Experiment in the night of Jan 26.

o The arm was locked for the IR beam and was aligned for it.
o The green was aligned to the arm
o The beat freq was observed with the RF analyzer and the webcam.
o Engaged the ALS servo
o Compared the fluctuation of the beat freq with and without ALS
o Scanned the beat freq in order to find an IR resonance

The beat freq was scanned. A resonance for IR was found.
However, the residual motion of the arm was not within the line width of the IR resonance.

 To Do
- Improve the ALS servo (==>Koji)
- VCO noise characterization (==>Suresh is on it)
- Calibrate the PLL feedback (i.e. ALS error) into Hz/rtHz (==>Suresh)
- Calibrate the end green PZT fb into Hz/rtHz (==>Osamu is on it)
- Tuning of the suspension filters to reduce the bounce mode coupling.

DETAILS

o How to lock the arm with IR

• Coarsely align the arm without lock. Transmittion was ~300 with MCTRANS ~40000
• REFL11I is the error signal. unWhiten filter (FM1) should be on.
• Unlock the MC and null the error and the arm trans offset by running the following commands

ezcaservo -g -0.1 -r C1:LSC-REFL11_I_OUTPUT C1:LSC-REFL11_I_OFFSET
ezcaservo -g -0.1 -r C1:LSC-REFL11_Q_OUTPUT C1:LSC-REFL11_Q_OFFSET
ezcaservo -g 0.1 -r C1:LSC-TRX_OUTPUT C1:LSC-TRX_OFFSET

• Confirm the input matrix to pass REFL11I to MC path (why don't we use XARM path...?)

ezcawrite C1:LSC-MTRX_81 1.0

• Servo configuration
  • For acquisition: Gain of 2. Only FM1 (1000:10) has to be on.
  • After the acquisition (TRX>200): The gain is to be changed to 1. FM2 and FM3 can be turned on for the LF boost.
• Actuator matrix: connect MC path to ETMX and MC2

ezcawrite C1:LSC-OM_MTRX_18 1.0
ezcawrite C1:LSC-OM_MTRX_78 1.0

o How to align the green beam

• After the alignment I went the end and aligned the last two steering mirrors.

o The beat freq monitor

• Put the RF analyzer at the RF splitter of the RFPD output.
• Used Zonet webcam (http://192.168.113.201:3037) for the remote monitoring

o How to engage the ALS servo

• Preparation:
  
  • VCO PLL feedback comes to X_FINE path.
  • Put an offset of -850 to cancel too big offset (when the VCO is unlocked)
  • Use Y_FINE channel for the offset addtion. FM1 is 10mHz LPF in order to make the offset smooth.
  • Add X_FINE and Y_FINE by the matrix.
• Control
  
  • Turn off X_FINE out. Leave Y_FINE output turned on.
  • Turn on ETMX ALS path.
  • Servo setting: FM1 1000:30 ON, others OFF, gain1
  • Wait for the beat comes in to the locking range at around 80MHz.
  • If the peak is too far, sweep Y_FINE offset in order to . Or change GCV slow thermal offset to let the beat freq jump.
  • You may have ambiguity of the feedback sign depending on which green has higher freq.
  • After the capture of the ALS lock, increse the gain up to 20. Turn on 0.1:boost at FM3.

o Comparison of the stability of the beat freq (Attachment3)

• The spectra of the VCO PLL feedback was measured.
• First of all, the signal was measured without ALS (blue).
  The PLL lost lock quite frequently, so the careful adjustment of the offset was necessary.Still I think there was slight saturation upconversion.
• Then, the ALS was turned on (red). The gain was 20. This is an in-loop evaluation of the servo. The suppression was ~1000 at 1Hz.

o Beat freq scanning

• The following command was used for the beat note scanning 

ezcastep -- "C1:GCV-YARM_FINE_OFFSET" "5,500"

• Once the IR transmission was found, the scan was stopped.
• Because the resultant rms stability of the arm was not within the line width of the cavity, the smooth resonant curve was not obtained.
• From the shape of the error signal the peak-to-peak displacement (f>1Hz) was estimated to be +/-0.7nm. The dominant displacement
  in the period is 16Hz component.