R&D (FilterCavity)
YuhangZhao - 17:17, Tuesday 10 December 2019 (1924)
Remove of residual p-pol component from LO and BAB

Yaochin and Yuhang

As we reported in elog1867 and elog1857, we improved the matching between LO/BAB into AMC. However, we didn't care about the residual p-pol component after the optimization. And actually, it is really necessary to optimize them and remove the p-pol component.

LO part (The AMC spectrum before the change is attached as picture 2) (s-pol 11V, p-pol 14mV)

     Actually, I am confused that how can we have a p-pol component from LO. Because LO is provided by IRMC TEM00, TEM00 should provide a quite clean s-pol light. 

     1. We replaced the first mirror after IRMC with a PBS plate.

             After this, the p-pol peak is reduced from 14mV to 9mV(attached picture 3). (We also double-checked that total power doesn't change after the replacement of PBS, so this p-pol reduction is a real      reduction effect from PBS)

     2. We put an HWP just before homodyne BS.

            By rotating HWP, we could almost remove the p-pol component totally(attached picture 4).

BAB part (The AMC spectrum before the change is attached as picture 5) (s-pol 4V, p-pol 43.2mV)

     For the p-pol component inside BAB, it comes from the not optimized HWP. So we just rotate HWP. And then the p-pol is basically removed totally. (attached picture 6)

BAB HWP angle

286.5

LO HWP angle

178

We measured the squeezing spectrum before and after this change, but there is no obvious change.

Images attached to this report
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