This is a followup of 30335.
On Saturday the IFO lost lock at around 2016/10/08 12:43 UTC (that's 5:43AM Pacific) and PMC also lost lock somewhat later.
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After relocking, PMC trans drops by about 20% (~20W) while PMC refl doesn't change.
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1st loop PDs and refcav trans see the same ~ 20% drop, and refcav refl DC increases.
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1st loop QPD sees YAW jump by 2.2um or so, which sounds small but the beam is focused by a lens.
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No change in HPO power and pointing (discard big dip in DBB_QPD_1QX and 1QS signal, it's just that the uncontrolled DBB PMC flashed due to temperature drift or something).
You can see that the AOM diffraction number changes from 3.7% to 10%, i.e. the AOM transmission decreases by 0.9/0.964~0.93, or 7% drop. I don't know if the AOM calibration is good, but assuming that it is and making correction for this, it still does not make sense.
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After relocking, PMC trans drops by about 13% (13W) while PMC refl increased by about 7% (36*0.07~2.5W).
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1st loop PDs and refcav trans see the same ~ 13% drop, and refcav refl DC increases.
It's not like PMC physically moved (otherwise PMC refl should increase). It seems like something is fishy here. Polarization, alignment, oscillation, what?