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kiwamu.izumi@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:38, Tuesday 02 September 2014 - last comment - 11:35, Wednesday 03 September 2014(13714)
MICH angular motion

I did some math to figure out how much ITMX, ITMY and BS may have been moving (in a frequency band of 0.1-1 ish Hz) in their angles according to fluctuation of the DC light observed at the dark port when the Michelson was locked.

(Summary)

Wednesday night (August 27th)

Friday night (August 29th)

 


(Some math behind it)

Suppose the Michelson is locked on a dark fringe. If an ITM is misaligned by Ψ, this introduces a displacement and tilt in the reflected beam with respect to the one from the other ITM at the BS. The displacement is x = 2 L Ψ and the title is ϑ = 2 Ψ where L is the distance from the BS to the ITM. So we get a small amount of 01 or 10 mode at the dark port on top of the 00 modes. Since the effect on the resultant 00 mode in its power is proportial to 4th power of the displacement and tilt, we assume the 00 mode to vanish because of the locking loop. The only residual we obtain at the dark port is the 01 or 10 mode whose field can be written as

E10 = 1/sqrt(2) ( x/w0 + i * ϑ / ϑ0),

where w0 is the waist size and ϑ0 is the divergence angle respectively. A factor of 1/sqrt(2) upfront comes from the BS reflection. If we plug the definition of x and ϑ into the equation, we get

E10 = sqrt(2) ( L/w0 + i / ϑ0Ψ.

Squaring the above, one can get the dark port power as

P = 2 ( (L/w0)2+ (1/ ϑ0)2Ψ2

Note that P is already normalized by the input beam power or equivallently the bright fringe. The Rayleigh range of the beam around the BS is roughly 210 m (if my math is correct). This gives a waist size of 8.4 mm and divergence angle of 40 urad.  The ITM-BS distance L is about 5.34 m where I averaged out the Schnupp asymmetry. So the dark port power can be now explicitly written as

P = 1.24 x 109  Ψ2

This is the equation I used for deriving the numbers listed at the very top.

For example, if one wants to explain a 16% DC light fluctuation observed at the dark port by an angle deviation in ITMX(Y), the misalignment should be Ψ = sqrt(0.16 / 1.24 x 109 ) = 11.4 urad. In the case of the BS, the effect gets twice bigger due to the fact it affects both X and Y beams at the same time in a constructive manner.

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lisa.barsotti@LIGO.ORG - 11:35, Wednesday 03 September 2014 (13732)ISC
Nic, Lisa

Somehow I was confused by Kiwamu's final numbers, so we went through the math again. Kiwamu is correct. The 11 urad seemed huge for a 16% power fluctuation, but
Kiwamu is referring to 16% power fluctuations with respect to the BRIGHT fringe..so it is indeed huge. 
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