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AdV-ISC (Commissioning up to first full interferometer lock)
boldrini, mantovani - 11:32 Thursday 20 November 2025 (68199) Print this report
LN3 recovery

This morning we carried on with the recovery of LN3.

We observed another example of the complex interaction between MICH offset and SR alignment. This morning we could not recover neither the fringe nor the sidebands balance introducing a MICH_SET, but when we removed it both of these improved considerably (Fig.1). Overall, the configuration in which we attempted the OMC lock was MICH_SET=0 and +2 urad on SR_TX.

During the OMC lock, we had to keep fighting against the SR alignment loop, which produced the sawtooth shape visible in the figure.

While the ITF did reach LN3, the recovery is still not complete since we still did not restore an automated procedure to arrive in this state reliably.

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mwas - 13:33 Thursday 20 November 2025 (68200) Print this report

Earlier this week there was also that behavior. A MICH offset by itself doesn't help. When the is an SR TY misalignment of 2 urad, then the sideband get misbalanced, and the MICH offset restores the sideband balancing. With SR TY misaligned, without a MICH offset, when the dark fringe offset for locking the OMC is put it the power on B1p increases by a factor ~3 and becomes too high. Adding a MICH offset when SR TY is misaligned removes that problem. So at the moment SR TY misalignment and MICH offset are a combined package where both need to be put in at the same time to help, one of them on its own doesn't help, and actually makes some things significantly worse.

The SR TX misalignment doesn't seem to have that issue of affecting the sideband balancing. So maybe a MICH offset is not needed in that case, and just reducing temporarily the SR TX loop gain between CARM NULL 1F and LN3 would be enough to make that idea of SR TX misalignment work in a systematic way.

Note that the sideband balancing changes when staying in CARM NULL 1F for one hour, so what may be true for 15 minutes after reaching CARM NULL 1F, may be no longer true one hour after reaching CARM NULL 1F.

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