The procedure is that the optic is kicked to excite it, and allowed to ring down for ~1ksec, with damping turned off. The procedure is repeated 15 times for some averaging.
Attachment #1 - sensor spectra from yesterday.
Attachment #2 - peaks using the naive diagonalization matrix from yesterday.
Attachment #3 - Data from ~1 year ago.
The y-axis in all plots is labelled as "cts/rtHz" but these are the DQed channels, which come after a "cts2um" CDS filter - so if that filter is accurate, them the y-axes may be read as um/rtHz.
I wonder if the September 2020 earthquake somehow damaged the PRM suspension, as this experiment would suggest that the problem is not only with the actuation. The data was gathered with the neutral position of the PRM (between kicks) being well aligned for PRMI, and the DC values of all the shadow sensors in this position is close to half-light (~1V, except for side which was more like 4V). Hard to say what exactly is happening since only the PIT DoF has the weird asymmetric peak shape instead of the expected Lorentzian - I would have thought that a damaged wire or broken magnet would affect all 4 DoFs but the F.C. spring experience on ETMY showed that anything is possible. |