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H1 PSL
ryan.short@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:59, Wednesday 11 June 2025 (84977)
PSL FSS RefCav Remote Alignment Tweak

After H1 lost lock this morning, the vacuum team started some work on HAM1, which gave me an opportunity to do a much-needed adjustment of the FSS RefCav alignment. As I expected, this was a very straightforward alignment where I was able to get immediate and significant improvements by walking the beam into the RefCav mostly in pitch, but some in yaw also (all with the IMC offline). My results:

A great improvement; even better than the alignment was before the drop-off over the weekend.

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