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H1 ISC
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:27, Wednesday 07 May 2025 - last comment - 15:21, Monday 19 May 2025(84307)
HAM1 POP path beam profile and distance measurements

location number on drawing

distance horizontal 13.5% diameter [um] vertical 13.5% diameter [um] photo of profiler location photo of profiles photo of beam scan measurements
1 52 mm from dichroic M10 6243 64040 here and here 9022 9023
2 147 mm from dichroic M10 6202 6365 9028 9026 9027
3 119 mm from HR of 50/50 BS M15, also 295mm from center of lens L2 870 874 9031 9030 9029
4 153 mm from HR of 50/50 BS, approximate location of LSC diode 279 284 9035 9032 9033
5 128 mm from HR of 50/50 BS 721 726 9036 9037 9038
6 139 mm from HR of 50/50 483 490 9041 9040 9039
7 353 mm from HR of 50/50 BS 3280 3372 9042 9043 9044

Camilla made these measurements with 20W input power into the IMC, PRM and ITMY misaligned single bounce beam.  We didn't place the 90/10 BS M12 in the pop path yet so that we would have about 35uW to measure beam profiles. There's a rough pen sketch of where these locations are in this photo.

Camilla also made ruler measurements of some distances:

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elenna.capote@LIGO.ORG - 19:48, Wednesday 07 May 2025 (84313)

I think these measurements look pretty good, and the result is not that much different than the model (at least in terms of where to put the diodes). The biggest surprise is that Keita and I were pretty sure the beam coming into HAM1 is just over 2 mm in radius, when in reality it is more like 3 mm in radius.

I have attached plots of both the horizontal and vertical propagations, but you can see that the results for each direction are very similar. The black points are the measurements Sheila and Camilla took today, and I fit them with a la mode and the 2 inch POP lens (f = 334 mm), using the distances from the dichroic mirror that Sheila and Camilla measured.

If we place the POP LSC diode about 140 mm from M15 and the POP WFS about 200 mm from M15, we should get the beam sizes we want on each. I think these positions are a little closer to M15 than they are in the drawing, but I don't think that's a problem.

I also attached my a la mode script.

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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 15:21, Monday 19 May 2025 (84471)

Linking here that Keita added distances to the refl air and popair periscopes here: https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=84345