Reports until 01:06, Saturday 08 March 2014
H1 ISC
keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 01:06, Saturday 08 March 2014 (10632)
Green WFS today

Engaged DOF1P, DOF1Y and DOF2Y, dithered ITM and ETM, and measured the sensing matrix based on OL (assuming that OL calibration is now correct).

  WFSA WFSB
ITMP 82.8 cts/urad 901.8
ETMP -430.8 -1247.8
ITMY -587 671
ETMY -504 292

The sign follows the SUS convention that positive PIT = mirror points down, positive YAW = counter clockwise viewed from the top.

As was observed before, WFSA is a good YAW hard mode sensor, WFSB is a good PIT hard mode sensor.

Since neither of the WFSs is good soft mode sensor, I made these:

DOF2P = -4.19 WFSAP + WFSBP

DOF2Y = WFSAY + 1.1 WFSBY

After making these, all four DOF loops were closed and it worked, with one caveat: It seems like DOF2P wants a large offset in order for the green transmission to be maximized. I tried +2500 cts offset and it was good (transmission touches 850 cts). Without this, the transmission stays between 650 and 750.

Unfortunately I cannot give DOF2P an offset before the master switch, and I put this offset in the feedback filter itself. When IFO unlocks the integrator will keep integrating, destroying the IFO alignment.

So I disabled DOF2P input AND offset, and left other three DOFs, for tonight.

It's still slow.