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Thu Aug 24 00:39:47 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, DRMI locking attempt
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Fri Aug 25 01:20:52 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, DRMI locking attempt
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Wed Aug 30 19:49:33 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, REFL55 demod board debugging
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Thu Aug 31 00:52:52 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, REFL55 whitening board debugging 
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Thu Aug 31 03:31:15 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, DRMI re-locked! 
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Mon Sep 4 16:30:06 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, Oplev loop tweaking
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Mon Sep 4 18:18:29 2017, rana, Update, LSC, dewhite switching: FOTON settings
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Tue Sep 5 02:07:49 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, Low Noise DRMI attempt 
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Wed Sep 6 23:06:30 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, Coil de-whitening switching investigation 
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Fri Sep 15 16:00:33 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, Sensing measurement
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Fri Sep 15 17:08:58 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, Coil de-whitening switching investigation
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Sat Sep 16 10:56:19 2017, rana, Update, LSC, Coil de-whitening switching investigation
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Fri Sep 22 18:12:27 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, DAC noise measurement (again)
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Wed Sep 27 22:25:21 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, DAC noise measurement (again)
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Thu Sep 28 06:35:44 2017, Chris, Update, LSC, DAC noise measurement (again)
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Thu Sep 28 23:50:04 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, DAC noise measurement (again)
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Fri Sep 29 18:36:25 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, DAC noise measurement (again)
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Tue Oct 3 01:32:39 2017, gautam, Update, LSC, Laser intensity noise coupling to MICH (simulated) 
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Message ID: 13291
Entry time: Tue Sep 5 02:07:49 2017
In reply to: 13289
Reply to this: 13300
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Author: |
gautam |
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Update |
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LSC |
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Low Noise DRMI attempt |
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Summary:
Tonight, I was able to lock the DRMI, turn on the whitening filters for the sensing PDs, and also turn on the coil de-whitening filters for ITMX, ITMY and BS. However, I didn't see the expected improvement in the MICH spectrum between ~50-300 Hz . Sad.
Details:
I basically went through the list of tasks I made in the previous elog. Some notes:
- The UGF servos suggested that I had to lower the SRCL gain. I lowered it from -0.055 to -0.025. OLTF measurement using In1/In2 method suggested UGF ~120Hz. I don't know why this should be. Plot to be uploaded later.
- Since we aren't actuating on the ITMs, I was able to leave their coils de-whitened all the time.
- For the BS, it was trickier - I had to play around a little with the "Tolerance" setting in Foton while looking at transients (using DTT, not a scope for now) while switching the filters.
- This transition isn't so robust yet - but eventually I found a setting that worked, and I was able to successfully turn on the de-whitening thrice tonight (but also failed about the same number of times). [GV Oct 6 2017: Remember that the PD whitening has to be turned on for this transition to be successful - otherwise the RMS from the high frequencies saturate the DAC.]
- The locks were pretty stable. One was ~10mins, one was ~15mins, and I broke both deliberately because I was out of ideas as to why the part of the MICH error signal spectrum that I thought was due to DAC noise didn't improve.
- I've made a bunch of shell scripts to help with the various switchings - but now that I think of it, I should make these python scripts.
Attachment #1: Comparison of MICH_ERR with and without the BS de-whitening. Note that the two ITMs have their coils de-whitened in both sets of traces.
Attachment #2: Spectra of MICH output and one of the BS coil outputs in both states. The DAC RMS increases by ~30x when the de-whitening is engaged, but is still well within limits.
So it looks like the switching of paths is happening correctly. The "CDS BIO STATUS" MEDM screen also shows the appropriate bits toggling when I turn the de-whitening on/off. There is no broadband coherence with MCF between 50-300 Hz so it seems unlikely that this could be frequency noise.
Clearly I am missing something. But anyways I have a good amount of data, may be useful to put together the post CDS/electronics modification DRMI noise budget. More analysis to follow.
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