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Entry  Fri Jan 4 19:04:29 2019, awade, DailyProgress, RFAM, Time to look at RF AM and RIN 
    Reply  Wed Jan 9 17:25:38 2019, anchal, DailyProgress, RFAM, Time to look at RF AM and RIN RIN_DBN_Coherence_Measurement.pdf
       Reply  Wed Jan 9 19:05:56 2019, anchal, DailyProgress, RFAM, Time to look at RF AM and RIN 
          Reply  Thu Jan 10 11:38:53 2019, awade, DailyProgress, RFAM, Time to look at RF AM and RIN 
             Reply  Thu Jan 10 17:30:24 2019, anchal, DailyProgress, RFAM, Time to look at RF AM and RIN 
                Reply  Thu Jan 10 18:52:20 2019, anchal, DailyProgress, RFAM, Time to look at RF AM and RIN 
                   Reply  Sat Jan 12 13:11:02 2019, awade, DailyProgress, RFAM, Time to look at beatnote after RF AM and RIN tuneup 
                      Reply  Wed Jan 16 11:07:41 2019, anchal, DailyProgress, NoiseBudget, Beatnote after RF AM and RIN tuneup LaserPowerNoise_to_BNFreqNoise_TF.pdfIN_to_BN_TF.zipTransmission_RIN_Jan15_2019.pdfRIN_Measurement_20190115.zip20190116_130937noiseBudget.pdf
    Reply  Thu Jan 10 14:19:46 2019, anchal, DailyProgress, RFAM, Time to look at RF AM and RIN 
Message ID: 2281     Entry time: Thu Jan 10 18:52:20 2019     In reply to: 2280     Reply to this: 2282
Author: anchal 
Type: DailyProgress 
Category: RFAM 
Subject: Time to look at RF AM and RIN 

I think I found the culprit. the polarizer behind the EOM (PMC loop EOM) was a multi-order one and hence was extremely sensitive to temperature. I replaced it with a zero order half wavepleate and realigned the EOM to minimise the RF AM to about -70 dBm. The PMC has got misaligned in this procedure, so tomorrow I'll align it back and see if our changes made a difference.

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