I found that the ref cav trans CCD view was blinking with 30-50 fringe amplitudes. This meant the laser freq was swinging ~50GHz.
I checked the ABSL laser and the SG out of a lock-in amplifier was connected to the slow input.
This was shaking the laser temp from 29degC to 46degC. This was the cause of the fringe swinging.
This big excitation changing the output power too as the temp was changed across it mode-hop region.
I have disconnected the excitation from the laser no matter how useful experiments were took place as there was no e-log entry about this.
I need the explanations
1. Why our precious laser is exposed to such a large swing of temperature?
2. Why the excitation is left like that without any attendance?
3. Why there was no elogging about this activity? |