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keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 19:21, Friday 14 March 2014 - last comment - 15:35, Monday 24 March 2014(10774)
Green WFS path reworked (Sheila, Daniel, Keita)

We mounted the second green Faraday on a 4-axes mount and reworked the Green injection path to make the beam shape less clipped. We needed to go close to the edge of the EOM and Faraday aperture to get the best beam quality.

As for the EOM, the best beam shape was achieved when the beam is very close to the top edge of the output aperture, maybe it was already touching the hole. We backed off the height adjustment screw (closer to the output) of the EOM mount by half turns so there's no apparent clipping but it's still very close. With this backed off position the beam shape was not as good but we called it good anyway as we couldn't do anything about it.

Anyway, since the center of the aperture for Faraday as well as EOM is NOT the best position as far as the beam quality is concerned, Faraday and EOM should be on adjustable mount. The first Faraday is still fixed, and this means that the beam is not horizontal along the beam path through the first Faraday, which is OK but not ideal (e.g. the beam is not completely centered on the first lens).

We still don't know if this new beam path arrangement is any better  or worse than before.

We took some beam profile measurements, which Sheila will post later. Quality of the injected beam is better, the beam coming back to WFSA looked better than before, WFSB was worse.

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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 22:27, Friday 14 March 2014 (10775)

Our measurements from this afternoon are attached...

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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 15:35, Monday 24 March 2014 (10964)

apperature 1 was horizontal for hese measurements, apperature 2 vertical