I was wondering what kind of Phase Noise performance benchmarks Time Nuts have
achieved in their labs. I have been rebuilding my Time and Freq test system for
the last few years and at times it has been humbling to say the least. I am
finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel and seem to have gotten the
systemic noise down to where I can really start comparing the individual
oscillators I have come across over the years. My approach was to place
everything in several Agilent equipment racks and I have even questioned the
wisdom of that more then once as I have struggled to set up a state of the art
system. My system can be Phase locked, and the various quartz oscillators can
be configured in series and parallel so each element of the system can be
compare. I know the simplest approach is a Phase Noise test set a Ref and DUT
oscillators some batteries loose on a bench with some filters and devices to
break ground loops. So what real word combined uncertainty number have you been
able to achieve at 5-10MHz at an offset of 1Hz 10Hz and noise floor. I
struggled at several points originally with systemic noise due to ground loops
from all the LAN, USB, and coaxial cables interconnecting the system elements
and "soaking" between reference signals due to sheilding issues from normal
RG/58 cables and the verious Cesium, GPS, and Quartz standards. Slowly the
system has improved from a shaky start for 5MHz at around -105db @ 1Hz toward
my compromised goal of 5Mhz at -120dB @ 1Hz. I am hoping find ideas on how to
surpass -120db @ 1Hz. I have heard some impressive number from some of the
distiguished members and it would be interesting to how those numbers were
achieved, and what was used as a reference and measurement system. Thanks and
Happy New Years.
Thomas Knox
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