I got a couple of ~30min long DRMI lock stretches today. The settings I used are essentially the same as what I had back in November. Though we have since made some changes to the IMC RF signal chain, I guess it is not unreasonable that the LSC Demod phases that worked then work now as well. 

In the lock stretches, I did the following:

• Took loop measurements for MICH, PRCL, SRCL
• Turned on the sensing oscillator lines for error signal calibration
• Tried turning on the analog whitening on AS55, REFL11 and REFL55. The latter two worked fine, but everytime I turned the REFL55 whitening on, I broke the lock. I'm also unable to acquire lock if I leave the whitening turned on all the time. The ADC overflow indicators also indicate frequent overflows when I turn the whitening on. Oddly, this seems to happen even if I turn the analog whitening gain to 0dB - the signals look well within the ADC range on dataviewer and DTT timeseries mode. Not sure what's going on here, I will investigate further tomorrow.
• We should have some stretches where we can look at the possibility of seismic feedforward for some DRMI length DOFs.

On the side, I'm also looking at whether the PRC angular feedforward filters, last trained in October 2016, remain valid. Even post midnight, I am unable to lock the DRMI without turning on the FF, and looking at the POP QPD PIT and YAW signal spectra with the FF on vs FF off, there is definitely some improvement in the 1-4Hz band (plot to follow), question is whether we can do better and hence improve the DRMI duty cycle/ make the lock acquisition easier. To this end, I centered the beam on the POP QPD after locking and dither aligning the PRC on carrier, and have taken some data to look at.

So, much data analysis to follow - the idea is to put together a DRMI noise budget with Evan's NB code. For now, here are the uncalibrated control signal spectra.