Properties of an oscillator slaved to a periodically interrogated atomic resonator

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 877-886

  Audoin, Claude ^a   Santarelli, Giorgio ^a   Makdissi, A ^b   Clairon, André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CESIUM; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY CONTROL; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FREQUENCY STABILITY; IONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ATOMIC RESONATORS; DICK EFFECT;

RESONATORS;

EID: 0032116188     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.710546     Document Type: Article

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