[rika, aaron, rana]

We are getting the MC locked in anticipation of making some WFS transfer function measurements.

The PSL screen was all white boxes, so I keyed the PSL crate and burt restored the settings from 11:19am Sep 5 (somewhat earlier than we started rebooting computers). Following this, I ran Milind's unstick.py and then the PSL autolocker script; both worked on the first go, great work Milind!

The modecleaner autolocking script is having substantially more trouble. Rana found that pitch and yaw sliders for all MC optics have been swapped--we think it's because the camera at MC2 has been rotated. Note that for now, sliding pitch gives a change in yaw, and sliding yaw changes pitch.

Improving MC alignment

We noticed that with the WFS servo on, the modecleaner would be well aligned for a while (MC trans ~ 14000), only to lose lock after several minutes. We held the MC2_TRANS_PIT/YAW outputs at 0, so the MC2 QPD does not affect the WFS loop; the beam is well centered on WFS1/2, but not on the MC2 QPD, and with this signal out of the loop MC TRANS recovers to ~15000 counts (consistent with the quiet times over the last 90 days, see attachment 2). Attachment 1 shows the MC lock degrading, followed by some noise where we lost lock, and finally a visible increase in MC trans when we remove the MC2 QPD from the WFS loop.

mode cleaner alignment setting

MC1 Pich 4.4762     Yow 4.4669

MC2 Pich 3.7652     Yow -1.5482

MC3 Pich -0.4159    Yow 1.1477

After automatic locking MC, we stopped automatical locking and took alignment to the center of QPD.

And then again did the automatic locking MC. Finaly Rana move to best alignment.

Mode cleaner Alignment Setting

MC1 Pich 4.4942   Yow 4.6956

MC2 Pich 3.7652   Yow -1.5600

MC3 Pich -0.3789   Yow 1.1477

Measured sine response

We used diaggui to measure the response of WFS1/WFS2/MC2 pitch (yaw) to excitations in MC1/MC2/MC3 pitch (yaw). Seeing fluctuations of amplitude ~1 on the MCX_PIT/YAW_OUT channels, we used an amplitude 0.01 excitation at 20 Hz. We will work on scripting some of this tomorrow.