My questions exactly. For the moment I think question 4 may be covered in Archita Hati's paper State-of-the-Art RF Signal Generation From Optical Frequency Division. The other questions are what drives many Time-Nuts I know. Thomas Knox
> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 03:40:40 +0100 > From: mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org > To: time-nuts@febo.com > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] The 5MHz Sweet Spot > > On 11/03/2013 02:45 AM, Bob Camp wrote: > > Hi > > > > I believe that you are talking to two very different groups, one who > > actually design the crystals and the other who use the products that are > > designed. One is talking about what they can buy, the other is talking > > about what could / could not be done and why. > This is an important point. There is in fact a few different twists to this: > > 1) What is the best you could buy off the shelf > 2) What is the best you can buy off the shelf > 3) What is the best that could be built with the available tools > 4) What is the best that could be built with sky-is-the-limit budget > 5) What is the best that could be built, as physical size becomes smaller > > The last one is kind of relevant. Today packages shrink fast, and it's > very handy and all... but what about the performance we get. We can hug > our 5th overtone ovens all we want, but motivating their power and size > doesn't always cut it. It's like comparing with 5 inch blanks in Bob's > earlier post, it's more like 0,55 inch... > > Cheers, > Magnus > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
