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tomotada.akutsu - 23:41 Thursday 22 March 2018 (4520) Print this report
BRT alignment at Yend (EYT)

Yokogawa, Sugimoto, Akutsu; see here as well.

 After pico-ing the steering mirros around PR2, the green beam reached the Yend (EYT) very well. Actually due to sudden berserk BS, the green beam is not so stable, but somehow could be used for a reference.

  1. As wirtten in the above link, we found the beam after the 2nd BRT lens seems shifted to -X in 10mm (Fig. 5 and 6) and tilted in pitch by -0.03 rad (Fig 3 and 4); using a lase level.
  2. Apart from the shift, the tilt could be due to originally -1/300 tilt of the input beam (see the above link or note *1 below), assuming the BRT was sitting horizontally sufficiently devil.
  3. We hooked up the BRT slightly after slightly loosening the screws that fix the foots of the BRT to the fixed stage, and changed the lengths of the three legs so that BRT got tilted in -1/300 pitch (-Y get lower).

With those, what we found today are:

  1. The BRT can actually be aligned with the above method. This was the first time to do tilt-and-fix work (in short, alignment) of an BRT! I was relieved.
  2. The pitch tilt of the beam seemed successfully canceled by the tilt alignment of the BRT; needs more detailed check.

For the detailed check, we must have a stable BS so that the beam becomes stable...

 

(*1) To put it breifly, the beam reducing telescope (BRT) has a 10-times magnification (a definition of a word is difficult... it is 10 times reduction of a beam's diameter). Assume a ray is entering into such an optic with a small but non-zero angle, then the angle of the emitting gets 10 times leverage (oh, another oplev!), so a 1/300-rad will increase to 1/30-rad.

 

...By the way, you know, the fact that the beam can pass through even the 2nd BRT lens is kind of surprising to me, considering the tough works of the alignement in Mitaka.

... and you can find a ghost beam of green in Fig 5 and 6. Ok, it's green, but I now need to consider the IR case... Anyway, from where the ghost came? From the wedge of the ETMY?? As it is also focused, this story would have high possibility. Probably we can esitimate with measuring the distance from the main beam.

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tomotada.akutsu - 1:16 Friday 23 March 2018 (4523) Print this report

Comparing the ghost beam spots in Fig 5 and 6, the distance from the main beam looks like 13.5mm and 10mm toward -X direction, respectevely. Their positions were 6x25 - 25 = 125 mm apart (toward +Y), so the angle from the main beam should be

(13.5-10)/125 = 0.028 rad. In the same manner for the pitch discussion, this would be 0.0028 rad at the entrance of the BRT.

Generally speaking, the displace angle of a ghost beam, which is created by a wedged back surface with a wedge angle of w and go through a medium with the index of refractance n, is 2nw. Substituting Sapphire's n=1.76 for 532nm, and considering the 2nw = 0.0028, the corresponding w is 0.0008 rad or 0.0456 deg.

According to Hirose-san (thanks a lot for your quick reply!), the ETMY now suspended has 0.05 deg wedge. So I believe the number is consistent for considering the measurement errors of the beam spot positions.

tomotada.akutsu - 8:08 Friday 23 March 2018 (4525) Print this report

Addendum:

Hirose-san kindly reported again the right number is 0.0475deg (+/-0.0025deg), as he misunderstood "ETMY" I pointed; note that there are several ETMYs!
Anyway, now my esitimation is within the error bar.
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