LCGT Auxiliary Optics Subsystem (AOS)

Objectives

The objectives of the subgroup "Auxiliary Optics System" (AOS) is to have the other LCGT subgroups design and complete the auxiliary optics that physically, logically and consistently glue the main parts of the LCGT interferometer together.

General Description

All the AOS shall be fit to the vacuum chambers that had been already determined when the AOS group was established. Even if the vacuum chamber was not designed for considering the space allocated for AOS, AOS are required for fully operating LCGT, so we should pack them into the vacuum chambers BY ANY MEANS.

References

Subsystems

• Stray Light Control (incl.: beam baffles, output Faraday, calc. of BRDF...)

• IR Pick-off and transmit telescopes

• Green Transmit Telescopes

  • Auxiliary laser-locking system itself should be considered in MIF. The effort of system design should be separated from that of engineering and fabrication from the WBS point of view (or what-you-call system engineering) even if the assigned person is the same.

• Optical Lever

  • Optical lever is a kind of local sensors, but unlike other local sensors, it requires long beam lines as lever's arms, thus this should be considerd in AOS.

• Initial Alignment System

• CCD monitors

• Viewports on Vacuum Chambers

• Beam Shutter

• Other local sensors/monitors/actuators?
• Any other optics, outside breadboard,...
• Squeezing system??
• Maybe mainly VIS group's charge and not AOS's:

  • Local Sensors and Actuators (LIGO's OSEM-like things utilized in vibration isolation system)

  • Violine mode sensors or Wire position sensors (utilized in vibration isolation system or in noise-hunting phase)

Meetings

• LCGT-AOS Meetings

Links

• LIGO Document Control Center

• adv.LIGO Aux. Optics