Minutes of the MIF Meeting 2012/10/9

Date, Time, Place: 2012/10/9 13:30 - 15:00 on EVO

Participants: Aso, Arai, Somiya, Shibata, H. Yamamoto, Akutsu, Ando, Miyakawa, R. Takahashi

KAGRA OMC Development Strategy
A proof-of-concept style prototype experiment will be conducted at TITEC (Somiya group)
At the same time, Arai-san will develop a production OMC for LLO this year.
Someone from KAGRA (most likely Michimura-kun) will be involved in the process to gain knowledge of aLIGO OMC.
Based on the aLIGO OMC design, we will design KAGRA OMC.
This OMC will be tested somewhere (to be decided) under vacuum with full digital control and suspended steering mirrors.
The intention of the above test is to gain experience in the KAGRA team of operating OMC. We will use a small Michelson to mimic the KAGRA interferometer.

Coordination of Interferometer Related Experiments

It is time to coordinate interferometer related experiments, including but not limited to prototype and first article tests, within the KAGRA group.
Y. Aso will make a draft of a who-does-what list.
Circulation of the list shall start a discussion via email
Y. Aso will organize a face-to-face meeting on this issue at an appropriate time (likely to be in early November)