Optomechanical Layout

Meetings

Action Items

Relevant Documents

Baseline

Stable Recycling Cavities

Suspension Point Interferometer

CAD Files

AutoCAD

SolidWorks/PDMWorks

e-Drawing

 

This page was last updated 3/11/2006, 13:40pm US/PT

 

Meetings

A small working group meets telephonically every

Thursday at 11:00 am PT

1.800.704.9896, code 507045#

If interested in attending, please contact Dennis Coyne.

Action Items

The status of open Action Items for the Optomechanical Layout Working Group will generally be discussed at each weekly meeting.

Relevant Documents

Baseline

The following documents are relevant to the definition of the optical layout for advanced LIGO.

Stable Recycling Cavities (Non-Baseline Layout Consideration):

  • Guido Mueller, "Stable Recycling Cavities for Advanced LIGO - LSC Meeting, August 14-17, 2005, Hanford WA", G050423-00
  • Guido Mueller, "Design of Stable Power-Recycling Cavities - 2005 Gingin Workshop on Gravitational Wave Detection", G050526-00
  • Yi Pan, "Recycling Cavities Degeneracy Problems and Solutions - LSC Meeting, March 20-23, 2005, Livingston LA", G050215-00
  • Phil Willems, "Thoughts on Thermal Compensation and Stable Recycling Cavity Design for Advanced LIGO", G050663-00
  • Bill Kells, some notes presented at a workshop on Stable Recycling Cavities for Advanced LIGO

Suspension Point Interferometer (Non-Baseline Layout Consideration):

 

CAD Files

The layout started as 2D in AutoCad. We are migrating to 3D using SolidWorks with files archived and shared through a PDMWorks vault. Any LIGO designer wishing access to the vault can contact Dennis Coyne for authorization. The vault is administered and backed-up by LIGO/CIT ITS personnel (Mike Pedraza and Larry Wallace).

AutoCad

These are transitional files and will not be maintained.

AutoCad layout files can be found in the PDMWorks vault, under the project (root directory) “AL Layouts” and sub-project (sub-directory) “AutoCad

The files in this directory were mostly generated or revised in the 10/2004 timeframe, although the layout drawing (with external references to other files), named L2_planview_v8.dwg was generated 6/2005.

One can also find a directory with the files here.

  • Warning, this is ~47MB of files.
  • Note that the PDMWorks vault archive is the proper place for maintaining these drawings; Changes made outside of PDMWorks are not considered “official”.

SolidWorks

The latest SolidWorks layout files will be found in the PDMWorks vault under the project (root directory) “AL Layouts” and sub-project (sub-directory) “SolidWorks

These files will only be made accessible through the PDMWorks vault. However an e-Drawing is available below.

e-Drawing

An e-Drawing of the vertex layout is available:

An e-Drawing viewer is available for free download.

  • Warning, this is a large file and rendering is slow.