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AdV-COM (AdV commissioning (1st part) )
capocasa - 15:04 Thursday 13 July 2017 (38601) Print this report
Comment to [OptChar] Free swinging arm cavity and arm cavity lock/unlock (38458)

I tried to extrapolate the arm RTL from the photdiodes signals on B1p, B4 and B5 during the lock/unlock. The signals are shown in the first attached picture. Only B1p_PD2 seems to give reliable values for the losses. They are 61 +/-5 ppm for the Narm and 56 +/- 5 for the Warm.

B5 is measuring losses higher than 150 ppm which are not compatible with the upper limit set by the recycling gain.

The behaviour of B4 is particulary strange as it observes an increase of the reflected power when the cavity is locked. This is probably explained by the observed change in the beam position and shape between the locked and unlocked state. To be investigated...

In the second attachment there are data I used to check PD offests (I took a IMC unlock just before the measurement).

I remark that when the cavity is unlock the end mirror is also misaligned. It means that the input power used for the computation is actualy the reflected power divided by (1-Tin).

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