A derivation of the long-term degradation of a pulsed atomic frequency standard from a control-loop model

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 895-898

  Greenhall, Charles A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FREQUENCY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DICK EQUATION; PULSED ATOMIC FREQUENCY STANDARD;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0032118284     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.710550     Document Type: Article

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