We haven't been paying attention to the beat frequency or its control in the last few weeks. Yesterday it was apparent that the beat had drifted to ~2 GHz. When I tuned the differential heating to ~0.42 W with a common offset of 0.56831 W I found that this had almost no effect on the beat note.
Initially I thought maybe the shield heater driver box was broken. On closer inspection it seems that the Acromag IOC channels had been moved to a different output channel and the IOC process was only very recently reset to enact those changes.
I've relabeled the cables and BNC ports to make it clear which components should plug into which. I've set the differential heating to 0.422991 W and both lasers seem to be tracking in the right direction towards a 26 MHz beat note now. It will take a few more hours to get close enough to stabilized. Currently at 250 MHz. |