Hi For a variety of reasons, you are trying to match a 50 ohm line in a distribution amplifier. The simplest reason is that mismatch adds reflections and can degrade timing.
You *could* use transformers or filters to transform to higher impedance, but they add phase shift. Phase shift is a problem if it changes (over time, temperature, vibration, phase of the moon...). Change in phase = change in time = signal is degraded. Ideally you are only dealing with a single frequency. In practice you have harmonics. Since filters are out, low distortion and clean signals is a desirable feature. A reasonable question is always - how good do I need to be? If you are plugging a cable into the back of your 5334 and setting the gate to 1 second - not so good. If you want to check your Hydrogen Maser to see if it's doing ok over night- you need to be very good. The difference is likely to > five of magnitude. Muddying this all up is a duality between time measurement and frequency measurement. Noise power spectral density makes a lot more sense to most of us in the frequency domain. Many of our measures of stability have time worked into them. They also take place in a region where frequency is a bit awkward to use (10 micro Hz ...). It's also a region where wideband noise floor is not as big an issue as flicker noise. Lots of fun. Bob -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Fuqua Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:15 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OP-Amps for 10MHz distribution...? Low noise voltage at the cost of noise current which is around 1000 times that of low noise JFETs. The discussion suggest that opamps contribute to the sideband phase noise of the signal. I am interested in the mechanism that adds this phase noise. It would have to be a small shift in either gain (changing Miller capacitance) or an internal capacitance in the opamp. I am new to this group and have some catching up to do. >I know of one op-amp that comes close to 1 nV/rtHz at 10 Hz and being >capable of useful operation as a 10 MHz distribution amplifier -- the >ADA4898 (1.2 nV/rtHz at 10 Hz, 4.3 nV/rtHz at 1 Hz). These are >wonderful parts, but the large signal frequency response with a 100 >ohm load is less than desired for a 10 MHz distribution amplifier. 73 Bill wa4lav _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
