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As PSL-126MOPA_DTEC went up, the power out put went down yesterday
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The NPRO cooling water was clogged at the needle valve. The heat sink temp was around ~37C
The flow-regulator needle valve position is locked with a nut and it is frozen. It is not adjustable. However Jeenne's tapping and pushing down on the plastic hardware cleared the way for the water flow.
We have to remember to replace this needle valve when the new NPRO will be swapped in. I checked on the heat sink temp this morning. It is ~18C
There is condensation on the south end of the NPRO body, I wish that the DTEC value would just a little higher like 0.5V
The wavelenght of the diode is temp dependent: 0.3 nm/C. The fine tuning of this diode is done by thermo-electric cooler ( TEC )
To keep the diode precisely tuned to the absorption of the laser gain material the diode temp is held constant using electronic feedback control.
This value is zero now.
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