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masayuki.nakano - 18:20 Saturday 05 August 2017 (3214) Print this report
IMC lost lock

I found that the IMC lost lock more frequently than last week. I tried to find the reason and it seems lost lock when the air conditioner switched on and off.
The attached strip tool picture is the IMC and FSS signals. The upper dark green(yomogi-iro) plot is the transmission. You can see the transmitted power are fluctuating and the IMC seems to lost lock often when the transmitted power is at the peak or bottom. The fluctuation of transmitted light has coherence with the PSL room temperature fluctuation, so the peak or bottom means the timing of air conditioner switching.

I'm not sure what changed situation but one possibility is that we changed input power into IMC many times and current power is different from last week.

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keiko.kokeyama - 19:20 Tuesday 08 August 2017 (3227) Print this report

Today FSS lost lock more frequently than before. Apparently something (laser power?) has changed and the resonant thresholds for guardian (RefCav TRANS and REFL) were not appropriate anymore. RefCav TRANS changed from 0.06 to 0.08mW.

For IMC, because of the input power change (due to RefCav change), and also because the power fluctuates in 15 mins cycle, the resonant thresholds were not correct anymore. In addition, possibly because of some very slow drifts, mirror alignments were not good. I recovered oplev numbers by picomotors or coils.

After these adjustments, IMC is being locked OK for at least this 30 mins.

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