Reports until 17:45, Wednesday 21 August 2013
H1 PSL
christina.bogan@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:45, Wednesday 21 August 2013 (7511)
Afternoon work
[Patrick, Peter, Christina]

We realigned the DBB very carefully and verified the optimization of the high power laser with the DBB. (scans will be put in later)

We switched the PSL to (real) full power mode (full power towards the PMC) and turned the half wave plate behind the PMC to send all the light towards the power meter. We think it is best to perform the missing measurements in this known configuration in which the L1 laser was also measured. 

We increased the diode currents (from 2A to 2.18A) of the NPRO to get it back to the nominal output power to 1.8W of the NPRO. Before that the NPRO output power was 1.6W. 

The digital temperature control loop was oscillating due to a too high loop gain. After the gain was reduced, that's working again. 

The output power of the laser is now: 188W

The ISS and FSS are running but were not optimized so far.