The Input Mode Cleaner is a suspended triangular cavity. Each mirror of the triangle is 0.25 kg, 3" in diameter and 1" thick.
The input mode cleaner length is ~13.5 m (27 m round trip), the Finesse is ~1460. Cavity pole is 3.79kHz.
Installing the Input Mode Cleaner board
attachment:MC-Schematic.pdf
WFS
/McWFS
Documents
[http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/T/T020145-00.pdf LIGO-T020145-00-R], "Characterization and commissioning of digital suspensions for the 40m Mode Cleaner"
[http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/T/T020147-00.pdf LIGO-T020147-00-R], "Characterizing the length sensing and control system of the mode cleaner in the LIGO 40m lab"
OUTPUT MODE CLEANER
The Output Mode Cleaner is mounted into a monolithic copper block cavity, with three fixed mirrors and one PZT length-controlled mirror. The SW drawings are attached below.
SW Output Mode Cleaner Dwgs
attachment:LIGO-D050379-C attachment:LIGO-D050366-B attachment:LIGO-D050369-C attachment:LIGO-D050370-B attachment:LIGO-E050336-00