RefCav is locked , the beam is more stable than yesterday setup. I'll write down the values of the setting for a quick reference.

I'm not sure what universal names for all these channels are. I just explain them in more details for my future reference and next generation archeologists.

fss controller:

Common Gain(  for both fast and PC paths): 23.6 dB (fast path controls the PZT which changes the length of the NPRO, PC path controls the phase

shift of the beam)

Fast Gain ( for PC path only): 12.5 dB

Phase shift: 0 + 180 degree. ("+180 degree" means phase flip)

RF Amplifier Adj (power for 35.5 MHz sidebands): 6.28 V.

Thermal control ADj (a voltage calibrator connected to slow channel of the laser controller): -0.010V

PMC controller

Servo gain Adj (over all gain of the demodulated signal): 27.75 dB

Output DC offset (offset voltage that governs the length of the PMC): -3.12 V

Phase shift: 2.87 V + 180 degree

RF Amp Adj (power for 21.5 MHz sidebands): 5.36V.

Now I'm working on ACav path. I made a cable for a photo diode.

I'm not sure if the last PD is a working 35.5 MHz PD, I'll see if it works or not.

Now I'm using two 2-channel monitors to simultaneously see the  beams after PMC and RefCav. It will be more convenient if I use a 4 channel monitor, I'll  clear some space for it.

When I try to lock the cavity, it's not very stable yet. The transmitted power fluctuates alot.

I try changing the gains, but still could not stabilize the lock . The transmitted beam power is about 60% during the stable lock (I got it nicely locked for 5- 10 mins.)

After RefCav is locked, I'll try to optimize the transmitted power, by adjusting the lenses' positions before moving on to work on ACav

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The maximum power after AOM double pass is 37%, worse than the expected 50% efficiency, but it should be enough.

The good news is, a new mode matching (RefCav and ACav) is calculated, and all positions for the lenses are clear.

I got all the lenses, and borrow one plcx-24.5-51.5-c-1064 from 58C

The problem about the position of the PBS is solved. It will be at the original place, since the clipped beam is the 0th order of the reflected beam which we do not use.

I'll put the lenses in their places and try to lock RefCav again.

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I'm aligning double pass AOM. After maximizing the power of the 1st order of the transmitted beam, I place the R=0.3m mirror to reflect the beam  back to the AOM.

The mirror is mounted on a translational stage for a fine adjustment.

At the right distance L away from the AOM(L = ROC), the size of the reflected beam at the AOM should be the same as the incoming beam.

Thus, there are 3 things to adjust.

First is the angle of the quarter wave plate that rotates the polarization of the beam after 2 passes by 90 degrees.

Second, the angle of the mirror, and

third, the distance of the mirror. At right position the power of the 1st order beam should be maximized.

I might have to change the position of the PBS that reflected the AOM double passed beam. Currently, the PBS is placed before 2 mirrors that move the

beam to the side of the table to avoid the insulation box. The problem is the double passed beam might clip on the mirror. So now I put the PBS after the steering mirrors, just in front of the AOM, but this limits the space for mode matching. I'll have to check which one will be better. From the attached picture,  two PBS's are placed on two possible locations. On the bottom right the, and down at the middle next to the AOM.

 I manage to get 70% efficiency from P wave. When I try S wave, I get 78% which is close to the specified value. So for double pass, the efficiency should be upto 50%. The beam size is ~550 um.  I redo the mode matching calculation for the AOM (and also RefCav and ACav) and move the beam a bit to the side of the table so that the insulation box won't get in the way.

 have a look into the datasheet which came with the AOM. Don't make it too large. Clear aperture is about 1.7mm max. You can also have a look into the manual of the 35W laser (ATF lab). It contains a copy of one of these datasheets as well (with the graph of efficiency vs beam size). You don't need more than 60%, but you should try to get around 50% for the double-passed beam as we don't have so much laser power in total available. Assuming the original 15mW on the RF detector you need about 45mW for the acav now and 15mW for the refcav, so 60mW total after the PMC. With the current 95mW out of the laser it should be no problem( in principle). After the isolator and EOM you might have something about 85mW upstream of the PMC which means you need 70% transmission through the PMC. Anyway, a larger beam size gives you better eff.  If you make it 500um or so you should get 50% in the double-passed configuration.

 Oh, I see, the beam diameter is 1100 um, I use 150um. I'll try changing the beam size and see what happens. Thanks Frank. I'll measure the power of the VCO too.

 did you measure the power of the vco? How much is it if you tune it to maximum?

Here a copy of a general datasheet for the 3080-194. maximum efficiency is ~80% @2W RF power. You should ask peter about the detailed datasheet which comes with each AOM and contains measured values for the one you are using. Measured values depend on the beam size and RF power. Typical values are 87% in reality.

 I'm aligning the AOM and maximizing the diffracted beam's power by positioning the AOM and adjusting the beam size by moving the lens.

For single pass, the maximum efficiency I could get is only ~60%, so for double pass, the power will be down to 36%, but for now I'll settle with this number.

I could not find the manual for Crystal technology AOM 3080-194. The closest one is model 3080-197 which is attached below.

I'm not sure what is the difference between the two model, but 3080-197 has 70% diffraction efficiency.

Because of adjusting the lens, the RefCav's beam path also changes, now I have to realign RefCav again.

  Another step for AOM alignment is adjusting the mirror that reflects the transmitted beam back to the AOM again.

The distance between the mirror and the center of the AOM should be the same as ROC of the mirror.

After this I should be able to start locking ACav.

I'm aligning the AOM. The R=0.5m mirror's position crosses the insulation border by 1.5" (see attached picture.) The black line on the table shows the border of the insulator. The mirror is on a translational stage.

I'm thinking of 2 choices to solve this,

 1)using a mirror to turn the beam to the side of the table. The mirror will be placed after the AOM, around the edge the border.

2) using 2 mirrors (after the beam is split to RefCav and ACav's paths) to shift the beam path to the side of the table.

The first choice will be better, since I won't have to recalculate the mode matching, but there might be unexpected problems.

The VCO is working fine, I can see +/- 1st order beams coming out.

This is the schematic for PSL setup.

http://131.215.115.52:8080/PSL_Lab/117

At this point, Pre Mode Cleaner (PMC) and Reference Cavity (RefCav) are locked. The rest will be locking Analyzer Cavity (ACav) and setting up for beat noise measurement.

ACav's beam path will have double pass AOM [Crystaltech 3080 194]. We'll use +1st order beam. When hook up the VCO, make sure that the power is on only when the VCO and the AOM are connected, otherwise the VCO dies.

Next is aligning the AOM. A good alignment will maximize the power of the +1st order beam. The beam should get close to the AOM's transducer as much as possible to minimize time delay.

The beam at the AOM will be focused to 75 um.

The mirror that reflects the beam back to the AOM is a 0.3m concave mirror, which will be placed 0.3 m away from the AOM. The reflected beam should completely overlap on itself. This will neutralize

the pointing instability when the modulating frequency shifts.

Then we can align ACav, this time I'll try not to remove the PMC when I scan the beam frequency (at~3-10Hz.) If the PMC cannot catch up with the laser, increase the gain of the PMC, sideband power. 

 ACav should be locked before Monday June 8.

 nice

I see TEM00 transmitted beam out of RefCav. I think I have to fine tune the FSS gain a bit more becasue the spot still oscillates a bit.

The left monitor shows the spot from  PMC. The right monitor shows the spot from RefCav. it looks distorted becasue of the filter.

The common gain is 16.1 dB

slow actuator is 9 V

Fast Gain 15dB

Optimization is yet to be done. There is still plenty of reflected power.

 the PMC is locked to the laser, so it follows the NPRO frequency when you scan the frequency

 Since the frequency of the laser going into RefCav is determined by PMC ,I decided to temporarily remove the PMC for now, so I can scan the laser frequency while aligning RefCav.

It might not be a good idea since the PMC might alter the beam path a little bit, but I just want to align the cavity first.

The plan is after  RefCav is aligned, I'll bring back the PMC and fine tune the beam going to RefCav again.

I still got many higher order modes coming out of the cavity.

I switched the cable from the 10W controller to the original controller for 100 mW laser. It is working well now, the cables are tied properly.

For now, I don't need to use the FSS servo card to scan the laser frequency.

I'm using a function generator for fast channel (PZT), and a voltage calibrator for slow channel (thermal control.)

The alignment is in progress. With the aid of a CCD camera and a macroscopic lens, looking for the beam position on the mirror is getting easier.

Currently I see some light at the back of the cavity.

This is the schematic of PSL fss servo.

I have to make sure that the modulation voltage will not exceed the controller's limit (0-100V.)

I add the broad band EOM in the beam path. After adjusting the periscope, I can steer the beam into the RefCav and see the reflected light. It's not aligned yet.

The 35.5 MHz is set on the table with a lens to focus the beam on the PD.

I'm not sure if I have to use the laser controller for 126 model or I could use the 10W laser to scan the beam, I'll consult Peter tomorrow.

Right now we are using the 10W laser controller to power the 100mW laser. The connector had been unstable, but now it's working fine.

It will be better if I can use the 10W controller to dither the laser frequency because I won't have to switch the cable, and avoid the risk of having to deal with the cable again.

Forgot to log this yesterday:

The PMC servo in medm's command window is correct.

I need to make SMA cables (properly insulated kind) too.

From 21.5 MHz PD to servo, 25 feet,

from 35.5 MHz PD to servo,   25 feet,

from 35.5 MHz EOM to signal box, 5 feet,

from 35.5 MHz LO to signal box, 20 feet.

      After adding another 1/2 plate to have P wave into the cavity, I can lock the PMC cavity. It's been 30 minutes so far.

There is only one transmitted beam now (there were two when I used S wave.) 

     When I work or knock on the table, sometime the beam switches to another mode (might be it's side band.)

It's very close to the main TEM00 mode. I need to adjust the DC offset a little bit to get back.

 The incoming power is 9 mW, and the Transmitted beam has ~ 6 mW.

Current setting:

RF Amp: 7V

Phase shift: 2.87 + 180

Gain: 27.91 dB

DC offset: -2.3 V

     I tried to pre align the ref cavity. It's harder than I thought, can't see the beam that well. I'll have to check the manual for the laser controller, so that I can

scan the RefCav when I align the beam into the cavity.

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  I don't know why I can't lock the PMC. After changing the 21.5 MHz card because of the loosen SMA connector, the 21.5 MHz EOM is working.

The error signal looks good. I adjusted the gain, flipped the phase by 180 degree, and still cannot lock the cavity. 

(The medm was frozen this morning, Peter helped reset it back to work this after noon.) It might be insufficient amount of power coupling into the cavity.

The minimum reflected beam I could get is only ~1/2 of the total DC power, I'll try to align the beam and move the lens a little bit more to see if I can optimize it better.

So I skip this PMC part for now, and pre align the path to mode cleaner. The mode matching is ok. Two lens, f1=114.5 and f2=286.3 mm are good. A CCD behind the cavity is set in place.

 The power is small, our laser is 100 mW. The power on the PD is not saturated. Right now it's receiving ~10mW. It's tilted a bit and the reflected beam is blocked appropriately.

You should make sure not to blow up the PMC PD: i.e. the total power on the PD out of lock should be less than 100 mW. The beam size on the PD should also be ~0.5 mm diameter with the actual beam waist being more like 0.3 mm dia.

PD should also be tilted by ~30 deg from normal incidence and the reflection dumped. Its OK if the RF output saturates somewhat at the peak of the PDH signal, but the in-lock RF level should be below ~50 mVrms into 50 Ohms.

 We still need two SMA cables. One connects between 21.5Mhz EOM and PMC servo card, another one connects between PMC PD and the servo card.

The 21.5 and 35.5 local oscillator were in the wrong slots, we fixed them.

The 21.5 MHz  photo diode that detects the reflected beam from PMC saturates at 15 mW.

Now I'm trying to optimize the PMC setup so that we have maximum transmittedd power.

After checking the PMC servo card,

ramp signal goes to ext DC 

HV in is applied properly,

HV out is fixed.

Now the PMC is scanning and working fine.

The alignment is done. Although optimization is still needed,  I can work on the rest of the setup.

*note on PMC servo card

Ratio between Voltage input (Vin), V monitor (Vmon), and High Voltage output (HVout),

HVout = 24 Vin

Vmon = 1/50 HVout

Vmon = 24/50 Vin

 see the attachment

don't the words HV IN ring a bell? look into the schematic. there are only a couple of inputs at the front so it's not too hard to figure out why there was already a BNC cable connected to that input. Did you check the monitor signal? If you would you would have seen that your HV supply is missing now

I'm trying to align the PMC.  The transducer is connected to the PMC servo card's HV out.

HV in is driven by a function generator with triangular function. The output signal looks weird. It is not a nice triangular form, it's more like a u shape waveform connecting to each others with a plateau on top.

I'll check if the transducer on the PMC and the HV out from the card are working correctly or not. Right now, there is not a glimpse of signal coming out of the PMC on CCD.

we still have serious problems with the 100mW laser head. I traced it down to the connection between the PCB and the hermetically sealed optical part. There is a really loose connection somewhere. The connector seems to be OK, the PCB and all solder points are OK too (visually). But if you slightly touch the PCB you can see the yellow LED flickering, if you touch it a bit more the laser goes off and on. This happens too if you touch the D-SUB cable on the back. I added some little stress to the PCB when putting the thing back together, now the situation seems to be better, but is far away from being gone. In order to get started we are using it now as long as we can and think about a solution in the meantime. One option would be to fix the busted NPRO Peter has. This would probably take about a week or so. We have to align the laser diode and focusing lens and solder (!)  the focusing lens in place. The problem is that you can't align in vertical direction, so you have to remove the laser diode, put some more or less indium foil below and start again from zero. But it's an option. Peter had it already back to 550mW (out of 700mW) or so (for a couple of minutes, simply holding all parts in place. So the difficult part is to keep it permanent in the right place...

Details for Mode Matching

1)   Laser to PMC

The laser has

              Wx = 155 um, 3.45 cm in front of the opening.

            Wy = 201 um, 2.8 cm in front of the opening.

The average number for calculation is w = 180 um, 3cm  in front of the opening.

First, we focus the beam to the EOM, w can be  250 – 500 um.

We pick 350 um.

F= 200 mm,

W1= 180 um

W2=350 um

Distance from w1 to the lens, d1, = 9.36”.

Distance from w1 to w2, L, = 22.8 “.

Then we mode match this beam to PMC

F1= 50.2mm

F2= 63mm

W1=350 um

W2= 370um

Distance from w1 to first lens, d1,         =157mm =6.2”

Distance from first lens to 2^nd lens, d2 =120mm = 4.7”

Distance from 2^nd lens to PMC, d3         = 358mm

Distance from w1 to w2, L,                      =  63.5 cm = 25”

I'll check if I can find f =200mm, 63mm, 50mm in the lab or not.

I measured the beam waist again. The laser was operated at full power ~100mW. A mirror attenuated the beam to 60 uW and ND  4.0 was on the CCD.

The fits give

 Wx = 155 um, 3.45 cm in front of the opening.

Wy = 201 um, 2.8 cm in front of the opening.

I measured the beam waist of Lightwave NPRO 1064nm 100mW with WinCamD.

The nominal beam waist are 380 um and 500 um, 5cm from the center. the number I got from the measurement are 237 um (major) and 187.3 um (minor) which are quite different from the nominal values.

I'll check it again tomorrow to see if the data are still the same.

i checked the current of the ion pump. It's still at 75uA, much too high. So i think i have a tiny leak somewhere but i can't find it using isopropanol and we don't have a leak detector. The only changes from the bakeout setup are one of the windows, the replaced ion pump and the feedthrough for the temp sensor. I will wait some more days but my guess is that it won't be much better. It's already pumping for one week. If it doesn't change i will start replacing/checking the feedthrough seals and the ion pump. If that doesn't help it can only be the large window. That's in fact the only part never been tested before, all other parts were attached to the old or the current chamber before and OK.

i created a folder "frank" in the 40m-svn. It currently contains a subfolder "comsol" and another one "refcav".

The folder contains two files, one function "cavityStrain.m" and the main file "main.m" which contains the loop and other stuff. The three parameters are cavityStrain(constr, pltcnt, meshdensity):

• constr is the value for an offset of the groove position from the original one in meters, so '0' is the original groove position
• pltcnt is not used at the moment, it would create a 3d-plot of the result for each iteration
• meshdensity is the fem mesh density using the same notation as comsol, so 9 is extremely course and 1 is extremely fine

the configuration right now creates a movie of all the results, with a name specified in the main file. The two plots created at the end show the strain and the tilt of the mirror.

You have to run the files from matlab. You can't open them in comsol.

We finished the first comsol model which where we can modify the geometry automatically. The problem with comsol is that you can't export geometry data in a useful format, only binary which you can't modify. So the only way to have an adjustable geometry model is to use matlab code, and only call the comsol fem solver. A problem with matlab is that the documentation for the comsol interfacing is bad close to not existent. So e.g. if you create an object you don't know how to access the individual subdomains because you don't know anything about the numbering scheme. Here the solution was to create the geometry, import that from the matlab workspace into comsol, then use the comsol gui to create the subdomains and boundary conditions, export the stuff into a matlab file (whic you can't re-open in comsol), and copy all the information about the indexing and material property declaration back into the matlab file. Here is an example how the boundary condition syntax looks like:

bnd.Hy = {0,1};
bnd.Hz = {0,1};
bnd.ind = [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1, 1,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1];

So without the gui you can't identify the right index for the surfaces you wanna fix. But once you have done this and all the material declaration in the matlab file you can use the object created with matlab and use all the boundary conditions created with comsol and combine that. At the end the simple model for the basic cavity is 750 (!) lines of code.

Now you can do changes to the geometry within matlab as long as the indexing does not change, which is not the case for us if we move the grooves a little bit.

As we can't run a model with a good mesh on our computers (not enough memory) we tried to start comsol on menkar. Unfortunately the comsol installation does not support the integration into matlab, so you can't start matlab with the comsol functions (or better you can't run comsol which then also starts matlab and configures it in the way that you can call the comsol functions within matlab. So we can't do a good simulation and parameter sweep right now until we fix this. Jan has the same problem on his computer.

First plots will be provided tomorrow....

 code is in SVN

    The values of some r and c in the circuit are corrected, I used wrong values last time ( details will be added later.)

   The measured TF and calculated TF using LISO are plotted below. The measurement and calculated data agree well from 1 to 10^5 Hz using SR785.

 The correction factor due to mismatch impedance when using 4395A will be checked again.

i finally moved the reference cavity to the new chamber and pump it since Friday. The legs are now insulated and it comes with a removable, thick insulation using the good CertiFoam25 insulation.The sensors for stabilization are now glued to small pieces of Kapton tap which is sticks directly to the chamber surface. I'm still using the four AD590 sensors as we have all the electronics available and ready to use. I modified the temperature sensor readout box a little bit to gain a little more SNR. The gain in the first stage (TIA) is now 29.4k (~9.2V output). The individual outputs are now connected to the DAQ. In addition the sum of all four is subtracted from a reference voltage (AD586 reference) so that the output is 0 at 35C with a range of +-5K (we need at least 4.5K for tuning one FSR, so to not be stuck at either ends i made it a bit larger ). This signal is also connected to the DAQ. An additional sensor (PT1000)  is now connected to the top plate of the stack, right below the reference cavity. Readout electronics is in preparation, as well as for the other platinum sensors we can put on the outside of the chamber (not done yet). I'm also planning on replacing the noisy power supplies by low-noise current sources to drive the heaters. The required heating power could be reduced a lot to ~10W total now, measured with a not fully sealed insulation and missing parts. So i expect even less when we are done with that.

Use LISO for circuit simulation.

I calculated the TF of the modified PDH box and fit it with the measurement. The comparison does not match perfectly. I'll take a look and check if all Rs and Cs in the circuit are actually the same as those in the box.

The circuit can be found at:

https://dcc.ligo.org/DocDB/0003/D0901351/002/pdh_b_v2.pdf

I checked only U7 and U4

R28 is 360 ohms

C18 is 3300 pF

C6 is 0.66 (2x0.33uF) uF

R30,R31, R23,R16,R24 have the same resistance as specified

C20,C28, C29, C14,C15, R25, C11 are removed.

 The calculation assumes that the integrator switch is off (R16 is connected parallel to R24 and C6)

If this works, the TF for PDH will be used in the simulink model.

This is the control loop for the current PSL setup.

There are still components to be added.

1) TF of the PDH box, the one we have is a modified D0901351, so I measured the TF of this box when the integrator is off (April13,2010 entry.)

  This will be added in the model later. It is set to 1 for now.

2) TF of the photodiodes, I assume they are  Newfocus 1811 and choose the same value as used in linfss6.m.

3) I will verified the value of TF of the RefCav path (both Fast and PC paths are calculated from D980536) to see if they agree.

4) The TF of actuators will be added later.

in order to gain more s/n ratio i modified the existing AD590 readout-box a little bit. I assumed that we wanna operate the cavity at 35C (which is not too high but well above RT or the temp of an additional temp stabilized box around both cavities) The required range for shifting the cavities is ~ 1 FSR, better would be a little bit more for each cavity as we can shift both independent.
As

df~156MHz /K    and     1 FSR~740MHz

this corresponds to ~4.75K/FSR we have to shift.

For testing purposes it might be helpful to have more than that as e.g. if we limit the total range to lets say 6K we might end up at the end of the range and run into trouble as soon some disturbance from outside (e.g we remove part of the insulation, lets say an end cap) might shift the whole thing at the end of the range. As soon as this happens the servo would go crazy.

So i think we should go for 10K range, centered around 35C, so from 30C to 40C. I modified the box for that, so the transimpedance resistors have now a value of 29.4K, which gives us ~9.21V for 40C at the output of this stage.

In order to supply it from an independed power supply to reduce our current ground loops, i've chosen a WM071, the same as we use for the PDH boxes. As they come only in +/-15V, i had to change the voltage regulators in the box to +/-12V instead of =/-15V.
This results in a maximum output voltage of the LT1125 of a couple of 100mV more than 10V, depending on the current they have to source/sink. So 9.2V is still well below the max.

I added a filtered 5V reference, (AD586, 4.7uF filter cap) for the dc offset @35C. The corresponding resistor for the summing amp is 1379.76 which can be implemented almost exact using 2k05 and 4k22 in parallel (1379.7) or 1k54 and 13k3 (1380.2). The feedback resistor of the last stage can then be calculated to be 170k45 in order to match 30C to 40C to -10V to 10V. Paralleling can be used here as well to get an almost exact value.

The matching is not that critical as we don't wanna measure absolut temp, but if can do it that easy why not.

---  new schematic following soon   ---

I measured TF of PDH box, D0901351, (The one we have was modified). This box sends the signal to VCO.

SR785 measures at low frequency ( 1 Hz to 100kHz)

4935A measures at high frequency (10Hz to 1Mhz)

The integrator switch of the PDH box is turned off. This will be calculate later. The gain is set at 10.

The magnitude as mesured by 4935A is corrected for impedence match by x1.2.( 4935A and the PDH box have 50 ohm impedence for both inputs and outputs.)

This data will be used for control loop model later.

Blue, data from sr785

Green, Data from 4395A, I didnot use the power splitter to split the signal from source.

Red, Data from 4395A, with power splitter to divide power from source. (The power has to be increased to -30dB)

The first plot is magnitude of the TF, the second plot is phase shift, as usual Bode plot.

HOM frequency shift for RefCav is plotted below. The second one has clearer dots.

Y axis is the frequency shift in MHz

X axis is the (n+m)th order of the Hermite Gauss mode

The waist of the beam inside the cavity is 261 um* (symmetric cavity, R =0.5m, L = 0.2032 m.) 
Thus, the frequency shift between n+m+1 and n+m mode is 219.763 MHz. (see Lasers, p 762 for details)

Blue line represents the 0th order of the carrier's frequency (thus =0) The purple and the brown lines, at y= 35.5 and -35.5 MHz, are the 0th of + and - sidebands respectively.

The color dots represent the frequency shift from Higher order mode which is specified on x-axis, blue for HOM from the carrier's frequency, purple and brown for HOM from +/- sidebands.

 Choosing 35.5 sideband seems to be ok, the 27th order should be small and negligible. 

*The number 237 um for waist size is the effective beam waist size of the "emerging beam," not the real waist size in the cavity. The beam passes through the mirror which acts as a negative thin lens and changes the

beam parameter. 

 fixed it. the name is fb2 and it's ip-address 10.0.0.12

have put everything together. right now the frontend keeps bitching about one of the disks used for the frames, even if this disk is empty. Will take care tomorrow

The layout for the new PSL setup ( lenses, and their positions are to be calculated.)

A Lightwave 100mW NPRO laser will be the source. AOM will be in the ACav path.

Two cavities will be covered by a box of insulation/ heater.

1) From the laser to the PMC,

    1/4 waveplate, to linearly polarize the elliptical polarized beam from NPRO

    1/2 wave plates and PBS, to adj the power of the beam

    lens, to focus the beam to the EOM

   two lens, two mirrors, to mode match the beam to the PMC

   a photodiode, a lens, two mirrors, (one for steering the beam, another one for attenuating the beam), for PDH locking

 a photodiode and a ccd camera, for the beam behind the PMC

* there will be a Faraday Isolator somewhere here. I forgot to add it.

2) From PMC to PBS

  a lens to focus the beam to 35.5 Mhz EOM

  1/2 wave plate, to adjust the power between two beams for  ACav and RefCav

 PBS, to split the beam into two paths

3) AOM path

 1 PBS, for reflected beam from the AOM

 a lens, an AOM, 1/4 waveplate, two irises, 1 curve mirror; to double pass the beam and shift the frequency

another iris and a mirror, to select only the 1st order beam and send it to  ACav.

4) RefCav/ACav path

 1/2 wave plate, to correct the polatization

two lens and a set of periscope, to mode match the beam to the cavity

 a pbs with 1/4 wave plate, a lens, a mirror, a photodiode, to PDH lock the beam

5) Transmitted beam

1/4 waveplate, to linearly polarize the transmitted beam

a photodiode/ a ccd camera to monitor the transmitted beam with necessary mirrors

lenses, to focus the beam to the PD that measures the beat signal

 a beam splitter, to mix two beams together

Last time, the calculated beam waist I got was based on two identical mirrors with no reflecting coating layers on the back mirror. When that layers are taken into account, I got the same waist size.

The new plot is attached below. Two sidebands are 21.5 and 35.5 MHz. The peaks, from left to right, are 9th, 6th, 3rd, 28th, 25th, 22nd, and 19th order. Choosing 35.5 MHz for frequency modulation should be fine.