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stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - posted 21:40, Tuesday 22 October 2019 - last comment - 09:26, Wednesday 23 October 2019(52639)
SRC Gouy Phase measurement (without even locking SRMI)

Varun, Stefan

We measured the (one-way) SRC Gouy phase to be 28.97deg +-0.11deg (statistical) +-0.43deg (systematic).
We used a method pioneered in KAGRA (klog 9241 and 9246). A similar method was used for the PRC Gouy phase measurement(alog 52504).

Plots:
 - Plot 1: SRC scan across 6 fringes. Blue: AS_C_SUM, Red: AS_C_SEG2 (both derived from IOP channels). Magenta: round trip Gouy phase fit from the two results.
 - Plot 2: Raw data strech of 6 best fringes.

Method:
- Align BS and SRM (in SRY) carefully (especially BS)
- Misalign SRM by 70 urad (we did pos pitch)
- Let SRMI freely swing (i.e. SRM and BS aligned, PRC misaligned)
- SRCL1 and MICH1 gains 0 (we don't need the control loops)
- Put an offset in SRCL2_OFFSET (we used -1e6cts)
- Turn off all whitening on ASC-AS_C
- We want the LSC trigger to fire and stay latched (and apply the offset) when ASC-AS_C reaches the darkest possible spot.
  This corresponds to the BS in the correct position, increasing the finesse of the SRC to its maximum.
- We achieved that with a negative trigger matrix element, a slightly positive enable threshold (since AS_C swing slightly negative), and a very negative disable threshold
  We used: H1:LSC-TRIG_MTRX_4_14 =-100, H1:LSC-SRCL_TRIG_THRESH_ON = 0.015, H1:LSC-SRCL_TRIG_THRESH_OFF = -100
- To read the data we need the highest possible data rate. So in addition to H1:ASC-AS_C_NSUM_OUT we recorded the IOP channels
  H1:IOP-ASC0_MADC6_TP_CH9, H1:IOP-ASC0_MADC6_TP_CH10, H1:IOP-ASC0_MADC6_TP_CH11, H1:IOP-ASC0_MADC6_TP_CH12
- Those IOP channels are before the fixed anti-whitening filter. So we did the anti-whitening filter in diaggui ('zpk([40],[0.4],1,"n")').
- The 4 quadrants of ASC-AS_C saw different combinations of the higher order modes.
- We used SEG4 (CH9) for finding the 00 modes.
- We used SEG2 (CH11) and the sum of all 4 segments for 10 modes (red and blue traces respecively).
- We chose a bank of 6 fringes with very low AS_DC values - those have the highest finesse.
- A spline fit was used to interpolate the time to degrees in-between 00 peaks.
- We calculated the mean from the red and blue traces separately. Their mean is reported as final value.
- We calculated the standard deviation of the mean from the red and blue traces separately. The maximum of the two errors is reported as statistical  error.
- The difference between the red and blue result is reported as systematic error.

The code and raw data is found in /ligo/home/controls/sballmer/20191022.
 

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stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - 09:26, Wednesday 23 October 2019 (52641)

Should add that the SR3 ring heater, as well as the ITM TCS system,  was turned on during the measurement. Snap shots are attached.
The time of measurement was GPS 1255829128, Oct 23 2019 01:25:10 UTC.

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