[time-nuts] Plot phase noise spectrum from DMTD measurement?

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sat Mar 12 09:22:39 UTC 2011


On 03/10/2011 09:42 AM, Stephan Sandenbergh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Cross-correlation a very clever idea! Thanks for the reference - Rubiola got
> some good sources of reference on his home page.
>
> One thing though - for a phase-noise kit one will probably need to replace
> the ZCD with a low-noise amplification stage of around 80dB to be to allow
> sampling at ADC voltage levels?

Yes. You can tap in just after first level amplification but prior to 
any clipping if you want to use a shared setup.

Cheers,
Magnus



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