cheryl.vorvick@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:35, Monday 28 January 2013 - last comment - 15:38, Monday 28 January 2013(5286)
HAM2 IFO REFL Beam baffle now has a camera view in the Control Room - alignment of REFL has begun:
- Cheryl, Kiwamu, Slim and Mark (Apollo) A camera was installed on the REFL beam viewport where the REFL beam will exit the vacuum system through a baffle and viewport. The camera view is available in the Control Room, and the IOT2L IMC REFL beam camera view was replaced by the IFO REFL camera view. The hope is that the IFO REFL beam view will allow us to align the REFL beam through the baffle. I got the beam to clip on the edge of the baffle aperture, and currently Kiwamu is working to improve this alignment.
I was trying to establish nicer alignment such that we can see a bright beam spot on the camera view, but no luck this time. I tweaked only IM3 and IM4 for aligning the beam. Right now the settings of IM3 and IM4 are back to how they used to be when I started (at around 14:00).