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Thu Aug 1 03:34:35 2013, Chloe, DailyProgress, ECDL, Assembling ECDL
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Thu Aug 1 18:33:12 2013, Chloe, DailyProgress, ECDL, Assembling ECDL
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Fri Aug 2 18:15:06 2013, Chloe, DailyProgress, ECDL, Assembling ECDL
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Mon Aug 5 18:47:04 2013, Chloe, DailyProgress, ECDL, Assembling ECDL  
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Tue Aug 6 19:48:19 2013, Chloe, DailyProgress, ECDL, Assembling ECDL
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Wed Aug 7 18:13:21 2013, Chloe, DailyProgress, ECDL, Assembling ECDL
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Thu Aug 8 18:43:44 2013, Chloe, DailyProgress, ECDL, Assembling ECDL  
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Fri Aug 9 18:01:47 2013, Chloe, DailyProgress, ECDL, Assembling ECDL 
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Tue Aug 13 18:13:35 2013, Chloe, DailyProgress, ECDL, Assembling ECDL
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Thu Aug 15 18:53:45 2013, Chloe, DailyProgress, ECDL, Assembling ECDL
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Message ID: 1281
Entry time: Mon Aug 5 18:47:04 2013
In reply to: 1277
Reply to this: 1283
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Chloe |
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ECDL |
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Assembling ECDL |
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I brought in a different USB drive to get data off of the oscilloscope. It took awhile to figure out how to capture the data with the best settings. I have a sample graph of the heating and cooling of the diode mount attached (converted to temperature using datasheet for 10k thermistor). Notice that I took data over about 4 degrees, so that it was possible to see the change in voltage as the temperature changed. Even then, it would be nice to have more resolution on this data. I cannot make the voltage increments smaller than 500 mV because the offset of the oscilloscope isn't enough to still see the data (I tried). I will talk to Tara tomorrow about if I can get better data on this to analyze, since this data has poor resolution.


Tara asked me to try to calculate the free running noise of the laser diode to have an estimate for when we actually collect this data. We will be using a Michelson interferometer with different arm lengths. I used Erica's past elog entry as a starting point (1241) and wrote a bit more explanation into my own calculations so it will be clear to me in the future and to make sure I understood everything. However, I'm unsure of how to incorporate the noise levels after calculating the power received by the photodiode, and I need to talk to Tara about how to do this tomorrow if he's around. The calculations that I have done are attached.

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