Interesting.

The obvious go to measurment here would be two-lasers-one-cavity to measure the residual between the two polarisaiton modes of one of the cavities. Is the experiment in a state where this could be done easily?

If I recall correctly Tara had this set up with an optical circulator on the input side which Antonio and I switched to linear polarisasion with Faraday isolator.  The mode splitting of the AlGaAs coatings would take care of only selecting one polarisation mode, but is it posisble that the latter measurments sampled a different polarisation to the original thermo-optic measurment? Just a thought.