Weekly Report for Week Ending March 24, 2005


Exec. Comm. Agenda

Highlights

LSC

Administration

Hanford Observatory

Livingston Observatory

MIT

Caltech

Detector

40 Meter

TNI

LASTI

Data Analysis

Adv. LIGO Development

Past Weekly Reports


The LIGO Executive Committee Agenda for Monday March 28, 2005 will be:

(Meeting time: 10:30 am Pacific Time)  

  1. Announcements
  2. Comments on Weekly Report
  3. LSC Issues (Saulson)
  4. LIGO Lab Operations
      • Administration (Lindquist)
      • Sites (Raab, Zucker, Shoemaker)
      • Commissioning (Fritschel), Detector (Coyne)
      • Campus Research Facilities
        1. 40 Meter (Weinstein)
        2. TN, ( Libbrecht)
        3. LASTI  (Shoemaker)
      • Data Analysis and Computing (Lazzarini)
  5. R&D and Advanced LIGO (Shoemaker)
  6. CHANGE CONTROL BOARD/TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD SESSION AS NEEDED

Special Items:


Special Announcements:

 


Weekly Report Highlights

S4 Statistics

Hanford: overall duty cycles of the IFOs were 80.5% on H1, and 81.3% on H2.  Lock stretches on H1 tended to be longer (114 segments comprise the H1 data set, whereas 195 segments comprise H2's).  Longest locks were similar: 23.0 hours on H1, 22.8 hours on H2.  Mean ranges were 7.5Mpc on H1 and 3.2Mpc on H2.  These numbers meet or exceed our goals for S4.

Livingston: cruised through the end of S4 in style, with solid 7 Mpc inspiral range and daily uptimes exceeding 90% despite over 170 visitors (and their cars) assembled for the LSC meeting. L1 finished with a total uptime over 72% including power failures, earthquakes and everything else.


LSC Issues (Saulson)


No report


LIGO Laboratory Administration (Lindquist)


STATUS OF MOUs (Petrac)

LSC MOUs and Research Plans and Progress Reports

  • No report.

Non-LSC MOUs

  • No report.

SITE TELECONFERENCE (Lindquist)

No site teleconference was held on Thursday, March 24, 2005. The meeting was preempted by the LSC meeting.

  • The list of assigned actions updated through March 10, 2005 will be found Here.

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT (Chargois)

>From: Ed Chargois <chargois_e@ligo.caltech.edu>

  • Nothing significant to report.  Currently supporting campus wide inventory.

DOCUMENT CONTROL CENTER (Turner, Mak)

>From: Linda Turner - turner@ligo.caltech.edu>

  • Attended and handled documentation at the LSC meeting in Louisiana.  Only a dozen presentations remain to be submitted.  Over 100 documents were received and posted, and appreciation from the attendees for the quick turnaround seemed real.

>From: Cleveland Mak <mak_c@ligo.caltech.edu>

  • packages: in - 20, out - 7
  • faxes: in - 23, out - 21
  • Efforts this week focused mainly on processing presentations from LSC Meeting at Livingston.

COST SCHEDULE CONTROL SYSTEMS (Cunningham, Brambila, Kaufman, Salone)

>From: Esther Cunningham <esther@ligo.caltech.edu>

>From: "Brambila, Ruth" <Ruth.Brambila@caltech.edu>

  • Completed change order #28 to MIT to allocate the balance of 6 months funding to carry us through Sep 2005. The change order has been routed for the corresponding Caltech approvals.
  • Followed up and received several change order acknowledgements on subcontracts. Also, followed up and received two signed Release of Claims to close out a subcontract. Distributed copies of this signed Release.
  • Working on the change order to Galli and Morelli.

>From: Gina Salone <gsalone@ligo.caltech.edu>

  • No special activities to report.

>From: Florence Kaufman <fkaufman>

  • Continued working on updating reports for March 2005 activity.
  • Worked on a modification to the monthly report for Operations to summarize budgets, expenditures and commitments into three major categories Labor, Travel and Other Purchases.  Each category will include the Indirect Cost related to it.
  • Financial reports can be found at: http://docuserv.ligo.caltech.edu/~fireport. (For passwords contact Florence)

SUBCONTRACTS MANAGEMENT (Petrac, Jasnow)

>From: irena@ligo.caltech.edu (Irena Petrac)

  • No report.

>From: Ed Jasnow <jasnow@ligo.caltech.edu>

  • No report (vacation).

SUPPORT (Baldon,  Lloyd)

>Irene Baldon

  • Processed the paper work for three (3) new/revised trips.  At this time there are three (3) new trips that need to be completed and ticketed before the paper work can be completed.  Assisted several LIGO personnel with their travel arrangements using their P-Cards and made several reservations for outside visitors coming to LIGO/Caltech for meetings and/or workshops.
  • Completed twenty-two (22) Expense Reports and there are zero (0) reports yet to be done.  I continue to contact travelers who have outstanding Expense Reports (more than one (1) month old) to ask for their cooperation in sending me their receipts so that these can be closed in a timely manner.  Presently there is one (1) report more than 30 days old.  Travel Audit's new policy of accepting only original signatures seriously holds up the process of closing reports.  I have three (3) waiting for signature at this time.

>Dorothy Lloyd

  • Processed the usual invoices for payment. Tracked and followed up on invoice problems. Reviewed and recorded payments processed by Esther the week of March 14.
  • Processed requisitions for standard purchases, payment requests and change orders. For more detail see Cost Schedule Control Systems report by Ruth Brambilla.
  • Jim continued with data entry in the LIGO database and helping out in the DCC.

PROPOSALS and REPORTS (Lindquist)

The time has come for us to begin work on the Annual Report for the Visitor’s Program.  I will be contacting those assigned visitors for the information needed to prepare the report.  This will include a brief statement of the work undertaken or accomplished (if we have not already been provided one by the visitor) as well as potential benefits inside and outside of LIGO, for Outreach, etc.

DCC Steering Committee (Lindquist)

There was no meeting of the DCC Steering Committee this week.  The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday morning (PST), March 30, 2005.

CHANGE CONTROL/CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT (Lindquist)

  • No open change requests.

HUMAN RESOURCES (Akutagawa)

>From: Cindy Akutagawa <cindy@ligo.caltech.edu>

  • No special activities to report.

Quality/Safety (Tyler)

>From: Bill Tyler tyler@ligo.caltech.edu

No report.


LIGO Hanford Observatory (LHO) and Interferometer Operations (Raab)


Summary of Commissioning Activities at LIGO Hanford Observatory (Landry)

Some S4 closeout stats: overall duty cycles of the IFOs were 80.5% on H1, and 81.3% on H2.  Lock stretches on H1 tended to be longer (114 segments comprise the H1 data set, whereas 195 segments comprise H2's).  Longest locks were similar: 23.0 hours on H1, 22.8 hours on H2.  Mean ranges were 7.5Mpc on H1 and 3.2Mpc on H2.  These numbers meet or exceed our goals for S4.

Some selected elogs from the last week of S4 are linked below:

  • even modest earthquakes continue to be a primary source of lock loss
  • coherence between AS_Q of the two LHO IFOs shows novel structure
  • late in the run, two new binary pulsars were injected in hardware for recovery by time-domain and Fstat-binary search codes
  • the 2k laser showed signs of deterioration this week, glitching in power.  We may be in a bad mode hop region.  Problems with the laser remain in the post-run freeze.
  • as part of the suite of calibration measurements, cavity poles were measured on both interferometers after the run

LIGO Livingston Observatory (LLO) and Interferometer Operations (Zucker)


S4 Report

We cruised through the end of S4 in style, with solid 7 Mpc inspiral range and daily uptimes exceeding 90% despite over 170 visitors (and their cars) assembled for the LSC meeting. L1 finished with a total uptime over 72% including power failures, earthquakes and everything else.

This was a team effort in every way so it's hard to single out an MVP, but I'd like to give a shout to some personal heroes:

  • the HEPI crew, who finally gave us a quiet 'site'
  • the commissioning team, who rigged a clean machine
  • the detchar and analysis groups, who gave instant feedback to keep it so
  • experts Gary, Doug, Radar, Tom, Danny, Harry and Joe in the pilot's seat
  • RunMeister O'Reilly cracking that whip

WELL DONE EVERYBODY!

Now to that S5 punchlist...

Education and Outreach

Mike and John are in San Francisco looking at (OK, OK, playing with) candidate exhibits for the Science Education Center.

LLO Community

The LSC meeting at LLO was a huge success. Many thanks to everyone who put in hard work and long hours (including their days off) to organize and support the conference.

As always, here the MVP has to go to Bonnie, who somehow found a way to outdo herself yet again. THANKS!

L1 and AdL Mechanical Engineering (Spjeld)

Most of the week spent in LSC meetings

AdL Quad SUS Installation Fixtures

  • Redesign of fixtures in progress; stiffening of lift-frame.
  • Awaiting quote for IDC linear drives.
  • Additional FEA on lift-frame in progress.

AdL SEI Engineering Effort

  • Create drawings from existing assembly and actuator tooling in progress.
  • Looking into assembly procedure outline based on existing storyboard.

LLO Outreach Facility - Pendulum Exhibit Wall

  • Contacted Rig-Rite for quotation on elliptical aluminum extrusions.
  • Contacted a few other manufacturers of Al extruded profiles for quotes.
  • Looked into ball bearing fatigue issue; oversized bearing should be ok.
  • Determining shaft diameter requirement for carrying weight of pendulums.
  • New solid model CAD pendulum wall assembly in progress.
  • Waiting to hear back from designers on prototype.

General Engineering

  • Received and installed 3D file conversion software for NSF animation.

LLO General Computing and LIGO Computing Security (Roddy)

  • repaired the backup server.  The power outage took out the motherboard and the system drive on this server.  A full backup now uses 13 AIT2 tapes and >48 hours to run.  The user home directories are now using about 1/2 terabyte.
  • Most of this week was spent supporting the LSC meeting other than miscellaneous items.
  • Worked on numerous support contract and licensing issues with Sun.  Received an amended quote from them for our servers here.  We dropped the E450 since it will be replaced soon.

HPLF, Optics Modeling, Data Analysis and L1 Commissioning (Franzen)

  • Participated in the LSC meeting.
  • IPG has been testing the HPLF laser at full power continous running since a week back. No news on the outcome yet.

LDAS/Condor Sysadmin and Burst Analysis (Yakushin)

Data archiving/Condor/LDAS admin:

  • Talking to SUN about extending our hardware contract. Almost ready to sign it.
  • Helping users at grid workshop to set up their accounts.

Data analysis:

  • Attended LSC meeting, burst f2f and grid workshop.
  • Presented the results of the S4 online analysis at ASIS.

Initial LIGO Detector Science & Engineering (Coyne)


No report.

 


40 Meter Interferometer (Weinstein)


No report.


Thermal Noise Interferometer (Black)


The new computer is in place and working well for locking the instrument.  Jay and Alex are still working on the data logger, but expect to have it finished soon.

For the shadow sensor on the bond-noise experiment, the tower is built, and the optics are in place. Akira is working on getting the electronics put together and measuring a preliminary signal, in air, for a wire suspension.


LASTI (Ottaway)


No report.


Data Analysis and Computing (Lazzarini)


Simulation and Modeling (Bhawal)

LSC meeting

Hiro and Biplab attended LSC meeting at LLO.  Biplab gave a talk on "Effect of Thermal Lensing on WFS (FFT study)" (G050112) in detector characterization session.

LLO input beam

(Hiro) Based on the discussion with Andri, Sany and Rana, it is very likely that the input beam was adjusted to match to the mode defined by the arm when the ITM is cold.  This means that the waist position of the input beam is off by 450m and the radius of the curvature of the beam is 10km on the HR side of recycling mirror whose radius of curvature is 15.8km.  Thermal Compensation addresses the curvature mismatch of the SB and ITM curvature, and this curvature mismatch between the input beam and recycling mirror cannot be addressed.  The effect due to this large displacement of the input beam waist is being investigated using FFT.

Mechanical simulation

(From Hiro) Sany Yoshida is coming to Caltech next week to take over the modeling of the suspension from Virginio. Preparatory work was done among Sany, Hiro and Virginio this week. This is for LIGO I commissioning. One major goal of this work is to implement the violin mode in the e2e simulation, and to study the actuation of violin modes by LSC/ASC. Another goal is to study other dynamical effects related to suspension systems using more realistic suspension model than the simple model used now, including up-conversion of the seismic noise to those around various high frequency resonances.

Simulation of 40m Interferometer

(Monica) The control feedback on the mirror positions has been added to the e2e 40m package: Inverse matrix has been implemented (conversion from degrees of freedom to mirror positions). The diagonalization will start soon using both the matrix values obtained with Finesse (to check if they can be used directly) and the values obtained with e2e simulations. In the meanwhile I'm using Finesse to study some differences in results of Twiddle and e2e.

Alfi

(Melody) Working on fixing existing Problem Reports (PR). Worked on PR 449 (a cleanup utility to delete ALFI backup files after a certain amount of time has passed). Also creating an option in the ALFI Preferences page to clear all files in the backup directory.

Data Analysis Activities (Lazzarini)

Creighton:

I've been working on a validator validator for Einstein@home: a program that will compare two versions of the Einstein@home validator to test whether they give consistent validations.

Shawhan:

  • Reviewed the S2 Hough pulsar search results prior to the LSC Meeting.
  • Attended the LSC Meeting and gave three talks.  Also attended the Burst Group face-to-face meeting.
  • With Vuk Mandic, did hardware injections.  In particular, added two simulated pulsars in binary systems for the last ~day of the run.
  • Catalogued "extra" coincident events occurring during S4 injection sessions.

Sutton:

Since getting back in town I've been running TFClusters simulations using Julien Sylvestre's old LDAS job scripts.  The new data will be used to answer the remaining questions about efficiency for the LIGO-TAMA bursts paper review.

Yakushin:

  • Attended LSC meeting, burst f2f and grid workshop.
  • Presented the results of the S4 online analysis at ASIS.

LIGO Data Analysis System

Software Systems (Blackburn)

LDAS:

Worked on getting the warning messages out of the configuration scripts used to build LDAS during the configuration phase.

Still unable to get the new GCC 3.4.3 to work with LDAS. Experimented with the compiler CPU optimizations in an effort to speed up the createRDS process on Solaris.

Enhanced the controlMonitorAPI client to include a new and improved (and complete) list of user commands for selection.

Ran the LDAS system and integration tests on LDAS version 1.5.15. Added new dataStandalone and putStandalone scripts for running on tandem-III and LDAS-DEV. This was a bit tricky as these tests use much more disk space than their complimentary dataPipeline test scripts. Clean-up steps had to be added to support this.

Working on new system and integration scripts to encompass all LDAS user commands.

TCLGLOBUS:

Finished Perl script to extract the result of each test case and publish it on the TclGlobus project status website.

Updated Globus FTP client ROBODoc documentation.

Still working on Tcl test cases on how to transfer very large files using different attributes (parallel or non-parallel) used to control the security and performance of an FTP operation provided by Globus FTP client and control packages.

Four out of 89 SWIG-wrapped Globus FTP Client functions are still buggy. These functions are being used for testing.

  • globus_ftp_client_operationattr_get_layout()
  • globus_ftp_client_operationattr_get_tcp_buffer()
  • globus_ftp_client_operationattr_get_dcau()
  • globus_ftp_client_operationattr_parallelism()

OSG and GRID:

Updated the LIGO-CIT-OSG cluster to run the new OSG release 0.1.4. This is still an integration testbed release.

With Naveen's departure, worked to hand off some of the expertise for installing, configuring and running OSG to Michael.

Hardware Systems (Anderson)

Caltech

(Dan Kozak)

  • Put more error checks program that generates data for the LDR lag plots, this has worked to keep the plots from going strange.
  • Monitored LDR status and transfer rates.
  • Continued end-to-end md5sum checks on L0 data.  Caught one file that wasn't transferring from LHO.
  • Relabeled the rest of the L0 copy 2 tapes at LHO.
  • Deleted the /archive/rds[12] trees at LHO, the data was redundant.
  • Got /archive/frames/sim going to tape at CIT.
  • Received the postS3 tape shippment from LHO, imported them into the CIT silo and began the verification of md5sums.

(Phil Ehrens)

  • Worked with Stuart Anderson to get LDAS-TEST cluster back to 8 nodes.
  • Studied the Subversion version control system and worked out configuration and installation issues.

(Stuart Anderson)

  • Finished bringing the LDAS-TEST cluster back up to 8 nodes.
  • Care and feeding of LDR during the last week of S4.

MIT

(Keith Bayer)

  • Looked into NFS write errors between Solaris 9 and FC3 on new pcraid box.
  • Copied profiles to ldas-pcdev1.
  • Mounted /opt/CERN and /opt/dmt on pretty much all the linux boxes.

Livingston

(Igor Yakushin)

  • Talking to SUN about extending our hardware contract. Almost ready to sign it.
  • Helping users at grid workshop to set up their accounts.

Hanford

(Ben Johnson)

  • End of S4, though data archiving and publishing will continue until the morning of March 28. /frames publishing will continue beyond that time.
  • Added a retry+timeout feature to the publishing scripts when connecting to the segment database.
  • Some pulsar jobs were causing a load of 70-90 on the cluster home directory NFS server. The user modified her jobs, which allowed other users to be able to operate normally.
  • Rebooted several nodes due to kernel panics on jbd. Another node froze due to bad RAM. 6 more DIMMs have been ordered.

General Computing (Wallace)

MIT:

(Keith)

  • Built secondary outgoing mailserver w/ SMTP AUTH and TLS/SSL support to troubleshoot Eudora SSL problems.  Still having trouble with Eudora at this point.
  • Trying to get rid of several pieces of equipment: Qualstar late model tape robot HPLaserprinter 5m
  • Looking into LDAP authentication services
  • Monitoring Einstein@home mirror running at MIT
  • Put new SSH authentication wireless router in place in NW17 (since everyone is at LSC it was a good time to do it...)
  • Built collab machine for postdoc(s) but am still testing it

Livingston:

(Shannon)

  • repaired the backup server.  The power outage took out the motherboard and the system drive on this server.  A full backup now uses 13 AIT2 tapes and >48 hours to run.  The user home directories are now using about 1/2 terabyte.
  • Most of this week was spent supporting the LSC meeting other than miscellaneous items.
  • Worked on numerous support contract and licensing issues with Sun.  Received an amended quote from them for our servers here.  We dropped the E450 since it will be replaced soon.

Hanford:

(Christine)

  • Network usage can be seen at http://www.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~christin/mrtg/ 198.129.208.1_198.129.78.122.html
  • Installed gnupg, Thunderbird and Firefox on my computer and the license server to comply with a requirement for all sys admin to register secure keys and use mail software that has an encryption plugin.
  • Working on building a centralized syslog server.
  • Thanks to Larry, a problem with the host name of the mail server showing up in people's e-mail addresses is now fixed.
  • Installed a new wireless access point for testing.  The Proxim AP 2000 access points have had problems with dropping their signal on a regular basis.  I've installed a Linksys AP to see if it will work better.
  • Other misc. user support.

CIT:

(Mike)

  • VPN Server: Setting up user accounts, and testing security features on this server. I ran many additional tests to insure that this service will not affect the network.
  • Modem Pool: Larry and I ran multiple tests, making sure the 1-800 number is hunting the way it's suppose to. It looks like the phone company has done their part on correcting the hunt sequence. Now we are keeping a close watch on the hardware to see how long the uptime is before we have to reboot this unit. Rebooting the modem pool has been a weekly routine.  Hopefully this problem has been corrected.
  • Loaded another laptop that came back from travel. This included a reload of the OS, and loading all GC software. I have put this back into the loaner pool.
  • Dave Beckett: Loaded an updated workstation for him. This is a much faster computer, and I will also be replacing his flickering Monitor.
  • Dennis Coyne: Larry and I relocated his Engineering workstation to the 2ed floor on W/B 252. This is to allow multiple users to run simulations and other Engineering tasks.  Dennis requested that I use Larry Jones old Dongle to run Solid Works on this workstation. This required me to re-install Solid Works to recognize the new Dongle. This workstation is up and running.
  • Loaded a Power Book G4 12" that is to be used for General Computing.
  • Continuing to work with Larry on the Spam Filters.
  • Other onsite/phone support that included networking, printing, software, and a few hardware issues that I took care of this week.

(Veronica)

  • LSC:  Updates to the March meeting website.  Installed a webpage for presentations and posted the talks.  Almost all the talks were posted by the end of the meeting. Updates to other LSC webpages.
  • LIGO:  Finished the last three online submittal forms for the 40m website.  Installed a webpage for LIGO PhD Prize.  Set up video recording for Calum Torrie, edited the footage and captured it on a DVD.  Continued Norton AV upgrades to 9.0 and security checks on Windows machines.  Updated the roster database.

(Larry)

  • Resolved a number of contract issues. SUN is using a third party for their maintenance contracts, which is causing some confusion as things get transferred over to them. Finally, after a couple of months the company has put in the charges for one of the maintenance contracts. A renewal contract is being generated for the backup s/w being used.  Finalized the renewal of the maintenance contract with Foundry for the local networking equipment.  Resolved a few issues with the P-card people and still have a few more paperwork items to deal with.
  • Repaired one of the E2E servers. It is still having a timing issue. There are still a few more things to try before doing a rebuild.
  • Spent time working on the modem pool. With Mike's assistance and constant telephone calls to SBC the problem appears to be resolved. SBC had to physically
  • reset some equipment to get the hunting feature to work correctly.
  • The IDEAS licensing issue has finally been resolved. Campus is taking care of the licensing (we do have to pay for the licenses) and is working on getting the media out to us. The codes needed have been sent and we should be receiving our new network license in the near future. However, we can't install it until we receive the media.
  • Assisted Mike in moving some equipment around and getting a couple of s/w pkgs. installed for different people.
  • Did some minor trouble shooting on the web server and network connection. The performance for web access should be back to normal now.
  • Started setting up a new quad CPU sandbox. Barring any problems is should be on-line by the end of next week.
  • Worked a number of e-mail issues. Including checking out the spam filters and tracking down problems for different people.  Mail Statistics March 17-23, 05:

Accepted Messages                 17,244

Virus                                        340

False Positives                          452

Reject Messages                      13,379

Total Messages                        30,623


Advanced LIGO and Supporting R&D (Shoemaker)


Systems and Management

No report this week.

Seismic Isolation 

From: Ken Mason kmason@ligo.mit.edu

Advanced LIGO Seismic Structure

SEI Structure:

We recieved the final DVD from ASI and began separating drawings into several bid packages. We are awaiting a decision from the SEI BSC Critical Review Committee on proceeding.

Recieved MSC Nastran with Ideas translator. I opened all the finite element analysis files with no problems.

Actuators:

PSI has rejectected (3) large and (1) small actuator during testing for breaks in the field windings. The breaks are near the contact area and shouldn't be difficult to repair.  The rejected actuators have been returned to their winding facility in Mississippi for repair.

(1)  large and (1) small actuator has been shipped to Jay Heefner at Caltech.

Suspension

From: Janeen Romie romie_j@ligo.caltech.edu

 

From: Ken mailand <kmailand@ligo.caltech.edu>

Lower suspension installation fixture arm, attaching to the flange of the BSC chamber.  I’m doing a detailed design of the arms, minus the interface with the suspension frame.  I will get with Russell when the framework closer to final design.

The Algor stress analysis indicates no problem stresses or deflection issues on the preliminary design.

I have selected a common tapered roller bearing for all the pivot shafts.

One of the module shelf brackets for the BSC chamber has been completed. Further work on the attachment of the chassis box will be done when the chassis box component part has been selected by Todd.

Core Optics

From: Helena Armandula <ahelena@ligo.caltech.edu>

Advanced LIGO Coatings - Cleaning

In order to develop a cleaning procedure for coated Adv. LIGO optics, I tested different cleaning methods on coated samples and observed their effect on coating absorption.

The absorption measurements were performed at Stanford.  Will have a report for next week.

Pre-Stabilized Laser

From: Peter King pking@ligo.caltech.edu

I have been preparing some viewgraph materials for the PSL conceptual design review.  This included taking a look at the ANSI laser safety requirements --- which is timely considering an article in this month's edition of Photonics Spectra concerns laser safety.  I will be asking the campus safety office for advice about the calculation concerning the laser safety eyewear optical density, as the value suggested by the standard seems too low to me.

The high power photodetector is still going on.  A new board revision of this design was ordered.  The new revision fixes a relatively minor problem with the board layout.

Auxiliary Optics

From: Michael Smith smith@ligo.caltech.edu

OPTICAL LEVER

I have modeled and optimized several candidate optical receiver lens systems using ZEMAX. I am in the process of learning how to use the ZEMAX tolerancing program and the multiconfiguration editor to model a real lens assembly and to model an alignment procedure for the assembled lens. These models will be a basis for the SURF project this summer to develop and characterize an optical lever receiver lens for ADV LIGO.

A SURF student has accepted to work on the optical lever receiver for ADVLIGO project.

BRDF MEASUREMENT

A SURF student has accepted to work on the BRDF  project for ADVLIGO.

Other Laboratory R&D

 


For additional information about this report, contact Stan Whitcomb or Phil Lindquist