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Mon Mar 19 23:44:00 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, IMC loop checkup 
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Tue Mar 20 16:53:03 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, IMC loop checkup
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Tue Mar 20 21:08:03 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, IMC loop checkup
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Tue Mar 20 22:44:45 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, IMC loop checkup
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Wed Mar 21 15:52:45 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, MC error point calibration  
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Wed Mar 21 17:31:21 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, MC error point calibration
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Wed Mar 21 21:13:44 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, IMC noise budget
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Tue Mar 27 01:39:44 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, PSL noise eater was off
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Tue Mar 27 19:32:03 2018, arijit, Update, IOO, PSL noise eater was off 
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Tue Mar 27 23:37:35 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, MC REFL PD removed
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Wed Mar 28 21:31:39 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, MC REFL PD removed
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Wed Mar 28 21:47:37 2018, arijit, Update, IOO, MCREFL_PD Optical response measurement 
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Thu Mar 29 17:57:36 2018, arijit, Update, IOO, MCREFL_PD Optical response measurement
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Fri Mar 30 06:14:31 2018, rana, Update, IOO, MCREFL_PD Optical response measurement
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Fri Mar 30 22:37:36 2018, Kevin, Update, IOO, MCREFL_PD Optical response measurement
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Thu Apr 5 04:36:56 2018, Kevin, Update, IOO, Coil driver noise  
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Thu Apr 5 12:13:18 2018, Koji, Update, IOO, Coil driver noise
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Fri Apr 6 21:39:09 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, MC2 suspension health checkup
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Mon Apr 9 18:46:03 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, Further debugging 
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Tue Apr 10 14:28:44 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, Further debugging
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Wed Apr 11 01:34:31 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, Activities today
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Thu Apr 12 18:12:49 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, NPRO channels hijacked  
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Fri Apr 13 11:02:41 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, EX fiber polarization drift
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Fri Apr 13 17:56:26 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fibers switched out
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Sat Apr 14 14:42:09 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fibers switched out
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Tue Apr 17 14:08:29 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fibers switched out
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Fri Apr 20 00:26:34 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, Fibers switched out
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Sat Apr 21 20:25:12 2018, gautam, Update, ALS, PSL fiber pickoff status
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Thu Apr 19 00:03:51 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, More IMC NBing 
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Thu Apr 19 17:15:35 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, More IMC NBing 
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Sun May 20 23:43:50 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, Coil driver noise re-measurement    
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Tue May 22 17:26:25 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, MC1 Coil Driver pulled out
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Tue May 22 23:28:01 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, MC1 Coil Driver pulled out
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Wed May 23 17:58:48 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, MC1 Coil Driver pulled out 
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Wed May 30 10:17:46 2018, gautam, Update, IOO, MC1 Coil Driver pulled out 
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Fri Apr 6 22:23:53 2018, Kevin, Update, IOO, Coil driver noise
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Message ID: 13757
Entry time: Tue Apr 17 14:08:29 2018
In reply to: 13754
Reply to this: 13773
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Author: |
gautam |
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Update |
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ALS |
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Fibers switched out |
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A follow-up on the discussion from today's lunch meeting - Rana pointed out that rotation of the fiber in the mount by ~5degrees cannot account for such large power fluctuations. Here is a 3 day trend from my polarization monitoring setup. Assuming the output fiber coupler rotates in its mount by 5 degrees, and assuming the input light is aligned to one of the fiber's special axes, then we expect <1% fluctuation in the power. But the attached trend shows much more drastic variations, more like 25% in the p-polarization (which is what I assume we use for the beat, since the majority of light is in this polarization, both for PSL and EX). I want to say that the periodicity in the power fluctuations is ~12hours, and so this fluctuation is somehow being modulated by the lab temperature, but unfortunately, we don't have the PSL enclosure temperature logged in order to compare coherence.
Steve: your plots look like temperature driven
The "beat length" of the fiber is quoted as <=2.7mm. This means that a linearly polarized beam that is not oriented along one of the special axes of the fiber will be rotated through 180 degrees over 2.7mm of propagation through the fiber. I can't find a number for the coefficient of thermal expansion of the fiber, but if temperature driven fluctuations are changing the length of the fiber by 300um, it would account for ~12% power fluctuation between the two polarizations in the monitoring setup, which is in the ballpark we are seeing... |
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