In order to try out the new locking scheme tonight, I have modified the LSC model. Screens have not yet been made.
It's a bit of a special case, so you must use the appropriate filter banks:
CARM filter bank should be used for ALS lock. MC filter bank should be used for the REFL1f signal.
The output of the MC filter bank is fed to a new filter bank (C1:LSC-MC_CTRL_FF). The output of this new filter bank is summed with the error point of the CARM filter bank (after the CARM triggered switch).
The MC triggering situation is now a little more sophisticated than it was. The old trigger is still there (which will be used for something like indicating when the REFL DC has dipped). That trigger is now AND-ed with a new zero crossing trigger, to make the final trigger decision. For the zero crossing triggering, there is a small matrix (C1:LSC-ZERO_CROSS_MTRX) to choose what REFL 1f signal you'd like to use (in order, REFL11I, REFL11Q, REFL55I, REFL55Q). The absolute value of this is compared to a threshold, which is set with the epics value C1:LSC-ZERO_CROSS_THRESH. So, if the absolute value of your chosen RF signal is lower than the threshold, this outputs a 1, which is AND-ed by the usual schmidt trigger.
At this moment, the input and output switches of the new filter bank are off, and the gain is set to zero. Also, the zero crossing selection matrix is all zeros, and the threshold is set to 1e9, so it is always triggered, which means that effectively MC filter bank just has it's usual, old triggering situation. |