[time-nuts] Advantages & Disadvantages of the TPLL Method

Bob Camp lists at rtty.us
Wed Jun 16 11:34:27 UTC 2010


Hi

The gotcha is that the injection gain is phase angle dependent.

Bob


On Jun 16, 2010, at 1:57 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote:

> On 06/16/2010 05:45 AM, Charles P. Steinmetz wrote:
>> Warren wrote:
>> 
>>> Charles posted:
>>>> but the locked frequency will be different from both oscillators'
>>>> free-running frequency and
>>>> the EFC will not correctly indicate the test oscillator deviation
>>>> because it isn't the only control input in the system.
>>> 
>>> Good point and No argument (except for the deviation part)
>>> Because the EFC is the only control input THAT IS VARYING.
>> 
>> No, it's not. The strength with which each oscillator pulls on the other
>> also varies as the equilibrium frequency (the result of all three
>> recursive control inputs) moves around relative to the two instantaneous
>> free-running frequencies. How much EFC is required depends, in part, on
>> the strength of the pulling. There are three varying inputs.
>> 
>> Magnus suggested that the effect of injection locking may be enough
>> smaller than the EFC input that it has little practical significance.
>> That may be so, but when dealing with measurement accuracy in the
>> hundreds or tens ot ppt, this needs to be verified by the results of
>> carefully constructed experiments and hopefully also supported by
>> mathematical analysis.
> 
> What you get is a scale error. Consider that you have an amplifier gain of 1000 and the injection locking provide a gain of 1, that will result in actual gain of 1001 and the gain error on the EFC will become 1000/1001. Considering that Allan deviation estimation has problem of its own, this scale error is not significant. What you do need to check is that the relationship between intended gain and injection gain is sufficiently different. Since oscillator frequency from EFC may not be completely correct, we already want calibration of that scale factor (K_O) and the gain error due to injection locking would be included into that correction factor.
> 
> So, sufficiently small amount of injection locking gain will change the apparent EFC coefficient K_O [Rad/sV] on which the scale of TPLL frequency measurements depends. The fractional frequency observed is
> 
> y(t) = 2*pi*f_0 / K_O,eff EFC(t)
> 
> Cheers,
> Magnus
> 
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