Abstract

We demonstrate a simple, low-cost, and well-performing optical phase-locked loop (OPLL) circuit with ADF4007 as the phase frequency detector chip to achieve frequency and phase locking of two semiconductor lasers in both short and long terms. The measured short term performances, determined by fast feedback, show that the spectral width of the beat signal is low, around 1 Hz, and the residual phasing error is $0.04\;{{\rm rad}^2}$. The measured long term performances, determined by slow feedback, show that the drift of the central frequency of the beat signal is within 1.1(1) Hz in 2 h, and the derived Allan deviation is less than 0.4 Hz within all integration times of up to 1000 s. The phase noise measurement shows a suppression of phase noise of the beat signal from free running to closed-loop OPLLs in a Fourier frequency of 10 Hz–20 kHz. These measurements show that the OPLL circuit we modified can fit most scientific experiments requiring a fixed frequency difference and phase coherence.

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