About Lock-In Amplifiers by Stanford Research Systems Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Application Note 3. No publication date is inferred. Physical pages 1–2 describe synchronized multiplication, low-pass rejection of sum frequencies, detection bandwidth and two quadrature outputs. Noise near the reference remains within the selected passband; coherent background at that frequency cannot be distinguished by synchronization alone.
Institutional manual issued and hosted by Stanford Research Systems, with SRS, Inc. printed on the cover. Revision 2.5, October 2011; the printed copyright years 1993 and 2011 are distinct from this revision date. No personal author is credited.
Cited passages: cover, imprint and revision; printed pp. 3-1–3-2, multiplication, synchronization, narrow-band detection, X and Y outputs and magnitude; p. 3-3, RMS or Peak? and Degrees or Radians?; pp. 3-11–3-12, time constants, roll-off, synchronous filters and settling; pp. 3-13–3-14, output normalization and displays.