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Thu Jan 4 12:46:27 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber ALS assay 
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Thu Jan 11 14:22:40 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber ALS assay
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Thu Jan 11 20:51:20 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber ALS assay
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Tue Jan 16 21:50:53 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber ALS assay
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Thu Jan 18 00:35:00 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber ALS assay 
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Fri Jan 19 11:34:21 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber ALS assay
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Fri Jan 19 23:04:11 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber ALS assay
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Wed Jan 24 00:33:31 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber ALS assay
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Wed Jan 24 10:45:14 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber ALS assay
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Thu Jan 25 23:59:14 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber ALS assay
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Fri Jan 26 20:03:09 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber ALS assay
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Wed Jan 31 15:45:22 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber ALS assay
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Wed Jan 31 16:29:42 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Modulation depths 
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Wed Jan 31 16:33:53 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, ALS electronics at LSC rack
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Wed Jan 31 22:32:11 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, ALS signal chain + power budget 
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Thu Feb 1 01:24:56 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, D0902745 revamp underway
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Fri Feb 2 00:26:34 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, D0902745 revamp underway
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Fri Feb 2 13:16:55 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, ALS signals whitening switching 
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Mon Feb 5 14:11:01 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Huge harmonics in ALS channels 
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Mon Feb 5 22:57:28 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Huge harmonics in ALS channels
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Tue Feb 6 11:13:26 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Possible source of ground loop identified
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Tue Feb 6 22:55:51 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Possible source of ground loop identified
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Thu Feb 8 00:33:20 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, D990694 characterization / THD measurement plan
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Thu Feb 8 01:27:16 2018, Koji, Update, ALS, D990694 characterization / THD measurement plan
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Fri Feb 9 13:37:44 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, THD measurement trial
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Thu Feb 8 12:00:09 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, D990694 is NOT differential receiving
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Thu Feb 8 13:13:14 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, D990694 pulled out  
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Thu Feb 8 18:10:36 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, D990694 pulled out
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Wed Feb 7 15:51:15 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, D0902745 revamp complete
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Fri Feb 16 01:34:40 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, D0902745 in-situ testing 
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Tue Feb 20 23:08:27 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, D0902745 in-situ testing
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Thu Feb 22 00:09:11 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, D0902745 in-situ testing  
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Sun Feb 25 00:03:12 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Daughter board prototyping    
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Mon Feb 26 20:55:56 2018, rana, Update, ALS, Daughter board prototyping
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Tue Feb 27 21:10:45 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Daughter board testing  
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Wed Feb 28 19:13:25 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, ADC test for differential receiving in c1lsc
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Fri Mar 2 01:45:06 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, new look ALS electronics
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Mon Mar 5 17:27:34 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, new look ALS electronics - characterization
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Thu Mar 8 00:40:25 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, new look ALS electronics - characterization
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Thu Mar 8 19:38:37 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, digital unwhitening of daughter board
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Thu Mar 8 23:50:27 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, First look at new ALS electronics
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Fri Mar 9 01:07:01 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, First look at new ALS electronics
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Mon Mar 12 22:08:31 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Noisy POX
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Mon Mar 12 23:57:31 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Noisy POX 
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Mon Mar 19 15:02:29 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Noisy MC sensing
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Thu Feb 1 15:31:12 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, ALS signal chain + power budget
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Wed Feb 7 10:16:26 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, ALS signal chain + power budget
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Thu Jan 25 13:18:41 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber ALS assay
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Message ID: 13583
Entry time: Thu Jan 25 13:18:41 2018
In reply to: 13562
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Author: |
gautam |
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Update |
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Fiber ALS assay |
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I was looking at this a little more closely. As I understand it, the purpose of the audio differential IF amplifier is:
- To provide desired amplification at DC-audio frequencies
- To low pass the 2f component of the mixer output
Attachment #1 shows, the changes to the TF of this stage as a result of changing R19->50ohm, R17->500ohm. For the ALS application, we expect the beat signal to be in the range 20-100MHz, so the 2f frequency component of the mixer output will be between 40-200MHz, where the proposed change preserves >50dB attenuation. The Q of the ~500kHz resonance because of the series LCR at the input is increased as a result of reducing R17, so we have slightly more gain there.
At the meeting yesterday, Koji suggested incorporating some whitening in the preamp itself, but I don't see a non-hacky way to use the existing PCB footprint and just replace components to get whitening at audio frequencies. I'm going to try and measure the spectrum of the I and Q demodulated outputs with the actual beat signal to see if the lack of whitening is going to limit the ALS noise in some frequency band of interest.
Does this look okay?
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The demod circuit board is configured to have gain of x100 post demod (conversion loss of the mixer is ~-8dB). This works well for the PDH cavity locking type of demod scheme, where the loop squishes the error signal in lock, so most of the time, the RF signal is tiny, and so a gain of x100 is good. For ALS, the application needs are rather different. So we lowered the gain of the "Audio IF amplifier" stage of the circuit from x100 to x10, by effecting the resistor swaps 10ohms->50ohms, 1kohm->500ohms (more details about this later).
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