[Lee, Torrey]
-Low voltage high amp draw from RF power source
-Checking the power of the RF drive on the aom. Within limits with some loss through BNC and factor of two from termination.
-Tested everything. The homeade power source was shorted.
-Re-soldered power source, plugged everything in, and we have frequency shifted light. More to follow after lunch.
-Installed 1/4 waveplate and mirror to reflect back through AOM.
-Align to see the twice shifted beam. Can confirm this beam is from the difracted beam as both dissapear if you turn off the AOM RF drive. Also can use iris to block the normal beam and pass the first order diffracted beam.
-There is VERY little clearance for the beam due to the AOM RF drive cable. The cable is almost exactly at 4 inches from the breadboard. Thinking about using an AOI greater than 45 degrees to align into fiber. The thorlabs BB1-EO3 shows good reflectance at low AOIs but not at large ones.
-The current configuration on the table can be seen here. The twice shifted beam is fairly astigmatic so alignment can most likely be improved.
