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terrence.tsang - 16:01 Wednesday 26 January 2022 (19576) Print this report
ETMY troubles

Here's just mostly notes to myself before fixing the ETMY.

After the height adjustment work and F1 damping adjustment work, several things changed for some reason.
The position of the suspension in various DoFs changed and as usual I tried to offload them using the stepper motor.
Offloading BF Y is particularly difficult for some reason. It was shifted by a few thousand urad and I tried to use the F0 yaw stepper to move it towards zero.
However, it stopped at around -3400 and I couldn't move it forward anymore. Luckily the actuation range is large enough for me to engage the yaw DC control.
The same goes for F1 but in the end I can offload it when other GAS DoFs are controlled.
BF L shifted from -532 to 815 um (Other BF DoFs probably have shifted as well but I didn't record them)
F1 control can be engaged but it injects a huge amount of high-frequency noise to which it might start saturating the coils. This needs to be revisited.
I use the BF yaw pico motor to center the TM oplev and discovered a huge 60 mHz oscillation in horizontal channel that cannot be controlled even with MN controls.
With the MN2TM DC it only seemed to amplify the oscillation for some reason.
While the ETMY is oscillating around the good oplev values, we turned on the green laser and see if we can see the reflection at EYA as well as using the POS refl PD, and we can't.
This indicates that the ETMY may have been severely misaligned now and we need to recover it.
I will do a healthcheck of the suspension soon to see if there's anything indicative.

Edit: Takahashi-san said that the BF secondary coils are shifted so the position of the BF may appeared shifted and the LVDT position cannot be used as references.
But this doesn't change that fact that we may have lost the oplev reference.

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terrence.tsang - 9:36 Thursday 27 January 2022 (19593) Print this report

Most transfer functions (IP, GAS, BF, MN) look okay but there're a few changes:
Resonance frequencies of the L and T modes at the IP changed, see Fig. 1-2 (refs are old TFs measured previously). But these are not major concerns.
Some transfer functions in GAS DoFs look different (Fig. 3-5). In particular, one GAS mode changed from 2 Hz to around 1.6 Hz.
For F0, the overall gain has changed with a significant reduction at lower frequencies while having a worsened coil to LVDT coupling at higher frequencies.
This could explain why the F0/F1 loop injects excessive noise at higher frequencies with the control engaged. They have to be reworked.
Ushiba-san suspected a change in the BF yaw transfer function because of the damper ring adjustment.
However, the transfer function looks roughly the same as before and the old control should work fine.

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terrence.tsang - 3:20 Friday 28 January 2022 (19607) Print this report

With Dan Chen.

We've obtained a flash at the POS REFL PD.
Here's what I've done on the suspensions.

I've reworked F0-F2 GAS control and they worked fine now.
See Fig 1-6 for transfer function models and OLTFs.

The current MN to TM DC control doesn't work well with the 60 mHz oscillation for some reason and it actually amplifies the oscillation.
As a temporary solution, I reduced the gain by 10 times, moving back the UGF from 0.1 Hz to 0.01 Hz.
I've also put a notch at 60 mHz, hoping to reduce the interaction between the 60 mHz and the DC control.
When the optical lever is in range, the MN to DC control works well for steering the mirror in yaw but the oscillation is persistent.
It naturally damps out so it's likely not excited by some external source. But it takes hours for it to reduce to something say 0.1 peak-to-peak normalized QPD readout (assuming ~100 urad/count, this converts to 10 urad peak-to-peak).
I have a feeling that this mode was excited by large yaw adjustment, like the transient of the BF yaw DC control, or BF yaw pico motor control.
This situation is unavoidable since the BF yaw is currently far from "zero", sitting at -2600 urad when it's not controlled. And, it couldn't be offloaded using the F0 yaw stepper motor (we might try again later).
Currently, I don't think there's an easy solution for this 60 mHz mode for now if it ever gets excited again except using an external optical lever at the MN stage, like what was done in IX.
Anyway, this oscillation may be acceptable for PCal work so we may be able to proceed.

With all controls manually engaged, we were able to steer the ETMY.
We first checked if the old optical lever reference coarsely aligned the reflection beam.
We again made an iris for the duct at EYA using aluminium foil and moved the ETMY in yaw. We did see a reflected beam moving horizontally so the optical lever reference was not bad.
We move the ETMY back to the original position and removed the foil, but we can't see any changes in the POS REFL PD.
We tried scanning ETMY in pitch and yaw but still nothing.
Then we decided to go back to the center area and look for the reflected beam but we couldn't identify the reflected beam from ETMY.
After that, we tried to scan ETMY in yaw by large amount again and with pure luck, we saw a single flash.
We then identify a good yaw position and put it to the set point. We tried to optimize the pitch as well but it's difficult as the 60 mHz keeps misaligning yaw and we can only see flashes.
In the end, we settled on a setpoint (SDF shown in Fig. 7)

K1:VIS-ETMY_TM_SET_P_OFFSET: 0.15
K1:VIS-ETMY_TM_SET_Y_OFFSET: -0.56

Fig. 8 Shows the flashes with the TM oplev readout. (note the REFL output sits at ~0.6 and goes up to ~0.8 when the ETMY is aligned)

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