We tried measuring the beam spot positions inside the IMC, but it didn't work since it seems some IMC coils are mal-functioning.
During the CARM offset reduction it was noticed by Driggers-kun and Nakano-kun that the carrier power fluctuations are ~25% and the 45 MHz sideband power fluctuations are >50%. This is not there in the single arm locks and so it seems that it must be a problem with the alignment of the PRC optics.
For this reason its important to implement better damping of the payload's 0.3-2 Hz modes using the local sensor damping as well as the optical lever feedback.
We also want to turn on the AS and REFL WFS, but it is clear from Keiko and Stefan's log entries that the beam is too much clipped on the Faraday Isolator after the IMC. Is this due to a misalignment of the IMC? or is it due to the pico motors being in the wrong place?
We want to use the STM Pico motors to steer the beam through the Faraday, but first we want to confirm that the IMC spots are centered (especially on MCI and MCO):
To do this, we undulated the IMC mirrors at ~10 Hz and measured the response in the IMC length readout. If the beam is centered on the mirrors and the coils are equally strong, this would produce no longitudinal motion of the mirror (so far above the resonant frequency of the pendulum). In the attached PDF yu can see the result. Going from low to high frequency, the drives are MCI_P, MCI_Y, MCE_P, MCE_Y, MCO_P, MCO_Y. As you can see, there is ~10x more imbalance in MCE & MCO than in MCI.
Since there are 4 actuators (H1, H2, H3, H4) and 3 measurements (P, Y, L), we have one extra degree of freedom that can be used. So we drove MCO in the overconstrained ("butterfly") mode that should produce no signal, but it shows up in MCL just as strong as a yaw excitation. Then we drove each coil with a separate frequency and see that the H1 and H2 coils (the ones on the left as seen from the AR side) are 10x weaker than the other 2. We tried triggering the watchdog, but that did not change anything. Nakano-kun suggests that we power cycle the MCO & MCE electronics to see if that resolves the issue.If so, it means that circuit has some broken or marginal trigger logic.