivity of HBSY11 is consistent with specification which is 99.3%. From these results, we concluded that dichroic mirror (HBSY11) is fine.

Then we put HBSY11 back to after OPO and measured reflection and transmission of HBSY11 at the same time. The result is as follows and shown in Pic.1. The sum of reflection and transmission doesn't match with injection just after OPO.

We thought some scattering light comes from OPO and the scattering light is also measured just after OPO. So we removed dichroic mirror and measured OPO transmission at further point to remove the scattering as shown in Pic.2. BAB transmission after removing dichroic mirror is 399uW. BAB transmission is lost by 7% between two points. The loss seems scattering from OPO, but we are not sure the reason. Yuhang will check if the aperture of power meter is large enough.

Conclusion: Dichroic mirror is fine. Loss is coming from OPO transmission.

[Takahashi-san, Tanioka]

We did vacuum test of cryostat at ATC using scroll pump and turbo pump.
The procedure was as follows:

1. Close the chamber (without 4K shield temporary).
2. Confirmed all the valve were closed and turned on the scroll pump.
3. Opened the valve.
4. Then the pressure level was down to 3.0*10 Pa.
   However, it increased and reached about 5.5*10 Pa.
   This was due to the residual water molecules inside the chamber and it was solved by opening gas ballast of scroll pump.
5. After some iterations, the pressure level reached about 10 Pa.
   We turned on the turbo pump and the pressure level decreased less than 10^-1 Pa.

So it seems that there is no huge leakage, which was good thing.
However, after a few minutes turbo pump run, the scroll pump was turned off for some reasons.
Unfortunately I could not see what happened since I went to bathroom.
We tried to recover, but the scroll pump did not work even the power indicator did not iluminate...
One possibility is that fuse blown.
We will investigate.

[Aritomi, Yaochin]

First we checked visibility. Visibility is 98.2% and loss from visibility is 3.5% as follows. This is a bit worse than before and we should improve mode matching of BAB.

Then we found that loss from dichroic mirror is 6.7% and loss from PBS is 2.1% as follows. It's strange that loss from dichroic mirror is so large.

Tomorrow we'll align dichroic mirror and replace PBS with HR mirror. The method to align dichroic mirror is to send only BAB to scanned OPO and put HR mirror just after dichroic mirror and maximize the reflection.

I installed the another AOM as attached picture as following procedure.

1. Put a PBS and adjusted its angle.
2. Put an AOM and connected to a driver.
3. Drove the AOM and played with STMs to increase the diffracted beam power.

Current diffraction efficiency is about 80% and still there is a room for improvement.

In addition, I worked on the double-pass AOM alignment previously installed.

1. Put a lens (f=75mm) after the AOM to collimate the beam.
2. Put a mirror and PBS to pick up the double-passed beam.
3. Adjusted the alignment and lens' position.

The power of double-passed beam is 5.76mW in contrast with 8.86mW input to AOM.
Hence the double-pass diffraction efficiency is about 65% which is reasonable value.

The next step is (quantitatively) measure the beam jitter with scanning frequency and minimize it.

I ordered a folded cavity spacer and related parts from NAKAO SEIKI.
They will be made of invar (IC-DX) which can be used under cryogenic temperature.
The drawings are uploaded on Wiki page (explanation are written in Japanese though) (https://gwpo.nao.ac.jp/wiki/CryogenicThermal/ActivityNAOJ/Spacer).