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MichaelPage - 18:59, Wednesday 26 February 2025 (3929)Get code to link to this report
KAGRA squeezer test

Hsun-Chung, Chien-Ming, Michael

The infrared probe and green pump are both mode matched into the OPO cavity. The green steering mirror closest to the OPO was replaced with a PZT phase shifter at 45 degree incidence, like the one in TAMA.

The PDH locking setup was constructed. Originally we were going to use 40 MHz modulation onto the IR probe beam to lock the OPO, but since the IR probe is injected into the high reflectivity M2 mirror, the amount of IR coupling is quite low and the PDH signal is small. Instead we clone the 40 MHz sidebands onto the green beam using the SHG (or rather, SFG - sum frequency generation) and can get good sideband amplitude. 

To lock the cavity we planned to use the grey Mokulab from TAMA FC. The Mokulab output was sent to a really old 33 dB RF power amplifier (it has an analogue dial), which works. However, the grey mokulab input ports are not working properly. This was tested by sending a function generator input into the IN ports and checking oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer functions.

So, we need either a working Mokulab unit or PDH locking hardware (currently we do not have sufficient equipment for 40 MHz RF amplification). A long time ago we were using a Red Mokulab in ATC (I think this was purchased using my old JSPS funding or Matteo Kiban A) which seems to have moved on to another experiment right now.

Hsun-Chung and Chien-Ming left today since their flight tomorrow is very early. Since everything is aligned and mode matched, once we get the PDH locking equipment I should be able to do the OPO nonlinear gain test (IR probe amplification and deamplification from a slowly phase modulated green pump injection, at different levels of green power) by myself and infer the threshold power, which is an important number for the squeezer performance.

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MichaelPage - 11:30, Tuesday 25 February 2025 (3928)Get code to link to this report
KAGRA squeezer test

June-Gyu, Gyo-ik, Hsun-Chung, Chien-Ming, Michael

The local oscillator was aligned to the "mode cleaner" (just a single mode polarization maintaining fiber).

The OPO mirrors were cleaned with First Contact after being glued to the new mounts.

It seems one of the ports on the 3 port HVD in the ATC clean booth might be damaged.

We want to perform the nonlinear gain test so we will need to get the OPO PDH signal. We have a mokulab module in TAMA but I need to find the ipad from somewhere.

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RyutaroTakahashi - 18:12, Friday 21 February 2025 (3926)Get code to link to this report
Comment to Replacement of Rotary Pump (Click here to view original report: 3924)

The TMP in the west end has stoped in error E050 (Excess tenperature). I found the FAN for the TMP was not working (broken). I stoped the DRY pump as well.

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MichaelPage - 20:10, Thursday 20 February 2025 (3925)Get code to link to this report
KAGRA squeezer test

Hsun Chun, Chien Ming, Michael

The incoupling mirror was glued to the new mount.

For constructing the path of the local oscillator to the homodyne, I had to take 4 XY lens mounts from the speedmeter drawers.

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RyutaroTakahashi - 16:24, Thursday 20 February 2025 (3924)Get code to link to this report
Replacement of Rotary Pump

I replaced the RP (2015) for theTMP with new DRY pump (NeoDry30G) in the west end. The TMP is running with the DRY pump now.

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RyutaroTakahashi - 18:12, Friday 21 February 2025 (3926)

The TMP in the west end has stoped in error E050 (Excess tenperature). I found the FAN for the TMP was not working (broken). I stoped the DRY pump as well.

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ShalikaSingh - 16:51, Tuesday 18 February 2025 (3923)Get code to link to this report
Comment to Measuring modulation depth of EOM using Opamp based RF circuit (Click here to view original report: 3918)

The maximum Transmisison factor achieved with this circuit was 0.86 or 86%. I can calculate what is roughly the maximum voltage I provided.

Vpi = 306.26V from elog 3750

Vpi * asin(sqrt(0.86)) / 1.5 = 284 V at resonant freq of 189.13 kHz.

Considering the length of transmission line I have as l = 35cm, of R0=50 ohm, I can compute the stray capacitance of the EOM due to the tranmission line as follows:

f = np.arange(1E5, 1E6, 1E4)
lam = 3E8/f #lambda
omega = 2 * np.pi * f
C_eom = 12E-12 #12pF, capacitance of eom from thorlabs datasheet
Z_eom = 1/(1j*omega*C_eom)
Beta = 2*np.pi/lam
l = 35E-2 #length of cable
R0 = 50 #ohm, impedance of cable
 
The resultant input impedance then becomes, 
Z_in_eom = R0 * (Z_eom * np.cos(Beta * l) + 1j*R0*np.sin(Beta*l)) / (R0*np.cos(Beta*l) + 1j*Z_eom*np.sin(Beta*l)) 
 
We can then evlauate roughly the stray capapcitance as:
 
C_reality_eom = np.real( 1/ ((1j*omega*Z_in_eom))) #F
 
This leads to the EOM becoming a 35pF capacitor. This is the reason of my reduction in gain of LC series circuit. This is also the reason of shift resonant frequency of the circuit. If the cable is longer, the stray capacitance will increase further more. In short, you should either take into account the length of your cable between your circuit and EOM or reduce the length of transmisison line as much as possible. If I take into account this 35pF into my simulation with Opamp, the maxmium voltage at my eom is 280V, and the reosnant freq is around 230Khz. 
 
It is quite interesting because the total capacitance looking from the input of the cable becomes a little bit larger depending on the length of the cable. In order to decrease the amount of the stay capacitance, one has to reduce the length of the transmission line.
f = np.arange(1E5, 1E6, 1E4)
# f_res = 189.128E3 #Khz
# omega_res = 2*np.pi*f_res
lam = 3E8/f
omega = 2 * np.pi * f
C_eom = 12E-12 #14pF
ind = 6.8*2*1E-3 #mH
Z_eom = 1/(1j*omega*C_eom)
Z_ind = 1j*omega*ind
Beta = 2*np.pi/lam
l = 90E-2 #length of cable
R0 = 50 #ohm
 
Z_in_eom = R0 * (Z_eom * np.cos(Beta * l) + 1j*R0*np.sin(Beta*l)) / (R0*np.cos(Beta*l) + 1j*Z_eom*np.sin(Beta*l))
Z_in_ind = R0 * (Z_ind * np.cos(Beta * l) + 1j*R0*np.sin(Beta*l)) / (R0*np.cos(Beta*l) + 1j*Z_ind*np.sin(Beta*l))
C_reality_eom = np.real( 1/ ((1j*omega*Z_in_eom))) #F
L_reality_ind = np.real(Z_in_ind/(1j*omega))
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ShalikaSingh - 14:51, Tuesday 18 February 2025 (3922)Get code to link to this report
Comment to Measuring modulation depth of EOM using Opamp based RF circuit (Click here to view original report: 3918)

According to theory written in "Optical Electronics" by Yariv, for a amplitude modulation EOM

TransmissionOut/ Input  = sin^2(  pi/2   *    V/Vpi)

If I can properly, obtain my transfer function measurement then I can very well define my V. Hence, I can estimate the fit parameters better. Also, the quality of fit can then be better estimated by seeing if we have this pi/2 factor inside the sin square function or not.

Currently I am using the voltage input to RF circuit, and not the voltage across the EOM electrodes.

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ShalikaSingh - 09:53, Tuesday 18 February 2025 (3920)Get code to link to this report
PCI update for Windows

The PCI PC was updated, to be with windows 11. Previously the C drive was full because windows 10 is just bulky. Now the C drive has around 100gb left. This has made the PC much faster than before. It is not buffering anymore.

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ShalikaSingh - 09:04, Tuesday 18 February 2025 (3918)Get code to link to this report
Measuring modulation depth of EOM using Opamp based RF circuit

At first I checked the power of linear polarization (after HWP+QWP) which is incident on EOM. The measurement in oscilloscope of Moku showed 500Vp-p. This is the input power.

Then the photodiode measured the power after EOM in cross polarizer configuration. This was the output power.'

I apply voltage from 0-2Vp-p using Moku to the Opamp circuit. I then obtain the following plot (Fig 1) of Transmission % vs. Voltage. The data is saved in "Characteristics_20250217.txt".

The frequency of the RF circuit was identified by taking In1(from photodiode)/Out1(Input to the RF circuit). I measured the place of resonant frequency using laser.

Interpretation:

That result means the fitting routine found the parameters:

y = 112.8 sin(0.5x+0.5)**2 - 21.4 by using the fit function: A sin (Bx + C) **2 + D

which implies:

  • Amplitude: 112.8, so the sin^2 term varies by 112.8.

  • Frequency: 0.5, meaning the period is T = 2pi/0.5 = 12.57

  • Phase shift: 0.5, so the sine's argument is shifted.

  • Offset: -21.4, which makes the minimum value y_{min}=-21.4 (since  sin**2 goes from 0 to 1, the output ranges from 112.8-21.4=91.4).

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ShalikaSingh - 14:51, Tuesday 18 February 2025 (3922)

According to theory written in "Optical Electronics" by Yariv, for a amplitude modulation EOM

TransmissionOut/ Input  = sin^2(  pi/2   *    V/Vpi)

If I can properly, obtain my transfer function measurement then I can very well define my V. Hence, I can estimate the fit parameters better. Also, the quality of fit can then be better estimated by seeing if we have this pi/2 factor inside the sin square function or not.

Currently I am using the voltage input to RF circuit, and not the voltage across the EOM electrodes.

ShalikaSingh - 16:51, Tuesday 18 February 2025 (3923)

The maximum Transmisison factor achieved with this circuit was 0.86 or 86%. I can calculate what is roughly the maximum voltage I provided.

Vpi = 306.26V from elog 3750

Vpi * asin(sqrt(0.86)) / 1.5 = 284 V at resonant freq of 189.13 kHz.

Considering the length of transmission line I have as l = 35cm, of R0=50 ohm, I can compute the stray capacitance of the EOM due to the tranmission line as follows:

f = np.arange(1E5, 1E6, 1E4)
lam = 3E8/f #lambda
omega = 2 * np.pi * f
C_eom = 12E-12 #12pF, capacitance of eom from thorlabs datasheet
Z_eom = 1/(1j*omega*C_eom)
Beta = 2*np.pi/lam
l = 35E-2 #length of cable
R0 = 50 #ohm, impedance of cable
 
The resultant input impedance then becomes, 
Z_in_eom = R0 * (Z_eom * np.cos(Beta * l) + 1j*R0*np.sin(Beta*l)) / (R0*np.cos(Beta*l) + 1j*Z_eom*np.sin(Beta*l)) 
 
We can then evlauate roughly the stray capapcitance as:
 
C_reality_eom = np.real( 1/ ((1j*omega*Z_in_eom))) #F
 
This leads to the EOM becoming a 35pF capacitor. This is the reason of my reduction in gain of LC series circuit. This is also the reason of shift resonant frequency of the circuit. If the cable is longer, the stray capacitance will increase further more. In short, you should either take into account the length of your cable between your circuit and EOM or reduce the length of transmisison line as much as possible. If I take into account this 35pF into my simulation with Opamp, the maxmium voltage at my eom is 280V, and the reosnant freq is around 230Khz. 
 
It is quite interesting because the total capacitance looking from the input of the cable becomes a little bit larger depending on the length of the cable. In order to decrease the amount of the stay capacitance, one has to reduce the length of the transmission line.
f = np.arange(1E5, 1E6, 1E4)
# f_res = 189.128E3 #Khz
# omega_res = 2*np.pi*f_res
lam = 3E8/f
omega = 2 * np.pi * f
C_eom = 12E-12 #14pF
ind = 6.8*2*1E-3 #mH
Z_eom = 1/(1j*omega*C_eom)
Z_ind = 1j*omega*ind
Beta = 2*np.pi/lam
l = 90E-2 #length of cable
R0 = 50 #ohm
 
Z_in_eom = R0 * (Z_eom * np.cos(Beta * l) + 1j*R0*np.sin(Beta*l)) / (R0*np.cos(Beta*l) + 1j*Z_eom*np.sin(Beta*l))
Z_in_ind = R0 * (Z_ind * np.cos(Beta * l) + 1j*R0*np.sin(Beta*l)) / (R0*np.cos(Beta*l) + 1j*Z_ind*np.sin(Beta*l))
C_reality_eom = np.real( 1/ ((1j*omega*Z_in_eom))) #F
L_reality_ind = np.real(Z_in_ind/(1j*omega))
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MichaelPage - 21:41, Monday 17 February 2025 (3919)Get code to link to this report
KAGRA squeezer test

June-gyu Park, Gyo-ik Kim, Chien Ming, Michael

We checked the status of the squeezer layout. The green was slightly misaligned to the OPO but it didn't require much change, and everything else seemed fine. We checked the SHG IR in vs green out, optimizing the PPLN crystal temperature at each different power input. There is a little optimization required at the 3rd significant figure of the temperature at each level of IR input power, which changes the output green power by about 10% or so. This kind of readjustment is normal for TAMA cavity nonlinear optics but it's interesting to see that this is also necessary for a waveguide crystal.

Takahashi-san gave us two tubes of Vac Seal from 20m lab which will be used to glue the OPO incoupling mirror to the replacement mount (during the last visit, we found that the mirror placed on the mount had the wedge orented vertically rather than horizontally). However, we couldn't find a spare mirror mount base (specialized for this OPO platform). 

Apparently the Taiwan group bought a huge batch of dichroics from LaserOptik. Hsun Chung will bring them to NAOJ on Thursday.

I took a couple of mirror mounts, a pack of post holders, some posts (30, 40mm) and a pack of set screws from the TAMA common supply to ATC. I also purchased a half inch mirror mount and two beam dumps for myself to use.

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FredericCleva - 19:10, Friday 14 February 2025 (3916)Get code to link to this report
SLM characterization - Wavefront
SLM correction file effect - first trial

It seems the correction file does not compensate the SLM surface residual figure
See details in the attached slides

Feedback asked to Hamamatsu, wait for their reply
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ShalikaSingh - 17:58, Friday 14 February 2025 (3915)Get code to link to this report
Labview modifications for birefringence measurement

The labvew to take averaging and median was simplfied by directly using premade labview VIs for averaging, median, and errors. 

The speed of reading data from polcam is 20ms. This is becasue the speed of polcam is 60fps. This brings us to 1/60 s= 20 ms. The labview can't read faster than this. 

The saving of S1, S2, S3 from polcam, which were the stokes parameters, were removed.

The file will now save in the format:

scan , shift,  azi, std azi, ell, std ell, polcam power, std polcam power, pm power, std pm power. 

A new VI was made which is "Birefringence Map with camera_v2.vi".

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ShalikaSingh - 17:49, Friday 14 February 2025 (3914)Get code to link to this report
Issue with interfacing new power meter with PCI labview [Resolved]

A new power meter had to be installed to monitor power fluctuations during birefringence mesaurement in the PCI room. 

There were several issues to integrate and read power using the power meter in labview.

1. First it seemed that the power meter driver was not present. So, we installed new drivers. But this didn't resolve the issue.

2. We thought the port of connection is not being recognized and so we tried changing the port definintion to IVI driver. Although, we could see the new port on NI max, we didn't resolve the issue. 

3. The issue in reality was that the windows is 64bit but labview was 32bit. I uninstalled the thorlabs opm and installed again. The new VI to read was directly made from the thorlabs folder for power meter and not by the labview palette options. The error is resolved completely. You don't need to use 1 and 2, because the issue was due to labview not able to find the libraries in palette. The labview VIs in palette don't exist because of different version of windows and labview. When your issue is resolved, even though NI max won't recognize your power meter, it exists, and can be read, simply by using the port number like USB0::0x:1313::0x8078::P0048841::INSTR

To anyone who woould get into this issue

1. Check the versions of softwares installed. Most likely this is the issue. This was the case for everytime I encountered the issue during interfacing thorlabs measuring tools with labview

2. If the Issue is 1. 

      a. Don't use the VIs avaialble for the measuring tool in labview palette.

      b. Use the VIs for the tool from something like "C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2018\instr.lib\TLPM". Just go directly wheere the version was installed. 

     c. Don't try to fix the labview driver for the tool if you see the broken arrow. You will need to either ignore errors to resolve, or reinstall.

3. If the issue is not resolved using 3, your only hope is to use the suitable version of labview which is compatible with your windows.

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MarcEisenmann - 23:27, Thursday 13 February 2025 (3906)Get code to link to this report
restart of birefringence measurements

[Marc, Michael Miller]

Had to change COM of Zaber from 6 to 7.

We installed the 2 blades on translation stage.

Vertical cut at : 310 80 20

Horizontal al cut at : 380 140 20

last mirror is at 175 mm from blade when the blade is at 20mm.

MAX DC = 0.25V

After realignment, we reached about 0.07deg AOI for both vertical and horizontal direction.

The beam size is about 0.9mm for both vertical and horizontal direction across the longitudinal range of the translation stage.

All measurements and analysis files are saved on the online MATLAB as we have some issues with MATLAB license. To be reinstalled.

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FredericCleva - 10:14, Thursday 13 February 2025 (3912)Get code to link to this report
CINOGY camera - facts for a proper use
Feedback from CINOGY related to the camera use.
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FredericCleva - 18:53, Wednesday 12 February 2025 (3908)Get code to link to this report
SLM experiment
SLM experiment
we setup the configuation for hologram display as decribed in the p 26 user manual, figure 21.
figure 1: camera CINOGY at the lens focus
-> The zero order residual seems to contain high power

I got the feedback from Hamamatsu:

" ...I am Norihiro Fukuchi and sales engineer of LCOS-SLM.
There are several factors that cause the 0th order light to be generated, but it mainly depends on the diffraction efficiency characteristics of the LCOS-SLM.
Since it is difficult to eliminate the zero-order light, we can suggest ways to make it become low power density by Fresnel Lens Pattern (FLP).
The experiment results by superimposing FLP and CGH is shown on page 42 in software operation manual.
We can share the technical note of LCOS-SLM which shows characteristics details.
..."

See the attached technical
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FredericCleva - 18:45, Wednesday 12 February 2025 (3907)Get code to link to this report
SLM experiment - Laser characterisation
# Beam profile characterization for SLM experiment

We use the 2nd lightwave laser, serie 126-1064-700, serial 225 (Nov. 1996).

The general datasheet (*) mentions waist (horiz/vertic) ~ 250/180 um at 5 cm from the laser front panel
(*) https://resource.lumentum.com/s3fs-public/technical-library-items/npro125126-ds-cl-ae.pdf?VersionId=null

we check the beam profile after a 15 cm focal length lens (Thorlabs LA133-C) located @ 0.54 m from the laser front panel.
-> see figure 1, Weird behavior, M^2 ~ 1.75 along the vertical direction
we deduce the upstream waist (horiz/vertic) ~ 151/168 um at 0.1 m from the laser front panel.

Rem.:
- the beam at the output of the laser is quite shifted to the right (when looking to the laser) and let think it could be clipped by the shutter. However this is the vertical direction which features weird profile and the worst M^2 parameter. We found the same feature for the laser used by Shalika on EOM's experiment.
- figure 2, non-TEM00 feature at some distance from the waist

# Laser P vs I characterization for SLM experiment
Polarisation set to S (vertical)
I (A) P1(mW) P2 (mW)
1.38 3.69 97
1.50 6.18 168
1.60 9.7 280
1.70 14.5 380
1.80 18.2 480
2.0 28.8 764 (Rem_2)

P2: read at the laser output (after a L/2), meas. with the integrating sphere
P1: is after L/2 (Polar set to vertic), + BeamSampler (AOI ~ 25 deg) + Rmax + Lens

Rem_2: P1/P2 = 3.8% compatible with the Beam sampler R (R = 4.1% for 22 deg AOI and S polar)

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ShalikaSingh - 19:41, Thursday 06 February 2025 (3905)Get code to link to this report
EOM alignment

The EOM was tuned to have maximum input transmission. Now the output/input power is 1.846  mW / 1.866mW = 98.91 %.

The EOM was placed in cross polarizer configuration to be characterized.The setup is shown in Fig 1.

After this the resonant circuit was used to provide voltage to EOM from 10Vp-p to 0 at 335kHz.

The response of the laser incident on the photodiode after interaction with the EOM was recorded.

The plot is shown in Fig 2.

The specs during saving the peak value at resonant frequency.

151 mHz minimumum for hamming window. Number of frame averages = 10. See Fig 3 for any redundant details.

The conversion from PD voltage to power is done using

Voltage/Responsivity/TransimpedanceGain = Input Power

I am confused, as to how the transmission is 98.9% but in cross polarizer configuration is way less. Although, the circuit provides more than half wave voltage, even after considering losses. 

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ShalikaSingh - 15:28, Thursday 06 February 2025 (3901)Get code to link to this report
Telescope for EOM

Considering the beam after the 1st telescope (after the FI), with characteristics of w0=403.3um at 792.4mm after the telsecope --> Fig 1. 

We need to fit 2 EOM with aperture 2mm diameter, and around 100mm width. 

For 2 EOM, this space is 200 mm. Considering the space to mount them 250 mm is reserved

With a polarizer and the photodiode, the total space should be around 350mm.

The photodiode has aperture of 500 um diameter.

The beam should be hence, around 500/2/2 um = 125 um, radius. It was not possible to have lower beam waist with available lens. A lens of -200 mm focal length can perhaps help us do this.

The telescope was designed using Jammt. The Fig 2 shows the expected beam characteristics.

The first lens F=-100mm, is kept at roughly 140 mm after the initial telescope. The 2nd lens F=100mm is kept at 180 mm. There is a label on table after the 1st telescope defining the 0th position .

After that QWP and HWP are installed to make linear polarization. They are at 200-220 mm.

The EOM is kept at 400-500 mm at 45degree for characterization.

The beam characteristics after the 2nd telescope is shown, in Fig 2.

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MarcEisenmann - 23:50, Wednesday 05 February 2025 (3903)Get code to link to this report
Comment to SLM installation (Click here to view original report: 3899)

In order to properly connect to the SLM through the DVI cable we somehow need the usb controller vi.

It allows to select which output we want to use (usb/dvi).

If connection is properly made, the vi can read the SLM and controller temperature.