I noticed some weird behavior on the ETMY oplev that led me to check them all out.
The short of it is that the ETMY oplev has a pretty small angular range, compared to the displays and other oplevs. I measured how much angular motion each oplev can sense before the beam no longer hits all four quadrants (thus losing the ability to sense). This could account for some of the additional angular motion of the mirrors... maybe.
Also, some of the QPD quadrants had offsets as big as 400 counts, thus distorting the zero point. Anyways, here are the angular ranges of each QPD, assuming the current urad/cnt calibrations are valid.
EMTY
ITMY
BS
ITMX
(Note: ITMX's oplev pitch and yaw is almost 30 degrees off of the alignment sliders' pitch/yaw coordinates. Steve tells me this is due to the tight nature of getting the oplev beam to the mirror without clipping.)
ETMX
PRM
SRM
I wrote a script to zero all of the QPD quadrants' offsets (it lives in /scripts/OL) and have used it successfully. The oplev laser must be off before using it. |