Last week, we could find an alignment which realizes LO beam and AS beam both unclipped, but it was not consistent with an alignment which realize BHD fringe (40m/17046).
Today, we tweaked the alignment of SR2, AS1, AS4 to have BHD fringe with reduced LO and AS beam clipping.
AS beams on AP table and BHD both still look clipped, but much better now.
Ideally, SR2 and AS1 will unclip AS beam, and LO1, LO2, AS4 would make BHD fringe, but it is hard right now since LO beam seem to have little room and LO2 have little actuation range.
BHD optics on ITMY table, including camera, and AS55/ASDC were realigned after the aglinment work (Note that DCPD_A path have a pick-off for camera path, and this pick-off mirror have quite significant incident angle dependence of R/T ratio).
Current alignment scheme:
Current alignment scheme I figured out is the following.
- Check Y green. If it is transmitted at good spot on GTRY camera, Yarm is OK. If not, tweak ITMY/ETMY. alignment.
- Mis-align AS4, align TT1, TT2, LO1 to have DCPD_A_OUT of ~130 and DCPD_B_OUT of ~125.
- Align PR3, PR2 to maximize TRY_OUT to ~1.05.
- Tweak ITMY/ETMY if the beam spot on them are not good.
- Align BS, ITMX to have good MICH fringe and TRX_OUT to ~1.1.
- Tweak ITMX/ETMX if the beam spot on them are not good.
- Misalign ETMY, ETMX, ITMY to have LO-ITMX fringe in BHD DCPDs, and align AS beam with SR2 and AS4 differentially, with ratio of AS4/SR2=3.6.
DC PD values in various configurations:
Both arms locked with POX/POY, MICH free, PRM/SRM misaligned
Mean Max Min
C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM : 14088.57 13947.52 14167.04
C1:LSC-ASDC_OUT16 : 0.16 -0.02 0.34
C1:LSC-POPDC_OUT16 : 369.34 -74.88 854.34
C1:LSC-REFLDC_OUT16 : 0.03 -0.00 0.06
C1:LSC-TRY_OUT16 : 1.00 0.95 1.04
C1:LSC-TRX_OUT16 : 1.07 1.04 1.08
Only LO beam to BHD DCPDs
Mean Max Min
C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM : 14121.32 14057.71 14159.38
C1:HPC-DCPD_A_OUT16 : 129.80 128.37 130.68 (Consistent with, 40m/17046. Power as expected within 20%. Squashed shape)
C1:HPC-DCPD_B_OUT16 : 123.42 121.92 124.48
ITMX single bounce (ITMY, ETMX, ETMY, PRM, SRM, LO misalgined)
Mean Max Min
C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM : 14105.13 14000.89 14171.91
C1:HPC-DCPD_A_OUT16 : 92.54 91.45 93.30 (Consistent with 40m/17040, Power as expected within 40%. Clipped to the left in camera)
C1:HPC-DCPD_B_OUT16 : 137.70 136.55 138.53 (Note that DCPD_A/B ratio is different from LO, due to BHD BS R/T unbalance; 40m/17044)
C1:LSC-ASDC_OUT16 : 0.10 0.09 0.10 (Power as expected 40m/16952. Clipped to the right in camera)
C1:LSC-POPDC_OUT16 : 309.19 288.93 327.10 (Power as expected within 30% 40m/17042.)
C1:LSC-REFLDC_OUT16 : 0.02 0.01 0.02
ITMY single bounce (ITMX, ETMX, ETMY, PRM, SRM, LO misalgined)
Mean Max Min
C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM : 14112.09 14025.37 14154.51
C1:HPC-DCPD_A_OUT16 : 92.58 92.01 93.26
C1:HPC-DCPD_B_OUT16 : 137.68 136.81 138.27
C1:LSC-ASDC_OUT16 : 0.10 0.09 0.10
C1:LSC-POPDC_OUT16 : 308.48 290.49 319.73
C1:LSC-REFLDC_OUT16 : 0.02 0.01 0.02
MICH fringe only (ETMX, ETMY, PRM, SRM, LO misalgined)
Mean Max Min
C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM : 14090.34 13979.15 14143.86
C1:HPC-DCPD_A_OUT16 : 325.60 91.92 714.57
C1:HPC-DCPD_B_OUT16 : 400.27 18.37 762.57
C1:LSC-ASDC_OUT16 : 0.19 -0.05 0.41
C1:LSC-POPDC_OUT16 : 595.66 -119.21 1334.11
C1:LSC-REFLDC_OUT16 : 0.03 -0.01 0.07
LO-ITMX fringe only (ITMY, ETMX, ETMY, PRM, SRM misalgined)
Mean Max Min
C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM : 14062.58 13968.05 14113.67
C1:HPC-DCPD_A_OUT16 : 224.31 89.57 371.66
C1:HPC-DCPD_B_OUT16 : 259.74 85.37 421.86
Next:
- Measure contrast (40m/17020) and estimate mode-matching of LO-AS again (40m/17041)
- Now that we have better LO-AS fringe, lock LO phase in MICH (40m/17037)
- Now that Dolphin issue was fixed, try double-demodulation to lock LO phase |