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Entry   Menhir oscillator phase noise measurement, posted by Ronic Chiche at Optical room about lasers and optics 
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Message ID: 259     Entry time: Mon Aug 31 15:14:04 2026     In reply to: 258     Reply to this: 260
 Author: Ronic Chiche 
 Status: Under Process 
 Type: info 
 Category: lasers and optics 
 Location: Optical room 
 Title: Menhir oscillator phase noise measurement 

measurements made with Alice:

comparison between the CW OEwaves oscillator phase noise measured last week (2 measurements done with AOM, in red and orange) with the one made in 2022 (without AOM, in blue).
one observes a degradation of the performance of the oscillator by ~10dB in the region of interest 100Hz-100kHz

Ronic Chiche wrote:

with Alice, we installed the Menhir 160MHz oscillator on a breadboad placed on top of 4 damped feet around the amplifier.
we will do an heterodyne phase noise measurement vs the CW OEwaves oscillator.

the power at the output of the Menhir oscillator is about 150mW.
after injection in the fiber (N°3 blue jacket), we got about 75mW.

we installed the 2->1 coupler to make the beating.
BE CAREFUL, the coupler is polarization sensitive, so we add a half waveplate in the Menhir path to adust the polarization on the coupler, otherwise the output power can be very low.
the coupler attenuation is ~ 3.5dB on both inputs.

the OEwaves power is ~16mW at the input and we measured ~7mW at the output of the coupler for this channel.
the Menhir fiber coupled power is ~75mW and we measured ~26mW at the output of the coupler for this channel.

 

 

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