Riju hasn't been in the lab in a long time to do any measurements, so I put the signals back to how they should be.
I turned off / confirmed off the things which were sending signal to the EOM: the network analyzer, the RF generator box, and the Marconi which supplies the 11MHz.
I removed the cavity scanning cable, and terminated it, and put the regular 11MHz cable back on the splitter.
I then turned on the RF gen box and the Marconi. The Marconi had been off, so we were not getting any 11MHz or 55MHz out of the RF gen. box. This is why I couldn't lock any cavities last night (duh).
On to locking!
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While swapping out the EOM cable, I noticed that the DC power supply sitting under the POX table was supplying a weird value, 17 point something volts. I checked on the table to remind myself why that power supply is there...it's powering an RF amplifier right after the commercial PD that is acting as POP22. The amplifier wants +15 and GND, so I reset the power supply to 15V. We should add this to the list of things to fix, because it's dumb. Either we need to put in the real POP22 (long term goal), or we need to get this guy some rack power, and do the same for any amplifiers for the Beat setup. It's a little hoakey to have power supplies littering the lab. |