As mentioned in a previous eLog, due the inconsistency observed, I decided to measure the Free running RIN and supressed RIN again. I present the results below. A few things are bothering me though:
1)The peak at 25kHz has been supressed! How? UGF is around 10kHz!
2) The supression is more almost 2 orders(40dB) at 100Hz. Expected supression about 30dB.
The splicing has resulted a sudden jump at 100Hz, but I think thats nothing to be worried about, as expected we get an a little more than 1 order of suppression, in the bandwidth of interest from 3Hz-10kHz. Also, I think I figured out what went wrong last time. I had the spectrum analyzer in the DC coupled mode when I was measuring the free running RIN of the laser, where as for the suppressed case I was using AC coupled mode of spectrum analyzer, I think that could possibly be the reason for the inconsistency observed in my previous measurement.
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