We have received the dichroic optics from Laseroptik.  The coatings are:

HR:

• 532nm: T(s+p) > 97%
• 1064nm:  R(p) > 99.9%

AR:

• 532nm: R(s+p) < 1%
• 1064nm: R(p) < 2%

We got two sets with these coatings:

• 6x: 50 x 9.5mm, 2 degree wedge
• 8x: 25 x 6.35mm, 2 degree wedge
• 1x: 25 x 3mm, witness

I put them in the "visible optics" drawer of the newish, metal optics cabinet with the thin drawers down the Y arm.

I locked MI while both arm length are stabilized at IR resonance. This could be done using DC READOUT, in other words, use AS_DC as MICH error signal.
Lock using RF signals are still not successful.

Yuta and I bought some new BS mounts so that we could use the 4th port of the beamsplitters which are combining the PSL green and the arm transmitted beam, just before the Beat PD for each arm.  I just placed the Yarm one, and have aligned the light onto both the Beat PD and the Trans DC PD. 

I'll do the Xarm after lunch.

Jamie and I were doing some locking, and we found that the Yarm green wasn't locking.  It would flash, but not really stay locked for more than a few seconds, and sometimes the green light would totally disappear.  If the end shutter is open, you can always see some green light on the arm transmission cameras.  So if the shutter is open but there is nothing on the camera, that means something is wrong.

I went down to the end, and indeed, sometimes the green light completely disappears from the end table.  At those times, the LED on the front of the laser goes off, then it comes back on, and the green light is back.  This also corresponds to the POWER display on the lcd on the laser driver going to ~0 (usually it reads ~680mW, but then it goes to ~40mW).  The laser stays off for 1-2 seconds, then comes back and stays on for 1-2 minutes, before turning off for a few seconds again.

Koji suggested turning the laser off for an hour or so to see if letting it cool down helps (I just turned it off ~10min ago), otherwise we may have to ship it somewhere for repairs :( 

 I turned the Yend laser back on....it hasn't turned itself off yet, but I'm watching it.  As long as we leave the shutter open, we can watch the C1:ALS-Y_REFL_DC value to see if there's light on the diode.

The end sus models (c1scx and c1scy) both contain some ALS stuff.  This stuff could maybe be moved to their own models, but whatever.

The stuff at X and Y were identical, but were code copies (BAD!).  I made a new library part for the ALS end controls: ${userapps}/isc/c1/model/ALS_END.mdl

It contains just some filter modules for the ALS end laser control, and a monitor of the ALS end REFL PD DC.  I also added a DQ block for the recorded channels (see screen shot).

When I added this new part to c1scx and c1scy I made it so the channel names would be more sensible.  Instead of "GCX" and "GCY", they are now "ALS-X" and "ALS-Y".  They will now all show up under the ALS subsystem.

This is a good modification. We just need to check how the ALS scripts are affected.

I went down to the Xend table to look at it to understand Steve's proposal, and I noticed that the doubling crystal's heater's cable is mushed between the table's edge and the black table cover wall.  This made me sad, so I disabled the heater, turned it off, then unplugged the cable from the back of the controller.  I tried to re-route the cable through the hole in the black table cover wall, but going that way the cable is ~1 foot too short.  So I put it back the way it was, but used a totally hacky solution to prevent the cable from being mushed.  I put a dog clamp right at the edge of the table so it is pushing on the table cover wall a little bit, to give the cable space to get out.  This is very mickey mouse, and kind of lame.  But we either need to make a cable extension, or somehow get the heater controller to sit much, much higher under the table.

I plugged the heater controller back in, and turned it back on to the same setpoint that it was at (I think 37.5C).  It's probably warm by now, but when I turned it back on, the heater's actual temp was 33C.

The green beam for the Xarm is flashing a pretty nice 00 mode, but isn't catching lock.

The green beam for the Yarm isn't flashing at all that I can tell from just the camera views.  I don't have energy to start this sometimes monumental task tonight, so I leave it for Future Jenne to work on.

[Jenne, Jamie]

We took a look at the Xend green, and we weren't able to make it lock.  We improved the alignment a little bit, and when we looked at the error signal, it looked nice and PDH-y, but for whatever reason, the cavity won't catch lock.

While aligning the green to the arm, Jamie noticed that the reflection from the intracavity power (not the prompt reflection) was not overlapping with the input beam or prompt reflection.  This means that the cavity axis and the input green beam were not co-linear.  I adjusted the BS and ITMX to get the IR transmitted beam (which had been near clipping on the top edge of the first (2 inch) optic it sees out of the vacuum) back near the input green beam spot on the combining beam splitter.  Then we continued tweaking the green alignment until we saw nice TEM00 flashes in the cavity.  The SNR of the error signal increased significantly after this work, since the cavity buildup was much higher.  But alas, still no lock. 

 I tweaked the alignment of ITMX and ETMX a teeny bit to get the TEM00 flashes back (the work in the previous elog was pre-dinner, so it had been a few hours), then took a screenshot of the error signal and refl dc power on the photodiode for the green xend setup.

The error signal is certainly noisy, although I think when Jamie and I were looking at it earlier this evening, the SNR was a little better.

I need to look at the modulation depth, to see if it's correct, ... maybe lock the Xarm on IR and scan the green laser PZT to check the sideband heights.

I should also check to make sure that the PD is powered, and the gain is high enough (currently the PD gain is set to 20dB).  Earlier today, when I set the gain to 30dB, Jamie said that it was saturating, so I put it back down to the 20dB where we found it.

Still no lock of the green though :(

Edit: realized I was bad and didn't label the traces on the plot:  green is refl dc power, blue is demodulated error signal.

We aligned and locked Y arm for green:

• installed camera on PSL to monitor green transmission
• aligned green path on the ETMY table to see the beam on the PSL camera
• misaligned ETMY and aligned ITMY to see reflected beam on REFL PD
• installed green transmission PD on PSL
• aligned ETMY and locked YARM to 00 mode

I've switched error channel cable to output monitor. Whitening filter is need for scattering measurements.

We aligned and locked xarm for green.

 That's really, really awesome!

 Mounts:

1. No more mounts using the 1" dia. pedestal / fork technology.
2. No more mounts using the 1/2" post / post holder technology. Both of these are loose, weak, and cause noise.
3. All steerable mirror mounts which carry the important sensing beams should use steel mounts (e.g. Polaris from Thorlabs). Aluminum mirror mounts are not to be used.
4. The mounts must be mounted to a 3/4" steel post (these are the custom ones we used in the PSL; Steve should get some more of them made).
5. The post is then mounted on an aluminum base (The BA2 or BA3 (2" x 3" aluminum) from Thorlabs is OK. The 1" x 3" ones are not). These must be fastened to the table using 2 screws, each with a SS washer.

[Manasa, Yuta]

Mechanical shutter for PSL green is installed right in front of PSL doubling crystal.
This is for blocking PSL green when we want to measure the power of green beam from the arms.

The shutter was previously sitting on AS table un-used. Channel name to control this shutter was C1:AUX-SPS_Shutter. This should be renamed as C1:AUX-GREEN_PSL_Shutter.

Next:
  We are going to restore both arm green in parallel to PRMI work.

  - Coarsely align IR input pointing and arms using A2L
  - Align X green
  - Install green DC PDs and cameras on PSL table

Both X and Y green are aligned such that the arm beams hit the broadband PD.  Also, the 4th port of the combining BS for each arm was used to put a camera and DC PD for each arm.  So, ALS-TRX and ALS-TRY are both active right now.  The camera currently labeled "GRNT" is the Ygreen transmission.  I have a camera installed for Xgreen transmission, but I have not run a cable to the video matrix.  For now, to speed things up, I'll just use the GRNT cable and move it back and forth between the cameras.

I dedicated my evening to trying to get the Ygreen beatnote (the idea being to then get the Xgreen beatnote).

First up was tweaking up the green alignment.  Per Yuta's suggestion, elog 8283, I increased the refl PD gain by 2 clicks (20dB) to keep the lock super stable while improving the alignment.  After I finished, I turned it back to its nominal value.  I discovered that I need lenses in front of the DC PD (for Ygreen, and I'm sure Xgreen will be the same).  The beam is just barely taking up the whole 2mm diode, so beam jitter translates directly to DC power change measured by the diode.  I ended up going just by the green transmission camera for the night, and achieved 225uW of Ygreen on the PSL table.  This was ~2,000 counts, but some of the beam is always falling off the diode, so my actual counts value should be higher after installing a lens. 

I then opened up the PSL green shutter, which is controlled by the button labeled "SPS" on the shutter screen - I will fix the label during some coffee break tomorrow.  Using my convenient new PSL green setup, removing the DC PD allows the beam to reflect all the way to the fuse box on the wall, so you can check beam overlap between the PSL green and the arm green at a range of distances.  I did this for Ygreen, and overlapped the Ygreen and PSL green. 

I checked the situation of the beat cabling, since Jamie has the beatbox out for whitening filter modifications tonight.  In order to get some signal into the control room, I connected the output of the BBPD amplifier (mounted on the front of the 1X2 rack) directly to the cable that goes to the control room.  (As part of my cleanup, I put all the cables back the way I found them, so that Jamie can hook everything back up like normal when he finishes the beatbox.) 

I then started watching the signal on the 8591E analyzer, but didn't magically see a peak (one can always hope....).

I decided that I should put the offset in the Y AUX laser slow servo back to the value that we had been using for a long time, ~29,000 counts.  This is where things started going south.  After letting that go for a minute or two, I thought to go check the actual temperature of the laser head.  The "T+" temperature on the controller read something like 42C, but the voltmeter which reads a voltage proportional to the temp (10C/V) was reading 5.6V.  I immediately turned off the offset, but it's going to take a while for it to cool down, so I'll come back in the morning.  I want the AUX laser to be something like 34C, so I just have to wait.  Ooops.

Still to do (for the short-term FPMI):

* Find Y beatnote.

* Align Xgreen to the arm - it's still off in pitch.

* Align Xgreen and PSL green to be overlapped, hitting the BBPD.

* Find the X beatnote.

* Reinstall the beatbox.

* Use ALS to stabilize both arms' lengths.

* Lock MICH with AS.

* Look at the noise spectrum of AS - is there more noise than we expect (Yuta and Koji saw extra noise last summer), and if so, where does it come from?  Yuta calculated (elog 6931) that the noise is much more than expected from just residual arm motion.

* Write a talk.

I ran a cable to the GTRX camera.  It is now input #2.  The videoswitch script input naming is modified to match this:  Input 2 used to be "IFOPO", and is now "GTRX".  Input 28 used to be "GRNT", and is now "GTRY".  Both green trans cameras are available from the video screen.

 This is happening again to the Yend laser.  It's been fine for the afternoon, and I've been playing with the temperature.  First I have been making big sweeps, to figure out what offset values do to the actual temperature, and more recently was starting to do a finer sweep.  Using the 'max hold' function on the 8591, I have seen the beat appear during my big sweeps.  Currently, the laser temperature measurement is at the Yend, and the RF analyzer is here in the control room, so I don't know what temp it was at when the peaks appeared.

Anyhow, while trying to reaquire lock of the TEM00 mode after changing the temperature, I find that it is very difficult (the green seems misaligned in pitch), and every minute or so the light disappears, and I can no longer see the straight-through beam on the camera.  I went down to the end, and the same symptoms of LED on the laser head turning off, power out display goes to ~40mW, are happening.  I have turned off the laser as was the solution last time, in hopes that that will fix things.

Manasa has done some work to get the Xgreen aligned, so I'll switch to trying to find that beatnote for now.

[Jenne, Manasa]

Aligned X-arm green in TEM00.

It was difficult to get the X-arm to lock in TEM00 earlier. Even when it locked, it was just a TEM00 flash. The green was mainly bad in pitch.

I started aligning with the arms flashing in IR and it was still not possible to lock. The second trial was with the arms locked in IR; I lost the green lock when the arms were aligned for IR. I aligned by overlapping the ingoing green with the reflected green visible on the steering mirror. This got the green to lock in TEM00; but still it would only stay that way for 30 sec. Jenne pointed me to Yuta's suggestion of increasing the green refl PD gain. Once I increased the PD gain, the mode stabilized.

I went ahead and centered ALS TRX on the PD and GTRX camera (on the PSL table). ALS_TRX reads 2000+ counts.

EDIT by Jenne:  This corresponds to a power of 550uW on the PSL table, measured before the first out-of-vac steering mirror.

I aligned the Xgreen and PSL green to overlap on the X beat PD, and reconnected the splitter which combines the X and Y beat signals and sends them to the control room.

I've been stepping the Xend laser temperature offset in steps of 20 counts, making sure the cavity unlocks and relocks on TEM00.  So far I have not seen any beat signals for the Xarm.  I've gone from 0 to 840.

I'll be back in a few hours to keep trying, although interested parties are invited to give it a whirl. 

This work earlier today had required moving the harmonic separator back closer to its original position, so that the green could get through without clipping.  I locked the Xarm (overriding the trigger) and realigned TRX to the PD and camera.

I turned the laser back on around 1am.  This is still happening, although right now it is turning off more often than before, maybe every 15 seconds or so.  I am going to turn off the laser for the night.

The measured laser temperature is about 45C (I have a 25,000 count offset in the Y ALS Slow control right now....higher offset, lower temp), although the measured laser temp drops to ~43.5C when the power goes down.

I took a look at the laser. It is probably the LD TEC (DTEC) failure.
As the temperature of the LD (DTMP) gradually deviated from 25degCish,
the DTEC voltage also went up from 2Vish to 2.1, 2.2... 

When DTEC reaches 3V, it stopped lasing. This cools the diode a bit, and
it start lasing but repeat the above process.

I am not sure which of the head and controller has the issue.

The situation did not improve much by reducing the pumping current (ADJ: -15).

BTW, Turning on/off the noise eater did not change the situation.

I think the head/controller set should be sent out to JDSU and find how they will say.

 JDSU can repair the Lightwave M126-1064-700 NPRO, sn 415  They do not need the Controller sn 516 

 Posted in the 40m Wiki_ PSL_ NPRO  cost repair and/or option to buy Innolight laser as replacement

 NPRO shipped out for evaluation yesterday under RMA 18022707

I locked the Xarm on green.  At the PSL table, I adjusted the steering mirror to get the beam centered on the GTRX DC PD.  We need a lens for this, and presumably for the GTRY as well. 

I then went down to the Xend, and adjusted the steering mirrors to maximize the transmitted green power.  I got as high as 2150 counts.

Either the alignment is particularly delicate, or something isn't quite right, but when I put the lid back on the optical table's box, the arm will no longer lock on the 00 mode.  It's pretty typical that the cavity will unlock while you put on the lid, but usually if you bang on the underside of the table, or toggle the green shutter, you'll get back to the 00 mode.  Tonight however, I can't get the 00 mode if the lid is on.  If I slide the lid off just enough to get my hand inside, then block the green beam with my hand, I immediately lock on the 00 mode.  Even if I gently slide the lid back on, I unlock the cavity, and with the lid on can't get better than a 01 mode in yaw.  I repeated this a few times, with the same result. 

A goal for the next few days:  Re-find the Xgreen beatnote.  Once we have the PRMI locking stably and reliably, we want to move on to PRFPMI.   

Note that I'm supposed to return one of the two green beat PDs and the power supply.
They are on the REFL path. I'll work on the restoration of the beat configuration.

X arm aligned to green.

Aligned the X arm to IR.
Used steering mirrors to align the X end green to the X arm while remaining locked for IR. X arm locks to green stably with GTRX at the PSL table measuring 235uW and corresponds to 2560counts in C!:ALS-TRX_OUT.

Next
1. PSL green alignment.
2. Search for beat note.
3. Resurrect ALS for X arm.

X-green and PSL green have been aligned so that they interfere at the beat PD for X.

I haven't scanned the X-end NPRO temperature to find the beat note. I found the earlier elog when this was done (elog 6851) and will use those temperatures to start with.

Procedure

1. Aligned X-arm to IR.
2. Aligned green to the X-arm.
3. PSL green and X-green aligned to the X-green beat PD.
4. Scanned X-green laser temperature (sweep X slow servo offset through the whole range)

I did not succeed in finding the beat note; but noticed something I cannot explain.
With green very stably aligned to the X-arm, GTRX reads 3000 counts. But when the laser temperature is changed and the green unlocks and locks to the X-arm, it locks with GTRX counts over 5000. GTRX stays at 5000 counts as long as the temperature is changing but settles down to 3000 (over a time lapse of tens of seconds) when let to stay at any specific temperature.

X green beat note found!

Key points
1. Near-field and far-field alignment on the PSL table. The near-field alignment checked by looking at the camera and the far-field alignment checked by allowing the beams to propagate by removing the DC PD.
2. Check laser temperature and get a sense of how the offset translates to the actual laser temperature.
3. Get an idea of the expected temperature of laser using the plot in elog.

Data
PSL laser temperature = 31.45 deg C

X end laser temperature = 39.24 deg C
C1-ALS-X_SLOW_SEERVO2_OFFSET = 4810
Amplitude of beat note = -40dBm

I do not understand why
1. The amplitude of beatnote falls linearly with frequency (peak traced using 'hold' option of the spectrum analyzer).
2. I found the beat note at the RF output of the PD. Earlier, while I was trying to search for the beatnote from the RFmon output of the betabox, there was a strong peak at 29.6MHz that existed even when the green shutters were closed. It's source has to be traced.

Next
Solve beatbox puzzle and lock arm using ALS.

I connected the X green beat PD output back to the beatbox, did the usual PSL alignment for green and searched for the beat note from the RFmon of the beatbox.

Yuta had used a power splitter which took Xbeat-RFmon and Ybeat-RFmon and used the SUM port to monitor the beat signals. I have removed this splitter and just used the X beat RFmon.

I found the beat note with:

Beat@58.7MHz : Amplitude -30dBm
C1:ALS-TRX_OUT16 = 3000 counts
C1:PSL-FSS_SLOWDC = 0.2250
PSL temperature = 31.52 degC
X- green temperature = 39.34 degC (OFFSET = 5140)

Next
Beatbox calibration

[Annalisa, Nic]

After connecting the PD with the reflection from the arm  to the PDH box, theY  arm has been locked on the 01 mode.  Maximizing the alignment, we obtained a 00 mode locking, but we couldn't maximize the power.

The size of the reflected beam was different with respect to the size of the incoming beam, so probably a bad mode matching was one of the issues.

Moreover, the reflected beam is very low power. We need to figure out why it is so (bad alignment? related to mode matching?)

After measuring better all the distances, I did a new mode matching calculation. I put the lenses after measuring the beam waist, so the size of the beam on the lenses was the same as expected from the calculation. Nevertheless, the beam size on the beam splitter looks bigger than expected, and also in this case green flashes into the cavity at some HOM (again 01).

I also tried to lock again the cavity and maximize the alignment, but I didn't get any improvement with respect to the previous mode matching.

Still no good locking!

After making the reflected beam size closer to the injected one, I maximized alignment. I locked again in 00 mode, but I couldn't maximize the power. 

I just realized that maybe I'm not using the correct radius of curvature for the ETMY in the simulation. Tomorrow I will start checking from that.

 Also make sure you are taking into account the substrate of the ETM.

I discussed with Yuta about the ALS servo and phase tracker and found that there was a lot of information lying around from last year but there aren't any clear elogs on how to enable ALS and obtain IR resonance.

Guide to enabling the ALS servo and find IR resonance:

The steps will explain in detail how to ressurrect the ALS servo for green X-arm and find IR resonance using ALS. The medm screens are very confusing right now.

(i) Finding the beat note

1. Get the IR to flash in TEM00 for the arm and lock it by enabling LSC (Locking the arm to IR keeps the arm cavity mirrors stable so that you can scan the temperature of the X-end laser to find the beat note).

2. Steer the X-green into the arm cavity such that the arm cavity locks in TEM00 for green as well. At this point you should also have the X-green reaching the PSL table.

3. Align the PSL doubled green (PSL-green) and the X-green in near-field (at the camera) and far-field (letting the beams to propagate beyond the Green-TRX PD).

4. Check cabling of the RF beat PD.

5. Change the X-laser temperature by sweeping the offset (C1: ALS-SLOW_SERVO2_OFFSET) in steps of 10.

6. Find the beat note and tune the alignment at the beat PD to maximize the beatnote amplitude. Disable LSC for X arm.

(ii) The GREEN HORNET explained

'Input signal conditioning' block takes I and Q signals after the delay frequency discriminator (DFD) in the beat box and these signals pass through C1ALS_BEATX_FINE filter banks. The output signal then enters the phase rotation matrix of the phase tracker. The phase tracker gives 'PHASE_OUT' which is the error signal that is fed to the ETM servo filter module (DOF filters)  through the 'Input matrix' in the medm. 

An offset can also be fed to the phase tracker which will scan the beat frequency (used to find IR resonance).

(iii) Scripts

1. easyALS.py - This runs from 'ON plus' or 'ON minus' buttons in the C1ALS_COMPACT. 

The script clears history of 'fine_phase' filter module and increases gain of the servo in steps ('ON plus' for positive gain and 'ON minus' for negative gain).

2. findIRresonance.py - This runs from 'IRres' button in the C1ALS_COMPACT.

It adds offset to the phase tracker in steps which scans the beat frequency to find IR resonance.

P.S. Check the scripts before enabling the servo so that the right filter modules are being turned ON. Using the wrong set of filter modules can kick the ETM.

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X arm ALS progress:

I found the beat note and got ALS to work reasonably for the Xarm without kicking the ETM. I did this by manually toggling buttons and changing gains. The scripts need editing.

To do:

Modify the scripts to work as we want them to.

The ALS medm is SSSOOOO confusing. It definitely needs to be fixed (remove all unwanted parts of the screen that existed 'pre-phase tracker').

Find IR resonance.

 For the mode matching calculation I was using the ETMY focal length that I found on Kiwamu's plot on the wiki page. 

Taking into account also the substrate, the focal length turns out to be

fl = ((n-1)*(1/R1 - 1/R2 + (n-1)d/(nR1R2)))^(-1) = -125.81 m

with n = 1.46071 (refraction index of fused silica at 532nm)

R1 = 5625 m (radius of curvature of the first surface)

R2 = 57.37 m (radius of curvature of the second surface)

d = 25mm (thickness)

The value of the focal length is sligthly different from the one I was using before in the calculation, but maybe it is enough to change the coupling.

The mode matching solution I found is very sensitive to the lenses position. 

The beam waist position can vary up to 20m varying by 1cm the first lens position, while it is slightly less sensitive to the second lens displacement.

As shown in the picture, along the green beam path there is also a 1m focal length lens. It's position is fixed, because it is along the IR transmetted beam path also. I tried to get a better solution without it, but I found that the waist position was still strongly dependent on one of the two lenses position, so it would not solve the problem to remove this lens.

I think that the main issue of this mode matching is related to the "space contraints", because the two lenses' positions can vary in a very small space, even though the green beam path on the table is quite long.

Eventually, I put the MM lenses found from this last simulation on the table, and it seems to work, since I've seen very strong 00 flashes. Unfortunately, while trying to maximize the alignment I broke it  and I have to do it again, but I feel confident! 

After restoring alignment I could see again strong 00 flashes (about 250-300 counts on ALS-TRY). So I locked the arm with IR and after enabling the PDH servo for the green locking, I also locked the green on the Y arm in 00 mode. Then I moved the two mode matching lenses to maximize the power into the 00 mode, but I didn't reach more than 30-35 counts.

Green power injected into the Y arm                    0.680mW

Green power reflected back                                  0.090mW

Green power transmitted on the PSL                  few uW

I would expect more power on the PSL table (maybe 10x more).

Hmmm.  You seem to be saying that more light is reflected than is injected. Is this a units problem? Or was some IR on the power meter during the 'reflected' measurement? 
We should look at it with fresh eyes in the morning. 

> Hmmm.  You seem to be saying that more light is reflected than is injected. Is this a units problem? Or was some IR on the power meter during the 'reflected' measurement? 
> We should look at it with fresh eyes in the morning. 

Also, if you have been measuring the power of green refl at the rejection port of the green faraday, the polarization of the light entering the green faraday should be checked once again to make sure that you are measuring 
only the reflected power from the arm cavity.

> > Hmmm.  You seem to be saying that more light is reflected than is injected. Is this a units problem? Or was some IR on the power meter during the 'reflected' measurement? 
> > We should look at it with fresh eyes in the morning. 
> 
> Also, if you have been measuring the power of green refl at the rejection port of the green faraday, the polarization of the light entering the green faraday should be checked once again to make sure that you are measuring 
> only the reflected power from the arm cavity.

Sorry Sorrry Sorry!!
It was 0.090 mW, I just forgot a zero!!!
Sorry!

Is this reflection measured with the cavity locked or unlocked?

So what's the actual designed reflectivity of the ETM for green? No one seems to be able to give me a straight answer about this.

Looking at the reflected beam when the beam is misaligned makes it look like it's << 0.9. Is that expected given the coating spec?

You say the cavity scan goes as high as 300cts but you can only lock to 30cts, are you locked on the sideband?

Stabilized ALS and beat frequency sweep realized.

Procedure:

1. Enable appropriate filter modules and set appropriate servo gains.

2. Clear history of C1:ALS-BEATX_FINE_PHASE

3. Enable the servo loop. I had set limits on the servo loop and ramp time for gain switching so that I don't kick the ETMY hard.
Gains were decided such that the error signal C1:ALS-BEATX_FINE_PHASE_OUT was minimized.

4. Beat frequency sweep is realized by stepping up on C1:ALS-BEATX_FINE_OFFSET_OFFSET (from 0 to 2100 in this case).

Video1 shows the difference that can be seen at the RF spectrum analyzer when ALS is enabled.

Video2 shows the beat frequency sweep as seen on the spectrum analyzer.

I could not get 'getdata' to work as I wanted. So I have attached the error signal trend before and after the ALS servo loop is enabled.

Thank you Jenne for helping retrieve more sensible data!

More info:
The beat note is very strong and we can clearly see its harmonics as well. Attached is the picture showing the several harmonics.
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Peak frequency(MHz)    Power(dBm)
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 47                                    -2.77
 93.5                                -27.56
 139                                 -32.75
 185.4                              -45.64
 231.9                              -57.10
 278.4                              -59.42
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To do:
1. Obtain IR resonance.
2. Check the digital anti-whitening filter after the beatbox.
3. The effect of the harmonics should be figured out.
4. Write scripts to enable ALS and findIRresonance.

-The reflection is measured when the cavity is unlocked. I measured it with the power meter in front of the PD, so I interrupted the PDH loop.

- From the specs of ETM we have:

T(S1,HR,532nm)=5.0%+/-3% (+/-1% target),  R(S2,AR,532nm)<1000ppm

It means that I should have about 600-550 uW in reflection, but I don't. I can say that there are many losses, and maybe some power is clipping inside the Faraday. Nonetheless, the reflected beam looks less strong than the injected one, so most of the losses should be on the ETM table.

(- The reflected power is 0.090 mW, I just wrote it wrong yesterday, sorry!)

- The last question is actually very interesting. Maybe I was locking on the sideband when I locked to 30 cts, but if it is the case I cannot really explain why today I locked on the carrier (I locked the cavity to about 200-250 cts), and everything I changed was the PD gain and the amplitude on signal generator connected to the PDH box. It seems like there should be some sign flip somewhere, but I need to think about.

It's nice that we are now able to scan the cavity again. We got close to PRMI+one arm one step further.
The calibration of the scan frequency and the evaluation of the in-loop/out-of-loop error signal in terms of (Hz/rtHz) would be necessary.

The beat amplitude looks actually huge aIthough I don't know where you are monitoring.
Talk to Jamie to figure out how much the signal should be at the monitoring point.
If it is more than we are supposed to have, put an attenuator somewhere.

I have edited the daq channels in c1als model.

Added: DQ channels for the error signal (phase tracker output)
Removed: DQ channels that existed for the beat_coarse signals

Installed and restarted the model on c1ioo.
Frame builder restarted.
Changes were committed to the svn. 

What I did: 

1. Followed the same procedure to enable ALS (http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/8703)
2. Enabling ALS servo stabilized the arm fluctuation and the beat frequency.
3. Beat frequency sweep was done (with ALS servo enabled) by changing offset C1:ALS-BEATX_FINE_OFFSET_OFFSET in steps.

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