I used COMSOL to simulate temperature change caused by 10^-4 fluctuation from the main DC power.
That is the temperature change in the substrate due to power change from Pin to Pin + Pin*10^-4. Pin is 10mW.
This should give us the upper limit of the expected frequency noise.
The area under the plot of Temperature vs Depth is 1.9 * 10^-8 [meter*Kelvin].
thermal coefficient for substrate is 0.51 *10^-6
thus dL is (0.51*10^-6) * (1.9*10^-8) ~ 10^-14.
Use dL/L = df/f ; where L is the cavity length = 0.2035m, f = c/ lambda.
df = 15 Hz. (effect from thermal expansion 1 mirror in the cavity only)
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