J. Kissel, J. Oberling Work Permit 8109 FRS Ticket 12394 Jason installed new components for SR3 optical lever this morning, which had died mid-February 2019 (LHO:47066). To check it's functionality, I've - Checked that the SUM is nice and high (good!) - Checked its centering (good!), and - Compared its amplitude spectral density in Pitch, Yaw, and SUM against PR3's optical lever -- a similar optical lever watching a similar suspension on a similar isolation system. (not yet good) The noise above ~50 Hz is dominated by some white noise at the equivalent of ~1.5e-11 rad/rtHz, which I suspect is ADC noise. The straightforward solution is to just apply some analog whitening as has been done with all other levers. PR3's lever doesn't hit white noise until ~500 Hz, at the equivalent of 2e-12 in YAW; PIT is not limited by ADC noise, so we should be able to achieve this level of performance. Once the whitening has been tuned, this test will need to be repeated, so I've stored the template for this measurement in /ligo/home/jeffrey.kissel/Templates/DTT/ H1_XR3_OpLev_Comparison.xml for that future use.
As Jeff says above, I swapped the dead SR3 OpLev laser with a spare; the laser output power was tweaked until SUM count of ~27k was acheived. The SN of the new laser is 104-1.
I turned on a single set of whitening filters (and their corresponding dewhitening filters; this change was accepted in SDF) and re-ran Jeff's measurement, see attachment. As can be seen, SR3 OpLev performance now closely matches that of PR3, with neither one hitting noise until ~200Hz. As these are only useful up to 100Hz, this is sufficient for now; should more whitening be necessary at a later date, both PR3 and SR3 oplevs have 2 additional sets of whitening filters that can be enabled.
This closes WP 8109.