Laser distance meter comprising: a laser light source for emitting temporally modulated laser light toward target objects (15, 17); a light detector for detecting laser light reflected by target objects (15, 17), wherein the light detector is designed to directly synchronously sample laser light modulated with frequencies in the range of 10 MHz to 5 GHz, preferably 100 MHz to 1.5 GHz; an electronic control and analysing unit for controlling the laser light source and for analysing signals of the light detector; wherein the electronic control and analysing unit is designed to perform the following method steps: driving the laser light source in order to emit laser light successively at a multiplicity M of at least 20, preferably at least 100, discretely different modulation frequencies f m (m = 1...M), and detecting laser light reflected by target objects (15, 17) by directly synchronously sampling a reception signal over a measurement time duration Δt and generating a detection signal I m for each of the modulation frequencies f m; carrying out an inverse Fourier transform of the detection signal I m in order to generate a propagation time spectrum L m; evaluating the propagation time spectrum L m with regard to amplitude values in order to coarsely ascertain at least one distance D between the laser distance meter and at least one of the target objects (15, 17), characterized in that the determination of the distance D by evaluating the propagation time spectrum with regard to phase values is refined by virtue of a zero crossing of the phase values being determined. a laser light source for emitting temporally modulated laser light toward target objects (15, 17); a light detector for detecting laser light reflected by target objects (15, 17), wherein the light detector is designed to directly synchronously sample laser light modulated with frequencies in the range of 10 MHz to 5 GHz, preferably 100 MHz to 1.5 GHz; an electronic control and analysing unit for controlling the laser light source and for analysing signals of the light detector; wherein the electronic control and analysing unit is designed to perform the following method steps: driving the laser light source in order to emit laser light successively at a multiplicity M of at least 20, preferably at least 100, discretely different modulation frequencies f m (m = 1...M), and detecting laser light reflected by target objects (15, 17) by directly synchronously sampling a reception signal over a measurement time duration Δt and generating a detection signal I m for each of the modulation frequencies f m; carrying out an inverse Fourier transform of the detection signal I m in order to generate a propagation time spectrum L m; evaluating the propagation time spectrum L m with regard to amplitude values in order to coarsely ascertain at least one distance D between the laser distance meter and at least one of the target objects (15, 17), characterized in that the determination of the distance D by evaluating the propagation time spectrum with regard to phase values is refined by virtue of a zero crossing of the phase values being determined. driving the laser light source in order to emit laser light successively at a multiplicity M of at least 20, preferably at least 100, discretely different modulation frequencies f m (m = 1...M), and detecting laser light reflected by target objects (15, 17) by directly synchronously sampling a reception signal over a measurement time duration Δt and generating a detection signal I m for each of the modulation frequencies f m; carrying out an inverse Fourier transform of the detection signal I m in order to generate a propagation time spectrum L m; evaluating the propagation time spectrum L m with regard to amplitude values in order to coarsely ascertain at least one distance D between the laser distance meter and at least one of the target objects (15, 17), characterized in that the determination of the distance D by evaluating the propagation time spectrum with regard to phase values is refined by virtue of a zero crossing of the phase values being determined.