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The reference cavity is locked using a 21.5Mhz signal from a rack mounted board (FSS REF - Crystal Frequency Reference [http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/D/D980353-C.pdf]) The reference cavity was locked using a 21.5 MHz signal from a rack mounted board (FSS REF - Crystal Frequency Reference [http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/D/D980353-C.pdf]). That turned out to have many problems and we removed it completely from the system circa 2008 with a fixed 21.5 MHz OCXO from Wenzel and an RF Amplifier (see [http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/986 elog]).
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See also [[Frequency Stabilization Servo]]. We got the design parameters for the reference cavity from [http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/D/D980670-00.pdf D980670]
|| Spacer Material || Fused Silica (Corning?) ||
|| Mirror Material || Fused Silica ||
|| Mirror T || 300 ppm ||
|| Mirror RoC || 1 m? ||
|| Cavity Length || 0.245 m ? ||
|| Cavity Finesse || ||
|| Cavity g-factor || ||
|| Cavity FSR || ||
|| Cavity pole || ||
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See also [[Frequency Stabilization Servo]].

The reference cavity was locked using a 21.5 MHz signal from a rack mounted board (FSS REF - Crystal Frequency Reference [http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/D/D980353-C.pdf]). That turned out to have many problems and we removed it completely from the system circa 2008 with a fixed 21.5 MHz OCXO from Wenzel and an RF Amplifier (see [http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/986 elog]).

We got the design parameters for the reference cavity from [http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/D/D980670-00.pdf D980670]

Spacer Material

Fused Silica (Corning?)

Mirror Material

Fused Silica

Mirror T

300 ppm

Mirror RoC

1 m?

Cavity Length

0.245 m ?

Cavity Finesse

Cavity g-factor

Cavity FSR

Cavity pole

Some FEA of the LIGO/40m reference cavity using COMSOL: /FEA


See also Frequency Stabilization Servo.

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