Last night, I restarted the locking work.
Quite some time was wasted by the disconnected REFL199 by Alberto for the cavity length measurement.
From now on, please put the interferometer back to the original state every day.
If possible, please refrain from changing the IFO settings (cabling, optics, etc).
It is also very important to always restore the full IFO alignment after you are done with your work.
While I was working on the optimization of the DD hand-off, the DRMI alignment got into a strange state.
Even when I did the whole dither alignment procedure from the beginning (from x-arm), the AS166Q did not go above 1000.
PRMI looks ok (SPOB goes above 1100). I could lock the DRMI but the lock position hops to other modes easily.
Manual tweaks of SRM did not help.
After running the whole alignment procedure several times in vain, I was too tired and went home.
I noticed that the single arm lock shows power drops again. There are some offsets in the arm lock loops.
This may have prevented the Michelson alignment from being optimal. I will check this today. |