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 Fri Nov 14 19:20:42 2008, Yoichi, Update, PSL, Reference cavity ring down 
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 Fri Nov 14 20:35:47 2008, rana, Update, PSL, Reference cavity ring down
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Fri Nov 14 22:40:51 2008, Yoichi, Update, PSL, Reference cavity ring down
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Mon Nov 17 15:07:06 2008, Yoichi, Update, PSL, Reference cavity ring down
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Message ID: 1136
Entry time: Fri Nov 14 19:20:42 2008
Reply to this: 1137
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Yoichi |
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Update |
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PSL |
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Reference cavity ring down |
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Thanks to Bob making the high-voltage BNC cables for the HV pulse generator, I was able to operate the EOM in front of
the reference cavity.
The conceptual setup is the following:
[HV pulse] ----+ +-->-- [PD2]
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->--[HWP]->-- [EOM] -->-- [PBS] --<->-- [QWP] --<->-- [Reference Cavity] -->-- [PD1]
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[PD3] --<--+
The high voltage pulse rotates the polarization of the light after the EOM. When the HV is applied, the PBS reflects most of the light
into PD2 (Thorlabs PDA255), shutting down the incident light into the cavity.
The transmitted light power of the reference cavity is monitored by PD1 (PDA255). The reflected light from the reference cavity
is monitored by the DC output of the RF PD (PD3). PD3 is low-passed so the response is not fast.
Thorlabs says PDA255 has 50MHz bandwidth.
The attached plot shows the time series of the above PD signals when the HV was applied.
Input Pulse (blue curve) is the input to the HV pulse generator. When it is high, the HV is applied.
"PBS reflection" (red) is PD2. "Reflection" (green) is PD3. "Transmission" (light blue) is PD1.
The red curve shows huge ringing. At first I thought this was caused by the bad response of the PD.
However, the same ringing can be seen in the PD3 and the peaks match very well.
When red curve goes down the green curve goes up, which is consistent with the energy conservation.
So it looks like the light power is actually exhibiting this ringing.
May be the HV pulse is distorted and the voltage across the EOM is showing this ringing.
I will check the input voltage shape to the EOM using a high impedance probe, if possible.
The green curve shows a slow decay because it has a long time constant. It is not an actual
trend of the reflected light power.
The RC transmission power shows some peaks, probably due to the ringing in the input power.
So just fitting with an exponential would not give a good estimate of the cavity pole.
Even though, we should be able to de-convolute the frequency response of the reference cavity
from the input (red curve) and output (light blue curve) signals. |
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