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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: 15062
Entry time: Tue Dec 3 00:03:57 2019
In reply to: 15057
Reply to this: 15073
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Author: |
gautam |
Type: |
Update |
Category: |
LSC |
Subject: |
Green ALS also shows elevated noise with high arm buildup |
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Summary:
- While noisier, I was able to control the arm lengths to ~30pm RMS(!) using the green ALS beats as error signals (cf. ~10 pm RMS with the IR ALS system).
- The PRMI could be locked with a CARM offset applied.
- When lowering the CARM offset, I saw an increase in the in-loop ALS error signal, just as I had with the IR beat.
- IR TRX / TRY unsurprisingly did not stabilize in any meaningful way.

- The noise increase seems to have some periodicity along the frequency axis - need to think about what this means.
- Since there is no apparent benefit to using the green ALS beats, I restored the IR system. The green PDs should still retain somewhat good alignment if one wishes to do a comparison measurement.
- While the shadow sensors of the ITMs report elevated noise, it is unlikely to be responsible for the cavity moving by the amount suggested by the elevated ALS error signals because of the digital low-pass filtering and 1/f^2 of the pendulum.
- I confirmed that the ITM shadow sensors do not report elevated noise when the PRMI is locked such that the carrier is resonant. In this config, there is comparable circulating power in the PRC as to when the CARM offset is reduced to ~0.
- The fact that the IR and green beats both show similar increase in noise suggestes that the cavity length / laser frequency is in fact being modulated, but I still don't know what the exact mechanism is.
was worth a shot i guess.
Trawling through some elogs, I see that this kind of feature showing up in the ALS CARM is not a new problem, see for example here. But I can't find out what the resolution was. |
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