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daniel.hoak@LIGO.ORG - posted 04:33, Monday 07 September 2015 (21262)
OMC visibility measurement

Dan, Travis

During the earthquake tonight we finally closed the loop on the HAM6 power budget measurements.  This is something Koji had asked for many, many months ago.  orz

With IMC-PWR_IN at 2.2388 +/- 0.0004 watts (not sure about the calibration for this channel) and a single bounce off ITMY, we collected the following data (30 seconds of slow channels, uncertainties are stdevs) with the OMC locked & unlocked:

  OMC Unlocked OMC Locked
AS_A_DC_SUM_OUT [cnts] 436.3 +/- 0.6 436.3 +/- 0.7
AS_B_DC_SUM_OUT [cnts] 427.3 +/- 0.07 427.5 +/- 0.7
AS_C_SUM_OUT [cnts] 289.8 +/- 0.2 289.8 +/- 0.3
OMCR_A_SUM_OUT [cnts] 142.1 +/- 0.2 23.3 +/- 0.1
OMCR_B_SUM_OUT [cnts] 150.7 +/- 0.1 22.9 +/- 0.1
DCPD_A_OUT [mA] -- 1.775 +/- 0.0023
DCPD_B_OUT [mA] -- 1.761 +/- 0.0023
DCPD_SUM_OUT [mA]   3.537 +/- 0.0046

 

AS_C has 36dB of whitening gain.  The OMCRs and DCPDs have no DC whitening.  I'm not sure about AS_A and AS_B (I think they have zero whitening, but I haven't looked at the electronics chain for the WFS DC signals so I'm not sure of the transimpedance, etc).  Since AS_C gets 400ppm of the light entering HAM6, the total light into the chamber is:

289 counts / (1638.4 counts/V * 0.8 A/W * 1000 V/A * 2 * 36dB * 400ppm) = 4.38 mW

(PD responsivity = 0.8, QPD transimpedance = 1000 ohms, differential output = 2x, whitening gain = 36dB)

The alignment into the OMC is probably not perfect in this state, but the mode-matching for the carrier should be better than 90% -- same as here, since we apply central heating to ITMX.  The modulation depths are also the same; the power in the carrier should be 94.3% of the total.