I see that the power in the dark port goes below zero at the dark port in the given plot, however I am not getting any negative values? is it just an offset or am I missing something?
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Hi Sagar,
You’re right in that this is an offset, as this is the control signal, not the measured field – it’s impossible to obtain negative light power out of the detector! Hopefully you can see why this offset is present; consider if there was no offset, and the DARM control signal zero sat at the minimum of that dip. How would you correct for a slight change in DARM?
To get the control signal I would subtract the value I had originally, so that I can implement PID or at least the proportional part of the control. I am guessing that is what’s happening here.