For the traces I posted, I had not turned on the whitening for the SRCL sensing PD (REFL55). However, I took a spectrum on a subsequent lock, with the analog whitening + digital dewhitening turned on for all 3 PDs (AS55, REFL11 and REFL55), and the HF part of the SRCL spectrum still looked anomalous. I'm putting together the detailed NB, but here's a comparison between the signals from the 3 RFPDs with the PSL shutter closed (but whitening engaged, and with the analog gains at the same values as used during the locking).
To convert the y-axis into m/rtHz, I used data from a sensing matrix measurement I took yesterday night during a DRMI lock - I turned on lines between 300 Hz and 325 Hz for the 3DOFs for ~5 minutes, downloaded the RFPD error signal data and did the demodulation. I used numbers from this elog to convert the actuator drive from cts to m. The final numbers I used were:
MICH (AS55_Q): 8.706 * 10^11 cts/m
PRCL (REFL11_I): 2.757 * 10^12 cts/m
SRCL (REFL55_I): 1.995 * 10^10 cts/m
So it looks like there may be something weird going on with the REFL55 signal chain. Looking at the LSC rack (and also suggested by an elog search), it looks like the demodulation is done by a demod board labelled "POP55" - moreover, the demodulated outputs are taken not from the regular output ports on this board, but from the "MON" ports on the front panel.

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one of these signals does not look like the others: explanation?
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