Keita, Sheila, Tony, Jennie W
Before the JAC PZT problem, I did get an hour or so of alignment time in. Summary: we now have light on LSC POP and POP X for the same PM1 alignment, and ITMX is back to the alignment that should point down the arm. We have the expected power in LSC POP path, but a factor of 20 too small in both DC and RF signals in the popair path.
These screenshots show MICH fringes with 10W input power, where I started and where I ended. The idea was to move to the ITMX alignment that Jenne Driggers found using the arm beam here: 89738. I watched the mich fringes and AS camera while moving the ITM, moved the beam splitter to keep the michelson fringes, and as Keita suggested moved PR3 to keep the beams on the ISCT1 refl camera. This did cause the michelson fringes on the LSC pop diode to get smaller, when that happened I paused, went to the PR2 spot move guardian state, and adjusted PR3 to bring the fringes back on LSC POP. After bringing the ITMX yaw alignment back I could see that there is now light on POPX and LSC POP A for the same PM1 alignment.
When I walked ITMX pitch, I had to also adjust yaw several times as I went along to keep the mich fringes. I also adjusted PRM to keep PRX alignment good as I moved along. Looking at this screenshot of the brief time when PRMI was flashing, the POP A LF flash was about the O4 power level (91211), as was reflair A, but popair has too little power. The result of this was that PR3 started the day 56urad away from the O4 slider, but is not -15urad. PR3 yaw started the day close to the O4 slider but is now -47urad.
I also adjusted the POP X dark offsets so that this QPD will be less confusing to read, SDF screenshot attached.
We tried walking PR3 in PR2 spot move to allow us to centering POP X without saturating PM1, this alignment is shown in this screenshot, but when we then aligned PM1 to put the beam on LSC POP, we were missing power there.
| POP A LF | POPAIR B LF | REFLAIR A LF | MICH IN1 (REFLAIR A 45 Q) | PRCL IN1 (REFLAIR A 9I) | POPAIR B RF18 | POP X NSUM | |
| PRMI O4 | 200-400 | 200 | 2-10 | +/-6000 | +/-600 | 80-100 | |
| PRMI yesterday | 100 | 6 (10 today) | 2.5-4 | +/-20 | +/-100 | 5 | |
| PRX O4 | 0.5 | ||||||
| PRX now | 0.5 | ||||||
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MICH dark O4 1468885440 |
7 | 1 | 0.01 | -0.5 (dark level -0.6) | |||
| MICH dark PM1 -265 P -2364 Y) | 0 | 1 | 0.01 | 3.1 (centered) | |||
| MICH dark PM1 0,0 | 4 | 1 | 0.01 | 0.2 (P and Y both close to -1) |
The MICH dark time that I labeled as O4 above was actually from July, a better time to use for O4 (chosen from a list that Tony generated of MICH dark times) would be 1457969940 which is May 28 2025 00:15:42 UTC.