KAGRA MIR (General)
MarcEisenmann - 18:14, Friday 04 February 2022 (2830)
Power fluctuations during birefringence measurement

As reported in entry 2817 we can see vertical stripes in our measurements.

One question is are they correlated to the Y (horizontal) position of the mirror.

For reference, the measurement are done in zig-zag  ie we scan in X (vertical) and shift in Y.

I show in the attached figures the sum of the normalized s and p polarizations for various input polarization angles as a function of time.

The color changes correspond to a change in Y position.

To my eye it seems that these figures show that there is no clear correlations between the Y positions of the mirror and the power fluctuations.

In any case I will try to do further investigations next week.

Images attached to this report
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