Self-monitoring and self-assessing atomic clocks

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 330-334

  Chan, Yat C ^a   Johnson, Walter A ^b   Karuza, Sarunas K ^a   Young, Albert M ^a   Camparo, James C ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Allan variance; Atomic clocks; Precise timekeeping; Quartz oscillators

Indexed keywords

ALLAN DEVIATION; ALLAN VARIANCE; CESIUM ATOMIC CLOCKS; DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCIES; HIGH QUALITY CRYSTALS; INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES; OUTPUT SIGNAL; POTENTIAL LOSS; QUARTZ OSCILLATOR; SATELLITE NAVIGATION; SELF-MONITORING; SERVICE INTERRUPTION; SYNCHRONIZED CLOCKS;

ATOMS; CESIUM; CRYSTAL OSCILLATORS; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; NAVIGATION; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS;

ATOMIC CLOCKS;

EID: 76149084153     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2023817     Document Type: Article

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