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keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 20:39, Thursday 22 September 2022 - last comment - 17:29, Friday 28 October 2022(65082)
HAM6 installation status (Louis, Rahul, Betsy, Keita)

We calibrated OMCR DCPD using Pcal integrating sphere. Numbers are to follow. (But note that Koji is worried that maybe the cover glass for that PD was cracked when they punched a vent hole on the diode case.)

We fixed the beam dump that was too high.

After that, we investigated the DCPD signal ground (alog 65081) and we think we know the cause of the problem but we don't have an easy fix. We'll leave it as is.

It seems that one of the cables (either PZT or QPD) that goes to the OMC breadboard was touching the OMC shroud panel. We'll revisit that in the morning, adjust that, then confirm that the laser is still hitting the OMC QPDs. If not we'll realign.

It seems that we have ground loop problem (PZT shield is connected to the chamber). We'll revisit that at some time, maybe in the morning, or maybe after we're done with the injection from HAM7 to HAM6.

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keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - 17:29, Friday 28 October 2022 (65518)

This is a belated followup of OMCR DCPD calibration. Following channels were calibrated.

Channel meaning Where Caveat
H1:OMC-REFL_A_LF_OUT_DQ Power upstream of 99:1 splitter [mW] Frontend

gain=1, FM4/5/6/9 always ON.

FM7/8 should be the inverse of H1:OMC-REFL_A_DC_GAINSETTING (e.g. enable "-20dB" if the gain is 20dB).

If you set the whitening gain to anything other than 0dB, use FM10 to define an appropriate compensation gain.

H1:OMC-REFL_A_DC_POWERMON Power upstream of 99:1 splitter [mW] Beckhoff  
H1:OMC-REFL_A_DC_POWER Power actually falling on the OMCR PD [mW] Beckhoff  

 

I made the following changes for H1:OMC-REFL_A_LF filters, and coefficients were loaded to H1OMC.

  Old New

FM4 ("cts2V"), supposed to be 40/(2**16)

gain(0.0006105)

gain(0.00061035)

(doesn't matter much)

FM6 ("W/A"), supposed to be 1/responsivity.

gain(6.5) gain(17.15)

FM9 ("inv(99:1)"), new filter, supposed to be

the inverse of the transmissivity of 99:1

NA

gain(104.17)

Following is a table of parameters for Beckhoff:

  old new
H1:OMC-REFL_A_DC_OFFSET -0.0025 -0.0025
H1:OMC-REFL_A_DC_GAINSETTING 20dB 20dB
H1:OMC-REFL_A_DC_RESPONSIVITY 0.16 A/W 0.058 A/W
H1:OMC-REFL_A_DC_TRANSIMPEDANCE 2000 Ohm 2000 Ohm
H1:OMC-REFL_A_DC_SPLITTERR 100 % 0.960 %

Some details:

  • Responsivity of the OMCR DCPD was measured to be (0.0583+-0.0006)A/W for frontend data (H1:OMC-REFL_A_LF_OUTPUT) using the auxirialy laser on HAM6, PCal Integrating sphere (S/N PS3, responsivity ~5.6014*1047/1064 V/W for 1064nm), and the measured splitting ratio of 99:1.
    • (Beckhoff ADC data (H1:OMC-REFL_A_DC_VOLTS) gave us a similar number (0.0602+-0.0015)A/W, but I didn't combine that number with the one obtained from the frontend data as I trust the latter more. Anyway, the two numbers reasonably agree with each other, which is good.)
    • Laser was injected upstream of OM1. Integrating sphere was placed between the corner mirror (M9 in D1000342) and the 99:1 splitter.
    • Actual measurement was a bit more complicated, see the notebook.
  • Transmissivity of 99:1 splitter was measured to be (0.960+-0.006) % using a Thorlabs power meter.
    • Due to space limitation on HAM6, it was just a measurement of the power impinging the splitter, and then another measurement for the power transmitted, so don't trust the error bar too much. The power drift of the auxiliary laser we used was probably bigger than 0.6%.
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