After installing the 2nd EOM, we had some trouble to be able to lock again.
One possible reason was the very low signal level in transmission, which is important to trigger the locking system (and stop it).
See the Alice post for details, but we were able to measure only once the Finesse of the cavity at around 2600.
After the Finesse measurement, we opened the box to change the M1 mirror... so the box is at ambient pressure now.
I took back the avalanche photodiode from the Minicav room and installed it on the setup to replace the FPC transmission photodiode.
Now, the transmission peaks are at the 1V level, and it's very easy to trigger on...
The system locked very easily, even without being under vacuum.
It will help if we need to inject very low power laser (e.g. OEwaves after 2x EOM and AOM).
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