More technical details here:
http://www.physorg.com/news10149.html
1x10-16 fractional uncertainty!
-ch
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The best experiment I can think of to prove this is to run the
oscillator in a paper bag until it is stable,
then trickle a flow of dry nitrogen into the bag for a day or two
and watch for oscillator drift as the humidity
in the oven drops to extremely low values.
It is a pity that I do not
At the beginning of the E1938A project, I did a bunch of
characterization of 10811 oscillators. At the Santa Clara
Division, we had first class environmental test chambers
with heating, cooling, humidification, de-humidification,
and nitrogen purge. The nitrogen was also available for
fast