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Wed Feb 20 23:55:51 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, ALS delay line electronics
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Thu Mar 7 01:06:38 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, ALS delay line electronics
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Tue Mar 12 22:51:25 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, ALS delay line electronics
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Wed Mar 13 01:27:30 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, ALS delay line electronics 
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Sun Mar 17 00:42:20 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, NF1611 cannot be shot-noise limited?
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Thu Mar 28 19:40:02 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, BeatMouth with NF1611s assembled   
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Fri Mar 29 21:00:06 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, BeatMouth with NF1611s installed 
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Sun Mar 31 15:05:53 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber beam-splitters not PM
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Wed Apr 3 09:04:01 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, Note about new fiber couplers
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Wed Apr 3 12:32:33 2019, Koji, Update, ALS, Note about new fiber couplers
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Fri Apr 5 00:33:58 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, Promising IR ALS noise 
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Fri Apr 5 11:49:30 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, PSL + X green beat recovery
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Mon Apr 8 00:04:08 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, IR ALS noise budget
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Mon Apr 8 18:28:25 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, EX Green PDH checkout 
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Mon Apr 8 23:52:09 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, EX Green PDH error monitor calibrated   
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Tue Apr 9 00:16:22 2019, rana, Update, ALS, EX Green PDH error monitor calibrated
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Tue Apr 9 00:18:19 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, EX Green PDH error monitor calibrated
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Tue Apr 9 18:44:00 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, EX Green PDH discriminant measurement 
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Tue Apr 9 19:07:12 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, IR ALS noise budget 
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Thu Apr 11 01:10:05 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, Large 2kHz peak (and harmonics) in ALS X
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Wed Apr 17 00:50:17 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, Large 2kHz peak (and harmonics) in ALS X no more
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Wed Apr 17 11:01:49 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, Large 2kHz peak (and harmonics) in ALS X no more
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Wed May 29 18:13:25 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, Fiber beam-splitters are now PM
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Fri May 31 15:55:16 2019, gautam, Update, ALS, PSL + X beat restored
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Message ID: 14475
Entry time: Thu Mar 7 01:06:38 2019
In reply to: 14468
Reply to this: 14477
14478
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Author: |
gautam |
Type: |
Update |
Category: |
ALS |
Subject: |
ALS delay line electronics |
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Summary:
The restoration of the delay-line electronics is complete. The chassis has not been re-installed yet, I will put it back in tomorrow. I think the calculations and measurements are in good agreement.
Details:
Apart from restoring the transimpedance of the I/F amplifier, I also had to replace the two differential-sending AD8672s in the RF Log detector circuit for both LO and RF paths in the ALS-X board. I performed the same tests as I did the last time on the electronics bench, results will be uploaded to the DCC page for the 40m version of the board. I think the board is performing as advertised, although there is some variation in the noise of the two pairs of I/Q readouts. Sticking with the notation of the HP Application Note for delay line frequency discriminators, here are some numebrs for our delay line system:
- measured by driving the LO/RF inputs with Fluke/Marconi at 7dBm/0dBm (which are the expected signal levels accounting for losses between the BeatMouth and the demodulator) and looking at the Vpp of the resulting I/F beat signal on a scope. This is assuming we use the differential output of the demodulator (divide by 2 if we use the single-ended output instead).
[see measurement]
(to be confirmed by measurement by driving a known FM signal with the Marconi)
- Assuming 1mW of light on our beat PDs and perfect contrast, the phase noise due to shot noise is
which is ~ 5 orders of magnitude lower than the electronics noise in equivalent frequency noise at 100 Hz.
- The noise due to the FET mixer seems quite complicated to calculate - but as a lower bound, the Johnson current noise due to the 182 ohms at each RF input is ~ 10 pA/rtHz. With a transimpedance gain of 1 kohm, this corresponds to ~10 nV/rtHz.
In conclusion: the ALS noise is very likely limited by ADC noise (~1 Hz/rtHz frequency noise for 5uV/rtHz ADC noise). We need some whitening. Why whiten the demodulated signal instead of directly incorporating the whitening into the I/F amplifier input stage? Because I couldn't find a design that satisfies all the following criteria (this was why my previous design was flawed):
- The commutating part of the FET mixer must be close to ground potential always.
- The loading of the FET mixer is mostly capacitive.
- The DC gain of the I/F amplifier is low, with 20-30dB gain at 100 Hz, and then rolled off again at high frequencies for stability and sum-frequency rejection. In fact, it's not even obvious to me that we want a low DC gain - the quantity
is directly proportional to the DC transimpedance gain, and we want that to be large for more sensitive frequency discriminating.
So Rich suggested separating the transimpedance and whitening operations. The output noise of the differential outputs of the demodulator unit is <100 nV/rtHz at 100 Hz, so we should be able to saturate that noise level with a whitening unit whose input referred noise level is < 100 nV/rtHz. I'm going to see if there are any aLIGO whitening board spares - the existing whitening boards are not a good candidate I think because of the large DC signal level. |