Today I estimated the DAC noise at TM stage as following:
DAC_noise_TM=TF_TM_L2Darm*c
where c is the measured DAC noise value and it is equal to 4.5 e-3 counts/rHz. (see this ref.
)The attached plots show the results of this calculation:
-Pic1 shows the calibrated TFs from TM_L to DARM for all TypeA: The TFs show same behavior and can be fitted as 1/f^2.
-Pic2 shows the DAC noise projection measured at IX (yellow line), EY (red line) and the total DAC noise contribution:
According with this plot seems that around 100 Hz we are limited by the ETMs DAC noise.