[valera, gautam]
We implemented the plan outlined in the previous elog. The visibility (Pmax-Pmin)/(Pmax+Pmin) calculated with the MC REFL PD levels with the MC locked/unlocked is now ~96% (up from 88% ). The MC REFL DC level in lock is now ~0.12V (compared to 0.4V). Assuming a modulation depth of 0.1 @ 29.5MHz, about 25% of this (i.e. 0.03V) is from sideband light.
The procedure followed was (see sketch in previous elog for various optic labels):
- Move L2 back (towards PMC) by ~2cm.
- Walk the beam using M3 and M4 to minimize MCREFL, re-lock IMC, run WFS.
- Move L3 back (towards PMC) by ~2cm.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3, the latter with smaller steps, monitor MCREFL DC level.
We could probably tweak the fine positioning of L2 and L3 and improve the efficiency a little more, but the primary objective here was to see if there was any effect on the large common mode offset on the WFS demodulated "SUM" output. Unfortunately, we saw no effect.
Here are two photos of the relevant section of the PSL table before (left) and after (right) our work there:

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