Applications of lasers in quantum metrology require precise control of the laser frequency. This is usually achieved by locking the frequency of a slave laser at a tunable offset from a master laser. Here we present a new scheme for a robust and high precision laser offset frequency locking. A hybrid frequency discriminator generates an error signal that has a wide capture range of more than 180 MHz while preserving sharp resonance needed for a tight lock. The Allan deviation was measured to be less than 12 Hz at 1 seconds and remained below 1 kHz for more than 1000 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Applications of lasers in quantum metrology require precise control of the laser frequency. This is usually achieved by locking the frequency of a slave laser at a tunable offset from a master laser. Here we present a new scheme for a robust and high precision laser offset frequency locking. A hybrid frequency discriminator generates an error signal that has a wide capture range of more than 180 MHz while preserving sharp resonance needed for a tight lock. The Allan deviation was measured to be less than 12 Hz at 1 seconds and remained below 1 kHz for more than 1000 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fomo2021-abstract"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"ashe-slider-full-thumbnail":false,"ashe-full-thumbnail":false,"ashe-list-thumbnail":false,"ashe-grid-thumbnail":false,"ashe-single-navigation":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Wolf von Klitzing","author_link":"https:\/\/www.matterwaveoptics.eu\/FOMO2022\/author\/klitzing\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Applications of lasers in quantum metrology require precise control of the laser frequency. This is usually achieved by locking the frequency of a slave laser at a tunable offset from a master laser. Here we present a new scheme for a robust and high precision laser offset frequency locking. A hybrid frequency discriminator generates an…","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-29 18:35:54","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matterwaveoptics.eu\/FOMO2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matterwaveoptics.eu\/FOMO2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matterwaveoptics.eu\/FOMO2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matterwaveoptics.eu\/FOMO2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matterwaveoptics.eu\/FOMO2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matterwaveoptics.eu\/FOMO2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/www.matterwaveoptics.eu\/FOMO2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matterwaveoptics.eu\/FOMO2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matterwaveoptics.eu\/FOMO2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matterwaveoptics.eu\/FOMO2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}