• DocumentCode
    1354243
  • Title

    Dropping through the floor

  • Volume
    46
  • Issue
    21
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    10/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1411
  • Lastpage
    1411
  • Abstract
    This article discusses the achievement of a European collaboration in a significant reduction of quartz crystal oscillator noise floor. The collaboration from the FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS, France demonstrate for the first time in 15 years an oder of magnitude in the noise floor reduction over commercial crystal oscillator. The 5 MHz crystal double-oven prototype, which has a flicker frequency modulation (EFM) floor of 2.5 x 10-14, opens the door to ultra-high stability oscillators for telecommunications, instrumentation and space applications.
  • Keywords
    crystal oscillators; flicker noise; crystal double-oven prototype; flicker frequency modulation floor; noise floor reduction; quartz crystal oscillator; ultrahigh stability oscillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2010.9123
  • Filename
    5604779