To be a bit more clear about what we are going to do in the OMC chamber, I marked-up some photos, see Attachments #1 and #2.
- OM5 will be rotated to bring the IFO AS beam straight out without any splitting to the OMC.
- OMMT, OMC, DCPD, DCPD transimpedance amp, and all peripheral optics associated with these components, will be removed. Many of these components are mounted on a breadboard and so removing that breadboard will take care of it. These are marked with pink Xs.
I anticipate that after this work, the only components on the table will be
- IM1, to send the PSL beam to the IMC.
- OMs 5 and 6 to bring the IFO AS beam out onto the AP table (in principle, we could try and eliminate both these optics, if the AS beam happens to exit through one of the viewports cleanly, we will not have any intervening objects in the way once the OMC and peripherals are removed).
- MMT2 for mode-matching the IMC transmission to the interferometer mode.
Are we in agreement with this plan?
See #15656 for the updated photo |