yesterday with Daniele, we tried again to move the arm horizontally and vertically from the "zero position" to have a better understanding of the beahvior,
but it is roughly the same :
- a clear beam power reduction (=> cut of the beam) when one moves the horizontal axis
- a very small beam power reduction when one moves the vertical axis
as there are no end-position limits on the axis and as it is possible to "touch" the motors or different mecanichal pieces, we prefered to be conservative:
after several tries, one placed the arm at a position where the HOMs seem to be pretty well suppressed.
for the moment, we will consider this arm in a proper position.
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here is the picture of the L-shape arm and the inside of the vessel.
this image corresponds to the "zero" position on each positionner.
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this morning we locked the laser and the FP-cavity with ~ 40kW => some HOM appeared "randomly" depending on the power.
we tried to play manually on the L-shape arm :
- first, we moved horizontally to put the L-shape in the beam axis
at some point, we saw the power level divided by ~2, we stopped and came back to restore the full power.
- then, we tried to move vertically.
whatever the direction, we were not able to see a clear cut of the beam.
BUT "strangely", at some point, the PZT drift followed the direction of the motion and was not really depending on the "cooling" or "heating" process when the lock stops or restart.
"strangely" again, at the endpoint, the power dropped by ~20-30% after a delock but it was impossible to restore the power when we put the arm at the initial position.
=> we had to adjust the FP-cavity alignment to restore the power !!!
=> we had the feeling that moving the arm could have misalign the cavity axis !!! :-(
=> we have to discuss with Yann and get the CAD files of the cavity to have a better understanding...
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