My goal for tonight was to lock PRMI,
 grasp the current situation by my eye,
  and capture some images using Sensoray.

They are done, but what are we going to do to solve the problem? The beam looks terrible than I had expected.


What I did:
  1. DC output of POP55 PD was plugged out from 1Y2 rack, so we plugged it in.

  2. Aligned POP beam to POP25 PD and moved POP camera position at ITMX table.
 
  3. Mis-aligned PRM and SRM, aligned both arms, aligned FPMI as usual.

  4. Mis-aligned PRM and ETMs, aligned MI and locked MI.

  5. Aligned PRM, and carrier locked PRMI. PRM alignment was not saved since June 7, so slider values which give good alignment was pretty much drifted (~0.4 in C1:LSC_PRM_(PIT|YAW)_COMM).

  6. Took some images of POP, REFL, AS during PRMI lock.




PRMI commissioning plan:
  From the beam shape at POP, REFL, and AS, the problem clearly comes from the mode-matching, including clipping, longitudinal mismatch, and alignment mismatch. Koji's idea of flipped-PRM seems reasonable, so I think we should better measure something to prove this.
  To prove this,

  1. Simulate what the beam look like in POP, REFL, AS if PRM was flipped. Compare them with actual captured images. I need to study on unstable cavities.
  2. Calculate power recycling gain and compare.
  3. Misalign PRM and capture the image of primary, secondary, ... reflections like Koji did in elog #6421. Measure the beam sizes of these reflections using some image analysis(Python Imaging Library? Is there anyone good at this?) and calculate PRM curvature.
  4. Can we do come characterization by making PRM-ITMY cavity? ITMX will be mis-aligned, BS will be the loss port to PRC.
  5. Beamspot on POP, REFL, AS looks woblby when PRMI is locked. Why?
  6. Open the vaccum chamber and see PRM. Simple.

  Any other ideas? I have to lock PRFPMI, at least, by July 13!

To be fair, this is Kiwamu's idea. And nothing is reasonable before it is confirmed quantitatively.

 Cycling the vacuum is easy. Why not vent starting Thursday evening and pop the doors on Friday morning? Inspect on Friday and pump on Monday morning.

[Jenne, Yuta]

Lots of work, no solid conclusions yet.  In-vac, we aligned MICH and the PRM.  Out of vac, we got beam on AS and REFL paths.  We can lock MICH, but we're not as happy with PRCL.

In-vac alignment: 

To get the beam centered on TT2 in yaw, Koji helped us out and moved TT1 with the sliders a little bit. Then to get the beam centered on PRM and PR2, Koji moved the TT2 sliders a little bit.

Yuta and I then moved PR2 forward a few mm, to keep the optical path length of the PRC approximately (within ~1mm, hopefully) the same as always.  After my PR2 optic swapping earlier, the pitch alignment was no longer good.  I loosened the screws holding the wire clamp to the optic holder, and tapped it back and forth until the alignment was good.  Of course, the screw-tightening / pitch-checking is a stochastic process, but eventually we got it.  A small amount of yaw adjustment by twisting the PR2 TT was also done, but not much was needed.

Beam was a little off in pitch at ITMY, so Yuta poked the top of PR3, and that one single poke was perfect, and the beam was very nicely centered on the ITMY target.  Beam was getting through BS target just fine.  We checked at ITMX, and the beam looked pretty centered, although we didn't put in a target.  We didn't do anything to BS while we were in-vac, since it was already good.

We aligned the ITMs so that their beams were retroreflecting back to the BS.  After this, we saw nice MICH fringes.

We aligned the PRM so that its beam was retroreflecting.

We checked that we were getting REFL and AS beams out of the vacuum, which we were (a small amount of adjustment was done to AS path steering mirrors).

AS table alignment:

We did a bit of tweaking of the REFL path, and lots of small stuff to the AS path. 

The AS beam was coming out of vac at a slightly different place in yaw, so we moved the first out of vac AS steering mirror so the beam hit the center, rather than ~1/3 of the way to the edge.  We then aligned the beam through the lens, to the camera, and to AS55.  Most significantly, we removed the BS that was just before AS55.  This was sending beam to a dump, but it is in place to send beam over to AS110, once we get back to real locking.  We measured ~30 microwatts of power going to the AS55 PD, while MICH fringes were fringing.

The REFL path didn't need much, although we had never been going through the center of the HWP and PBS that are used to reduce the power before going to the PDs, so we translated them a millimeter or two.

We see signal on dataviewer for all of the channels that we're interested in....AS55 I&Q, ASDC, REFL11 I&Q, REFLDC (which comes from REFL55). 

Locking:

Locking MICH was very easy, after we rotated the phase of AS55 to get all the good MICH signal in the Q phase.  Part of the criteria for this was that the AS55_Q_ERR signal should cross zero when ASDC went to 0.  This was done very coarsely, so we need to do it properly, but it was enough to get us locked.  We changed the phase from 24.5 to 90 deg.

PRCL has been more of a challenge, although we're still working on it.

On the back face of the Faraday, we see the michelson fringes, but they are not getting through the Faraday's aperture.  This implies that we have a poorly aligned michelson, in that the interference between the returning beams from the ITMs is happening at a different place than the original beam splitting.  Yuta is working on getting a better MICH right now.  EDIT, 10 minutes later....   This seems to be fixed, and the MICH fringes enter the back aperture of the FI, but there is still the PRM refl problem (next paragraph).

Also, when we get the most bright REFL beam, we see that there is some very obvious clipping in the back of the Faraday aperture, and this is matched by a clipped-looking REFL beam on the AS table.  We must understand what we have done wrong, such that when the beam is actually going through the Faraday, we see a much dimmer beam.  It's possible that there is some clipping happening at that time with the in-vac REFL path....we need to check this.  It's not a clipping problem on the AS table - I checked, and the beams are still reasonably  well centered on all of the mirrors.

We think that the MICH / REFL beam problems may be that the input pointing is close, but not perfect.  We have not confirmed today that the beam is centered on ETMY.  We should do this as part of our final alignment procedure before putting on doors.

Plans for tomorrow:

Get POP aligned, especially the camera, so we can see what our intracavity mode really looks like in the PRC.  This is probably (in part, at least) due to our having moved PR2 around, so the transmitted beams aren't in exactly the same place.

We think that it's more useful in the short term to check out the PRC, and since the clipping problem with the REFL beam is likely an imperfect input pointing, we want to use the other measured G&H mirror, and do another half-PRC test, with the test mirror in front of the BS.  This requires much less perfection in the input pointing, so it should be very quick to set up.

Confirm that PRM oplev is still aligned (turn laser back on first).

Plans for next week:

Perfect the input pointing, by checking the beam position at ETMY.  Recheck all corner alignment.

Try again locking PRMI in air.  First, confirm ITM and BS oplevs are all aligned.

I feel it's too hasty to use the PRMI.
I support the idea of the half-PRC test, to make an apple-to-apple comparison.

Make haste slowly.

I completely agree with Koji.  We definitely should have locked the half PRC first.  We were all set up for that.  Why go through all this work to align MICH when we haven't confirmed with the half PRC that the flipping is helping us?  The first rule of debugging is to only make one change at a time.  We have measurements from the half PRC, so we could have made a direct comparison with those to see how things have changed.  If we jump the gun we're going to end up wasting more time when we have to back-track.

Also, we never talked about moving PR2 to adjust optical path length, although I can understand why we would think that should be done.  My calculations were all done assuming the free-space separation between PRM/PR2 and PR2/PR3 were unchanged.  It's possible changing the position is better, but again, it's more work and it changes multiple things at one.  I can redo my calculations for this new scenario, but we need to update our drawings with this new configuration.  Please note precisely where PR2 has moved to.

We should have just flipped PR2 and that's it.  Then we could have run the exact same measurements we had previously.  Only then, once we understood this new simple cavity, should we have done further adjustments.

Half-PRC at this time already have two changes from the previous half-PRC; PR2 replaced/flipped and different TM before BS.
PRMI has only one change from the previous PRMI; PR2 replaced/flipped.
This is why I wanted to try PRMI first. But we now recognized that MI alignment (including REFL and AS alignment) is tough without using the arms, I agree that we should try half-PRC first.

I don't exactly know what the situation in the Jamie's calculation, but to make the optical path length the same before and after flipping, PR2 holder have to move about n*t, where n is the substrate refractive index and t is the thickness of the mirror, towards PRM/PR3.

 I reminded Jamie this morning that we were not, in fact, set up yesterday for a half PRC.  I had extracted what was the flat test mirror, to put in as PR2.  The test mirror was the better of the 2 G&Hs that we had measurements for, so I had used it as the flat test mirror, but then also wanted it to be the more permanent PR2.  After doing the PR2 flip, the IFO was naturally all aligned for PRMI, which is part of why we just did that.

Anyhow, Jamie used his tallness to put the other measured G&H mirror into the mount, and put that in front of the BS.  He aligned things such that he saw fringes in the half PRC. 

I then aligned POP onto the camera, and onto the PD.  Yuta is confirming that we're maximally on the REFL PDs.

We're starting locking in 5 min.

 [Yuta, Jenne]

After much tweaking of the alignment using TT1, TT2 and PRM sliders, we were able to get a TEM00 mode locked with the half PRC!

PRCL gain is -0.010

FM4, 5 are always on.  FM2,3,6 (boosts and stack res-gains) are triggered to come on after the cavity is locked.

We see a little clipping of POPDC, even though there are 2 BSs in the beam path, to dump 50% and then 67% of the beam.  But it's not so much that we can't align. 

REFLDC goes from 28.5 to 24.5, so we don't have great visibility.

Please watch our awesome video of the cavity, where we demonstrate that the half cavity is stable:

The cavity is flashing for the 1st 15 sec, then locks.  Upper right is REFL, Lower right is POP, Upper left is back of the Faraday, Lower left is MC2F.   Note that we definitely see some not so beautiful modes flashing, but most of that is due to the half cavity length and thus greater degeneracy of modes.  Jamie is posting a HOM plot presently.

BEAM MOTION:

The beam is moving way more than it should be.  Right now the PRM oplev is not coming out of the vacuum, since the flat test mirror mount is obstructing it.  However, as we saw with other half-cavity tests, turning on the PRM oplev helps, but does not completely eliminate the beam motion.  We should consider putting oplevs on one of the passive TTs, at least temporarily, so we know what kind of motion is coming from where.

It seems that the cavity trans looks much better than before. Cool.

At least the optical gain is ~x5 of the previous value. This means what we did was something good.

Looking forward to seeing the further analysis of the caivty...

I fixed up the POP path so that there is no clipping, so that Yuta can take a cavity mode scan.

[Gabriele's work, I'm just spectating]

Annalisa is working on finding the PSL/AUX laser beatnote, so the PSL temp is changing, but Gabriele is still able to lock.  Here are some videos:

I got the PRMI transitioned from REFL165 over to REFL55 two times tonight.  Also, I had 2 long-ish locks, one 9 minutes, and one 6 minutes.  All the other locks were short - less than a minute or two.

I've done some shuffling around of the point in the CARM transition when the anti-boosts (1:20 filters) come on in the CARM A filter bank.  I've moved the turn-on of these filters a several gain steps earlier, but I'm not sure that they're in the best place yet.  Fiddling with the turn-on of the anti-boosts makes the big CARM oscillations last for longer or shorter - if they last too long, they blow the lock, so we don't want them to get too big.

The PRMI angular feedforward has helped a lot tonight, I think.  I've added a line to the up script to enable the output of the OAF after the PRMI is locked, and the down script turns it off again.  It's not so great when the PRM isn't aligned, since it's designed to work when the oplev is on, so it should be off unless the PRM is aligned.  I tried to get a comparison of off vs. on PRC powers with the arms resonating, but I can't hold the lock for long enough when the OAF is not on to get even one average on my 0.01Hz bandwidth spectrum. 

I've turned the arm ASC on a few times, but not every lock.  Around 12:34am, I set the offsets when CARM and DARM were on RF signals, and I had hand-aligned the ETMs to minimize the power at the AS port.  But, this wasn't a good spot for the next lock - the AS port was much darker with the ASC off for that lock.  It would be nice to think about trying some dither alignment, and then maybe resetting the setpoints every lock.  I'm using Q's original loop shapes, but as he left them yesterday, only actuating on the ETMs (with Yarm Yaw gain 0.7 rather than 0.9).

The CARM crossover might need more tuning.  There's some gain peaking around 400 Hz that goes mostly away if I turn the digital CARM gain down by 2dB.  (I'm not using any filters in the CM_SLOW filter bank).

I think that the CARM/DARM transition is more likely to be successful if the FSS slow DC is greater than 0.55ish.  So far this is pretty anecdotal, but I think I have more success when it's higher.  We should pay attention, and see if our trouble locking later in the nights correlates with smaller FSS slow DC values. 

I got the PRMI over to 1f two times, at 1:54am and at 2:25am.  I did not re-phase "POP"55 (which is the REFL55 signal), but I did check the values for the input matrix.  I needed MICH = 0.01*POP55Q and PRCL = 0.008*POP55I.  The first time I lost lock because I turned down the CARM digital gain too much.  The second time I forgot to turn down the PRCL gain (I was *actually* using 0.01*POP55I for the PRCL input matrix, but needed to lower the gain from -0.08 to -0.07, which is about the same as just using 0.008 in the input matrix).  Anyhow, I think PRCL loop oscillations were the cause of the second lockloss.

Here's a strip chart of my first lock of the night, which was the 9 minute lock.  Up until about -6 minutes, I was hand-aligning (including the dip around -7.5 minutes, where I was figuring out which direction to move the ETMs).  Around -3.5 minutes there is a significant dip down, that corrected itself.  By the time I realized that the power had gone down, and was trying to figure out why, it came back.  Maybe the same thing happened at the end of the lock, but it kept getting worse?  Self, re-look at this time (around 11:50pm) to find out why the power dips. 

My tummy feelings (without any data) make me think that this could be something with ITMX, like Q saw earlier today.  Or, maybe ETMX, like we've seen for ages.  Anyhow, my tummy feeling says this is an optic pointing problem.  I certainly think this might be the same thing we see at the end of many locks, the power going low suddenly.  So, it might give a big clue to our locklosses.  Maybe.

RXA: I've changed the above text into pink Comic Sans to lend it the appropriate level of gravitas, given its scientific justification.

I have 12 tick marks for times I got all the way to 1f for all 4 degrees of freedom in the PRFPMI.  The CARM / DARM transitions now succeed more than they fail, which is nice. 

At Q's suggestion, I am turning off all the violin filters in the MC2 path during the CARM transition.  This also means that I don't need any of the notches that Den and I put into the CARM_A and CARM_B filter banks last week, which were right at the edges of the violin notches.  Anyhow, this seems to make the transition much more likely to succeed.  I don't ever use the CM_SLOW FM10 "crossover helper" that Q had to use last night.  The violin filters are turned back on after the CARM transition is complete.  We don't ever need those other notches.

I checked the REFL165 vs. REFL55 transfer functions for PRCL and MICH, and they are mostly flat.  REFL55 seems like it'll give us extra phase for some reason.

I tried setting offsets for PRMI, but they seem to be strongly dependent on arm alignment.  I ended up being pretty confused, and since all the REFL signals are pretty close to zero (when CARM/DARM on RF, PRMI on 3f), I have given up on that avenue for tonight. 

I think many of my locklosses tonight (lost from the all 1f state) have been fast things, faster than the ADCs can handle.  On the lockloss plots that I've looked at, the FSS PC drive is railed at 10V about 200msec before I lose lock.  So, something (presumably in the fast CARM path) is making the MC/FSS loop unhappy.  I have plugged in the Agilent to the Out2 of the CM board, so that it looks at REFL11.  Unfortunately, this is after the input gain slider, so we don't see much until we're locked, but that seems fine.  A video camera is pointed at the screen, so that I get real time spectra.  It's hard to watch the TV at the same time as everything else, so I haven't witnessed the moment of lockloss in the fast spectrum yet.  Be careful when walking down the Yarm.  The tripod is partly in the walkway.

Q, I took a few TFs of the total CARM loop, although none of them are particularly good below a few kHz.  I can't push hard enough to get coherence, without blowing the lock.  TF data is in /users/jenne/PRFPMI/CM_TFs/CM_TFs_2Apr2015/ . 

I was worried for a while that, after I transition PRMI to 1f, I hear lots of low frequency rumbling.  However, watching the spectra (relative to references taken with CARM and DARM on RF, but PRMI on 3f), the low frequency error and control signals are staying the same for all 4 DoFs, but the high frequency for PRCL and MICH goes down significantly, so it's probably just that the low frequency stuff sounds more obvious, since it's not drowning in high frequency fuzz. 

[Jenne,Yuta]

We succeeded in locking PRMI in sideband and carrier.
Measured power recycling gain was ~60 power recycling gain was 4 (edited by YM on Feb 27; see elog #6947), but we have many things we cannot explain.

Snapshots:
  Here you are, Jamie.

PRMI sideband locked



PRMI carrier locked


  I centered POP camera and put attenuator to take these snapshots.

  Compare with previous ones.

Aug 17, 2012 elog #7213
Jun 28, 2012 elog #6886
Mar 15, 2012 elog #6421


Locking details:
 == MI only ==
  MICH: AS55_Q_ERR, AS55_PHASE_R = -12 deg, MICH_GAIN = -7, feedback to BS

 == PRMI sideband ==
  MICH: AS55_Q_ERR, AS55_PHASE_R = 24.5 deg,  MICH_GAIN = -0.05 (acquisition) -> -5 (UGF ~100 Hz), feedback to BS
  PRCL: REFL33_I_ERR, REFL33_PHASE_R = -22.65 deg, PRCL_GAIN = 4 (UGF ~120 Hz), feedback to PRM

 == PRMI carrier ==
  MICH: AS55_Q_ERR, AS55_PHASE_R = 24.5 deg,  MICH_GAIN = -0.08 (couldn't measure UGF), feedback to BS
  PRCL: REFL33_I_ERR, REFL33_PHASE_R = -22.65 deg, PRCL_GAIN = -0.3 (couldn't measure UGF), feedback to PRM


Power recycling gain:
  POPDC was 32 when PRM is misaligned, 25 when PRMI sideband locked, ~2000 when PRMI carrier locked.
  This means, power recycling gain is ~60 power recycling gain is ~4 (=POPlocked/POPmis*T_PRM=2000/30*0.06). Expected power recycling gain for PRMI is ~45, when there's no loss (see elog #6947).

  I reduced POPDC PD gain so that it doesn't saturate.

Issues:
  - We optimized AS55_PHASE_R to -12 deg by looking at MI signal. But somehow, -12 deg didn't work for PRMI.
  - Somehow, REFL11_I didn't work to lock PRCL.
  - REFL11_Q didn't work to lock MI. SNR not enough?
  - We saw POPDC flashing up to ~15000. What is this?
  - Carrier lock was not stable, we couldn't hold for more than ~30 sec. It looks like PRM moves too much when PRMI is locked.
  - Input pointing is drifting a lot in pitch. I had to re-align TT2/TT1 to the arms every ~1 hour to get good MI alignment. When I tweak TT2/TT1, both TRY and TRX gets better. I think this shows that input pointing is drifting, not the arms.


Next:
 - redo PRM/BS coil balancing
 - optimize REFL33 rotation phase
 - stabilize carrier lock somehow
 - measure PRC g-factor

 I am also wondering if I understand / am using the demod phase from the screen correctly.  This plot is indicating that MICH is entirely in I, and not at all in Q.

Currently, I take the demod phase, and plot that as the "I" line, then plot the "Q" line 90 degrees away from the I line.  Maybe it should be the other way around?

Re: the auto-demod phase, I was starting to wonder about that.  For each sensor, can I declare what degree of freedom I want in which quadrature to take priority (ex. MICH goes to REFL55 Q), and set the demod phase to the value that makes that true?

Okay, I think I am finished with the sensing matrix scripts!  

I had the syntax for atan2() wrong, so I was calculating the demod phase wrong.  Do not trust the phase in any previous elogs!!

Also, the theta=0 axis of the plots are for 0 degree demod phase, but our PDs are not at 0 deg.  The measured sensing matrix phase is relative to the current demod phase, not 0 (unless the demod phase for that PD is currently 0degrees).  So, now I take that into account.  I add the current PD demod phase to the measured sensing matrix phase, so that the plot is actually true.

For interested parties, I have made all of the sensing matrix scripts, and the data folder a subdirectory of the /scripts/LSC folder, since it was starting to get crowded in there.  I have moved the 2 data sets that have been collected (21May, 23May) into the new place.

Future thoughts: 

* Save the amplitude and modulation frequency and the current demod phases in the data file.  Right now the ampl and mod freqs are included in the title of the data file, but there is no record of what the demod phase was at the time.  I need to fix this.

So, really, really, the Sensing Matrix:

Sensing Matrix, units = counts/meter, phase in degrees
 
            PRCL Mag   PRCL Phase    MICH Mag   MICH Phase  
AS55         5.485E+08   -43.424      2.679E+09    93.392    
REFL11       1.126E+13    -7.168      1.618E+11   135.296    
REFL33       2.658E+11   164.973      8.910E+09    -2.226    
REFL55       3.012E+11   -75.216      1.210E+10   172.764

Just so we have it, here is the re-analysis with the correct plot and phases for the May 21st data, taken near the violin mode:

Sensing Matrix, units = counts/meter, phase in degrees
 
            PRCL Mag   PRCL Phase    MICH Mag   MICH Phase  
AS55         9.048E+11   -22.880      2.927E+12   107.071    
REFL11       2.954E+16   -21.628      3.670E+14   123.857    
REFL33       2.757E+14  -192.608      9.186E+12    -4.037    
REFL55       2.868E+14   -82.690      1.186E+13   170.097 

Even though this data was taken near the violin mode (oops!), it is fairly consistent with the stuff taken a few days later at 580Hz (elog 8644). 

Neither of these is at all similar to what Kiwamu had measured a year ago (elog 6283), but we have changed many, many things since then.  He also includes an Optickle simulation, which is fairly similar to the Koji simulation in the wiki, but neither his measurements nor mine are particularly close to the simulated version.  I should think about why this is.

Also, I have fixed up the measurement scripts so that they record all of the relevant current settings / information:  Current actuator calibration, current PD demod phases, drive amplitude and drive frequency.  The "Analyze Saved Data" script has been updated to read all of this info from the files.  If you want to plot / look at any old data, open up SensMatAnalyzeSavedData in /scripts/LSC/SensingMatrix/ and put in the relevant filename that you want (which should be saved in /scripts/LSC/SensingMatrix/SensMatData/)

- We want to add POX11/POY11 in the collection. They may indicates some abnormal asymmetry between two arms (for PRMI).

- We also want to PRCL/MICH after the input matrix. This will be useful when we want to adjust the input matrix to give the optimul
demod phase for the two signals from a single port.

I locked the PRMI and remeasured the sensing matrix, this time at 580Hz.  The excellent news here is that the matrix looks quite similar to the one measured the other day, recorded in elog 8632.  Yay!  I'm not sure why the REFL11 MICH error is so much larger this time around.

Raw data:  .../scripts/LSC/SensMatData/sensematPRM_2013-05-23.202312.dat

Sensing Matrix, units = cts/meter, phase in degrees
 
            PRCL Mag   PRCL Phase    MICH Mag   MICH Phase  
AS55        5.485E+08   162.424      2.679E+09    25.608     
REFL11      1.126E+13  -122.832      1.618E+11    85.296     
REFL33      2.658E+11   -87.973      8.910E+09    79.226     
REFL55      3.012E+11   -99.534      1.210E+10    12.486 

Can you clarify the definition of the phase "0deg" of your plot?

Is "I" the definition of "0deg"? Or does the demod phase of "0deg" define "0deg"?

I want to know if the demod phase of REFL55 is correctly adjusted or not.

With the decent level of the separation, we should be able to keep the decent lock of PRMI with REFL55.

"0 degrees" is 0 degrees of demod phase.  I have now added the PD demod phases to the plot:

It's hard to believe but is AS55Q really almost insensitive to MICH?

Well, anyway, now it is the time to use the automatic demod phase (and input matrix) adjustment.

PRMI sensing matrix was measured under PRMI locked with REFL55_I and Q.
MICH actuator is 0.5*ITMX-0.5*ITMY (to have more pure MICH, according to 40m/15996) and PRCL actuator is PRM.
RF demod phases seem to be good within a degree or so to minimize PRCL component in Q.

Sensing matrix with the following demodulation phases (counts/m)
{'AS55': 2.1, 'REFL55': 76.02, 'REFL11': 32.63833493469488}
Sensors       MICH @311.1 Hz           PRCL @313.31 Hz           
AS55_I       (+0.31+/-1.48)e+09 [90]    (+6.56+/-2.23)e+10 [0]    
AS55_Q       (-3.49+/-0.87)e+08 [90]    (+4.62+/-1.80)e+09 [0]    
REFL55_I       (-1.52+/-5.61)e+09 [90]    (+3.21+/-1.36)e+11 [0]    
REFL55_Q       (+8.77+/-0.46)e+09 [90]    (+5.01+/-3.63)e+09 [0]    
REFL11_I       (-0.23+/-1.92)e+08 [90]    (+1.13+/-0.47)e+10 [0]    
REFL11_Q       (+0.39+/-2.14)e+07 [90]    (-4.00+/-9.79)e+07 [0]    

Phase for AS55 to minimize PRCL in Q is 6.14+/-2.08 deg (4.04+/-2.08 deg from current value)
Phase for REFL55 to minimize PRCL in Q is 76.91+/-0.75 deg (0.89+/-0.75 deg from current value)
Phase for REFL11 to minimize PRCL in Q is 32.44+/-0.50 deg (-0.20+/-0.50 deg from current value)

Next:
 - Lock PRMI in carrier
 - PRG is not so stable; Measure g-factor of PRC using Kakeru-Gupta method (40m/8235)

that is really a lot of high precision for the REFL_11 demod phase...

for this kind of measurement, I wish we had a python code that would plot this measurment relative to our Finesse/PyKat model so we know if this table is like "Oh, nothing to see here." or "Wow! that's a Nobel prize worthy measurement !!"

[Paco, Radhika]

We locked PRMI in carrier.

We refereced the old IFOconfigure script (/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/c1ifoconfigure/C1configurePRM_Carr.sh) to manually configure the LSC screen for PRMI. The final MICH/PRCL gain values used to achieve lock were flipped in sign:

(.snap file ---> final value)

The FM trigger levels (enable/disable) for PRCL and MICH were set to (150/50). The following filter modules were engaged:

During PRMI lock, the POPDC level reached 13130 counts, or 6.8 mW (using calibration of 1.931e6 counts/W). The POPDC counts level was ~1330 with only MICH locked, meaning the PRC gain was ~10. Attachment 1 is an image of REFL, AS, and POP monitors during lock.

Lock was maintained for close to a minute, allowing us to estimate the UGF at around 100 Hz. We used the AA_PRCL_UGF_meas.xml template to measure the loop transfer function. The GPS time (start, end) for a lock stretch with boost on is (1680547905, 1680547933 1364583160, 1364583442).

Next steps

1. Achieve better angular alignment to keep MICH locked to dark fringe - ASS? Seismic FF?

[Paco, Radhika]

We calibrated the PRM oplev.

We took calibrated spectra of oplev PIT and YAW (Attachment 1) with the oplev loops open and closed. We see noise suppression up until a few Hz, as expected. The high-frequency floor appears to be at 1e-9 rad/rtHz with this calibration.

Next steps: improving PRMI angular control

[Paco, Radhika]

To determine the PRM angle-to-length coupling for PRCL, we want to inject pitch/yaw lines into PRM and find the corresponding peaks in the PRCL closed-loop control signal (below loop UGF). Below is a summary of PRMI locking efforts.

Locking PRMI carrier

- Locked arm cavities, ran YARM, XARM ASS to get PR2/PR3 alignment

- Locked MICH to dark fringe

- Aligned PRM by maximizing drop in REFLDC (reaches 2 when well aligned)

         *This was the hurdle when attempting to lock PRMI last week*

- Locked PRMI carrier using configurations in PRMI-AS55_REFL11.yml. There is now a "Lock PRMI (carr) using AS55/REFL11" action on the LSC screen that runs operateLSC.py with the aforementioned yaml file.

- Final DoF gains used: MICH --> 0.8; PRCL --> -0.07. At times BS was being kicked too hard, so we reduced the MICH gain from 1.2.

Lock stability

During PRMI lock, REFLDC was noisy with ~1 Hz fluctuations. We got PRMI to stay locked for a couple minutes at a time. Additionally it couldn't lock the AS port to dark fringe, and it stayed bright while tweaking the BS alignment.

We took spectra of ASDC during a lock stretch to quantify the DC power fluctuations at the AS port [Attachment 1]. The red trace is ASDC with PRMI locked. REF0 (black) is ASDC with MICH locked; REF1/REF2 (blue/green) are ASDC with single-bounce PRCL locked (either ITMX or ITMY misaligned). Note that the PRMI spectrum might need to be normalized by the PRCL gain / PRM transmission: ~ 10/0.057 = 175. The factor difference in ASDC fluctuations between MICH and PRMI for a single test point is ~144 --> with PRMI normalized, the ASDC fluctionations are comparable with MICH.

[Yuta, Radhika]

We copied the coil balancing procedure found in /scripts/SUS/coilStrengthBalancing/AS1/CoilStrengthBalancing.ipynb to a new PRM directory. After modifying channel names for PRM, we followed the coil balancing procedure:

1. Locked PRY. This was chosen since full PRCL lock was not maintainable for the duration of measurement.

2. Injected 13 Hz line into the butterfly mode and looked for a peak in the LSC PRCL control signal (C1:LSC-PRCL_OUT_DQ). It appeared like the existing coil gains for PRM are already tuned to minimize the but-pos coupling.

3. Injected 13 Hz line into the POS mode and looked for a peak in the PRM oplev pitch and yaw signals (C1:SUS-PRM_OL_PIT_IN1_DQ / C1:SUS-PRM_OL_YAW_IN1_DQ). Like above, the existing coil gains seemed to be tuned to minimize the pos-angle coupling.

The attached spectrum was taken when POS was excited at 13 Hz using LOCKIN1. As expected the PRCL control signal sees the actuation, but we do not see a 13 Hz peak in the oplev pitch/yaw signals.

Just so we have some numbers, I did a by-hand analysis of the PRMI sensing matrix numbers I posted here in the elog the other day.  This analysis is ignoring the error bar data.

For each sensor (PD_I or PD_Q), I do loop compensation, since these measurements were taken fairly close to the UGFs of the loops, and notches were not in use at the drive frequency.  To do the loop compensation, I multiply the complex value (lockin_I + i*lockin_Q) by (1-G), where G is the (complex) open loop gain of the degree of freedom I'm shaking.

 When I'm shaking a single degree of freedom (ex. shaking the PRM to get PRCL information), for each PD_I or PD_Q, we get 2 numbers, the lockin_I and lockin_Q values.    I check the phase between the lockin_I and lockin_Q values, since that phase (after loop compensation) should be either 0 or 180, and if it is not, something is wrong. 

Of the 16 sensors I measure (where PD_I and PD_Q count as 2 sensors), 11 sensors had phases more than 20 degrees away from either 0 or 180.  This is not good, and indicates that something is wrong with my measurement.  I suspect that I may not be driving hard enough -  I was using an amplitude 4x smaller than the previous value.  Next time the PRMI is locked, I will turn on the drive oscillation, and ensure that I can see the line in all of the PD signals.

The results of my quickie analysis script:

Bad REFL11_I_MICH phase!  Phase is -82.0185 degrees!
Bad REFL11_Q_MICH phase!  Phase is -35.9697 degrees!
Bad REFL33_I_MICH phase!  Phase is -134.952 degrees!
Bad REFL55_I_MICH phase!  Phase is -79.7997 degrees!
Bad AS55_I_PRCL phase!  Phase is -142.6016 degrees!
Bad AS55_Q_PRCL phase!  Phase is 90.6194 degrees!
Bad REFL11_I_PRCL phase!  Phase is 52.471 degrees!
Bad REFL11_Q_PRCL phase!  Phase is 52.2324 degrees!
Bad REFL33_I_PRCL phase!  Phase is 52.909 degrees!
Bad REFL33_Q_PRCL phase!  Phase is 25.14 degrees!
Bad REFL55_I_PRCL phase!  Phase is 52.8113 degrees!

Sensing Matrix, calculated even though most of the measurement data isn't any good:
AS55: MICH = 0.13502, -1.6122deg.  PRCL = 0.14993, -2.245deg
REFL11: MICH = 29.6373, -2.6365deg.  PRCL = 7376.3206, -2.9098deg
REFL33: MICH = 0.35649, -2.9633deg.  PRCL = 69.5133, -3.1302deg
REFL55: MICH = 0.62084, -2.0261deg.  PRCL = 75.0214, 3.1176deg

For now forget about the demodulation phase and assume all of the ports are independent.
I want to know the numbers in the following format.

          PRCL     MICH   (unit: cnt/m)
REFL11I:  x.xxxEx x.xxxEx
REFL11Q:  x.xxxEx x.xxxEx
REFL33I:  x.xxxEx x.xxxEx
REFL33Q:  x.xxxEx x.xxxEx
REFL55I:  x.xxxEx x.xxxEx
REFL55Q:  x.xxxEx x.xxxEx
REFL165I: N/A     N/A
REFL165Q: N/A     N/A
AS55I:    x.xxxEx x.xxxEx
AS55Q:    x.xxxEx x.xxxEx


If you really want to resolve the TF phase difference between the I and Q  demod-signals,
you need to look at the transfer functions between the excitation and these ports.
We can't understand what is happening only from the single point measurement.

The PRMI sensing matrix, as measured last Thursday, in a more readable format:

EDIT: DON'T Look at this yet!  I forgot to calibrate it!  Please hold.....

            PRCL          MICH        
AS55_I      1.228E-01     5.476E-03    
AS55_Q      1.547E-01     1.345E-01    
REFL11_I    9.946E+03     8.106E+01    
REFL11_Q    2.346E+03     2.707E+01    
REFL33_I    9.639E+01     8.717E-01    
REFL33_Q    9.707E-01     6.626E-02    
REFL55_I    1.040E+02     8.464E-01    
REFL55_Q    2.018E+00     5.803E-01

Okay, Calibrated, but forgot to include loop compensation (since notches didn't exist yet):

Sensing Matrix, units = cts/meter
 
            MICH          PRCL        
AS55_I      5.024E+08     9.418E+07    
AS55_Q      6.328E+08     2.313E+09    
REFL11_I    4.068E+13     1.394E+12    
REFL11_Q    9.594E+12     4.656E+11    
REFL33_I    3.942E+11     1.499E+10    
REFL33_Q    3.970E+09     1.140E+09    
REFL55_I    4.253E+11     1.456E+10    
REFL55_Q    8.252E+09     9.981E+09

After all the work at the LSC rack over the last couple of days, I re-locked the PRMI (ETMs misaligned), and measured the sensing matrix once again. The PRMI was locked using 1f error signals, with AS55_Q as the MICH sensor and REFL11_I as the PRCL sensor. As shown in Attachment #1, the situation has not changed, there is still no separation between the DoFs in the REFL signals. I will measure the MC lock point offset using the error point dither technique today to see if there is something there.

[Gabriele, Rana, Jenne, Jamie, Lisa, Zach]

We tweaked some things after dinner, and our locks got longer (~10sec) and more frequent!

What happened / notes:

* Increased analog gain from 15dB to 27dB for REFL55 I&Q.

* No analog whitening during lock acquisition.  (Need trigger + wait so whitening comes on after ~1sec...but this is not our limitation right now).

* Limit MICH and PRCL control to 5000, so that we don't kick optics too much, which makes them take too long to settle.

* ITMX and ITMY Vio2 filters turned off (PRM still has it on) in the SUS-optic_LSC module.

* MICH and PRCL DoFs triggering on POP22I, with levels 200 & 50.  FMs 4&5 always on.

* MICH and PRCL FM2 triggering on POP22I with levels 400 & 50.

* MICH gain = -0.200

* PRCL gain = +0.150

* MICH and PRCL normalization using POP22I, with matrix values 0.00160 .  This value is ~1/600, where 600 was the peak value of POP22I_ERR.

* REFL 55 phase set back to -15, to minimize PRCL signal in I phase.

* Checked signs for ITMX and ITMY in output matrix for MICH.  Lock MICH using only ITMX or ITMY, find sign to hold on the dark fringe for each.  +1 for ITMY, -1 for ITMX was correct.

* Tweaked up the oplev servos.  See separate elog 8362.  May need more tweaking, such as increasing the UGF, engaging 1Hz resonant gain.

* May need better coil actuator balancing on suspensions at 1Hz.

* Found a weird thing in DTT, which went away after closing and reopening, when looking at time series.  Sometimes we would see a square wave-like jump in the signals, all signals at the same time, with a frequency of 16.6Hz.  This was not present in other data retreival programs, like Jamie's getdata python script.

* We are not sure right now why we are falling out of lock.  We need to investigate more signals, to try to figure out what our current problem is.

* Reduced the amount of misalignment with the "misalign" script, to reduce hysteresis.

To Do / ideas:

* Calibrate oplev signals - see if one optic is moving more than others.

* Calibrate ERR and CTRL  - look at CTRL in meters, see if cavities are moving around like crazy.

* Calibrate POP22 using something like an AM laser modulation trick into units of PRCL SB gain. Compare with expectation - are we locked optimally, or do we have more power that we can be getting out?

* Try feeding back PRCL CTRL to MC2, to make the laser to follow the power recycling cavity, in hopes of reducing angular motion.  Rana tried this quickly with a 1 in the output matrix, but this kicked the MC out of lock - need to try smaller values.

 A key step was turning off the whitening filters. With the previous setting (G = 15 dB, white on), the error signals (post anti-whitening) had amplitudes of ~500 counts. This means that they can go as high as (150/15)^2 * 500 = 50000 counts on the ADC.

The purpose of the whitening filter is to match the noise / range of the signal to the ADC. What we would like to do is use the minimum gain so as to make the RFPD electronics noise + shot noise be ~equal to the ADC noise. i.e.

sqrt(V_PD^2 + v_shot^2) * G_white = V_ADC

The RFPD noise is ~3 nV before the internal preamp. The MAX4107 has a gain of 10. There is a factor of 1/2 from the voltage division of the RFPD's 50 Ohm series resistor and the input impedance of the mixer. There is also a power splitter between the PD output and the mixer which gives us a 3 dB loss. The mixer has a conversion loss of ~5-6 dB depending upon the LO level.

V_PD = 3e-9 * (10 * 1/2 * 1/sqrt(2) * 1/2) = 5e-9 V/rHz   (this is already bad; the signal coming out of the mixer needs to be amplified by x10 before going out to the whitening board).

In any case, its clear that we need something like 60 dB of gain for the PD noise to match the ADC noise. This is why increasing the whitening gain improves the error signal's SNR, reduces the hash driving the optics, and improves the locking. We should run with 45 dB gain and the switch on whitening after the lock.

Even better would be to modify the LT1128 input stage of the card to have the single stage of fixed whitening as we did for iLIGO. Then we can have triple whitening in lock.

[Gabriele, Jenne]

We have achieved PRMI locks of the order ~5 seconds! Here is an example lock:

This was actuating MICH on the ITMs (+1 for ITMY, -1 for ITMX in the output matrix), and PRCL on PRM (+1). 

PRCL gain was +1, MICH gain was -10.

PRCL signal was normalized with POP22I with a matrix value of 0.003 . (No normalization of MICH).

Both PRCL and MICH were triggered on POP22I with high thresh of 200, low of 50.  MICH and PRCL FM2 (integrators) were triggered on POP22I with thresh of 400 and low thresh of 50.  FMs 4 and 5 were on for both MICH and PRCL always.

We zoomed in on the MICH_OUT signal, and the instability looks like it is around 300 Hz.  We aren't sure what this is.  I think this is a similar frequency to an oscillation that Yuta saw, but I'll have to check the old elogs.

PRM and BS SUS_LSC_POS filter banks both have notches between 1280-1290Hz.  The ITMs do not have this "Vio2" filter.

This is one of the first locks with the new triggering of both the INPUT and OUTPUT of the control filter banks.  I modified the lsc model before lunch. 

To do:  Where is this 300Hz coming from, and what can we do about it?  Why are we losing lock?  It's not due to the oscillation - maybe too much afternoon seismic?  Steve says he went next door and the rock monster / river is on medium/high.

[Rana, Gabriele, Jenne, Jamie, Lisa, Rana]

We have tuned the oplev servos for PRM, BS, ITMX, ITMY.  For each, we measured the servo transfer function.  Most had a UGF ~ 3Hz.  For those, we increased the gain by a factor of 2, and engaged the 3.3Hz resonant gains. The other case, such as PRM yaw, the gain was already okay, we just needed to engage the resonant gain.  We also checked the new phase margin, and for some of them switched the elliptic lowpass to 50Hz rather than 30 or 35.

Before and afters:

We need to, as a last check, look at the spectra before and after to ensure that no modes (like bounce or roll) are newly excited.

Tonight PRMI was locked on REFL55 I&Q for PRCL and MICH with POP110I as a trigger and power normalizer.

I could see power fluctuations and beam motion on the POP camera very much the same as for carrier. The difference is that carrier stays for hours while sidebands for a few minutes.

POP110:

I&Q analog gains were set to 15 dB. Relative phase was set to 25 degrees by looking at I and Q components when the cavity goes through the resonance. Q should be 0.

REFL55:

Phase rotation was measured by exciting PRM at 20 Hz and minimizing this line at REFL55_Q. I stopped at 33 degrees.

 RIN:

I compared power fluctuations of PRCL when it was locked on carrier (POP_DC) and on sidebands (POP110_I).

Time series of POP110_I during one of the locks

POP camera:

 The first thing I looked at tonight was locking the PRMI on REFL 165.

I locked the PRMI (no arms), and checked the REFL 165 demod phase. I also found the input matrix configuration that allowed me to acquire PRMI lock directly on REFL165.  After locking the arms on ALS, I tried to lock the PRMI with REFL 165 and failed.  So, I rechecked the demod phase and the relative transfer functions between REFL 165 and REFL 33.  The end of the story is that, even with the re-tuned demod phase for CARM offset of a few nanometers, I cannot acquire PRMI lock on REFL 165, nor can I transition from REFL 33 to REFL 165.  We need to revisit this tomorrow.

For the PRMI-only case, I ended up using 0.1's in the input matrix, and I added an FM 1 to the MICH filter bank that is a flat gain of 2.2, and then I had it trigger along with FM2.

I turned this FM1 off (and no triggering) while trying to transition from REFL33 to REFL165 in the PRFPMI case, but that didn't help.  I think that maybe I need to remeasure my transfer functions or something, because I could put values into the REFL165 columns of the input matrix while REFL33 was still 1's, but I couldn't remove (even if done slowly) the REFL33 matrix elements without losing lock of the PRMI.  So, we need to get the input matrix elements correct.

I also recorded some time series for a quick RAM investigation that I will work on tomorrow.  

I left the PRM aligned, but significantly misaligned both ITMs to get data at the REFL port of the RAM that we see.  I also aligned the PRMI (no arms) and let it flash so that I can see the pk-pk size of our PDH signals.  I need to remember to calibrate these from counts to meters.  

Raw data is in /users/jenne/RAM/ .

I have not tried any new DARM signals, since PRMI wasn't working with 3f2.  

We should get to that as soon as we fix the PRMI-3f2 situation.

[Jenne, Rana, Diego]

After deciding that the Yend QPD situation was not significant enough to prevent us from locking tonight, we got started.  However, the PRMI would not acquire lock with the arms held off resonance. 

This started some PRMI investigations.

With no arms, we can lock the PRMI with both REFL55 I&Q or REFL165 I&Q.  We checked the demod phase for both Refl 55 and 165.  REFL55 did not need changing, but REFL165 was off significantly (which probably contributed to the difficulty in using it to acquire lock).  I didn't write down what REFL165 was, but it is now -3 degrees.  To set the phase (this is also how Rana checked the 55 phase), I put in an oscillation using the sensing matrix oscillators.  For both REFL165I and 165Q, I set the sensing matrix demod phases such that all of the signal was in the I phase (so I_I and Q_I, and basically zero in I_Q and Q_Q).  Then, I set the main PD demod phase so that the REFL165Q phase (the Q_I phase) was about zero.

Here are the recipes for PRMI-only, REFL55 and REFL165:

Both cases, actuation was PRCL = 1*PRM and MICH = (0.5*BS - 0.2625*PRM).  Trigger thresholds for DoFs and FMs were always POP22I, 10 up and 0.5 down.

REFL55, demod phase = 31deg.

MICH = 2*R55Q, gain = 2.4, trig FMs 2, 6, 8.

PRCL = 12*R55I, gain = -0.022, trig FMs 2,6,9.

REFL165, demod phase = -3deg.

MICH = -1*R165Q, gain = 2.4, trig FMs 2,6,8.

PRCL = 2.2*R165I, gain = -0.022, trig FMs 2,6,9.

These recipes assume Rana's new resonant gain filter for MICH's FM6, with only 2 resonant gains at 16 and 24 Hz instead of a whole mess of them: elog 10803.  Also, we have turned down the waiting time between the MICH loop locking, and the filters coming on.  It used to be a 5 second delay, but now is 2 sec.  We have been using various delays for the PRCL filters, between 0.2s and 0.7s, with no particular preference in the end.

We compared the PRCL loop with both PDs, and note that the REFL 165 error signal has slightly more phase lag, although we do not yet know why.  This means that if we only have a marginally stable PRCL loop for REFL55, we will not be stable with REFL165. Also, both loops have a non-1/f shape at a few hundred Hz.  This bump is still there even if all filters except the acquisition ones (FM4,5 for both MICH and PRCL) are turned off, and all of the violin filters are turned off.  I will try to model this to see where it comes from.

To Do list:

Go back to the QPDY situation during the daytime, to see if tapping various parts of the board makes the noise worse.  Since it goes up to such high frequencies, it might not be just acoustic.  Also, it's got to be in something common like the power or something, since we see the same spectra in all 4 quadrants. 

The ASS needs to be re-tuned. 

Rana was talking about perhaps opening up the ETMX chamber and wiggling the optic around in the wire.  Apparently it's not too unusual for the wire to get a bit twisted underneath, which creates a set of places that the optic likes to go to.

Diego is going to give us some spectra of the MC error point at various levels of pockel's cell drive.  Is it always the same frequencies that are popping up, or is it random?

 I found out that the Spectrum Analyzer gives bogus data... Since now is locking time, tomorrow I'll go and figure out what is not working

This is entirely my fault. 

Last week, while doing some stuff with PRY, I put this filter in SUS_PRM_LSC, to stop some saturations from high frequency sensing noise

After the discussion at today's meeting, it struck me that I might have left it on. Turns out I did. 

20 degree phase lag at 200Hz can explain the instability, some non-flat shape at few hundreds of Hz explains the non 1/f shape.

Sorry about all that...

EricQ's crazy people filter has been deleted.  I'm trying to lock right now, to see if all is well in the world.

[Jenne, Gabriele, Jamie]

We have looked at Koji's old Finesse code, and determined that the PRMI sensing matrix that he calculated was for the sideband-resonant case.  Thus, this is the sensing matrix we are interested in for locking. Gabriele has confirmed this using independently written code with his software, Mist.

Pics or it didn't happen:

The sensing matrix is:

Numerical values are on the wiki:  https://wiki-40m.ligo.caltech.edu/IFO_Modeling/SensingMatrix

For any of the REFL PDs (1*f1, 1*f2, 3*f1, 3*f2), the PRCL signal is a factor of ~100 larger than the MICH signal.  Rana assures us that, with some clever triggering, we should be able to lock the PRMI. 

This means that we will not be venting in the next few days to flip the SRC folding mirror.  We will work on PRMI lock (probably first with 1*f, but then quickly moving on to 3*f), and as soon as Annalisa and Manasa have the new ETMY table ready for us, we will then do PRFPMI.  (We can also play with the Xarm green until Yarm green is back).

I had a quick look at PRM optical lever.

The He-Ne beam is still successfully coming out from the chamber and I could guide it to the QPD by using steering mirrors.

But the beam size looks too big for the QPD. We should slide the lens which is standing before the injection to get a moderately smaller beam size at the QPD.

I swapped the name of two demodulation boards (AS55 and REFL55).

Now the REFL11 and AS55 demodulation boards are ready to go for the PRMI locking.

The physical labels, which are on the front surface of the boards, are also corrected to avoid a confusion.

Here is the latest RF status.

 [Yuta, Manasa]

PRMI alignment procedure for carrier locking has been kept the same except that a couple of issues that have persisted are now taken care of.

We were able to keep PRMI locked for over a minute (POPDC measures 2200) .

1. Trigger levels to MICH and PRCL for PRMI locking have been changed
Whenever we enabled LSC controls to lock PRMI, ITMY moves haphazard if PRM is not aligned. This is because of the low trigger levels of POPDC which keeps MICH triggered all the time while we align PRM. Increasing POPDC trigger (Upper level : 1000 and Lower level:20) for both MICH and PRCL solved this problem and resulted in a more stable ITMY. Also this has stabilized locking greatly if the alignment is fair enough.

2. C1:SUS-ITMY_LSC_GAIN reset
Quoting Yuta's elog "  I found C1:SUS-ITMY_LSC_GAIN is somehow set to be 2.895 recently. I think this should be 1.0. Maybe this is why we had actuation imbalance in ITMs(elog #8212)."
This has been reset to 1.0 and it has not affected PRMI locking.


Mystery

1. Filter module (FM1) on PRCL and MICH show significant delay while enabling and disabling.

2. I tried to fix PMC alignment (PMC trans was 0.76). I was not able to get PMC trans more than 0.79.
PMC has been this way since yesterday.

3. MICH is still bright when locked (ASDC_OUT reads 0.08 for dark and 2.0 for bright). We suspect it is because of the AS55_I error offset that persists even after running LSCoffsets script.

4. PRMI shows some dither at 3Hz when locked.

- What about normalizing POPDC to indicate the carrier recycling gain?

- When you align the PMC, confirm FSS SLOW DC is around zero. Some region of the slow thermal actuation makes the laser source emit at multiple frequencies. In the case, the cavity visibility get worse.

- Do you guys think we can determine if the TT is longitudinally quiet enough? Is there any comparison between the simple Michelson and the PRC motion in m/rtHz?

(done)

- AS55 RFPD

  With a help from Jamie the AS55 RFPD was installed.

- 55 MHz demodulation board

  The AS55 demod board was installed on 1Y2.

- 3-way combiner

  ZFSC-3-13 has been installed. All the RF cables from the source side were connected to the combiner.

(next things)

 - installation of the REFL11 RFPD

 - DAQ check for AS55 and REFL11

Today we will try to lock the PRMI. Here is a plan for it.

(to be done in the daytime)

 - setup REFL11 RFPD

 - setup AS55 RFPD

 - install a demod board for 55 MHz

 - install a 3-way RF combiner on EOM.

 - prepare 55 MHz RF source (Marconi or RF source box ?)

 - adjustment of each demodulation phase

 - activation of PRM oplev

 (control topology)

- AS55_Q ==> BS

- REFL11_I ==> PRM