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Entry   33MHz (FP-cavity vs RF) phase stability, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
    Reply   33MHz (FP-cavity vs RF) phase stability, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
Message ID: 320     Entry time: Fri Jan 26 13:04:56 2024     In reply to: 314
 Author: Ronic Chiche 
 Status: Fixed 
 Type: info 
 Category: lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
 Location: ThomX igloo 
 Title: 33MHz (FP-cavity vs RF) phase stability 

 today, I locked the laser on the FP-cavity and the FP-cavity on the RF reference with 47kW inside the FP-cavity.

equivalent jitter :

when lock is OFF : sine signal V=V0*sin(phi(t)) with V0=300mV => Vrms = 300/sqrt(2)) = 210mV rms

when lock is ON : noise 10mV < dV < 20mV 
for low phase values : dV=V0*dphi

when the RF locking is done, this voltage is about dV = 20mV rms => dphi = dV/V0 = 67 mrad
dphi = 2*pi*f0*dt => jitter dt = dphi/(2*pi*f0) = dV * T0/(2*pi*V0)

T0/(2*pi*V0) ~ 1ps/mV => jitter ~ 10-20 ps rms

previous measurements were exhibiting a jitter lower than 5ps rms : https://elog.lal.in2p3.fr/FPC/THOMX+commissioning/299

Ronic Chiche wrote:

this morning, with Vincent Chaumat, we made a beating (phase detection) between the laser 33MHz and the 33MHz coming from the Rigol generator locked by the 10MHz link onto the 500MHz ring generator.

once the laser and the FP-cavity are locked on the RF reference, the 33MHz phase detection is stabilized and confirm the laser/FP-cavity lock on the RF reference.

we plan to make a drift measurement and a jitter measurement to estimate this lock quality.
the 33MHz frequency being quite small, the quality of this estimation will be poor but it can give a "worse case" estimation.

 

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