I locked the Koheras CW on the FP cavity but the lock was pretty noisy and very difficult to acquire.
I tried to produce some modulation sidebands close to 216MHz to measure the Finesse but the power loss was very small so, the signal to extract the Finesse would be unreadable !
(generator voltage was at maximum Vout = 0.5Vrms on 50 ohms... is it normal ? or the used 10GHz EOM suffers some problems ?)
At one moment, I lost the lock and was not able to find it again... it seems the Koheras is too noisy for this cavity (may be is it a good news for the Finesse ?).
Tomorrow, I will try to use the OEwave + amplifier to lock the cavity.
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