Novel frequency stability measurement method with whole sample time range

作者:Qu, Bayi*; Xue, Fanxin; Yu, Dongsong; Xu, Longfei; Zhou, Wei
来源:Review of Scientific Instruments, 2018, 89(8): 085113.
DOI:10.1063/1.5037928

摘要

A method to measure the frequency stabilities with a nearly whole range of sample time is presented. Precision as high as 10(-5)/100 ns has been obtained by it when measuring transient stability with 100 ns sample time, 10(-12)/s has been obtained toward short-term stability with 1 s sample time, and 10(-16)/day has been obtained with regard to long-term stability with 1 day sample time. In addition, because the frequency stabilities in a wider range of sample time can correspond to the phase noise index more accurately, the phenomena which are difficult to be observed in a phase noise curve can be detected through this measurement. Published by AIP Publishing.

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