R&D (FilterCavity)
NaokiAritomi - 22:36, Friday 11 September 2020 (2209)
Gain unbalance of QPD may cause coupling problem

[Aritomi, Yuhang]

First we fixed DDS AA phase to 150 deg and optimized I/Q demodulation phase again. As long as FC alignment is good, changes of the optimal demodulation phase are within a few degrees. During this measurement, we checked that WFS1 I3/Q3 coupling is less than 3%.

segment WFS1 1 WFS1 2 WFS1 3 WFS1 4 WFS2 1 WFS2 2 WFS2 3 WFS2 4
DGS demod phase 100 105 104 99 135 136 137 135

Then we injected a 12Hz line to INPUT PIT and measured sensing matrix, but there is still large PY coupling. We found that 12Hz peak heights on each QPD1 segment are quite different (following table).

segment WFS1 I1 WFS1 I2 WFS1 I3 WFS1 I4
12Hz peak height 20.52 10.21 17.05 11.65

This gain unbalance may cause the coupling problem. So we compensated this gain unbalance in matrix in DGS (attached picture). Each number in the matrix is decided by 10/(12Hz peak height on the segment). In this case, there is no coupling in WFS1 I YAW for INPUT PIT driving, but there is still 16% coupling in WFS1 I PIT for INPUT YAW driving.

After that we aligned FC well and measured 12Hz peak height again. This time the gain unbalance is different from previous measurement.

segment WFS1 I1 WFS1 I2 WFS1 I3 WFS1 I4
12Hz peak height 16.77 11.06 19.73 9.53

To decide the gain unbalance precisely, we will check PDH signal on each segment and calibrate it by sending a 12 kHz line to PZT as we did for FC PDH signal. 12kHz is within DGS bandwidth and it is around UGF of FC loop. Since what only matters is ratio of gain of each segment, it is not a problem even if the injected line is suppressed by FC control loop.

Images attached to this report
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