A limit to the frequency stability of passive frequency standards due to an intermodulation effect

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 121-125

  Candelier, Vincent ^b   Dimarcq, Noël ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b Laboratoire de 1‘Horloge Atomique ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM AND ALLOYS; SYSTEM STABILITY--FREQUENCY STABILITY;

MODULATION FREQUENCY;

FREQUENCY STANDARDS;

EID: 0026135850     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: 15579662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.1990.1032896     Document Type: Article

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