Terry, Nutsinee

There was an error in the previous mode matching solution that contributed to a miserable -23 dBm beat-note signal at the detector. The solution (attached) still gives a fairly miserable -16 dBm beat-note. However maintenance Tuesday finished before it was fully optimized and I was concerned about bumping into the HEPI by HAM6 now that ISCT6 is in its final position. There is also maybe an issue of saturation with .7mW from the Mephisto path and .5mW from the PSL path (detector should have a 1 mW max.) a change of beam-splitter should fix this if necessary.

To minimize squeezer down time from table work I intend to address this when we install the amplitude modulator (to measure the TF from pump modulation to OPO phase modulation), and replace the PSL table fiber (with APC) and add a motorized waveplate and flipper to SQZT6 (to replace the manual versions), probably Thursday.