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camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:58, Monday 23 March 2026 (89607)
FC alignment improved with help of PSAMs, still not well aligned to SQZT7/IFO and FC simultaneously

Sheila, Sophie, Camilla 

The HAM7 PSAMS (ZM2,4,5) were railed last week, we noticed that the ZM2 alignment changed Friday after the FC gatevalue was closed which led us to noticing this. Reset the ZM4 and ZM5 PSAMS, following 84639 and adjusted sliders to bring osem values back. ZM2 was not railed, something on Friday afternoon (maybe the GV being closed) stopped ZM2 PSAMS being railed.

Once the FC GV was opened, we could see a beam on FC-IR camera. We went to the FCES and after mis-aligning FC1 and FC2 while moving ZM3 would could see a green beam on the green camera. After temporarily tuning up the exposure and adjusting FC1 and FC2 we could see beams on both IR and green cameras and the best flashes we've had so far, 20 on FC_TRANS_C (green) with 6.5mW in and 1.35 on FC_TRANS_D (red) with 75mW SEED. Sheila adjusted the IR camera steering mirror in Pitch as she had last week to bring the beam more central on the camera. 

Looking back to November, typical flashes when we have the OPO locked and FC aligned with 7.8mW into FC green are 60 on FC_TRANS_C (green), 0.8 on FC_TRANS_D (red) and 0.002 on OPO_IR_PD, see attached

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