[Koji, Manasa, Sujan]
Tomorrow we'll make final checks of the optics inside the chamber.
Then we will pump down the chamber.
- AS beam steering
The AS beam was aligned on the steering mirror (Piezo Jenna i.e. PZT4).
At this point we already found the beam on the AS CCD.
After checking the spots in the OMC chamber, we determined the beam is not clipped inside.
On the AS table, there is a weird thick lens with short focal length (like f=37.5mm), this actually clipped the beam significantly
[I take the blame for it from the last vent. The lens was installed thinking it would be temporary which it was not. -Manasa].
We removed this lens and put the CCD camera back so that the spot on the camera became smaller.
- SRM debiasing
First of all, the bias of the SRM was moved to zero.
Then the tower was rotated so that the beam is aligned in yaw.
After fine alignment of the SRM, the yaw slider was changed from -5.8 to 1.2.
The OSEMs on the SRM suspension was also checked. The OSEM insertions were
adjusted so that they show the half values of the open calibration
(the values can be found on the 40m wiki)
SRM / ITMY / BS / PRM oplev paths in the chamber were checked.
The beams were aligned on the steering mirrors and the QPDs on the optical table.
The ITMX oplev was also checked from the windows without removing the door.
The beam is actually hitting the right positions of the steering mirror and the test mass
although there are lots of stray beams because of the BS oplev and some halo assciated with the ITMX He-Ne laser(!?).
- Checking the alignmentAfter we closed the light doors, we aligned the MC, the arms and the recycling mirrors.
Now the everything is aligned. |