Considerations on the measurement of the stability of oscillators with frequency counters

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 918-925

  Dawkins, Samuel T ^a   McFerran, John J ^a   Luiten, André N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY STABILITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALLAN VARIANCE; FREQUENCY COUNTER; HIGH-RESOLUTION FREQUENCY;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 34250309209     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.337     Document Type: Article

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