HOME SBOX THOMX MINICAV Utilities
THOMX orders THOMX installation THOMX commissioning THOMX control command
  Status of commissioning, report also here plots are reports.  Not logged in ELOG logo
Entry   33MHz oscillator + Alphanov amplifier lock, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics 120705_Displacement_of_cylindrical_piezo_ceramics.xls
    Reply   33MHz oscillator + Alphanov amplifier lock, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics 
       Reply   33MHz oscillator + Alphanov amplifier lock, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics M250_Video_Amplifier.pdfM250_manual.pdf
          Reply   33MHz oscillator + Alphanov amplifier lock, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics 
             Reply   33MHz oscillator + Alphanov amplifier lock, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics PDH_error_signal_with_Smaract_motors_ON-OFF.jpgLock_at_amp_@30%.jpg10kW_in_remote.jpg
                Reply   33MHz oscillator + Alphanov amplifier lock, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics ThomX_FP_intracavity_signal.m
                   Reply   33MHz oscillator + Alphanov amplifier lock, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics 
                      Reply   33MHz oscillator + Alphanov amplifier lock, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics 
                         Reply   33MHz oscillator + Alphanov amplifier lock, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics 
Message ID: 214     Entry time: Thu Jun 1 18:15:04 2023     In reply to: 213     Reply to this: 217
 Author: Ronic Chiche 
 Status: Fixed 
 Type: info 
 Category: lasers and optics 
 Location: ThomX igloo 
 Title: 33MHz oscillator + Alphanov amplifier lock 

finding the right modulation/demodulation PDH phase is very difficult on the main resonance because the we get non stationnary signals with a lot of oscillations.
changing the phase, in this condition, does not really change the error signal.
Then, we moved on the first secundary resonance with less gain and less coupling.
Thus, the error signal is more similar to the theoretical PDH signal => one can adjust the modulation/demodulation PDH phase to get the maximum error signal.

then, we locked pretty easily on this first secondary resonance, with a coupling around some % when we adjust the CEP motor.

we tried to lock on the main resonance but it is too noisy and unstable.
it seems we really need high BW feedback.

I tried to add a fast analog loop on the laser intra-cavity EOM but without a clear effect.
the problem is the gain of this loop : it is difficult to produce a "high voltage" (above 10Vpp) on this EOM.
I put "my" amplifier but the voltage output is limited... commercial amplifiers will have the same issue.
we can add HV amplifiers but it takes place and it will add some noise on the signal.

A loop with an AOM could be easier to install and manage... but at the price of a loss of power before the laser amplifier...
 

Ronic Chiche wrote:

the last tries to lock the 33MHz + amplifier to the 30k Finesse FP-cavity were unsuccessful.

during a laser Frep scan using the Laselock, one observes that the main cavity resonance is not able to stay inside the PZT scan range from one scan to another (500ms-1s period)
is it the effect of a large and slow phase noise ?

some informations:

- The 33MHz laser came back at lab from repair on March 2018.
- it has been sent to Alphanov in May 2020.
- it failled and has been sent to NKT/OneFive for repair in September 2021
- it came back to lab from repair in June 2022.
- on post #92 (Feb. 2020), it seems that we already locked the 33MHz laser + CELIA amplifier to the ThomX FP-cavity.

- The PZT sensitivity for the 33MHz laser is given to 0,3Hz/V for Frep <=> 2.6MHz/V for optical frequency.
=> 10V on PZT is equivalent to 26MHz of optical frequency shift which is less than FSR !

- by comparison, the PZT sensitivity for the 133MHz laser is given to 3.9Hz/V for Frep <=> 8.5MHz/V for optical frequency.

- by comparison, the PZT sensitivity for the NKT CW laser is given 10pm/100V for Wavelength <=> 30MHz/V for optical frequency

- by comparison, the PZT sensitivity for the ThomX FP cavity (Z20H38x40C) is 4nm/V for length expansion => 8nm/V for round-trip expansion <=> 0.03Hz/V for FSR expansion <=> 260kHz/V for optical frequency !!!
the PZT expansion estimation is in attached file.

 

ELOG V3.1.4-395e101