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yutaro.enomoto - 0:33 Thursday 27 December 2018 (7507) Print this report
Dither Alignment Control for X arm

Continued work from 7499.

Today I implemented alignment sensing and control of PIT/YAW of PR2/3, by using dither sensing. It is working well, so the angles of PR2 and PR3 are now global-controlled!.
Current configuration of the control is:
* PR3 is controlled by using green transmission of X arm, which means PR3 is aligned so that the green transmission is maximized.
* PR2 is controlled by using IR transmission of X arm, which means PR2 is aligned so that the IR transmission is maximized.

NOTE:
- First I wanted to use both PR2 and PR3 to maximize the IR transmission, but it was difficut since their motion seemed to be degenerated; even if you misalign PR2 by a large amount while PR3 is controlled so that IR trans is maximized, the amount of the transmission does not change. So I chose another way as described above.
- If we want to control the full degrees of freedom of the alignment of incident beams, we have to use one more mirror for each IR or green. For IR, we can use IMMT2. For green, we need to use a pico-motored steering mirror, which obviously cannot be dithered. For green we have to give it up.
- New guardian states named DITHER_ON and DITHER_OFF have been added to ALS_PDHX, where we can turn on and off the dithering when X arm is locked to the main laser.

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yutaro.enomoto - 9:09 Thursday 27 December 2018 (7508) Print this report

The cavity had been locked for more than 8.5 hours in both colors, with PR2/3 following the cavity.

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