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Wed Apr 26 01:00:23 2017, gautam, Update, General, DRMI locking  
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Fri Apr 28 02:04:36 2017, gautam, Update, General, DRMI locking
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Fri Apr 28 13:56:26 2017, rana, Update, General, DRMI locking
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Mon May 1 16:29:51 2017, gautam, Update, General, DRMI locking 
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Mon May 1 21:45:54 2017, ericq, Update, General, DRMI locking
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Wed May 3 18:45:45 2017, rana, Update, General, DRMI locking
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Thu May 4 19:03:15 2017, gautam, Update, General, DRMI locking - preliminary MICH NB   
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Fri May 5 10:13:02 2017, ericq, Update, General, MICH NB questions
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Fri May 5 12:10:53 2017, gautam, Update, General, MICH NB questions
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Sat May 6 21:52:11 2017, rana, Update, General, MICH NB questions
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Wed May 10 01:56:06 2017, gautam, Update, General, MICH NB - OL coupling  
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Wed May 10 16:53:38 2017, rana, Update, General, MICH NB - OL coupling
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Wed May 10 17:17:05 2017, gautam, Update, General, DAC / Coil Driver noise
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Wed May 10 17:46:44 2017, gautam, Update, General, DAC / Coil Driver noise - SRM coil driver + dewhite board removed
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Thu May 11 09:45:46 2017, rana, Update, General, DAC / Coil Driver noise - SRM coil driver + dewhite board removed
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Thu May 11 18:59:22 2017, gautam, Update, General, SRM coil driver + dewhite board initial survey 
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Fri May 12 01:36:04 2017, gautam, Update, General, SRM coil driver + dewhite board LISO modeling 
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Fri May 12 12:34:55 2017, gautam, Update, General, ITM and BS coil driver + dewhite board pulled out
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Fri May 12 18:50:08 2017, gautam, Update, General, ITM and BS coil driver + dewhite board pulled out
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Mon May 22 13:37:01 2017, gautam, Update, General, DAC noise estimate 
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Tue May 23 22:58:23 2017, gautam, Update, General, De-Whitening board noises
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Thu May 25 19:27:29 2017, gautam, Update, General, Coil driver board noises
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Mon May 29 16:47:38 2017, gautam, Update, General, Coil driver boards reinstalled  
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Tue May 30 16:02:59 2017, gautam, Update, General, Coil driver boards reinstalled
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Thu Jun 1 00:10:15 2017, gautam, Update, General, Coil driver boards reinstalled
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Fri Apr 28 19:32:06 2017, gautam, Update, General, DRMI locking - PRCL angular FF 
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Message ID: 12951
Entry time: Wed Apr 26 01:00:23 2017
Reply to this: 12954
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Author: |
gautam |
Type: |
Update |
Category: |
General |
Subject: |
DRMI locking |
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Since we'd like to get back to DRSE locking, I tried locking the DRMI tonight. I did the following:
- First, I aligned the arms, and ran the dither alignment scripts to maximize the arm transmission
- Next, I misaligned the ETMs, and tried to lock the PRC resonant for the carrier (i.e. PRCL on REFL11I, MICH on AS55Q). I got brief lock stretches of a few seconds but not longer. Turns out the AS55 beam was barely hitting the photodiode. I guess this wasn't looked at since Johannes modified the AS path for the loss measurements. Anyways, it just required a minor tweak to center the beam on the AS55 photodiode.
- Once the PRC was locked, I ran the PRC and MICH dither align scripts. The way these are set up right now, the error signals to these servos are REFLDC and ASDC respectively (demodulated at the respective dither frequencies). But looking at the spots on the ITM cameras with the PRC resonant, the spots seem shifted (in both PIT and YAW) relative to the spots when the arm cavity is resonant. Shouldn't they be the same mode? Or maybe I am missing something.

- Next, I tried to lock the DRMI with the 1f error signals: i.e. PRCL on REFL11 I, SRCL on REFL55 I, and MICH on AS55 Q. After some demod phase tweaking, I was able to get some locks going. Turning on the PRC angular feedforward seemed to help the locking, but I have no idea if the installed filters are still the correct ones. I believe the POP QPD channels are the witnesses used to train this filter, I will look at the predicted vs achieved subtraction.
- At this point, I was able to get locks lasting a few minutes - see the attachment. I ran the UGF servos and tweaked the loop gains a little, but before I could start a loop measurement, I lost the lock. I am calling it for the night.

GV 26 April 2017, 3pm: Forgot to note yesterday that I re-connected the suspect Satellite box, which has been connected to the SRM signal chain, back to the SRM suspension. I did not see any instances of glitching during my work last night. Also added pictures showing shifted spots on ITMs when PRC is locked relative to when arms are locked... |