Meeting information
Wednesday June 4th 15h JST on KAGRA Zoom 2 : https://zoom.us/j/6676627462
Participants
Yoichi Aso, Marc Eisenmann, Sungho Lee, Munetake Otsuka, Shalika Singh, Kentaro Somiya, Kazuhiro Yamamoto
New ITMs preparation
Polishing
- Meeting with Nikon : they accepted the wedge corrected crystals and will restart the scratches removal
- Delivery expected for mid/end March (ie about 3 months delay)
Coating
- Sent sapphire disks about 2 years ago to LMA for Ge coating. Still waiting for the recipe
Other characterization
* Nikon can provide birefringence map from which they can reconstruct TWE
Ear bonding
- U. Toyama clean room preparation (restarted filters about 1 month ago)
- this clean room contains 2 optical tables if needed
== Need for spares ==
- Now have 2 unocated ETMs spares (but likely not fine polishing)
- Should restart buying evaluation plates for new bulk purchase
Absorption measurement
- PCI at KASI is getting ready
Birefrigence measurement
- Solved some issues and now finalizing AZTEC measurements
Spectroscopy
- Corrected calibration for s/p polarization spectrum measurements
Q measurement
- Now focusing on sapphire fiber measurements
Next meeting
Wednesday June 18 15h JST ?