Reports until 02:06, Thursday 01 September 2016
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jenne.driggers@LIGO.ORG - posted 02:06, Thursday 01 September 2016 (29430)
Work toward low noise tonight

[Sheila, Kiwamu, Terra, Jenne]

Next up:  Try dither loop to hold ETMX spot position in yaw to prevent spot position movement on BS.  Separate SOFT loops to X and Y, use offset of XSOFT yaw to hold ETMX spot position constant.  Alternatively (or simultaneously), dither BS and demodulate with several different signals at the same time, to understand better how the spot is moving.

We ended up moving PR2 (our uncontrolled recycling optic), and walking it with the POP_A offset.  This allowed us to get to a PRC gain of 31.6 by the O1 standard, but without the sideband powers tanking.  We think that this was promising, and will come back to it tomorrow.  Once we decide that we're happy, we should re-do the green initial alignment setpoints yet again (including the beatnote PDs, which weren't done earlier today) to set this as our reference alignment.  Attached is a big screenshot of where we were most happy.  Also attached is the PR2 offset screen, time-machined back to before we started moving PR2. 

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