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Tue Oct 8 18:35:09 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, Locking prep
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Wed Oct 9 18:15:26 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, PRMI 3f locking
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Wed Oct 9 22:02:58 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, REFL55 whitening issue
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Thu Oct 10 01:12:56 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, Locking studies
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Wed Oct 16 11:42:17 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, Poor separation of PRCL/MICH in 3f signals
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Thu Oct 17 11:19:28 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, Locking activity last night 
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Tue Oct 22 00:52:27 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, Locking updates
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Tue Oct 29 01:24:45 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, More locking updates 
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Tue Oct 29 15:13:19 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, More locking updates
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Wed Oct 30 01:27:00 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, More locking updates
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Wed Oct 30 11:53:41 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, MICH loop shape tuning 
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Wed Oct 30 17:08:40 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, POP22 investigation
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Mon Nov 4 15:29:47 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, POP signal path
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Mon Nov 4 16:06:58 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, POP optical path    
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Tue Nov 5 11:52:27 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, Locking notes
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Wed Nov 6 02:08:48 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, Locking updates
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Wed Nov 6 17:05:45 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, CARM calibration  
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Wed Nov 6 17:45:34 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, ~
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Mon Nov 18 21:04:38 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, Locking - some ideas
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Wed Nov 20 01:07:18 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, Locking - progress
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Wed Nov 20 12:14:17 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, Locking - progress
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Wed Nov 20 17:20:24 2019, Yehonathan, Update, LSC, QPD Investigation
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Wed Nov 20 17:52:00 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, QPD MEDM screen update  
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Wed Nov 20 21:29:28 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, PRG ~13
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Fri Nov 22 00:54:14 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, locking notes
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Mon Nov 25 19:11:22 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, ALS noise re-look
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Wed Nov 27 23:24:01 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, No shaking but no inspiration either
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Sun Dec 1 13:38:48 2019, rana, Update, LSC, No shaking but no inspiration either
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Tue Dec 3 00:03:57 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, Green ALS also shows elevated noise with high arm buildup
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Wed Dec 4 19:54:27 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, A look to the past
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Thu Dec 5 01:54:39 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, Partial CM board path engaged
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Fri Dec 6 00:02:48 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, What is the correct way to set the 3f offsets?
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Fri Nov 15 12:08:04 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, POPDC whitening board
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Tue Oct 29 17:40:48 2019, gautam, Update, LSC, More locking updates 
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Message ID: 15045
Entry time: Fri Nov 22 00:54:14 2019
In reply to: 15041
Reply to this: 15046
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Author: |
gautam |
Type: |
Update |
Category: |
LSC |
Subject: |
locking notes |
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[KA, GV]
There was no shaking (that disturbed the locking) tonight!
- REFL165 Demod phase was adjusted from -111deg to -125deg. To minimize coherence b/w MICH and PRCL.
- MICH 3f loop gain changed to 0.3.
- If the POP mode shape looks weird, it probably means that the PRM is sligntly misaligned. Tweaking the alignment improves PRMI stability and also makes the arm buildup higher.
- Ditto for MICH - slightly touching up the BS alignment can lower ASDC.
- Main finding tonight was that the ALS noise seems to get degraded as a function of the CARM offset! As a result of this, CARM goes through several linewidths, and the arm transmission fluctuates wildly.
- We suspect some scattered light shenanigans. It is not clear to me why this is happening. Possibilities:
- Scattered ETM transmission somehow makes it into the fiber coupler and degrades the ALS noise.
- Sacttered ETM transmission makes it onto the Green PDH photodiode and degrades the ALS noise.
- Backscatter into the PSL degrades the ALS noise.
- Shadow sensors of either the ITMs, ETMs, BS, or PRM don't have 1064nm filters and get scatterd light, making the cavity length noise worse.
- Other possibilities?
The problem is hard to debug because we are feeding back on the ETMs, BS and PRM, and at the low CARM offset (= high PRG), all the DoFs are cross coupled strongly so just by looking at error/control signals, I can't directly determine where the noise is originating. The fact that the ALS CARM spectrum shows a noise increase suggests that the problem has to do with the test masses, PSL, IMC, or end green PDH setups.
My plan is to do a systematic campaign and eliminate some of these possibilities - e.g. install some baffling around the fiber coupler and the end green PDH photodiodes and see if there is any improvement in the situation.
* In attachment #1, the "Ref" traces are when the CARM offset is 0, and the arms are buzzing in and out of resonance. The non-reference traces are for when the CARM offset is ~28kHz (so several linewidths away from resonance). |
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