Ultra-Stable Very-Low Phase-Noise Signal Source for Very Long Baseline Interferometry Using a Cryocooled Sapphire Oscillator

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2978-2986

  Nand, Nitin R ^a   Hartnett, John G ^a   Ivanov, Eugene N ^a   Santarelli, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT DIGITAL SYNTHESIZER; LOW NOISE; LOW-PHASE-NOISE; RESIDUAL PHASE NOISE; SAPPHIRE OSCILLATORS; SIGNAL SOURCE; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY;

FREQUENCY STABILITY; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SAPPHIRE;

PHASE NOISE;

EID: 81455158803     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2166976     Document Type: Article

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