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H1 SQZ
camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:07, Monday 08 September 2025 - last comment - 11:24, Monday 08 September 2025(86777)
SQZ FIS Data Set, repeat of last week with cold OM2
Sheila, Camilla.
Repeating 86739, with OM2 in it's nominal cold state. Plot saved in camilla.compton/Documents/sqz/templates/dtt/20250908_SQZdata.xml and attached.
First I touched up the SHG temperature as the SHG power lower than nominal after it was increased yesterday 86767, increased from 93mW to 106mW, sdf attached. Than checked OPO temperature and while measuring NLG.
 
Type Time (UTC) Angle DTT Ref
No SQZ 16:09:30 - 16:19:00 N/A ref 0
FIS SQZ (tuned for 1kHz) 16:22:00 - 16:25:00 (-)137.5 ref 1
FIS Mid + SQZ (tuned to no sqz) 16:26:30 - 16:29:30 (-)165.0 ref 2
FIS Mid - SQZ (tuned to no sqz) 16:32:00 - 16:35:00 (-)120.4 ref 3
FIS ASQZ 16:39:00 - 16:42:00 (+)252.2 ref 8
Mean SQZ (ADF off) 16:42:30 - 16:45:30 N/A ref 9
FIS tuned for 100Hz (to look at thermal noise limits) 16:52:00 - 16:55:00 (-)119.5 ref 10
FIS tuned for 100Hz +5deg 16:55:30 - 16:58:30 (-)124.2 ref 11
FIS tuned for 100Hz -5deg 16:59:00 - 16:02:00 (-)113.8 ref 12

We tuned FIS around 100HZ and then changed the SQZ angle +/-5deg, plot attached. Shiela thinks this could help us constrain thermal noise in the future.

Plot attached of today's data (SRCL offset at nominal -382) compared to last weeks while OM2 was hot (with SRCL offset tuned at -235). Solid lines are cold OM2, dashed lines are hot OM2. FIS is better with cold OM2 as expected.

We noticed that mean SQZ was different <100Hz with the OM2 hot vs Cold. This persisted if I changed the averages so wasn't caused by a glitch and also seemed to be increased looking at Sheila's 86736 data too. Changed SRCL offset to see if this was the cause but it didn't appear to be. Plot attached, so the cause is OM2.

Type Time (UTC) SRCL Offset DTT Ref
Mean SQZ (ADF off) 16:42:30 - 16:45:30 -382 ref 9
Mean SQZ (ADF off) 17:17:00 - 17:20:00 -235 ref 15
Mean SQZ (ADF off) 17:08:30 - 17:10:00 -100 ref 13
Mean SQZ (ADF off) 17:11:00  - 17:14:00 0 ref 14

 

OPO Setpoint Amplified Max Amplified Min UnAmp Dark NLG
80 0.0395963 0.00050063 0.00170524 -2.611e-5 22.9
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camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - 11:24, Monday 08 September 2025 (86782)OpsInfo

Note for Operators, changing the SRCL offset put the THERMALIZATION guardian into error. This is fine.

Once the SRCL offset is back to nominal, just load the THERMALIZATION GRD and it's will go back to normal, I'm not sure what would happen if this was done early in the lock when the GRD was still ramping the offset though.