Re: [time-nuts] AVAR Femtoseconds

2010-06-20 Thread Bob Camp
Hi The use of femtoseconds come from the AVAR it's self. It was originally defined by time domain people. It's delineated by a Tau dimensioned in seconds. The time domain noise that's 1x10^-12 or 1x10^-15 down at one second does indeed have units of 1x10^-12 or 1x10^-15 seconds. As with any

Re: [time-nuts] AVAR Femtoseconds

2010-06-20 Thread Robert Benward
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] AVAR Femtoseconds Hi The use of femtoseconds come from the AVAR it's self. It was originally defined by time domain people. It's delineated by a Tau dimensioned in seconds

Re: [time-nuts] AVAR Femtoseconds

2010-06-20 Thread jimlux
Robert Benward wrote: Bob Boy, you guys are really making me read a lot. I'm digesting Wiki right now. I see tau, but does identifying a tau of 1E-14 allow you to say you are locked to 10fs? The smallest tau I've seen in my E1938 collection is 1E-1. Bob tau is the time over which the

Re: [time-nuts] AVAR Femtoseconds

2010-06-20 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 06/20/2010 11:53 PM, jimlux wrote: Robert Benward wrote: Bob Boy, you guys are really making me read a lot. I'm digesting Wiki right now. I see tau, but does identifying a tau of 1E-14 allow you to say you are locked to 10fs? The smallest tau I've seen in my E1938 collection is 1E-1. Bob

Re: [time-nuts] AVAR Femtoseconds

2010-06-20 Thread Bob Camp
Hi While the units are more properly femto seconds/ second you do indeed see 1s AVAR plots labeled in fS. Bob On Jun 20, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote: On 06/20/2010 11:53 PM, jimlux wrote: Robert Benward wrote: Bob Boy, you guys are really making me read a lot. I'm digesting