Alastair, Greg, Eric

The X and Y tables are now almost complete.  We have installed and aligned the FLIR camera, screen and cover (thanks to Greg's machining skills) on the Y-table - it currently has a beam dump in place to protect it.  Main beam path on Y table also has a beam dump in place.

The power on the thermopile head at the output of the laser has been calibrated for both X and Y lasers.  The rotation stages have been calibrated such that requested power should be correct (we note that sometimes you need to repeatedly hit 'minimum power' to get the rotation stage to go to the correct angle) on both tables.  The on-table power meters have been calibrated for the power incident on the CP on both tables.

The X and Y tables both have flipper mounts installed and working on table, along with sensors for the mounts.  The script to flip the mirrors that is connected to the MEDM screen is not yet working properly (possibly an issue with the sensors which it uses to test mask position).  On the X table the flipper mounts are currently connected but out of the beam path, and the mask is being held in a fixed mount.  On the Y-table the flipper mounts are both in place, however only the central mask is in its flipper mount.  For this reason I've disconnected the flipper from its power supply to stop it accidentally being moved out of the beam.  I've taken images with the FLIR camera on the Y-table that suggest that we could get better alignment through the mask.

Much progress on 3rd IFO storage - we've basically been through everything on site for the CO2 laser.  At the moment we're still looking for the AOMs that we know are here (Thomas gave us serial numbers for these).  Other than that, there are some other parts listed in ICS as being at CIT and we'll look for them there.