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alberto.stochino@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:23, Thursday 06 September 2012 (4116)
Faraday isolator for ALS pick-off installed on PSL table

[Michael R., Alberto]

We temporarily borrowed the 1064 Farady that was purchased by Bram for the ISCT1 table (ALS vertex) to install it before the fiber collimator on the PSL table.

After this addition, the power coupled into the fiber went down to 2.1 mW (was 3 mW) due to the induced beam shift. Unfortunately the current setup of the steering mirrors doesn't let us displace the beam by much: one fo the steering mirrors is out of hand reach and it's close to a high power beam.

We're still coupling more power from the PSL than ifrom the ALS refcav. So it should be okay, unless we're going to lose more  than .5 mW downstream when we'll connect the new fiber going to the optics lab..