Reports until 09:38, Thursday 31 May 2018
H1 ISC (PSL)
peter.king@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:38, Thursday 31 May 2018 - last comment - 16:00, Friday 01 June 2018(42257)
ND filter installed on ALS photodiode
At Daniel's request I installed a neutral density filter
(ND05A) on the photodiode
located after the reference cavity in the ALS path.

    The power transmitted by the reference cavity was measured between the first turning mirror
located after the step down periscope and a lens (see RC_Trans.jpg) to be 28.3 mW.  At the time
the FSS MEDM screen indicated a reference cavity transmission of 2.8 V.  The 1 mW = 100 mV factor
is consistent with a measurement taken a long time ago.
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keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - 11:23, Thursday 31 May 2018 (42262)

After Peter was done, I updated the calibration of H1:ALS-C_FIBR_EXTERNAL_DC_POWERMON.

When I was watching H1:PSL-FSS_TPD_DC_OUTPUT it was about 2.68V, so using Peter's measurement the power upstream of the BS for the PD should have been ~2.68/2.8*28.3=27.1mW.

I changed H1:ALS-C_FIBR_EXTERNAL_DC_SPLITTERR from 50% to 3% so the "power before pickoff" (H1:ALS-C_FIBR_EXTERNAL_DC_POWERMON) reads ~27mW.

(The BS should be 5% according to Peter's picture, ND05 means about a factor of 3 reduction, so it should be 5/3% ~ 1.7% instead of 3, something should be off by a factor of 2 or so but I wont investigate further because this is of no real consequence.)

keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - 12:12, Thursday 31 May 2018 (42263)

ALS Y laser was turned on (EY is still laser safe, ISCTEY is locked). PLL was locked.

daniel.sigg@LIGO.ORG - 15:59, Thursday 31 May 2018 (42268)

When I looked at the screen I thought the responsivity was off. This should be a Si diode.

keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - 16:00, Friday 01 June 2018 (42292)

I temporarily set responsivity to 0.36A/W assuming Thorlabs FDS1010 (but I don't know if it is), and "reflectivity of pick off beamsplitter" to 3%*0.64/.36=5.3% to keep the calibration correct. That's roughly a factor of 3 larger than expected from BS label and ND05.