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elenna.capote@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:58, Thursday 02 October 2025 - last comment - 11:57, Monday 13 October 2025(87260)
Camera spot calibration

Today I began calibrating the camera servo signals into spot positions. I ran the A2L script at the nominal camera spot positions. Then, I changed the camera offset and waited for the camera servo to converge. Then I remeasured the A2L gain. Using the a2l_lookup function in /opt/rtcds/userapps/release/isc/common/scripts/decoup/BeamPosition the A2L gain can be converted into a spot position in mm. This is a slow process so it will take time to get the conversions for all.

  Camera offset A2L gain Conversion
ETMY Pitch start: -230, end: -231 start: 5.62, end: 5.92

(-23.2 mm - -21.8 mm)/-1ct 

= 1.4 mm/ct

ITMX Pitch start: -230, end: -231 start: -0.45, end: -0.56

(6.46 mm - 5.96 mm)/-1ct  

= -0.5 mm/ct

 

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elenna.capote@LIGO.ORG - 10:23, Monday 06 October 2025 (87313)

I continued today following the same process stated above.

  Camera offset A2L gain Conversion
ETMX P start: -173, end: -172 start: 3.04, end: 2.92

(-9.38 mm - -9.93 mm)/ 1ct 

= 0.55 mm/ct

ETMY Y start: -349.5, end: -348.5 start: 1.41, end: 1.06

(3.90 mm - 5.18 mm) / 1ct 

= -1.28 mm/ct

ETMX Y start: -422, end: -421 start: 4.85, end: 4.68

(17.22 mm - 17.84 mm)

= -0.62 mm/ct

elenna.capote@LIGO.ORG - 11:57, Monday 13 October 2025 (87442)

I reran the ITMX beam spot calibration following the same method described above, but this time I checked how the beam spot moved on both ITMX and ITMY when I changed the BS camera offset. Turns out, they give the same answer, so that's good.

  Camera Offset A2L gain Conversion
ITMX P (ITMY P) start: -230 ct, end: -231 ct start: -0.45 (0.19), end: -0.55 (0.09)

(6.41 mm - 5.96 mm)/-1 ct

= -0.45 mm/ct

ITMX Y (ITMY Y) start: -236 ct, end: -237 ct start: 3.18 (-2.75), end: 3.06 (-2.63)

(11.26 mm - 11.70 mm)/ -1ct

= 0.44 mm/ct (-0.44 mm/ct for ITMY)