KAGRA MIR (Polarization)
MarcEisenmann - 18:59, Thursday 07 July 2022 (3019)
Comment to birefringence measurement of AZTEC #3 and estimation of losses (Click here to view original report: 3013)

There is a little discrepancy between the 2 ways we compute the s to p polarization losses.

One possible explanation could be that we were using the mean of theta and delta n from 7 measurements during about 5 days.

It is quite probable that alignment condition or translation stage position slightly drifted between each measurements making this mean value a bit different with some sharp features.

I attach to this entry the comparison between the direct estimation of losses and the delta n and theta computed for each input polarization angle.

There is no sharp feature anymore and we have better agreement between the 2 estimations !

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