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gosselin, melo - 17:23 Thursday 21 January 2021 (50535) Print this report
Fast Unlock Investigatio - Increase of the ML pumping current

This afternoon, we increased the pumping current of the ML from 1.774 A to 1.977 A. In the same time we were rotating the HWP at its output in order to keep the same power on the laser bench. (see plot 1). The extra power is rejected by the first polarizer of the FI in the ML box.
We did not do any direct measurment of the output power. This would have required to block the beam and it would have consequently unlocked all the PSL/INJ subsystems.  

We did that in order to see if making the ML work at a higher pumping current would improve its behavior with respect to a potential frequency noise that would cause the fast unlocks.
There is already a visible effect, the power noise has increased at high frequency and decrease at low (see plot 2).

We will let it in that state for now and study its behavior in the coming days.

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gosselin - 14:36 Monday 25 January 2021 (50564) Print this report

The IMC remained locked over the whole weekend.
It seems that, somehow, increasing the current of the ML pumping diodes, reduced the amplitude of the glitches on EOM_CORR (see plot 1 and 2). 
During the weekend the correction did not reach the +- 1V that makes the IMC unlock.

The only unlock was on the 25/01 at 06:12 UTC. It does not have the shape of the usual fast unlock. The correction of the ML_PZT starts to drift about 1 s before the unlock (see plot 3). This drift is not explain yet.

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gosselin - 14:56 Monday 25 January 2021 (50567) Print this report

The unlock of this morning is actually due to a lost of lock of the RFC.
For an unknown reason the error signal became constant (see plot). 
Consequently the corrections ML_TH and ML_PZT increased till the unlock of the IMC. 

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