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AdV-DAQ (Calibration)
rolland, estevez, germain, verkindt - 17:28 Tuesday 11 April 2017 (37220) Print this report
Permanent calibration lines started

We have set 12 permanent calibration lines in CALnoise: a set above 50 Hz and a set above 355 Hz, spaced by 0.5 Hz.   The 8 sent to the arm mirrors are visible in the DARM signal, the ones sent to PR and BS are not visible.  The current frequencies are given in the table.

Permanent calibration lines
Mirror Freq1 (Hz) Ampl1 (mV) Freq2(Hz) Ampl21 (V)
WI 51.8 2 356.8 20
PR 52.3 2 357.3 20
BS 52.8 2 357.8 20
NE 53.3 1 358.3 2
WE 53.8 1 538.8 2
NI 51.3 2 359.3 20

 

WARNINGs:

  • They are currently started by default in CALnoise and never stopped. If this is a problem for the lock acquisition, they can be stopped by putting 0 in the CALnoise configuration, lines 126-131.
  • We should setup a mechanism, in ITF_LOCK, to start them when we reach some state close to dark fringe and stop them in the DOWN state.
  • DMS: CALnoise and LockMoni have been modified in order to separate the noise and the permanent lines:
    • DMS Injections flag is green or red when noise in off or on
    • DMS Injections flag should green/yellow/red when permanent lines are off/on/higher than expected. Of course, this will be modified when the permanent lines behaviour will be fixed.
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rolland - 16:08 Monday 24 April 2017 (37352) Print this report

Following the sensitivity improvement, I reduced by a factor 10 the permanent calibration lines around 50 Hz, and moved the line 53.8 Hz WE line down to 50.8 Hz, to be further from the PRCL line around 54.1 Hz.

bersanetti - 17:03 Monday 24 April 2017 (37355) Print this report

The amplitude reduction, and possibly more the frequency change of the WE line, successfully lowered the DARM spectrum in such range and removed some low-frequency pattern that were seen in DARM error signal in time domain; as a double check I tried an additional factor 10 reduction of the lines' amplitudes, but the additional effect is negligible, as the RMS is dominated by the UGF line of DARM itself, which we still have to optimize in the LOW_NOISE_1 confguration. In Figure, blue is the new amplitude, red is 10% of the new amplitude.

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