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Fri Jul 25 10:48:13 2008, Koji, Update, General, Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Realignment / beating / PLL trial
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Mon Jul 28 15:54:04 2008, Koji, Update, General, Abs. Len. Meas. ~ More on the beat / the PLL setup 
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Thu Jul 31 11:19:30 2008, Koji, Update, General, Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Resonance search trial
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Sat Aug 2 12:53:43 2008, Koji, Update, General, Abs. Len. Meas. ~ New PLL at the PSL table
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Mon Aug 4 00:37:58 2008, Koji, Update, General, Abs. Len. Meas. ~ RF PD at the Y end / Manual frequency scan  
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Mon Aug 4 05:23:57 2008, Koji, Update, General, Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Measurement for Y-arm completed
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Mon Aug 4 21:48:24 2008, Koji, Update, General, Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Scan for TEM00/01/10  
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Mon Aug 4 22:31:10 2008, Koji, Update, General, Abs. Len. Meas. ~ Simple Test for TEM01/10 split
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Tue Aug 5 00:05:57 2008, Koji, Update, General, Abs. Len. Meas. ~ IFR2023A calibration
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Wed Aug 6 11:10:34 2008, Koji, Update, General, Abs. Len. Meas. ~ analysis of the TEM00 scan 
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Wed Aug 6 11:43:52 2008, Koji, Update, General, Abs. Len. Meas. ~ analysis of the TEM01 scan
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Thu Aug 14 21:52:51 2008, Koji, Summary, General, Abs. Len. Meas. ~ summary of my Summer
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Message ID: 787
Entry time: Mon Aug 4 00:37:58 2008
In reply to: 782
Reply to this: 789
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Abs. Len. Meas. ~ RF PD at the Y end / Manual frequency scan |
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Work log on August 2nd
o Just remind you:
The idea of the absolute length measurement was to detect an RF beat between the injection beam and the PSL beam by resonating both of the beams to the cavity at the same time, but on different londitudinal modes. From the frequency separation between the two beams, we get the FSR of the cavity. In order to have an injection beam with stable frequency separation, a heterodne interferometer was built at the PSL table, and the PLL servo is used to control and stabilize the frequency of the inj. beam.
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o An RF PD (Tholab PDA255) and a steering mirror were placed at the Yarm END. Fortunately, I found that an unused BS was already in the optical path. There was a beam block which dump the reflection of the BS and some stray lights of the OPLEV. I moved the beam block to make the BS reflection available, as well as to block the OPLEV stray light still (Photo1). In order to have the RF signal from the PD, a long BNC cable was laid along the Yarm. I did't know any better idea than this. Don't blame me.
o To have an intuitive interpretation of the beat frequency, the injection beam was set to be at higher frequency than the PSL beam. How did I confirm this? When the crystal temp (LT) of the NPRO was tuned to be higher, the beat frequency got lower.
o Frequency of the PLL was manually swept at around 15.51MHz where the 4th FSR was expected to be found. I could see strong RF peak at that frequency! When I tuned the PLL frequency, the peak height changes dramatically! Too cool!
o The amplitude of the RF peak was measured by an RF spectrum analyzer. I did all of this scan by my hands and eyes. The center frequency of the 4th FSR was 15.5149MHz. From the eye I would say the error is +/-150Hz. It is OK so far although I am not sure statistically this is correct or not. This corresponds to the length of 38.64575 +/- 0.00037 [m].
o All of the past measurements are fairly consistent.
Y-arm length
e-log length [m] Measurement Conditions
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556(2008-Jun-24) 38.67 +/- 0.03 Cavity swinging measurement
776(2008-Jul-31) 38.640 +/- 0.007 Beam injection, poor PLL, Transmitted DC
782(2008-Aug-02) 38.6455 +/- 0.0012 Beam injection, independent PLL, Transmitted DC
this(2008-Aug-04) 38.64575 +/- 0.00037 Beam injection, independent PLL, Transmitted RF
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