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aidan.brooks@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:01, Wednesday 29 October 2014 (14712)
HWSY stray beam getting into HWSX sensor - all exterior problem; now fixed

Alastair, Aidan.

We tracked down the source of the cross-coupling between the HWSY probe beam and the HWSX sensor. The offending beam was coming from the HWSY BS (we think). By blocking the Y-beam at various points we were able to figure out where it was coupling across the HWSX and we subsequently placed a dump in front of it before that point (between M8 and M9 in the Y-arm optical layout - see the attached photo).

One more thing, I checked the following configurations to look for any other stray beams:

 

 

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