Reports until 14:51, Thursday 31 October 2019
H1 SQZ (SQZ)
nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:51, Thursday 31 October 2019 - last comment - 16:18, Thursday 31 October 2019(52840)
SQZ pump input to OPO set to non-linear gain of 2.5

At a non-linear gain of ~2.3 is where I believe we were operating during O3a. Lee accidently made the range better with normalized OPO transmission of 1 but forgot to adjust the temperature to optimize the nlg, this could mean we are better off operating at low pump power. The pump power is now set to NLG of 2.5. This corresponds to the normalized transmission value of 0.67, pump input to the coupler is 7.3mW, 3.8mW reflected when OPO is unlocked. To be able to engage the OPO ISS I had to throw away about half the power with the half wave plate.

Let's start SQZ optimization from here.

Comments related to this report
daniel.sigg@LIGO.ORG - 16:18, Thursday 31 October 2019 (52844)

We changed the normalization of the OPO TRANS PD from 122uA to 262uA, or by a factor of 2.15. The new normalized value of 0.67 corresponds to 1.44 times the pump power in the OPO during O3a.