Measurement of the fundamental thermal noise limit in a cryogenic sapphire frequency standard using bimodal maser oscillations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Benmessai, Karim ^a   Creedon, Daniel Lloyd ^b   Tobar, Michael Edmund ^b   Bourgeois, Pierre Yves ^a,b   Kersalé, Yann ^a   Giordano, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; LOW TEMPERATURE ENGINEERING; MASERS; MOTION ESTIMATION; SAPPHIRE; STABILITY; STANDARDS;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); BEAT FREQUENCIES; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCIES; OUTPUT POWERS; SCHAWLOW-TOWNES; SENSITIVE PROBE; WHISPERING GALLERY (WG);

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 45249088558     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.233901     Document Type: Article

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