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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:34, Monday 14 April 2014 - last comment - 17:53, Monday 14 April 2014(11334)
End X beam quality

I went back to the end station today to look into the beam quality.  At Keita's suggestion I put a retro reflector in to look at the beam without having to worry about what happens in the chamber.  With the retroreflector after the last steering mirror on the table, I set up the nanoscan in the path to WFS B and the thorlabs beam scan in the path to the HWS, whic doesn't double pass the Faraday.  Using the two profiles, I tried to move the Faraday around to find a position where both the beam in the HWS path  (the first pass beam) and the beam in the WFS B path (double passed) were good.  Although there were many positions that gave a good beam after the single pass, I didn't find anything that gave a nice gaussian profile in the rejected path.  I swapped the Faraday with a simliar one, and the beam quality was immediately better.  With a small adjustment I found beams that look guassian in both the WFS path (measured at 3 different positions) and the HWS path, using the retroreflector.  Reflecting off the ETM the beam is a little bit worse, but still bassically a guassian beam.  

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alexan.staley@LIGO.ORG - 17:53, Monday 14 April 2014 (11337)

(Keita, Sheila, Alexa)

After Sheila swapped out the Faraday we noticed that the incident light on each of the green QPDs was not the same and one of them was almost saturating. It turned out that the two Faraday output angles were not the same. We adjusted that HWP after the Faraday so that we maximized the s-pol. In addition, we manually recentered the beam onto the QPDs with the servo off.

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