Reports until 16:42, Wednesday 08 May 2019
H1 SQZ
daniel.sigg@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:42, Wednesday 08 May 2019 - last comment - 11:49, Thursday 09 May 2019(49126)
Squeezer laser

 The multi-mode misery of the squeezer laser continues. 22 days ago the laser was adjusted and it looked reasonable for a few days with 45-50mW green output. Now it seems to vary between 35 and 45mW. At 40mW and below the power stabilization circuit is running out of range and rails the actuator.

It was reported that we cannot lock the squeezer laser when the noise eater is turned off. This is simply due to the fact that the auto-locker stops when there is an apparent error in the laser, and the current laser screen expects the noise eater to be on. Added a new nominal state for the noise eater relay that should take care of this problem in the future. It requires the new Beckhoff code to be activated first.

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daniel.sigg@LIGO.ORG - 11:32, Thursday 09 May 2019 (49147)

I took the "opportunity" of a lock loss due add the noise eater relay nominal setting to the SQZ laser. Now the TTFSS servo will work when with the noise eater off all the time.

jason.oberling@LIGO.ORG - 11:49, Thursday 09 May 2019 (49151)

SQZ laser multi-mode issues now associated with FRS ticket 12883.