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rolland - 18:24 Wednesday 06 November 2024 (65478) Print this report
Glitches in NE Pcal since Nov 1st

There are a lot of glitches in the NE Pcal laser power since November 1st, around ~0h, see first plot (the bottom right plot is for WE for comparison). 

The plots 2 and 3 show glitches in the time-domain, partially hidden by the permanent lines . They are mainly visible in NE_Rx_PD1 (integrating sphere in reflexion of NE), less on the Pd on the injection bench (PD1 in loop, PD2 out-of-loop).

Plot 4 is the FFT of the signals at the same minute that plot2, with a few glitches in the window: the noise level is increased on NE_Tx_PD2 (out of loop) and NE_Rx_PD1 sphere, not on the in-loop Pd.

Plot 5 is the spectrogram of the 3 NE channels during the same minute.

 

The glitches are all going towards higher power measured.

Looking only at the out-of-loop sensors, Tx_PD2 and Rx_PD1, the measured power goes higher on Rx_PD1, while they are both calibrated to have the same signal. Maybe the bandwidth of the sensors reduce the amplitude on Tx_PD2 if the glitch is at high frequency (seems to be a ~2 samples at 20 kHz).

It may be worth trying to at least stop/start the NE laser and or the power supplies as a first "reboot", before further investigations... 

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rolland - 19:21 Wednesday 06 November 2024 (65479) Print this report

Profiting from LIGO ITF being unlocked, between 17h40-18h10UTC, I went to the NE building and stop the PCal laser driver + Hameg power supply outputs for the power sensors, and switch them back on. Glitches seem to not be there anymore, but to be checked on longer timescale...

rolland - 9:24 Thursday 07 November 2024 (65482) Print this report

The glitches on NE Pcal laser are still there (figure 1). I made a quick check that there is no coherence between the PCal channels and DARM (figure 2),  but it may be worth to check from DetChar side that there is no glitch effet.

It seems that the glitches are always seen as an increase of power on Tx_PD2 and Rx_PD1 (out-of-loop sensors). This may be induced by a (fake) loss of power sensed by Tx_PD1 (in-loop) and compensated by the loop by increasing laser power?

 

Some first ideas in order to further investigate this issue on PCal side:

- from remote: temporary stop the permanent lines on NE PCal, to better see the glitches in time-domain

- from remote: swap the in-loop photodiode (Tx_PD1 -> Tx_PD2) in cases the glitches are coming from Tx_PD1 sensing only, and then re-injected to the laser power. I think the Acl and DAQBox ADC/fastDAC configurations is ready for such a swap, but to be checked.

- on-site: visually check the alignment of the PCal beam on the photodiodes, in particular on Tx_PD1 (could the glitches come from (fast?) beam jitter clipped on the photodiode?). And if needed re-align the beam on Tx photodiodes (hopefully without changing the alignment on Rx sphere, to not change the power calibration).

 

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salvador - 10:22 Friday 08 November 2024 (65492) Print this report

I've looked into the glitchgrams of PCAL_NE_Rx_PD1_DC to see if there was any impact in DARM or Hrec.

Figure 1 shows the very fast PCal glitches. The time resolution of the Q transform is 5 ms. The glitches expand from low frequencies up to (and above) 1 kHz.

Figure 2 and 3 show the glitchgrams of Hrec and DARM, respectively. They do not show any coincident gltiches for the time considered even at low frequencies.

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verkindt - 22:09 Sunday 17 November 2024 (65552) Print this report

Looking at the data from Oct 6 to Nov 15, it seems that the glitches appear on NE PCal only when humidity around the PCal is below 50% (see attached plot).
To be checked with data until end of November.

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masserot, rolland - 11:20 Tuesday 19 November 2024 (65565) Print this report

For debugging purposes, the PCAL_NE_PD{1,2}_DC_NS channels acquired at 200KHz are now stored  in the RAW_FULL stream as PCAL_NE_PD{1,2}_DC_NS_FS

Operations completed at  2024-11-19-10h17m06-UTC

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