[Alex, Carl]
We analysed the beam jitter measurements from 250-500 Hz. We found that beam jitter coupling was very close to DARM between 400-500 Hz however we believe this is an over projection and that better measuremennts with a higher SNR are needed. When we compared this coupling to DARM at 10W it seems that the coupling is different at higher power since the beam jitter does not limit sensitivity in this region.
We conducted measurements of the beam jitter in yaw using IMC PZT1 and PZT2 as drive and using IMC-REFL_QPDA*_DC_YAW_OUT_DQ as the witness sensors. This was done using a white noise injection with a bandpass filter from 250 to 500 Hz. Notched filters were used to reduce resonances of the PZT mounts. Both PZT1 and PZT2 had a resonance at 447 Hz and PZT2 had an additional resonance at 469 Hz.
The coupling for PZT1 (fig 1, 2 and 3) seemed to match DARM from 440-500 Hz including explaining a peak in DARM at around 490 Hz (fig 1 middle plot). However when we compare to DARM when the detector was operating at 10W and use the sensor noise from that time, the beam jitter overprojects darm (fig 1 bottom plot). This implies that the coupling function has changed since the detector operated at 10W, whether this is related to the change in power is unknown.
The coupling for PZT2 (fig 3, 4) is close to DARM but only touches darm at a few points.
Pitch has not been measured yet, we will measure pitch as well as remeasure yaw now that the sensor noise of the QPDs has been improved.