I roughly calibrated an IMC spectrum taken during one of our longer high power locks into frequency noise. This spectrum was taken with high CARM gain at 23 watts of input power. It was taken at IMC Servo Board Test1. Well informed guesses about the laser frequency control hierarchy during this measurement:MCL Crossover ~ 30 Hz CARM UGF ~ 10 kHz IMC UGF ~ 75 kHz FSS UGF ~ 200 kHzI relied on the calibration of the IMC VCO of 268302 Hz/V, times two for the doublepass AOM. There's also a VCO zero/pole of 40/1.6, the IMC Servo Board fast path signal coloring (Fast Option 200kHz pole, Fast HPF 70kHz/140kHz, and Fast Gain), and the FSS CLG. The calibration looks like this:where
is the measured IMC OLG, and
is the measured FSS OLG. (This FSS measurement is a little old, things could have changed, but the gain settings are the same: 20 dB Common and 9 dB Fast gain) I cut off the spectrum at 30 Hz because that's the MCL crossover freq and I haven't included the slow path in the model. The low frequency stuff greatly increased my RMS, but I doubt this is really the case since the suppression of MCL is insane. Frequency RMS from 30 Hz to 2 MHz: 1.1 mHz
I am baffled. If you measure at MC_F, you should see mainly frequency noise from the laser. The frequency noise of the VCO corresponds to ~1mHz/rtHz alone.
The last time I measured the FSS transfer function was back on October 9th. The gain slider settings were the same as before so I would not expect too much impact on your F(f).