- Plugged the output of the model with uniform heating into SIS using both modification of the radius of curvature, and direct importation of deflection data

- Generated a graph for asymmetric heating and did the same

- Aligned axes in model to better match with the axes in MATLAB and SIS so that the extrema in deflections lie along x and y (not yet implemented in the data below)

- Verified that the SIS output does match satisfy the equations for Gaussian beam propagation

- Investigated how changing the amount of data points going into SIS changed the output, as well as how changes in the astigmatic heating effect the output

     + The results are very dependent on number of data points (similar order changes to changing the heating)

     + Holding the number of data points the same, more assymetric heating tends to lead to more power in the H(2,0) mode, and less in the H(0,2)

- Did more modeling for different levels of heating and different mesh densities for the SIS input.

- Lots of orientation stuff

- Started on progress report.

- Attended a lot of meetings (Safety, LIGO Orientation)

- Finished draft of week 3 report (images attached)

- Paper edits and more data generation for the paper (lower resolution grid data)

- Attended a talk on LIGO

Plan for building the model

- Find the fields that would be incident on the beam splitter from each arm (This is done already)

- Propagate these through until they get to the OMC using the TELESCOPE function in SIS

- Combine the fields incident on the OMC in MATLAB and minimize the power to get the input field for the OMC (Most of this is done, just waiting to figure out what kind of format we need to use it as an SIS input)

- Model the OMC as an FP cavity in SIS

    + Need to think about how to align the cavity in a sensible way in SIS (need to find out more about how they actually do it)

- Pick off the fields from both ends of the OMC-FP cavity for analysis

- Add thermal effects to one of the arms and see how that changes the fields, specifically how the signal to noise ratio changes

- Finished the MatLab code that both combines two fields and simulates the adjustment of the beamsplitter to minimize the power out (with a small offset).

- Added the signal recycling telescope to the SIS code that generates the fields

To Do: Make the OMC cavity in SIS

Made a COMSOL model that can include CO2 laser heating, self heating, and ring heating

Figured out how to run SIS out of a script and set up commands to run the two SIS stages of the model