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JIF Short Arm Cavity
THERMAL NOISE EXPERIMENT
| The JIF Interferometer Laboratory is currently
undergoing the fine tuning of its double and triple suspensions
installed into the main
tanks of the detector assembly. In the one remaining tank, at the end
of
the so called Short Arm Cavity, there is to be a Thermal Noise
Experiment run. The Thermal Noise Experiment will contain seven light weight double pendulum suspensions including two silica suspensions from Cantilever blades, an aluminium reaction chain suspension (for the end suspension) again suspended from cantilever blades. The remaining four suspensions: Beam Splitter; Mode Matching Optic; Beam Stearer; and Mounting Unit, are all aluminium double pendulums suspended from fixed mounting points. I have been involved in designing the majority of the mechanical parts for both the suspensions and accesories, such as the Eddy Current Coil/Damper Asssemblies, Fibre Clamping Jig, Silica Suspension Welding Rig/Installation Jig, etc. And the coordination and management of the manufacture of all parts. |
Mechanical design of Thermal Noise Experiment, 14th January |
A selection of documents and designs associated with the Thermal Noise Experiment are below:
18th October 2004 - Rendering of complete Welding Jig / Installaion Rig
26th March 2004 - E-Drawing or HTML E-Drawing of Suspensions and layout in tank (Run in Internet Explorer! You may require to download Edrawings 2004 to run this link)
23rd January 2004 - Photos of one of the Aluminium Suspensions assembled in the Upper JIF lab.
22nd January 2004 - Thermal Noise Experiment Parts List and Bill of Materials. (Excel File) Updated regularly.
20th January 2004 - Photos of Fibre Welding on Test Suspension: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, 13!
14th January 2004 - Finalised design of Mounting Unit, E-Drawing, HTML E-Drawing
13th January 2004 - Renderings of Mounting Unit design: (1) with annotations, (2) with materials applied.
8th January 2004 - Update of Progress, Schedule for coming months (TNE Progress Update Dec-Jan.pdf)
21st November 2003 - Thermal Noise Experiment Parts List and Bill of Materials . (Excel File) Updated regularly.
6th November 2003 - Fibre Clamping Jig - for use in Thermal Noise Experiment and other IGR work.
30th October 2003 - JIF Short Arm Cavity Thermal Noise Experiment - Latest rendering of the mechanical design of the suspensions required for this experiment
26th August 2003 - JIF Short Arm Cavity Thermal Noise Experiment - Latest rendering of the mechanical design of the suspensions required for this experiment. Due for completion in late March/early April 2004.
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