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H1 ISC (SEI, SUS)
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:40, Thursday 23 January 2014 - last comment - 18:09, Friday 24 January 2014(9518)
stable arm cavity!

Green team-

The arm cavity is finally locking stably, thanks to the work of Sebastian, Hugh, Jeff and company to reduce our pitch fluctuations.  Now we have about 5% fluctuations in the transmitted power that comes from pitch fluctuations, much better than the 50% we had this morning, and the cavity has been locked at least for 10s of minutes.  The slow feedback is now on, controlled by the autolocker. 

We get a max transmission of about 740 counts on ALS-C_COMM_LF, while the single shot beam stayed at 45 counts, which means that the on resonance/single shot resonance is 16.1, so we are getting 74% of the power that we would expect and probably have 26% of our power in higher order modes ( improved from 45% this morning).  This may have been due to Alexa and I moving the EOM in our effort to reduce the RF AM.  Maybe it is worth tweaking the EOM alingment when the cavity is locked to see if this is the sourcce of our mode mismatch. 

I will leave the cavity locking with the autolocker on, until the red team wants to misaling it. 

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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 18:09, Friday 24 January 2014 (9552)

The X arm cavity stayed locked with green only for over 6 hours last night. Attached is a histogram of H1:ALS-C_COMM_LF_OUTPUT calibrated in uW arriving on ISCT1. 

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