J. Lauf, M. Calhoun, W. Diener, J. Gonzalez, A. Kirk, P. Kuhnle, B. Tucker, C. Kirby, R. Tjoelker
{"title":"Clocks and timing in the NASA deep space network","authors":"J. Lauf, M. Calhoun, W. Diener, J. Gonzalez, A. Kirk, P. Kuhnle, B. Tucker, C. Kirby, R. Tjoelker","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.2005.1574041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.2005.1574041","url":null,"abstract":"A new timing system has been developed for the NASA deep space network (DSN) and is currently in the final stages of integration, testing and implementation in all three DSN sites. The DSN is a distributed antenna network for deep space communication, whose facilities are continuously engaged in spacecraft tracking, very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) or radio astronomy activities. Its primary components consist of three deep space communication centers (DSCC) separated nearly equidistant around the Earth in California, USA; Spain; and Australia. Within each DSCC, synchronized, low jitter timing signals must be distributed to many users over distances of up to 30 kilometers. The design criteria for the timing system required state of the art stability and jitter performance, but also extremely high operability and reliability. This paper describes some of the key features and recent system performance data as measured both in the laboratory and the operational DSN","PeriodicalId":108334,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition, 2005.","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127370326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CANVAS: clock analysis, visualization, and archiving system - a new software package for the efficient management of clock/oscillator data","authors":"K. Senior, R. Beard, J. White","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.2005.1574006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.2005.1574006","url":null,"abstract":"Few software packages exists which address the particular needs of the time and frequency community in analyzing and simulating clocks or oscillators. None is open source. We offer the source code for a set of tools which aims to incorporate commonly used clock analysis and simulation algorithms. The goal of this release is to promote further development of the package by distributing the effort","PeriodicalId":108334,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition, 2005.","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116023666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Fowler, M. Tobar, C. Locke, F.N. Ivanov, J. Hartnett, J. Anstie, D. Cros
{"title":"Exciting traveling waves in high Q structures using microstrip","authors":"A. Fowler, M. Tobar, C. Locke, F.N. Ivanov, J. Hartnett, J. Anstie, D. Cros","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573984","url":null,"abstract":"Exciting traveling waves in high-Q resonant structures can simplify low noise oscillator designs (Tobar et al., 1999), (Tobar et al., 2000), (D.P. Tsarapkin, N.A. Shtin, 2002), and also has applications for newly proposed Lorentz invariance tests (Tobar et al., 2005). In this work, we use microstrip probes to excite traveling waves in a sapphire dielectric resonator. Previous work has indicated that matching microstrip probes to a sapphire resonator can be a difficult requirement (D.P. Tsarapkin, N.A. Shtin, 2004). A model has been developed, which takes into account leakage of the microstrip line in the reverse direction to which we excite the traveling wave. From such a model we can define the standing wave ratio (SWR) from the amount of forward and reverse traveling wave in the resonator. Ideally for a perfect traveling wave the SWR = 0, and for a standing wave the SWR = 1. By comparing the model with experiment we find that we can excite a traveling wave with an SWR of 0.35 and an unloaded Q-factor of 150,000 in a WGH12,0,2 mode at 9,997 GHz, in a sapphire of 5 cm diameter and 3 cm height. From the model, we also propose new oscillator designs for low noise applications","PeriodicalId":108334,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition, 2005.","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114488799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GTEM cell method based comparative analysis of performance degradation in integer and fractional frequency synthesizer based direct conversion CDMA transmitters","authors":"I. Krivokapic, M. Oskowsky","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573995","url":null,"abstract":"Oscillator injection pulling as presented in R. Adler (1973) and K. Kurokawa (1973), is a phenomena that may have significant impact on the performance of modern direct conversion transmitters, that is today almost exclusively applied for the architecture in the cell phone design. Oscillator injection pulling affects crucial CDMA transmitter parameters like waveform quality factor (rho) and in severe cases adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR), due to the in-channel integrated phase noise degradation and increased phase noise at adjacent channel frequency offset. Comparative study presents analysis of rho, ACPR and phase noise parameters degradation obtained in measurements of fractional and integer N synthesizers based direct conversion CDMA transmitters. Relations between phase noise, rho and ACPR parameters are formulated. Advantages of fractional N frequency synthesizer are explained based on measurements result analysis. Assuring repeatable and consistent measurement of oscillator injection pulling in ASIC based transmitters is challenging. In order to assure consistent and repeatable measurements of oscillator pulling, a method based on GTEM as stated in J. Nadolny (1995) and A. Nothofer et al. (2003) cell - variety of transverse electromagnetic mode cell, was developed. Details of the measurement method are presented in this study","PeriodicalId":108334,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition, 2005.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129865311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Boudot, S. Gribaldo, V. Giordano, O. Llopis, C. Rocher, N. Bazin, G. Cibiel
{"title":"Sapphire resonators + SiGe transistors based ultra low phase noise microwave oscillators","authors":"R. Boudot, S. Gribaldo, V. Giordano, O. Llopis, C. Rocher, N. Bazin, G. Cibiel","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.2005.1574047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.2005.1574047","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on ultra-low phase noise microwave oscillators combining a room temperature high-Q whispering gallery mode (WGM) sapphire resonator and an ultra-low phase noise SiGe HBT based amplifier. An original symmetrical duralumin cavity has been designed in order to improve the thermal behavior of the resonator. Coupled to a high-precision electronic temperature controller, the structure presents a sensitivity to thermal fluctuations of -0.05 ppm/K. The non-linear and noise modelling of different microwave SiGe amplifiers have been realized in order to compute and optimize their phase noise performances. An original double stage amplifier, whose phase noise performances are very close of those of a single stage one, has been designed for X-band applications. C-band oscillators phase noise as low as -42 dB.rad2.Hz1at 1 Hz Fourier frequency and -135 dB.rad2.Hz1 at 1 kHz offset have been measured. X-band oscillators simulated phase noise results foresee very encouraging results","PeriodicalId":108334,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition, 2005.","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126522550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A review of time jitter and digital systems","authors":"V. Reinhardt","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573900","url":null,"abstract":"Time jitter is an important parameter for determining the performance of digital systems. This paper reviews how time jitter impacts the performance of digital systems. For the purposes of later discussions, digital systems are broken down into three major categories: synchronous data transfer, asynchronous data transfer, and digital sampling systems. A statistical framework is first developed for treating time jitter. This framework explicitly deals with issues of bandwidth and noise processes with 1/fn spectra. It is shown that various forms of the standard variance of time jitter are convergent in the presence of 1/fn noise, if one explicitly considers the properties of the system phase response function for each of these categories. It is also shown that standard variances are preferred over 2nd difference variances in dealing with digital performance issues such as bit errors, because standard variances can be directly related to the total time error (jitter plus skew). Detailed discussions of how time jitter impacts the enumerated categories of digital systems are then presented. In synchronous data transfer systems, it is shown that time jitter causes hard bit errors, that only the white noise components of clock oscillator and gate noise make appreciable contributions to the time jitter, and that aliasing of this white noise is a major issue. In asynchronous systems, it is shown that time jitter can also cause soft errors or bit error rate degradation and that there is an additional time jitter term due to relative master clock-local clock oscillator jitter, whose value is determined by 1/f n oscillator noise as well as the white noise. Finally, for digital sampling in analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, it is shown that noise power or multiplicative decorrelation noise generated by sampling clock jitter is a major limitation on the bit resolution (effective number of bits) of these devices","PeriodicalId":108334,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition, 2005.","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124385974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impedance control for critically coupled cavities","authors":"B. Riddle, C. Nelson","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573979","url":null,"abstract":"Cavity resonators are often used in low phase noise oscillators that utilize carrier suppression. These oscillators are employed in systems that measure phase noise in frequencies as high as 100 GHz. In order to achieve the maximum suppression needed in these low noise designs, the cavity must be operated at critical coupling. However, this large coupling level loads the cavity, which significantly lowers its quality factor and shifts its resonant frequency. In this paper, we present a matching technique that can be used to minimize these loading effects by controlling the input impedance of the cavity and optimizing its response at resonance, thus producing the maximum amount of carrier suppression","PeriodicalId":108334,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition, 2005.","volume":"20 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120844347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discovery of swapping chuck","authors":"Z. Nagaura, K. Nagaura, K. Imani, Y. Nagaura","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573998","url":null,"abstract":"Research objective of swapping chuck is to manufacture quartz resonators of primary oscillation without any spurious signals due to the finely aligned optical axis. After basic geometry of cylinder and sphere is reviewed, this rallying two chucks was discovered in order completely to match an optical axis of the dual convex lens to two machining axes of front and rear surfaces. We could make an ultra-accurate symmetrical bi-convex quartz resonator, which AT-cut optical axis became identical to two machining geometrical axes, when we used the blank which optical axis was identical to the geometrical axis line","PeriodicalId":108334,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition, 2005.","volume":"12 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120847381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Chen, G. Saraf, R. Wittstruck, N. Emanetoglu, Y. Lu
{"title":"Studies on Mg/sub x/Zn/sub 1-x/O thin film resonator for mass sensor application","authors":"Y. Chen, G. Saraf, R. Wittstruck, N. Emanetoglu, Y. Lu","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573916","url":null,"abstract":"Zinc oxide (ZnO) and its ternary alloy magnesium zinc oxide (Mg <sub>x</sub>Zn<sub>1-x</sub>O) are piezoelectric materials for high quality factor bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators operating at GHz frequencies. Mg<sub>x</sub>Zn<sub>1-x</sub>O thin film BAW devices built on Si substrates are particularly attractive for integrating piezoelectric Mg<sub>x</sub>Zn<sub>1-x</sub>O with the main stream semiconductor devices and circuits. In this paper, we report single-mode Mg<sub>x</sub>Zn<sub>1-x</sub>O based thin film resonators (TFRs) built on Si substrates. An acoustic mirror, composed of alternating quarter-wavelength silicon dioxide (SiO<sub>2</sub>) and tungsten (W) layers, is used to isolate the resonator from the Si substrate. High quality and well c-axis oriented Mg<sub>x</sub>Zn<sub>1-x</sub>O thin films are deposited on Si substrates using RF sputtering technology. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and field emission electron microscopy (FESEM) are used to characterize the Mg<sub>x</sub>Zn<sub>1-x</sub>O layers. The theoretical analysis of the TFR, based on the transmission line model, is presented. The BAW velocity and effective coupling coefficient of Mg <sub>x</sub>Zn<sub>1-x</sub>O can be tailored by varying the Mg composition in the films. The acoustic velocity increases with increasing Mg composition. The feasibility to use this structure to build ultra-high-sensitive mass BAW TFR sensor is analyzed. A mass sensitivity higher than 103 Hz cm<sub>2</sub>/ng is demonstrated","PeriodicalId":108334,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition, 2005.","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129860301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comparotive study of GPS P3 and GPS L3","authors":"Gun Li, Bian Li, S. Dong","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.2005.1574016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.2005.1574016","url":null,"abstract":"More recently, GPS carrier phase measurement using geodetic receivers is widely conducted for accurate time and frequency comparisons. Time transfer experiments were conducted using the Ashtech Z12T receivers whose internal frequency is provided by an external 20 MHz clock and an external 1 pps (pulse per second) of a reference clock. The results of time comparison has shown that the stability of time transfer using carrier phase is better than that of GPS common-view time transfer using GPS C/A or P3. The self-developed processing software was used to the cycle slip detection and ambiguity resolution determination. The objective of this paper is to compare the GPS P3 and GPS L3 time transfer. The GPS P3 and L3 data have been obtained using an Ashtech Z12T at NTSC and an Ashtech ZIIX3 at NICT. The main results and analysis are given in Section 3 and Section 4. For a long baseline comparison, the RMS of L3 is better than that of P3. The stability of frequency of L3 is better than that of P3 for short term tau>6d, however, for tau< 6d the stability of L3 and P3 is almost at the same level","PeriodicalId":108334,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition, 2005.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129310324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}