The pulsed rubidium clock

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 525-529

  Godone, Aldo ^a,b   Micalizio, Salvatore ^a,c   Calosso, Claudio E ^a,c   Levi, Filippo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ELETTROTECNICO NAZIONALE GALILEO FERRARIS   (Italy)

^b IEN Time and Frequency Division   (Italy)

^c Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris of Turin   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PULSED RUBIDIUM CLOCK; SATELLITE NAVIGATION; STATISTICAL TOOL THEOL;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DEVICES; SPACE RESEARCH; STABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RUBIDIUM;

EID: 33645683499     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1610560     Document Type: Article

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