Reports until 15:25, Wednesday 18 February 2026
H1 IOO (INS, IOO, ISC)
keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:25, Wednesday 18 February 2026 (89185)
JAC to IMC MM still looks good, mismatching upper limit 0.24% (Jennie, Rahul, Jason, Betsy, Keita)

We refined the alignment from JAC to IMC by iterating small amount between JM2 and JM3. It was hard due to purge air and the suspended JM3, instead of relying on the IMC scan and minimize 1st order modes, we locked IMC and minimized the IMC REFL DC on average. After that the beam was still centered on JM3 well.

We closed the chamber and turned down the purge all the way and the alignment was indeed good. There was almost no 01 (PIT) mode power, 10 (YAW) mode power was less than 1% of 00 mode power, and the 20/02 mode power was 0.23 to 0.24%. See MM.png.

(To identify which mode is what, I intentionally misaligned JM3 in YAW (that causes PIT misalignment for IMC. See  mode_identification.png.)

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