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Message ID: 1233
Entry time: Fri Jan 16 18:25:32 2009
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| Author: |
Yoichi, Kakeru, Rana |
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Update |
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LSC |
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Arms were unstable |
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The single arm lock had been unstable for both arms in the past few days.
Symptoms:
When an arm was locked by itself, the transmitted power showed a lot of fluctuations (sharp drops).
The first attachment shows the arm power fluctuations in power spectrum and time series.
References are when the boost filters are off for the arm feedback.
You can see that when the boosts are off, the power fluctuates a lot.
Also it is obvious that X-arm is a lot worse than Y.
Diagnosis:
The second attachment is the comparison of the error signal spectra between boosts on and off.
(PD3_I is the error signal of X-arm, PD4_I is Y arm). References are boost on.
Since the arm power fluctuation was suppressed by the gain increase, it was suspected that the main
reason for the power fluctuation is not alignment fluctuation. Rather, it is length or frequency fluctuation.
Then I took spectra and coherences of PD3_I, PD4_I and MC_F with both arms locked independently.
You can see broadband coherence between PD3_I (Xarm) and MC_F (frequency noise). In contrast the coherence
between PD4_I and MC_F is smaller. This means X-arm is more susceptible to the frequency noise than Y.
What can make a simple Fabry-Perot cavity more susceptible to frequency noise ? An offset ?
So I canceled the X-arm offset at the X-arm filter bank. Bingo ! The arm power fluctuation of X-arm became as small as Y-arm
in the dataviewer.
But what is making this offset ?
After watching the dataviewer screen for a while, the arm power fluctuation became larger again. I had to re-adjust the artificial offset
to minimize the fluctuation. This made me think that the source of the offset must be something to do with alignment.
In this case, clipping of the beam at the PD was very suspicious.
So I checked the centering of the POX and POY PDs. As expected, POX was terribly off-centered.
POY was also not exactly at the center of the plateau of DC output.
After centering those PDs, the large offset in the arm loops went away.
Now the arm powers are stable without artificial offset in the loop filters.
The last attachment shows the comparison of arm power fluctuation before and after the PD centering.
(references are the measurements before the centering). |
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