A method for the
servo control of an optical device includes a cavity exhibiting
resonance around a
center frequency ƒc, a
laser and a phase modulator, the method being designed to
servo-control the cavity to the
laser or vice versa and to compensate for an
amplitude modulation introduced by the phase modulator, the method comprising, inter alia, the following steps: A. varying a difference δν between the optical frequency of the
laser radiation and the
center frequency, such that the optical frequency scans the
resonance, the difference being controlled by a parameter of an element of the device, and for each difference δνi i. modulating, at a modulation frequency ƒmod, a phase of the laser
radiation, through a modulation phase φmod, with the phase modulator, ii. injecting the phase-modulated
radiation into the cavity, iii. using a
photodiode to detect radiation reflected or transmitted by the cavity and generating an electrical
signal (St, Sr) representative of the intensity of the detected radiation, iv. demodulating the electrical
signal at the modulation frequency ƒmod by synchronously generating a first demodulated
signal and a second demodulated signal representative of the demodulated electrical signal, respectively at a first
demodulation phase φdem,1 and at a second modulation phase φdem,2φdem,2≈φdem,1k, where k∈[0; 2π] is different from the first phase, and by filtering the first and the second signal so as to retain only a DC component of the first demodulated signal Vϵ1, called
error signal 1, and of the second demodulated signal Vϵ2, called
error signal 2.