Ultra-low vibration pulse-tube cryocooler stabilized cryogenic sapphire oscillator with notation 10-16 fractional frequency stability

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 12 PART 1, 2010, Pages 3580-3586

  Hartnett, John G ^a   Nand, Nitin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryocooler; cryogenic sapphire oscillator; frequency stability; phase noise

Indexed keywords

ALLAN DEVIATION; CRYOCOOLERS; CRYOGENIC SAPPHIRE OSCILLATOR; CRYOGENIC SAPPHIRE OSCILLATORS; FOURIER; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY FLUCTUATION; HELIUM COOLED; LONG TERM; LOW MAINTENANCE; LOW VIBRATION; PHASE FLUCTUATION; PULSE TUBE CRYOCOOLERS; SINGLE OSCILLATORS; STABLE LIQUIDS;

COOLING; CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT; CRYOGENICS; FREQUENCY STABILITY; HELIUM; PHASE NOISE; PHASE STABILITY; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SAPPHIRE;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 78650259563     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2086551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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