Summary
In the last two days we have been searching for beat note, in order to get
our "first" noise measurement of the PLL. While we monitor the beat note of the lasers
at the input side we search the same beat note at the transmission side.
Conclusions
We did not succeded yet. I start to believe that what we see at the input side are
not the beat note we are looking for. Some mode hopping could be happening around
the temperature region we have chosen.
Things done
1. We built a Mach Zehnder interferometer at the input side of the lasers, in order to fined the beat
directly from the two lasers; The beat note were found around 450MHz.
2. Once we found them we changed the temperature of the vacuum chamber and we locked the cavities
whit laser beat note of 78MHz.
3. Trasmitted beam have been checked for their spatial overlap and polarizations;
4. Photodiodes have been changed in order to see if some problem was coming from there;
5. Network analizer have been changed in order to check if there were wrong settings.
6. PLL rialigned from beginning;
NO RESULTS
PLAN
We may want to know where mode hopping happen; We need to scan the temperature and first measure
the power and see where they are.
Looking for other beat note at the lasers.
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