Overview of TOPTICA´s Lock Solutions
The table below shows a summary of lock solutions discussed in this series of application notes and of TOPTICA laser locking electronics that can be used to realize these locks. The first column lists the different types of locking schemes that are discussed in this series of application notes. The second column gives typical application examples for each locking scheme. The third column lists TOPTICA devices which are designed to generate an error signal for individual locking schemes while the fourth column suggests the corresponding TOPTICA PID controller.
Overview of locks discussed in this article and TOPTICA components necessary to set up these locks.
Application | Error Signal Generation | PID Controller | |
Spectroscopy Lock | Laser cooling | CoSy / DLC pro Lock | DLC pro Lock |
Cavity Lock | Linewidth reduction | PDH/DLC pro | FALC pro |
Phase Lock to Laser | Phase stable Raman pair | FALC pro (with mixer) | FALC pro |
Phase Lock to Comb | Long term stable lasers | DFC CORE + BC + MD + PFD pro | FALC pro |
Offset frequency Lock | Multi-photon excitations / hyperfine ground state manipulations | PFD pro | FALC pro |
Wavelengths Meter | Drift compensation | HighFinesse Wavelength Meter | PC Software |