In message <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes: >After reading about how the BVA oscillators avoid the problems of "on >crystal" electrodes I was wondering if anyone has tried to optically >excite a quartz crystal in an oscillator?
I can see optical detection, but I have a hard time imagining how you would excite it opticaly ? You can obviously hammer it with a wavelength quartz absorbs, but that turns into heat and I somewhat doubt you can get a heat/cooling cycle to run at 10 MHz, even in perfect quartz ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ 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.
