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Wed Apr 13 00:56:07 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, X endtable repopulation
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Wed Apr 13 11:00:28 2016, Steve, Update, endtable upgrade, X endtable repopulation
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Wed Apr 13 18:25:07 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, Lightwave health check
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Fri Apr 15 18:38:12 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, Lightwave health check - NO IMPROVEMENT
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Tue Apr 19 18:37:29 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, Laser swap + optical layout
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Thu Apr 21 14:25:52 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, Green light recovered  
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Tue Apr 26 15:22:35 2016, Steve, Update, endtable upgrade, Cleaning ETMX vacuum dirty window 
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Tue Apr 26 23:19:42 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, Green aligned to arm - high order mode flashes seen 
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Thu Apr 28 00:41:08 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, more progress - Transmon PD installed
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Fri Apr 29 00:55:46 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, green PDH locked to Xarm
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Mon May 2 19:14:18 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, Optical layout almost complete
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Thu May 5 03:05:37 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, ALS status update  
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Thu May 5 04:05:03 2016, ericq, Update, LSC, Aux X PDH checks 
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Thu May 5 14:03:52 2016, ericq, Update, LSC, Further Aux X PDH tweaks
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Thu May 5 14:05:01 2016, rana, Update, endtable upgrade, ALS status update
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Thu May 5 21:28:44 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, Innolight PZT capacitance
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Thu May 19 16:29:20 2016, Steve, Update, endtable upgrade, Optical layout almost complete 
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Fri Sep 30 19:53:07 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, X end IR pickoff fiber coupled
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Wed Oct 5 16:28:10 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, EX laser power monitor PD installed
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Wed Apr 27 15:04:47 2016, Steve, Update, endtable upgrade, Cleaning ETMX vacuum dirty window
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Fri Apr 29 16:05:23 2016, gautam, Update, endtable upgrade, Cleaning ETMX vacuum dirty window
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Message ID: 12105
Entry time: Thu May 5 03:05:37 2016
In reply to: 12104
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gautam |
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endtable upgrade |
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ALS status update |
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[ericQ, gautam]
Today we spent some time looking into the PDH situation at the X end. A summary of our findings.
- There is something that I don't understand with regards to the modulation signal being sent to the laser PZT via the sum+HPF pomona box - it used to be that with 2Vpp signal from the function generator, we got ~5mVpp signal at the PZT, which with the old specs resulted in a modulation of ~0.12rad. Now, however, I found that there was a need to place a 20dB attenuator after the splitter from the function generator in order to realize a modulation depth of ~0.25 (which is what we aim for, measured by locking to the TEM00 modes of the carrier and sidebands and comparing the ratio of powers). It could be that the PZT capacitance has changed dramatically after the repair. Nevertheless, I still cant reconcile the numbers. We measured the transfer function from the LO input of the pomona box to the output with the PZT connected, and figure there should be ~70dB of attentuation (with the 20dB additional attenuator in place). But this means 1Vpp*0.0003*70rad/V = 0.02rad which is an order of magnitude away from what the ratio of powers suggest. Maybe the measurement technique was not valid. In any case, this setup appears to work, and I'm also able to send +7dBm to the mixer which is what it wants (function generator output is 3Vpp).
- In addition to the above, I found that the demodulated error signal had a peak-to-peak of a few volts. But the PDH servo is designed to have tens of mV at the input. Hence, it was necessary to turn down the gain of the REFL PD to 10dB and add a 20dB attenuator between mixer output and servo input.
- While Johannes and I were investigating this earlier in the afternoon, we found that the waveform going to the laser PZT was weirdly distorted (still kind of sinusoidal in shape, but more rounded, I will put up a picture shortly). This may not be the biggest problem, but perhaps there is a better way to pipe the LO signal to the PZT and mixer than what is currently done.
- We then looked at loop transfer function and spectrum of the control signal. Plots to follow. They look okay.
- I measured the green power coming onto the PSL table. It is ~400uW. After optimizing alignment, the green transmission is ~0.4 according to whatever old normalization we are using.
- We then recovered the X green beatnote and looked at the ALS noise spectrum. Beatnote amplitude at the beat PD is ~ -27dBm. The coherence in the region of a few hundred Hz suggests that some improvements can be made to the PDH situation (the gain of the PDH servo is maxed out at the X end at the moment...). But the bottom line is this is probably good enough to get back to locking...
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