[time-nuts] Maser manual

Attila Kinali attila at kinali.ch
Thu Sep 2 06:30:14 UTC 2010


On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:08:13 +0000
"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> >Yes, but what is the issues relating to sapphire loading? What's the 
> >cost of the sapphire block and having it machined?
> 
> It is a saphire tube, a readily available, if not exactly cheap, commodity.

Why saphir? Aluminia (AlO2) seems to be used as well to load H maser
cavities. Or is saphir in some way better?

				Attila Kinali
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