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The first setup we built about 2 years ago got 0.00001 AU peak-to-peak noise over 10 minute period with 1s sampling, about 400Hz simple LED source.

Our first try was a DC measurement and 1:10^5 sounds very good for DC!

Now we're doing a digital lock-in, but that is more due to low light available. We get 0.0002 AU peak-to-peak noise over 100s with 800Hz LED, 200ms measurements.

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- and an easily tunable notch like a bridge differentiator would be the way to go - but a higher order low pass filter is usually a more attractive option, since you don't need to tune it to match your frequency source or worry about temperature drifts moving the notch away from the ripple frequency.

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Actually, you are. Phase shift after demodulation doesn't usually matter - the exception is when you are closing the loop around the whole modulator-demodulator set up, and even then you've got to have some kind of phase-lag budget to make a practicable system.

I know you feel the need to pose as infallible expert, in much the same way the John Larkin feels the need to insist that all his products represent "insanely good design", but trying too hard defeats the purpose.

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Guess if you're not worried about phase error, then go for it.

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Moron. I never said anything of the kind.

The real difference between the stuff I design, and the stuff you used to design, is that most of my stuff sells. And, of course, I'm still designing.

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I've got pictures! Source is a Rubidium lamp, through a Rb reference cell*, a little less than 10uA of photocurrent. DC level is near 10V, a gain of 1000 and a 100ms lowpass filter. This is a sweep through zero magnetic field.

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Phil Hobbs

I am going to build so the light coming out the sides is in a small cavity with white walls for an integrating sphere effect. The photodiode would be at the cavity wall. I expect this would make the monitoring photodiode's current more representative of emissions from the entire emitting surface. The size of the cavity is going to be limited by available space.

Another idea I will look into is to have a surface mount led mounted over a hole in the PCB, and on the other side of the hole have a surface mount monitoring photodiode. What I am not sure about is how much light comes out the underside of a surface mount LED. This also means there will be no lens in the LED package, and I am not sure how accepting the optics designer will be of that.

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Hmm, in a control application you may want the wider bandwidth.

I've got a piezo + (spring and mass) that sings around 1kHz.... What happens if I notch it out of the control loop?

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Hopefully with new applications and not fixing exiting ones! :)

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The sawtooth waveform with its even harmonics is a component of a staircase waveform:

I was wrong about the white noise approximation applying to DDS quantization noise. Because the quantization noise is synchronous with the sine wave there is no psuedo randomization and so no white noise. The harmonics will be clearly defined. My decision not to use the DDS and instead input a square wave into a switched capacitor filter still stands because I think I will still get a good result and it will be easy to generate the square wave from the switching frequency I must generate anyway. I think the DDS will be an additional part with little benefit.

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Switched-cap filters are noisy and nasty. They also alias everything in sight, including their own power supply noise. And they make big output spikes.

All you need is a modest analog lowpass filter ahead of the ADC, just to keep the noise down.

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