R&D (FilterCavity)
NaokiAritomi - 22:04, Sunday 08 September 2019 (1611)
Loss investigation

[Aritomi, Yuhang]

We measured loss from PBS after OPO to filter cavity reflection just after PR chamber. We haven't measured loss from filter cavity reflection to homodyne yet.

BAB without green
OPO temperature: 7.2kOhm
p pol PLL: 305MHz
 
position BAB power (uW)
after PBS 273
after faraday on the bench 254
after HWP 248
before PR chamber 242
after PR chamber 211.5

From this measurement, loss from PBS after OPO to filter cavity reflection is 22.5%. Since we know that loss when squeezed light is directly injected to homodyne is 21%, total loss should be at least 40%.

We found that HWP we were using before had 5% loss and seems dirty. This explains 4% additional loss when I did additional loss measurement using this HWP. After replacing with new one, HWP loss becomes 2.4%.

Faraday on the bench has 7% loss. Alignment of the faraday should be optimized.