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louis.dartez@LIGO.ORG - posted 19:37, Monday 10 August 2026 (91470)
PSL Green Beam aligned onto COMM PD on ISCT1
S. Dwyer, J. Oberling, L. Dartez

This afternoon we went to ISCT1 to align the green beam from the PSL Green PD, and ALS COMM PD. This is pre-peek prep so that by the time the peek takes place we don't need to worry about the beam alignment from the PSL.

We struggled a little bit to find an alignment that agreed with the crystal and the downstream PDs. We were able to get a beam onto the COMM PD. Sheila thinks that what we set up so far is more than enough to get a beatnote during the arm peek. We aligned the green beam onto the green PD but for some reason couldn't get see a readout signal that corroborated that the beam had made it onto the diode. We tried doing some troubleshooting, which included a local cable swap and adjusting the PD placement on the table. Neither were successful and, given the time of day, we opted to revisit at a later time. The important part thing is that the COMM PD _was_ seeing the beam. 
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