[time-nuts] On some pitfalls of the dual mixer timedifferencemethod of h...
Tom Van Baak
tvb at leapsecond.com
Sat Oct 7 22:46:01 EDT 2006
> Interesting as the techniques employed may be, the resultant performance
> is still inadequate for characterising state of the art oscillators.
> The instrument phase noise floor is higher than that specified for
> current low noise (but not necessarily low drift) crystal oscillators.
Well, true, but perhaps one definition of "state of the art"
is simply when the high-end test tools that you can buy
off the shelf are inadequate compared to the newest
technology you are building in the lab...
/tvb
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