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stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - posted 19:22, Thursday 24 April 2014 - last comment - 19:44, Thursday 24 April 2014(11565)
Working towards diff
Alexa, Sheila, Stefan

Our goal today was to get a good diff readout going. For this we
- Commissioned the IMTY and ETMY optical levers, See snapshot.
- Recommissioned the x-arm dither - turns out the phases were tuned up for a different suspension setting - we need configuration control on all the suspension settings. Also see the snaphot.
- With that we got fairly stable arm locking - at least for a while - see below.

- Next we tweaked up the DIFF beat note on ISCT1. We got -20dB signal out of the PD.
- Th PLL locked for short stretches, but essentially always runs out of range after a few seconds.

- Thus we decided to work on top-mass slow feed-back: There was a lot of confusion, but once everything was done right, it sort of worked.
- One thing we noticed along the way, is that our 1-3Hz BLRM traces pick up increases in noise with an roughly hourly periodicity. This noise somehow translates into extra length motion at 0.05Hz. 
- We also fine-tuned the ETMY top mass L2P filter - see Arnaud's log
- The slow feed-back gain was however limited by our main suspension resonance, which meant that we couldn't suppress the DIFF motion enough.
- We thus decided to work on the L2L filters, which should give us the ability to increase the UGF of that loop and get more suppression.
- We got a simple L2L measurement going, but more work is needed.
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arnaud.pele@LIGO.ORG - 19:44, Thursday 24 April 2014 (11566)

Stefan tweaked the L2P decoupling filter to improve (even more!) the top mass to test mass length to pitch decoupling. Basically, the Q of the first resonance of the filter was reduced from 16 to 12.5, (see difference in the attached plots) and this helped reducing the pitch motion, while driving in length, by a factor of ~2. The new filter is loaded in the L2P M0 drivealign matrix bank, and named L2PQ12.5. The old filter is loaded in FM6 as L2P1legacy.

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