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H1 PSL
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:46, Tuesday 22 October 2013 - last comment - 16:20, Tuesday 22 October 2013(8209)
ref cav and ALS fiber alignment

After Karen and I cleaned inside the PSL this morning I had a look at the ref cav alignment.  When I started the tpd had 0.5 V, after adjusting mostly pitch it is at 1.18V.  Since this is back to just above what it was 4 weeks ago, I set the resonant threshold back to 0.9V. 

There is currently 8.9mW headed towards the fiber.  I used a fiber feedthrough to conect the two ends of the fiber that go to the ALS fiber distributuion box, and sent the light back into the PSL. Initaly there was 1.9mW coming out of the fiber, I would have expected more of a power increase from friday http:// https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=8193 because of the increase in the ref cav transmission.

I adjusted the alignment of the ALS fiber path and moved the ROC=100mm lens forward by about 1 cm to get 6.2mW out of the fiber, 70 % coupling efficiency. 

The fiber launch PD reading has increased to 0.73 mW, from 0.19 mW, so we should get about 3.8 times more power at the end station than what we measured friday, almost 100 uW.

Comments related to this report
alexan.staley@LIGO.ORG - 16:19, Tuesday 22 October 2013 (8217)

With this new ref cav alignment, I measured the power out of the fiber in EX to be 110 micro Watts.

alexan.staley@LIGO.ORG - 16:20, Tuesday 22 October 2013 (8218)

See alog 8209 for status update