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Tue Feb 2 18:35:47 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Lightwave NPRO moved from PSL table to SP table
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Tue Feb 2 18:54:02 2016, Koji, Update, Green Locking, Lightwave NPRO moved from PSL table to SP table
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Wed Feb 3 23:23:47 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Lightwave NPRO moved from PSL table to SP table 
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Thu Feb 4 09:16:46 2016, Koji, Update, Green Locking, Lightwave NPRO moved from PSL table to SP table
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Fri Feb 5 00:23:01 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Lightwave NPRO moved from PSL table to SP table   
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Fri Feb 5 16:50:24 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, First pass at mode-matching   
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Mon Feb 8 15:36:37 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Alternative mode-matching scheme
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Tue Feb 9 04:37:10 2016, ericq, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap initiated
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Tue Feb 9 11:49:47 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap initiated
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Tue Feb 9 19:15:36 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - updates 
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Wed Feb 10 17:57:15 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - updates
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Fri Feb 12 17:05:40 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - green light recovered but no flashes in the arm
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Fri Feb 12 19:07:52 2016, Koji, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - green light recovered but no flashes in the arm
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Fri Feb 19 00:42:19 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - beam ellipticity from laser?  
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Mon Feb 22 13:56:52 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap -reflected beam from ETM aligned
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Tue Feb 23 23:01:16 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - Green PDH locking 
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Wed Feb 24 19:29:13 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - Green PDH locked
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Fri Feb 26 01:52:44 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - Green PDH OLTF
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Mon Feb 29 17:17:26 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - still no green beatnote
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Wed Mar 2 17:42:19 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - some progress
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Thu Mar 3 01:25:50 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - 2 IR + 1 green beatnotes found
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Fri Mar 4 01:11:41 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - both green beatnotes found
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Sat Mar 5 23:31:01 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - some updates    
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Mon Mar 7 23:51:36 2016, gautam, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - some improvement   
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Tue Mar 8 18:22:20 2016, rana, Update, Green Locking, Laser swap - some improvement
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Message ID: 12012
Entry time: Fri Feb 26 01:52:44 2016
In reply to: 12009
Reply to this: 12013
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Author: |
gautam |
Type: |
Update |
Category: |
Green Locking |
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Laser swap - Green PDH OLTF |
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I spent some more time today trying to optimize the modulation frequency and amplitude for the X end PDH, and the alignment/mode-matching of the green to the arm. Some notes:
- After my best efforts to tweak the alignment and mode-matching into the arm by using the two lenses on translational stages, I was able to get the green TRX up to about 0.06. As mentioned in a previous elog, this is much lower than what we had with the old setup, even though we have more green power going into the arm now. However, the mode looks pretty bright and clean on the monitors. Could the large ellipticity in the beam is the limiting factor now?
- I measured the transfer function (attachment #1) of the PDH loop once I had settled on a modulation frequency and amplitude that I judged to be optimal (indicated on the plot). The UGF is ~7kHz. The PDH error signal as viewed on the oscilloscope is comparable to what we had with the Innolight. All this optimization was done empirically, I have yet to do the PM measurement. I can't seem to get more than 0.2 mW of IR arriving at the fiber coupler, the number I found in some older elogs is 2mW with the old setup.
- I did some alignment of the PSL green and the X arm green onto the beat PD on the PSL table. After the power glitches, the doubling ovens do not automatically turn on, I had turned on the end ovens earlier, and today I turned on the PSL oven. I noticed some strange behaviour initially - though the setpoint was 36.9 deg C, when I enabled the heater, there was a large overshoot (it went to almost 50deg C). I disabled the heating at this point, and re-enabled it once the oven had cooled down to ~35 deg C. I didn't observe anything like this while turning on the end ovens. But the PID parameters at the PSL table are very different, so perhaps this large overshoot and ringing is to be expected. In any case, I managed to get this working. But I was not able to find a beatnote tonight.
To do:
- Verify that the two beams are aligned on the beat PD - I think I've done this carefully by checking the near and far-field, but I will double check.
- Find the beat note and look at the ALS noise performance with this new setup to see if it is usable even though GTRX is only 20% of what it used to be..
- Fix the coupling of the IR pickoff into the fiber at the endtable. Once this is done, I can do the PM measurement, and finding a beatnote may be easier given the IR beat PDs have a much wider bandwidth...
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