NAOJ GW Elog Logbook 3.2
Chien-Ming, Hsun-Chung, Te-Hui, Logan, Michael
The wedge angle for the VOPO cavity mirrors was not so easy to see. It turns out the mechanical fixtures holding one of the mirrors had to be filed off because it didn't have enough clearance. The mirror was taken to the elec shop with First Contact. The Taiwan group will fabricate a new set of cavity mirrors which they will replace "next time" (October or November).
Eventually the cavity mirrors were placed as they are for now. The other First Contact on the OPO was peeled off. Chien-Ming then tought me the procedure to align and mode-match the bowtie OPO. After a few false starts I eventually managed to get it to 80% with just LG mode remaining. Then it was getting late.
After achieving green resonance, we must get IR resonance, green/IR coresonance and then maximize amplification/deamplification by adjusting the lateral position of the wedged PPKTP. This is the same nonlinear gain measurement principle as before. We actuate on the relative phase of bright IR and green using a PZT phase shifter (in this case we will use on IR path but in TAMA we do it on green), allowing us to see the full range of nonlinear amplification/deamplification.
I returned the Vac Seal back to the TAMA South End dessicator.
Chien-Ming, Te-Hui, Hsun-Chung, Michael
We remembered that the OPO cavity was redesigned to have the input mirror on the right side rather than the left side. The green SHG fiber output was reversed as a result, pointing towards the door.
Two of the mirrors were fixed at the wrong orientation, with the wedge pointing vertical rather than horizontal. This would cause beams to be deflected up and down. Since the screw holes for the custom mirror mounts are only oriented for the horizontal direction, we had to glue them again. With permission of Takahashi-san I took Cosmotec VE-22 vac seal from the TAMA South End dessicator. We then glued the mirrors in the correct orientation.
I practiced a bit my First Contact technique on a laser line mirror. We peeled First Contact from one face of the OPO successfully, but for the other one the tab came unstuck before the polymer, so I had to reapply and properly soak the tab. The four OPO cavity mirrors also have First Contact applied.
We could see the alignment of the green beam inside the OPO using spare mirrors.
Te-Huei told me about the operation of the homodyne detector. It is somewhat based on Advanced LIGO design. We can as for TAMA separately monitor AC (10-10000 Hz) and DC output. Instead of SUM out we can monitor each PD directly. We also have some test diagnostics for the resonant frequency of the PD circuit. The one currently mounted has some spurious resonance at 20 kHz in the noise spectrum. There is a spare homodyne which doesn't seem to have this resonance if it is in contact with the optical table. The black coating on the case of the spare was ground off near the screws which apparently makes it better (I don't know why). The spare one doesn't have high quantum efficiency PDs installed, but according to Chien-Ming we can just easily remove and replace between the two.
The old TAMA spectrum analyzer seems to have some plastic film peeling off of the back of the screen, which causes it to be hard to view. Maybe this was caused by some temperature difference during the period the ATC room was not air conditioned?
Hsun Chung, Te Hui, Chien Ming, Logan, Michael
A rough account of various activities, I do not have all of the details.
Te-Hui and Hsun-Chung brought two of their homemade homodyne detectors and tested the dark noise. One of them is better than the other. The old spectrum analyser formerly of TAMA seems to have some issue with the window covering the screen - the bottom left corner of the screen cover has become somewhat opaque (cause unknown) and that part of the display cannot be seen.
The VOPO picomotor stage requires a Windows 10 PC to use the software. Hsun-Chung bought a secondhand W10 laptop from HardOff.
I took an oscilloscope from TAMA storage, as well as about 10 M6 x 15 screws and some 25 mm posts and 30 mm post holder. I also took two beam dumps and the +/- 25V power supply from the filter cavity cleanroom. Marc apparently found 6 Glan Taylor polarizers (100,000 extinction ratio, versus 300 for a typical PBS) that didn't have any designated use.
The green mode matching telescope (to go to the VOPO) was set up. We used some Thorlabs lenses which were quite dirty so we cleaned them with acetone.
Chien-Ming informed me of some minor issues regarding the setup. For one, there is some elliptical polarization reaching the PBS. I set up the input Faraday to optimize for p-polarization at the input, as per the Thorlabs manual. It then outputs 45 degrees. However, Chien-Ming told me that there is some elliptical polarization at the PBS, since the Fresnel effect causes differing phase delay for s and p polarization at nonzero angle of incidence. But it's not a huge problem. To mitigate, we could either send 45 degrees in, s or p out (cheap), or use HWP after the FI (more $). Also my beam profile was precise (correct beam waist) but inaccurate (maybe 10cm offset from the actual position).
We put First Contact on both faces of the PPKTP crystal. The layer that I left on the linear OPO input mirror didn't peel easily so I put some more on as per the LIGO instructions. I also put in a spare PZT inner retaining ring in the linear OPO holder. The correct position is reached when it is screwed in to the limit of easy motion (see figure 1 of 2690)
with linear pol after correcting camera alignment
@220 deg (10 averaging, 10 iterations)
C:\Users\atama\Dropbox\LC-Experiment\Measurement Data\Coating measurement\AlGaAs\20240701\220 deg\Thu, Jul 25, 2024 11-20-44 AM.txt (The measurement took 30 minutes)
The alignment of camera was tuned to have the beam centered.
0-3.5V, 0.1V @220 deg with 100 avg
C:\Users\atama\Dropbox\LC-Experiment\Measurement Data\Coating measurement\AlGaAs\20240701\220 deg\Wed, Jul 24, 2024 6-05-45 PM.txt
Hirata gave me some drill bits yesterday. Unfortuantely. these drill bits are too small. If I can't find one in ATC I will order them online. If some has HEX5 bits for Makita drill, similar to the bit in the attached picture please let me know.
Both the TMP and scroll pump were in error state. After resetting them I turned them on. The pressure before was 1.27*102 Pa after about 10 minutes of pumping it reached 1*10-2 Pa. There were no alarms or strange sounds both pumps look to not be damaged
We use a sensor (TT2-10KC8-3) to detect the temperature of the PPKTP crystal.
The temperature controller (THORLABS TC300) can only display the resistance value of the sensor, but cannot display the temperature value.
See attachment.
Logan, Michael
Summary
The PLL coupling was measured and we attempted to lock. We could acquire both ppol and CC lock, but the CC lock is a bit weak and only holds for ~ 5 seconds.
Details
We attached a new power supply to the battery powered CC fiber photodiode. The cable was taped to the leg of the mini-table (with the QPDs) to make sure it doesn't go into the main laser path.
We measured the following fiber couplings:
Laser to fiber port
ML-ppol: 5.3 mW
ML-cc: 4.1 mW
ppol: 2.5 mW
cc: 0.51 mW
Fiber out to fiber PD
ML-ppol: 0.97 mW
ML-cc: 0.32 mW
ppol: 0.75 mW
cc: 0.17 mW
Fiber output efficiency (remembering that each fiber is 50:50 split before sending to duplicate PDs)
ML-ppol: 36.6%
ML-cc: 15.6%
ppol: 60%
cc: 66.7%
Fiber PD output (one laser at a time)
ppol (ML on): 27 mV
cc (ML on): 9 mV
ppol (ppol on): 22 mV
cc (cc on): 9.6 mV
Fiber PD output (two lasers on):
ML-ppol average: 49.4 mV
ML-ppol Vpp: 26.8 mV
ML-cc average: 10.9 mV
ML-cc Vpp: 9.2 mV
A DC level of 2.6 mV was subtracted out of the averages
While doing this procedure I noticed that maybe last time I hadn't screwed in the CC fiber correctly. This may have caused some weird polarization effect or something else. Maybe even all of the control problems... It's a bit weird that the ML-CC and CC output optical powers are different, but the PD voltage is the same. Maybe polarization is off a bit, I'm guessing for ML since ML volts should be > CC.
We could measure -8.5 dBm from CC BEAT (the fiber PD signal going into the PLL servo) and -38 dBm on CC PLL MON.
Previously there was apparently some problem with the DDS software where the ppol PLL local oscillator frequency could not be changed. This was for whatever reason fixed with the power reset. We could see the ppol frequency change on the spectrum analyzer. The laser temperature was a bit off. For the correct mode, it should be of a relatively large amplitude (although I couldn't see image sidebands), and if you rotate the temperature knob clockwise the frequency should increase. Initially it was the other way around (same for CC). I rebooted the ppol PLL software (Analog Devices ADF4002, black SDB board), loaded the most recent settings (20240625) and wrote to register. It didn't lock initially but after changing the phase detector polarity to negative it could lock.
For the CC PLL I adjusted the temperature to the correct polarity and loaded the software (Analog Devices ADF4001, black SDB board) and settings (20240625). I could not lock initially. I changed the phase detector polarity to negative and nothing. I eventually managed to lock by i) changing charge pump gain from 0 to 1 (I guess this is the equivalent of changing the loop gain of an analogue control loop), ii) changing timeout from 3 to 35 PFD cycles (I guess this something like increasing a lock loss threshold or control bandwidth), iii) changing the CC temperature to move the sidebands within 10 MHz of the main peak. Then we could see CC PLL lock, but only for about 5 seconds at a time. It would then lose lock and maybe or maybe not reacquire. So maybe the signal is a bit too small. Also because I wrote "I guess" in the description of settings I changed, I don't really know what they do. It's probably in Marco Vardaro thesis, 2018 era elogs, the Analog Devices manuals or Yuhang's distant memory.
On the CC temperature point, during the New Years visit Yuhang told me that the CC servo has some weird issue where it would only lock if the sidebands initially were brought 20-30 MHz away from the main peak. For whatever reason this is not the case right now (although it could be a possibility if I recover the good electronic settings). I could not observe any independent impulse/glitch noise however we noticed that when searching for some lost cable, tapping some of the cables causes noise in the CC spectrum. However, we didn't make too much of an effort to isolate the suspicious cable today.
I also turned on the homodyne PSU (+19V 0.066A, -19V 0.062A) and found another +25/-25V PSU which I had absent mindedly forgotten about. We should use this one for ATC experiment instead of the 18V one.
2 combinations of voltages of 2LC which produce polarized light with ellipticity<=2.5deg and with difference in azimuth angle>=40deg were sorted out. The voltages set applied to both LC simultaneously is 104. I was previously doing a scan from 0-3.5V with 0.1V step, which for 2 LC were 1296 sets of voltages. So now we have ~10 times less voltage sets. This will result in faster evaluation.
They are saved here:
C:\Users\atama\Dropbox\LC-Experiment\Measurement Data\Scan voltage\LinearPolvoltage.txt
The linear Polarization was generated from the most recent calibration in elog 3611 (100 avg:C:\Users\atama\Dropbox\LC-Experiment\Measurement Data\Polarization states\20240613\Fri, Jun 14, 2024 10-54-07 PM.txt)
The Labview "Complete Integratino-FileChoice" which can run voltages from a file was updated to match the needs similar to "Complete Integrated Dual Step.VI"
The file was chosen in labview and was run with 10 averaging for 10 iterations.
The AlGaAs was rotated past 45deg of incidence and measured using linear polarization (obtained above) as input:
@220 deg:
C:\Users\atama\Dropbox\LC-Experiment\Measurement Data\Coating measurement\AlGaAs\20240701\220 deg\Tue, Jul 23, 2024 4-52-36 PM.txt
At this position, the alignment in height was not changed, but it seems the beam was not centered at the camera (perhaps the power was 1.7mW and now it is 1.4mW)
The alignment of camera was tuned to have the beam centered.
0-3.5V, 0.1V @220 deg with 100 avg
C:\Users\atama\Dropbox\LC-Experiment\Measurement Data\Coating measurement\AlGaAs\20240701\220 deg\Wed, Jul 24, 2024 6-05-45 PM.txt
with linear pol after correcting camera alignment
@220 deg (10 averaging, 10 iterations)
C:\Users\atama\Dropbox\LC-Experiment\Measurement Data\Coating measurement\AlGaAs\20240701\220 deg\Thu, Jul 25, 2024 11-20-44 AM.txt (The measurement took 30 minutes)
[Hsun-Chung, Marc, Te-Huei]
We need a voltage supply delivering up to +/-20V for the homodyne detector that is being set up in ATC.
We found the TEXIO PW18-3AD (decigo 2011) of elec shop that was previously used to test some circuit but does not seems to be used since sometimes now.
We confirmed that we are able to generate +/-18V (enough to operate the homodyne) and brought it to ATC.
In case somebody wants to use voltage supply in elec shop we also brought another one from TAMA there.
[Hugo, Marc]
Today we wanted to restart birefringence measurement with PCI and longer average.
We found out that the motorized rotator is broken (sounds but no motion).
We ordered 2 new ones.
In the spare OPO box in my office there is a spare retaining ring but for whatever reason no spare front plate PZT holder.
Since in the actual assembly the inner retaining ring only needs to be screwed down to the bottom of the wire extraction groove (see fig 1, 2, 3 of 2690), maybe I should just screw in the spare without replacing the front plate. I honestly have no idea why this PZT holder hole is even cut that deep.
Current ATC IR beam profile after the 100mm/100mm telescope.
[Marc, Shalika]
There was an electrical shutdown in Mitaka campus on Saturday due to the heavy storm.
We recovered the following :
LC table : pc, laser and electronics
PCI table : pc, laser and translation stage and electronics
However, I misoperate the translation stage that hit the polarizer mount installed for birefringence measurement.
The good recovery procedure is the following:
- remove all components on the translation stage
- using the manual controller on the side of the imaging unit box, moved the translation stage in X to be above any components in the injection bench.
- using zaber, home all motors
- use manual controller to move in reasonable Z before moving in a reasonable X. here reasonable meaning far enough from both injection and readout benches.
- close zaber and restart LabView
- FDS : recovered the reference 'gps' signal, recovered the temperature controls and all pcs. Because of fire safety inspection, we did not check fds laser and we also need to recover the homodyne power supply, AOM controller and restart vacuum pumps
- ATC cleanroom : restarted the fans
- cryogenic cavity : pumps seems stopped but it seems somebody else will check
[Hugo, Marc]
Today we wanted to restart birefringence measurement with PCI and longer average.
We found out that the motorized rotator is broken (sounds but no motion).
We ordered 2 new ones.
The nonlinear crystal PPKTP is set up on a copper plane with a TC cooler below the crystal, these components are on a one-dimensional motion stage.
The TC cooler is monitored via a temperature sensor (TT2-10KC8-3) and controlled by a temperature controller (THORLABS TC300).
The linear motion stage can be driven directly through an electronic controller (PI E-873 Q-Motion Controller) and software installed on Windows 10 or higher.
"Birefringence Map with Camera.vi" modified to take into account std and 100 averaging
file will save in format
X, Y, Azimuth, std azi, Ellipticity, std ell, Power, s1, s2, s3
The bowtie VOPO was completely assembled. It looks quite nice, and not so difficult to work with. The crystal and mirror positions are well defined in the assembly. I haven't seen the green alignment in action, but it seems much more convenient to be able to actually see the beam path inside the OPO. Considering also the advantages in controllability, the lack of need for a GRMC ($) and ppol laser ($$$), and our regular collaboration with NTHU, I aim to use this type of OPO in all future quantum optics experiments at NAOJ or elsewhere. I asked Chien Ming and Hsun Chung to give me lots of documentation. I also gave Chien Ming the new elog link to give more details, since I couldn't be there the entire time.
I briefly came back to reality with the TAMA linear OPO. The PZT retaining ring is completely stuck. Even using gorilla force with Thorlabs SPW801 wrench I cannot move it at all. It seems more likely that I would just rip out the metal (fig 1). I tried to check the OPO but it's a bit hard to focus (fig 2). I suppose I will have to give up and use the spare front plate (in a box in my office) and spare retaining ring (somewhere...). I will need to clean them with the ultrasonic bath in the ATC.
With permission of Aso-san I took the small First Contact bottle from the speedmeter experiment, though he mentioned that he didn't know where Nishino-kun got it from originally. I spent a lot of time looking for the tabs used to peel it. Eventually I found a pack of them hiding at the back of the ATC cleanroom. I somewhat skilllessly applied a layer to the TAMA OPO incoupler convex face (fig 3). From experience last time, this won't remove the O-ring residue, but I just want to get the dust off the centre. Next time I will do the concave face.
In the spare OPO box in my office there is a spare retaining ring but for whatever reason no spare front plate PZT holder.
Since in the actual assembly the inner retaining ring only needs to be screwed down to the bottom of the wire extraction groove (see fig 1, 2, 3 of 2690), maybe I should just screw in the spare without replacing the front plate. I honestly have no idea why this PZT holder hole is even cut that deep.
I took the following:
Mirror mounts - one from scattering table, two from FC cleanroom
IR steering mirrors - one pack of 9 from the KFC spare parts box
Fiber PD power supply - To TAMA
It seems Newport's SW-OM adjustable spanner wrench may be more suited to getting rid of the TAMA OPO retaining ring. There wasn't any appropriate tool in the TAMA OPO spare parts box. Thorlabs sells SPW-908 that looks like the exact kind of thing to unscrew the retaining ring, but conveniently the unscrewing things are 1mm too far apart.
I will set up blackout curtain near the cryostat optical table to section off the back side of ATC lab (figure-1). The plan is to move the long Al bar closer to the AC unit and hang the curtain on the entire length of the rod (figure-2). I measured various dimensions for this work.
During this work, I noticed the items on the optical table were moved. If you move stuff on the table, an email or verbal confrimation would be appericated.
Hirata gave me some drill bits yesterday. Unfortuantely. these drill bits are too small. If I can't find one in ATC I will order them online. If some has HEX5 bits for Makita drill, similar to the bit in the attached picture please let me know.