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Recycling Cavity Lengths and Asymmetry

Modulation frequency

The modulation frequency f_mod is 11.065399MHz and its 5 times multiple. They are called f1 and f2, respectively.

  1*f1        :  11.065399 MHz   2*f1        :  22.130798 MHz   3*f1        :  33.196197 MHz   4*f1        :  44.261596 MHz   5*f1 = 1*f2 :  55.326995 MHz  10*f1 = 2*f2 : 110.653990 MHz  15*f1 = 3*f2 : 165.980985 MHz  

Resonant conditions

• The lengths of the recycling cavities are to be designed such that f1 and f2 sidebands are resonant in the interferometer while the carrier fulfills the usual resonant conditions: resonant in the coupled PRC, and antiresonant in the SRC (such that the DARM signals are extracted to the dark port without significant storage in the arms.)

• If we stick on the small asymmetry regime as we do in aLIGO, the f1 sidebands are resonant only in the PRC and has very small leakage to the SRC.
• On the other hand, the f2 sidebands are resonant in the SRC and are made nearly critically coupled to the IFO.

Cavity lengths and Schnupp asymmetry

These are naive values to be made precise

The PRC length is determined by its FSR that is to be matched with 2 f_mod.

• L_PRC ~ c/(4 f_mod) = 6.77 m

And the SRC length is determined by its 2 FSR that is to be matched with 5 f_mod

• L_SRC ~ c/(5 f_mod) = 5.42 m

The mount of Schnupp asymmetry is determined by the transmittion of f2 sidebands to the dark port.

The transmission in the loss-less model is expressed as the following

• (tp ts sinα)/(1 + rp rs - (rp + rs) cosα)

This is maximized to the unity when α is 0.039.

• dL_MICH: (α c)/(2 π 5 f_mod) = 0.033 m

Effect of arm reflectance

The above calculation can be true if the sidebands are reflected by the arm with a reflectivity with a real number. This happens if the arm cavity lengths are selected such that the sidebands are exactly located on the anti-resonances. However, this does not happen both by practically restrictions and by design reasons: Practically the modulation freq and the arm FSR are not adjusted to have such an exact relationship. Furthermore, we shift the modulation frequencies from the exact anti-resonance as we don't like to resonate any sidebands, including higher-order ones, in the arm cavities.

This induces several issues as followings:

Phase difference of the sidebands in arm reflection

The f1 and f2 sidebands are not resonant but not antiresonant too. Because of this intermediate nonresonance, the arm cavity has different reflectances to the f1 and f2 sidebands. The difference is small (less than 1.5deg) but this is enough to vary the resonant conditions for those two sidebands.

Phase difference of the sidebands in reflection ~ 37.54 m is the nominal length of the cavity

attachment:FP_test.png

[attachment:FP_test.kat FINESSE source ]

[attachment:FP_test.nb plotting code in Mathematica ]

This small angle causes several effects

• It differs the PRC length to give each sideband pairs resonant.
• The sidebands get phase shifted by the detuned PRC during the reflection by the Michelson compound mirror.
• The above phase shift is dependent on the Schnupp asymmetry.

Sideband imbalance at POX and POY

Another issue is that the light power at POX and POY become imbalanced. This imbalance is present in the following condition:

• Both PRM and SRM are present.
• Schnupp asymmetry is employed.
• The arm cavities reflects the sidebands with complex reflectivity (i.e. the sidebands are neither resonant nor anti-resonant).

This effect occurs if the arm reflectivity for the sidebands have imaginary part. This is different from the other issue explained above.

This was understood by the coupling of the complex arm reflectivity and the Schnupp asymmetry under the presence of the SRC.

The detail is explained [attachment:POX_POY_imbalance.pdf in the attached document. ]

[attachment:model_40m_PRC_length_test.kat Simulation code.] Use mkat to run this code.

Resolution

The PRC length is adjusted to resonate the f1 sidebands in the PRC. This macroscopic change compensates the additional phase gained by the arm reflection for f1.

The above adjustment in eneral detunes the PRC for the f2 sidebands. Ths detuning can not be adjusted by the SRC length, as the the SRC length is adjusted to balance the POX/POY sideband powers.

Then the asymetry is adjusted to maximize the f2 sideband transmission to the dark port.

The resulting PRC/SRC/asymmetry are listed below:

• PRC Length: 6.756 [m]
• SRC Length: 5.413 [m]
• Asymmetry: 0.02~0.04 [m]

Note

Note that in all cases, the upper and lower sidebands for each modulations are balanced.