On Feb 2, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Bruce Griffiths wrote:

> Joseph M Gwinn wrote:
>> 
> Figure 8 (attached) from Collin's paper indicates that the jitter of a 100Hz 
> wien bridge oscillator is of the order of a few hundred nanosec or so.
> This was taken using a 3 stage limiter and a 1 sec counter gate time.
> It may be feasible to do better.
> 
> It would also appear to be feasible to produce a 10Hz sinewave with ns jitter 
> by low pass filtering a square wave using a combination of active and passive 
> RC filtering.
> 

That figure pretty clearly shows the issue of getting a good trigger on a low 
frequency signal. 

It's a pretty big guess to figure out what the 100 Hz oscillator is doing. At 
least to my eye it's pretty far from the 1 ppb / second level. 

As long as we're on the Collins paper - has anybody dug up the final paper 
referenced? I believe it's titled something like "Hard Limiter Experimental 
Results"?

Bob

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