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gouaty - 15:03 Monday 04 March 2019 (45105) Print this report
Low frequency line injections on SDB1 and SDB2

Yesterday (sunday March 3rd), I injected a low frequency line (0.1 Hz) on SDB1 and on SDB2 from the top stage of the suspensions, along the Z degree of freedom of the benches. The purpose of these injections is to re-evaluate the scattered light coupling factors (analysis will be posted later). Note that these injections were performed with the SDB1 FI shutter closed. The times of the injections are provided below:

SDB1 low frequency line injection:

  • 13h52m00 utc (5 min): reference quiet data (purple spectrum in the attached figures)
  • 13h57m20 utc: SDB1 Z moving by +/-10um
  • 13h59m40 utc (5 min): SDB1 Z moving by +/-15 um (see Fig.1)
  • 14h05m40 utc (3 min): SDB1 Z moving by +/-18 um (see Fig.2)
  • 14h09m09 utc: SDB2 LC tracking loop open. Taking 3 min of data with the injection on SDB1 still on (see Fig.3)
  • 14h13m00 utc: Taking 4 min of data without injection, and with the tracking loop still open.
  • SDB2 tracking loop closed at 14h17m32

SDB2 low frequency line injection:

  • 15h03m50 utc (5 min): SDB2 bench moving by +/- 18 um (see Fig.4)
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mwas - 19:59 Monday 04 March 2019 (45113) Print this report

Made a projection for the SDB1 and SDB2 scattered light.

Figure 1. For SDB2 the scattering coefficient increased from 2e-5 to 5e-5 (a factor 2.5).

Figure 2. For SDB1 the scattering coefficient increased from 6e-5 to 21e-5 (a factor 3.5)

Compared here with latest measuremnet from Aug 2018. The increase is not that surprising. The B1 power has been decreased from 19mW to 2.8mW, so a factor 7. If the scattering coefficient had not changed and the main source of scattering is from the B1p beam (before OMCs) then we would expect the coupling coefficient to increase by a factor 7. So either the scatteringĀ  of the B1p beam on SDB1/SDB2 decreased by a factor ~2. Or the observed scattering is a mix of B1p and B1 scattering, and due to the reduced dark fringe offset the B1p contribution has become relatively larger compared to the B1 contribution.

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