Search Latest topics | WI TCS beam alignment on ITM Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:19 pm by laura (Viviana, Alessio, Laura, F.Frasconi) On tuesday afternoon we performed some operations required to allow closing of the WI tower. 1) placed a lens in front of the cross-hair to increase intensity of the arms of the cross. 2) aligned CO2 beam onto the cross-hair. 3) replaced hot mirror with 95%R beam splitter (to allow positioning of the IR camera, not yet done). On wednesday morning, with … [ Full reading ] Comments: 1 Spot size change on NI photodiodes Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:27 pm by laura (Alessio, Viviana, Laura) We notes that the size of the beam on the NI PDs is much smaller than that of the WI. So we moved the focus lens in front of the PDs in order to make the spot size approximately equal to that of the WI. Here the distances between some optical components on the WI and NI respectively: WI --> L-BS = 5cm ; BS-FOL = 12cm ; BS-FL = 7cm NI --> L-BS = 11cm ; BS-FOL … [ Full reading ] Comments: 0 TCS benches calibration Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:24 pm by laura (Viviana, Alessio, Laura) Last week, we also preformed the calibration of the TCS benches. Figure 1 shows the NI TCS power versus the wave plate angle. Second plot shows the CO2 power as a function of the ADV voltage. Minimum power is about 50mW, maxumim is 9.2W. Calibration factor is: PNI(W)=4.814*TCS_NI_Power_DC - 0.117 Figures 3 and 4 represent the same quantities for the WI. Minimum … [ Full reading ] Comments: 0 WI mirror B cabling Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:20 pm by laura
[ Full reading ] Comments: 0 NI bench: power on the power meter was too low Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:24 pm by Alessio This afternoon the opertator (see Operation report - Afternoon shift) reported a warning from ALP: the NI laser possibly being off due to low signal on TCS_power_DC. After a quick investigation, I saw that the power on the power meter was very low because of the setting of the wave-plate angle. So I simply rotated the plate to shine more power on the power meter: the flag on the DMS is green … [ Full reading ] Comments: 0 NI TCS last activity Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:23 pm by Alessio (Alessio, Viviana, F. Frasconi, F. Gherardini, P. Ruggi) Today, we finished to fix the mirror B holder. Then we re-connected the cables of the stepping motors to mirror B and checked that all the motors are working and the mirror is moving. Finally we also checked the end-stops of the motors. The screen used to position the cross-hair on the ITM is still in place. The re-installation of the … [ Full reading ] Comments: 0 NI TCS beam alignment on ITM Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:22 pm by Alessio (Alessio, Viviana, P. Puppo. F. Frasconi) Yesterday we performed the alignment of the TCS beam on the optics inside the NI tower. With Franco, we re-installed mirror B and removed the protection from mirror A. Then, with Franco and Paola, we looked for any diffusion of the cross-hair on the first contact film of the ITM and nothing was absolutely visible. We tried to put a diffusive screen … [ Full reading ] Comments: 0 IR camera results investigation Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:06 pm by Alessio (Alessio, J. Marque, Viviana) As reported in Last NI bench adjustment, after the installation of the IR camera in its design position, we noticed a discrepancy between the IR camera image and the usual thermal image. Figure 1 shows the thermal camera image and figure 2 shows the corresponding IR camera image. It is possible to see that the ring looks fine on the thermal camera and rather … [ Full reading ] Comments: 0 Last NI bench adjustment Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:03 pm by Alessio (Alessio, Laura, Viviana) Yesterday we performed some operations required to allow closing of the NI tower. 1) placed a lens in front of the cross-hair to reduce size and to increase intensity of the arms of the cross. 2) carefully aligned CO2 beam onto the cross-hair. 3) replaced hot mirror with 95%R beam splitter and positioned the IR camera in their design position. During last operation we … [ Full reading ] Comments: 0 | Statistics We have 8 registered usersThe newest registered user is laura Our users have posted a total of 287 messages in 160 subjects Who is online? In total there is 1 user online :: 0 Registered, 0 Hidden and 1 Guest None Most users ever online was 84 on Sat Jun 15, 2024 3:03 pm |
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