The invention relates to a cavity length locking device and method of a low-cost optical
resonant cavity based on a phase-locked loop. The device mainly comprises a reference
laser frequency stabilization structure and a cavity length locking structure of the optical
resonant cavity. The method comprises the following steps: locking the frequency of a reference
laser at an atomic
resonance point through a saturated
absorption frequency stabilization method,
coupling laser containing a modulation component into an optical
resonant cavity, collecting a transmission spectrum, taking a phase-locked loop as a basis, and taking a modulation
signal in a
frequency stabilization loop of the laser as a reference; a
demodulation signal with the same frequency and adjustable phase is obtained through
phase locking and used for demodulating an
error signal for locking the cavity length of the optical resonant cavity, and the cavity length of the optical resonant cavity can be locked through the
error signal. According to the invention, an external optical modulation device is not needed, so that the cost is greatly reduced, the method is not limited by the
modulation bandwidth, and an
error signal with a relatively
low frequency discrimination slope can be demodulated, thereby reducing the
loop gain, enlarging the
frequency discrimination range, and reducing the influence of a
control system on the
fineness of the optical resonant cavity.