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Entry  Fri Jan 9 14:01:17 2015, manasa, Update, General, AUX Y + PSL beat note at 1064nm 
    Reply  Tue Jan 13 10:28:02 2015, manasa, Update, General, AUX Y + PSL beat note at 1064nm 
       Reply  Tue Jan 13 13:22:54 2015, Jenne, Update, General, AUX Y + PSL beat note at 1064nm: needs work 
          Reply  Tue Jan 13 14:01:20 2015, manasa, Update, General, AUX Y + PSL beat note at 1064nm: needs work 
Message ID: 10883     Entry time: Fri Jan 9 14:01:17 2015     Reply to this: 10893
Author: manasa 
Type: Update 
Category: General 
Subject: AUX Y + PSL beat note at 1064nm 

I worked around the PSL table today.

The Y+PSL output from the optical fiber module for FOL was fed to the input of the Thorlabs FPD310
200uW of incident light on the RFPD gave an RF signal of -70dBm as measured on a spectrum analyzer.

I swapped the beam splitter along the PSL path so that the incident power on the RFPD is ~1.5mW (Maximum incident power that the PD can tolerate is ~2mW).
This RF signal generated was - 43dBm which is still small for the input to the frequency counter module.

I checked this with a function generator and found that the frequency counter requires around -25 to -30 dBm at the input.

I plan to use the Minicircuits ZFL-1000ln that is on the IOO rack but not being used (This was used for green beatnote amplification but is not required/used anymore) to amplify the RF signal to the frequency counter.
If anyone has any objections to using this amplifier for the frequency counter, let me know.

 

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