Joseph Gwinn wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  Uwe Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Joseph Gwinn wrote:
>>
>>>I may need a Dual Mixer Time Difference (DMTD) instrument, to measure 
>>>picosecond changes in electrical length in a coax plus amplifier time 
>>>reference signal distribution system with total delays in the hundreds 
>>>of nanoseconds, currently operating at 10 MHz (sinewave), but with 100 
>>>MHz likely at some future date.
>>>
>>>What DMTD instruments are commercially available?  A google search was 
>>>not successful - all noise no detectable signal, probably because DMTD 
>>>instruments are not that common, and many people build their own.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Joe Gwinn
>>
>>Take one of the "better" GS DSO's that have high storage depth.
>>Read the shots from the DSO and do all further processing in software?
> 
> 
> I don't understand how this would work.  Could you expand the 
> description?   And what is "GS"? 
GS as in GigaSample
>
http://www.unusualresearch.com/AppNotes/TimeNuts/OptDualMixer.pdf
http://www.wriley.com/paper6ht.htm

if my understanding is correct:
take a large syncronous sampling of both signals.
extract the data.
retrace in software the math done in hardware on the aquired data set.
i.e. if you do a soft mixdown to DC you should get two vectors (R/I)
describing the phase relationship between both signals.

uwe

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