20181003

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Today's activities

Workers: Akutsu, K. Nagano, Aritomi K. Tanaka, Kita

• Akutsu cleaned each side of the optical parts to be installed into the chamber (on the BRT) just using ethanol only. So I omitted acetone and First Contact... Anyway, they are
  • CVI's HM-2037-45
  • Thorlabs's HBSY21
  • Opto Sigma's special one: TFMQSP-50.8C10-20-532/1064-0/26D
  • Opto Sigma's SLB-50.8-200NM

  • Need to make a summary page similar to here.

• Started the alignment of the BRT using the green transmitted beam. It is still on the way.

  • A reference is here

  • Firstly we put two diaphrams; let's call them iris-1 and iris-2. The iris-1 is at the back of the BRT2 lens, while the iris-2 is in front of the BRT2 lens. The red beam in the following pictures came from a laser level （レーザー墨出器） set on a tripod standing outside of the chamber. The height of the red beam was set so that it shot the center of the irises. As shown in the pics, the green spots were off the centers of the irises at this the first time. And the green beam includes the shadow of the PD (at EXA) in front of ETMX... As the iris-2 was closed when we took those pictures, no green spot could be found on the iris-1 at this time.

• When we opened the iris-2, a green spot appeared on the iris-1 as shown in the following picture. Using a metal ruler, we measured the vertical distance of the green spot on the iris-2 from its center hole as about +8 mm (as you can understand, this is very rough estimation due to the big spot size and the shadow...), while that on the iris-1 was about +23mm, so the displacement was 23-8=15 mm . The distance from iris-2 to iris-1 was about 437.5 mm, so the vertical tilt (or pitch) of the green beam here was 15/437.5 = 0.034 rad (rising up toward the end).

• As already discussed here, the BRT is to reduce the size of the beam 1/10, so the original tilt of the entering optical beam would become 10 times, which means teh 0.034 rad would be originally 0.003 rad pitch. This is consistent with the 1/300 rising of the beam to Xend.

• We also roughly measured the horizontal distances of the spots on the irises; about 3mm away from the center hole in the direction of +Yarm on iris-2' and 2mm on 'iris-1'. (3-2)/437.5 = 0.0023 rad. I'm not sure how accurate this measurement, as it was difficult to measure the spots

• BBBB

Next plan

• Wash an imo-screw for connecting the lens holder and the lower pile.

• Align and balance the BRT and the TMS-VIS.
• Configure the digital models properly.

• Clean the sides of the optics to be installed into the vacuum chamber. (Ethanol+Acetone wiping with vectra alpha, then First Contact.) See here.

• Detach the remaining white tapes just before closing the chamber; be noted that there are white tapes on the PEEK connectors at the inside of the flanges.
• Torque completely the bolts which are fixing the upper and the lower base plates.
• Insert metal gaskets before torquing the ICF203 flanges with Dsub connectors.
• Check horizontal actuation
• Calibrate LVDT again
• Put calibration factor of Geophones
• Install Tome-Kanagu for Dsub in DAC0 port #4
• Put tags to cables
• Align BRT
• Start to install GPT part
• Damping of TMS-VIS

Wanted!