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H1 ISC (ISC)
lisa.barsotti@LIGO.ORG - posted 23:16, Friday 07 February 2014 - last comment - 18:02, Saturday 08 February 2014(9929)
Summary about missing power in REFL beam
Evan, Stefan, Kiwamu, Lisa

There has been some confusion about factors of two in previous entries, so here are our "final" numbers:

- Pin = 8.8 W entering the IMC, measured on the PSL table
- with PRM aligned, R = 98.6%
-  from Paul's calibration  of the MC2Trans diode (we measured 645 uW), it looks like there is T = 88% from the PSL to the transmission of the input mode cleaner;
- given the HAM1 path, we expect 1.25% of the REFL power to reach the LSC RF diode P_exp = 8.8 * 0.986 * 0.88 * 1.25e-2 = 95 mW;


 LSC in vac REFL A (LSC RF PD)  (1.25% of REFL power) = 15900 counts (maximum found by moving RM2)

==> 15900 [counts] * (1/1638) [V/counts] * 2 [diff to single input] * (1/200) [1/Ohm] * 0.8 [W/A] =  78 mW 

 LSC REFL AIR A (LSC RF PD)  (0.625% of REFL power) = 7955 counts 

==> 32.5 mW measured directly in front of the diode on table

==> 7955 [counts] * (1/1638) [V/counts] * 2 [diff to single input] * (1/200) [1/Ohm] * 0.8 [W/A] = 39 mW

 LSC REFL AIR B (BBPD)  (0.625% of REFL power) = 21770 counts 

==> 34 mW measured directly in front of the diode on table


==>  Conclusion : The discrepancy between what we see and what we expect is not a factor of 2, but more like 20%-30%, and in vac and in air diodes gives us consistent numbers. 



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lisa.barsotti@LIGO.ORG - 18:02, Saturday 08 February 2014 (9933)ISC
Nope..we didn't get the right factors this time either:

W/A  = 1/0.8, and the factor of 2 diff to single is not there (and, even if it doesn't matter, R for PRM is 97.3%, not 98.6%).
I will post another entry with the right numbers..somehow I can't edit this one..

P.S: Still need to calibrate these numbers, measurements were taken all at the same time. It might be also worth to check if the T = 88% transmission from PSL to IMC throughput is correct.

 LSC REFL AIR B (BBPD)  (0.625% of REFL power) = 21770 counts 

==> 34 mW measured directly in front of the diode on table

WFS in vac REFL A (0.625% of REFL power) = 34200 counts
WFS in vac REFL B (0.625% of REFL power) = 36400 counts
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