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  18   Tue Sep 7 17:48:50 2021 BlancFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomLocking of the cavity and setup changingWe change the setup a bit to have the same
polarization on the photodiode and the PDH
(in reflexion of the cavity). CF: schematics
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  19   Wed Sep 8 10:50:38 2021 BlancFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomPolarisation Results of the NKTTo have the polarisation, we must have
1 value because the laser in entry of the
system has 1 polar. Due to that, the graphe
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  20   Thu Sep 9 16:34:37 2021 BlancFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomRing light in the cavityWe put a diaphragm in the input beam but
it doesn't work to suppress the ring
light only but it attenuates the whole transmitted
  
  21   Thu Sep 16 18:23:13 2021 BlancFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomPolarization Results in transmissionAfter data processing, I finally find the
polarization in transmissin of the FPC. As
you can see below, the polarisation is not
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  22   Fri Sep 24 09:55:35 2021 Manar AmerUnder Processreportlasers and opticsOptical roomReflection Line Polarization MeasuremetWith the help of Ronic the cavity was locked
in preparation to measure the polarization
of the reflection line when the cavity is
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  23   Fri Oct 1 16:55:47 2021 BlancFixedinfomechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical room1GHz oscillator Frep measurementa previous cavity FSR measurement was giving
a center frequency around 867.5MHz.

the
present 1GHz oscillator Frep measurement
  
  24   Mon Oct 4 14:57:04 2021 Aurélien MartensFixedinfodetectors and electronics | softwareOptical roomip adress of smaract driverthe ip adress of the smaract driver is
now 10.0.53.10:5000

please think about putting such
  
  25   Mon Oct 4 15:10:17 2021 Aurélien MartensFixedreportmechanics | detectors and electronics | softwareOptical roomnew position of smaract motorsfollowing the measuremetn at 879.9 MHZ
of the laser theoptical cavity length has
been adjusted to that value from 876MHz setting
  
  26   Mon Oct 4 15:24:14 2021 Aurélien MartensFixedreportlasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roompiezo actuation rangeA 10V applied on the laser piezo was found
to induce a frequecny change of about 5kHz,
compatible with expectations from the piezo
  
  27   Mon Oct 4 15:38:43 2021 Aurélien MartensFixedinfodetectors and electronicsOptical roomphone is noisedoing the sensitivty measurement of the
piezo we observed satellite peaks around
800 to 900 Mhz. Removing the phones from
  
  28   Tue Oct 5 11:35:16 2021 Aurélien MartensFixedreportdetectors and electronics | softwareOptical roomnew position of smaract motorsa cavity length measurement gave 880.9Mhz.
The m1/M2 have been put to +5.1000mm both
M3/M4 srill at -2.9mm
  
  29   Tue Oct 5 12:18:34 2021 Aurélien MartensFixedreportdetectors and electronics | softwareOptical roomnew position of smaract motorsto find the fundamental mode we moved the
cavity mirrors to new positions:

+5.104mm for both planar mirrors
  
  30   Tue Oct 5 12:23:51 2021 Aurélien MartensFixedreportdetectors and electronics | softwareOptical roomnew position of smaract motorsthe M1 is not at 5.1045mm to put the fundamental
on the scanning range of the laser piezo

M2 still at 5.104mm
  
  31   Tue Oct 5 16:23:04 2021 Aurélien MartensFixedreportdetectors and electronics | softwareOptical roomnew position of smaract motorsafter 3hours (1pm --> 4pm) the cavity
moved by 12um in total

new positions: +5.1065mm on M1
  
  32   Tue Oct 5 18:24:53 2021 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and opticsOptical roomLocking with fast analog loop on AOMin addition to the standard locking scheme
with the GHz laser PZT,

we added an AOM after the PDH modulation
  
  33   Thu Oct 7 17:53:53 2021 BlancFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomFiness and coupling measurementWe did the measurement of the Finess and
coupling with the NKT, with 2 EOM, without
AOM (so the lock signal is noisy), on the
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  34   Fri Oct 8 16:02:19 2021 BlancFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomSetup and measurementsTo summerize the results of this week :

We made the setup in attachement
5 and align it to have the good mode in the
 acquisition_lock_GHz.pngSignal_d'erreur_PDH_sur_GHz.pngRésonances_dûes_au_pic_à_30kHz_dans_le_phase_noise.pngClose_loop_vs_open_loop_GHz.pngminicav_setup_Lock_GHz.PNG 
  35   Tue Oct 19 18:27:20 2021 Ronic ChicheFixedreportmechanics | lasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomPZT resonant frequencieswe have excited the PZT with a swept sinus
wave from 1kHz to 10kHz and from 10kHz to
100kHz.
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  36   Wed Oct 20 12:36:15 2021 Ronic ChicheFixedreportlasers and opticsOptical roomAmplitude GHz oscillator phase noise with PZT effect3 phase noise measurements made on the
Amplitude GHz oscillator with different PZT
configurations :
 Amplitude_GHz_phase_noise.pngGHz_oscillator_phase_noise_without_front-end-1.png 
  37   Wed Oct 20 14:54:00 2021 Ronic ChicheFixedinfolasers and optics | detectors and electronicsOptical roomPhase noise measurement of the Amplitude MIKANMIKAN phase noise and RIN measurements:




 MIKAN_optical_phase_noise_comparison_with_NKT_CW_oscillator_&_RIN_@54MHz.png 
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