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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 06:12, Wednesday 20 May 2026 (87654)
OM2 hot vs cold squeezer data sets

Here's a look at some old data from september's OM2 heating test. I'm posting this incomplete alog, which has been sitting in my drafts for a long time, so that at least this information is available to people.

Background about the measurements:

Information about this dataset, bold numbers are used as assumptions in these models:

Here is a plot with all of this data, we took mean sqz data for all three data sets with the LO unlocked, we only took anti-squeezing data for the first OM2 hot data set without adjusting the SRCL offset.  The low frequency non quantum noise is worse for the OM2 hot data because we didn't retune the feedforwards after heating up. 

Some gwinc plots to help me understand the impact of mismatch phase:

In gwinc the mismatch is parameterized as IFO to OMC, and SQZ to OMC, since we have not adjusted the psams while we heated up OM2 we will need to increase both of these mismatches for the hot OM2 state, and both of them have a mistmatch phase which changes the frequency dependent rotation significantly.  This rotation is most obvious for the mid- squeezing traces, where we adjusted the squeezing angle so that the high frequency noise matches what it is when there is no squeezing.  To help myself understand, I made some plots that show a series of models with our measured mismatch magnitudes listed above and the squeezing angle fit for high frequency, varying ifo to omc mismatch phases, or sqz to OMC mismatch phases.  Here is another plot showing only one type of mid sqz with both phases varying, which may also be helpful to look at to see the envelope of what varying the mismatch phase can do.  Kevin has said that the only thing that matters is the relative mismatch phase, this plot illustrates that where most of the traces can't be seen because they are hidden by others with the same relative mismatch phase.  The traces where two mismatch phases are identical are closest to the trace with no mismatch.  

Looking at losses:

Looking at the plot with all the data, you can see that the mean squeezing is mostly the same for the three cases, above 200 Hz, suggesting that the losses are about the same for all three cases.  Below 200 Hz, there is as usual some kind of extra noise that makes the mean sqz trace not useful for estimating loss.  We only measured anti-squeezing for the hot OM2 case before we added the SRCL offset. This  plot of a model of anti-squeezing shows that we don't expect much difference in anti-squeezing for the level of mode mismatch and SRCL offset that we have, except around 20Hz where technical noise would cover the quantum noise.  

There are two ways to use these data to estimate unknown losses.  I've used 2-2.3kHz since the technical noise is further from the shot noise than in other parts of the spectrum.  Assuming an arm power of 330kW we can use no sqz data to estimate readout losses, doing that we need to add just a small amount of extra losses to explain our shot noise: 1.5% for cold OM2, 2.4% for hot OM2 no change in SRCL offset, 0.9% for hot OM2 with SRCL offset changed.  This is encouraging since it means that we can account for most of our readout losses, however it doesn't agree with the estimate based on kappa C for the change in losses as OM2 was heated.  We can also use the nonlinear gain and unlocked squeezing level to estimate unknown loss: cold OM2: 15.1%, hot OM2: 15.7%, hot OM2 SRCL offset:  19.8%.   

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