{"title":"Measurement and Interpretation of Hydrogen Maser Quality Parameters","authors":"E. Mattison, W. Shen, R. Vessot","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1985.200820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1985.200820","url":null,"abstract":"Two properties of interest in characterizing the operation of the hydrogen maser are (a) the effectiveness of the state selecting magnet and (b) the relaxation rates of hydrogen atoms in the storage bulb. A measurement of the maser's line Q as a function of output power is capable of yielding information about these properties. This measurement provides an estimate of the maser quality parameter \"q\" and of the relaxation rate \"7t\", from which other relaxation rates can be inferred. (Methods of measuring q by varying the cavity Q using external gain[l] and by applying inhomogeneous magnetic fields E2 1 have been described in the literature.) We derive a relationship between q, line Q, and maser power, and then discuss the application of this technique. l.€EQEx","PeriodicalId":291824,"journal":{"name":"39th Annual Symposium on Frequency Control","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125157271","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":"Low Profile Glass Packaged Crystal Unit","authors":"M. Sato, H. Eguchi, S. Ishigami, K. Yamamoto","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1985.200867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1985.200867","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":291824,"journal":{"name":"39th Annual Symposium on Frequency Control","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114614983","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":"The Analytic Signal Representation of Oscillators with Application to Frequency Stability Analysis","authors":"L. Bernier, F. Gardiol","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1985.200830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1985.200830","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":291824,"journal":{"name":"39th Annual Symposium on Frequency Control","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122625649","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":"VHF Monolithic Crystal Filters Fabricated by Chemical Milling","authors":"R. Smythe, M. D. Howard, J. R. Hunt","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1985.200888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1985.200888","url":null,"abstract":"The fundamental frequency limitations imposed by conventional quartz wafer machining can be overcome by chemical milling. Using this process, two-pole, fundamental mode AT-cut monolithic filters have been fabricated at frequencies from 70 to 250 MHz. Four and six-pole tandem monolithic filters have also been constructed. Chemical milling allows the realization in an inductorless tructure of filter bandwidths previously unattainable at VHF. Capabilities and limitations are discussed. Introduction The introduction of dual-mode resonators in the '60's greatly advanced the VHF crystal filter art by simplifications resulting from the reduced number of components as compared with discreteresonator filters. Most importantly, it afforded improvements by eliminating the need for balanced transformers, which increase in difficulty with increasing frequency. Further restrictions remain, however, associated with the maximum fundamental frequency obtainable using conventional wafer lapping and polishing techniques. Since, at a given frequency and bandwidth, filter impedance is proportional to the third power of the overtone, increasing the realizable fundamental frequency greatly extends the capabilities of crystal filters. Vig, et a1 [ l , 21 developed the use of chemical etching for polishing quartz, and suggested that etching might be used to fabricate resonators having the ring-supported wafer structure proposed by Guttwein, Ballato, and Lukaszek [3] and others. The development of such chemically etched, or milled, VHF and UHF ring-supported resonators has been carried out in our organization [ 4 ] . The same process techniques have also been applied to the fabrication of monolithic two-pole filters at fundamental frequencies up to 250 MHz. Four and six-pole tandem monolithic filters have also been produced. This paper describes some of the filters which have been developed and discusses the capabilities and limitations of this approach. Two-Pole Fabrication Figure 1 shows the ringsupported wafer structure of a chemically milled two-pole monolithic filter. Aluminum electrodes were deposited using photofabricated aperture masks and electron-beam-gun evaporation. The electrode configuration shown is similar to that used by us for conventional VHF two-poles. An alternative arrangement, discussed below, was also employed. The two-pole devices were packaged in standard 3-lead holders dimensionally equivalent to type HC-l8/U except for a reduced height of 0.450 inch (11.4 mm). FIG. 1. RING-SUPPORTED MONOLITHIC FILTER WAFER As frequency and bandwidth increase, required electrode dimensions decrease. The use of conventional aperture masks to define electrode patterns is limited by aperture dimensional tolerances and by front-to--back mask registration errors. To alleviate the former to some degree and to essentially eliminate the effect of mis-registration, the novel electrode configuration shown in figure 2 was devised and used to fabricate the 252 MHz two-pole ","PeriodicalId":291824,"journal":{"name":"39th Annual Symposium on Frequency Control","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125879720","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":"The State-of-the-Art Medium Terminal (SAMT) Time and Frequency Distribution System","authors":"A. Vulcan, M. Bloch","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1985.200837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1985.200837","url":null,"abstract":"The SAMT Satellite Ground Station Distribution System uses redundant Cesium Frequency Standards in conjunction with automatic signal monitoring and switchover equipment to provide 5 MHz, 1 MHz, 1 PPS, and TOD to converter assemblies and other users at the ground station site. The unique features of the SAMT Distribution System are extremely low vibrational and operationally induced phase and amplitude perturbations and output isolation exceeding 100 dB. Automatic switchover is accomplished by a method which ensures that the phase change at the system timing outputs is less than 0.001 degrees when switching from the on-line to standby atomic standard. Glitch-free performance is obtained by utilizing a dynamic phase matching system which incorporates A to D and D to A converters, and a micrologic memory which automatically slews the output phase of the standby Atomic Standard to agree with that of the on-line unit prior to switchover. A disciplined oscillator provides the 5 MHz, 1 MHz and 1 PPS system outputs with extremely low phase jitter and a noise floor of -170 dBc/Hz. Various sine wave and pulse output signals are fed to the system users by high isolation amplifier modules. Cascode circuitry and careful layout ensures that the isolation between the outputs exceeds 105 dB. This isolation permits changing terminations or removing output cables with less than 1 millidegree","PeriodicalId":291824,"journal":{"name":"39th Annual Symposium on Frequency Control","volume":"31 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116783241","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":"An Analysis of Doubly-Rotated Contoured Quartz Crystal Resonators","authors":"D. Stevens, H. Tiersten","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1985.200882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1985.200882","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":291824,"journal":{"name":"39th Annual Symposium on Frequency Control","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115059645","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":"Frequency-Temperature Behavior of Flexural and Thickness-Shear Vibrations of Rectangular Rotated Y-Cut Quartz Plates","authors":"Y. Yong, Pcy Lee","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1985.200879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1985.200879","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":291824,"journal":{"name":"39th Annual Symposium on Frequency Control","volume":"314 1-2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114048031","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":"Specifications and Standards Germaine to Frequency Control","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1985.200901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1985.200901","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":291824,"journal":{"name":"39th Annual Symposium on Frequency Control","volume":"459 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123846065","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}
N. Oura, N. Kuramochi, Y. Miyazaki, M. Yamashina, S. Suzuki
{"title":"Generalized Equation for the Force-Frequency Characteristics of Circular Quartz Plates with Three-Point Support and Its Application to Supporting of an SC-Cut Plate","authors":"N. Oura, N. Kuramochi, Y. Miyazaki, M. Yamashina, S. Suzuki","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1985.200883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1985.200883","url":null,"abstract":"A generalized equation which expresses the force-fre- quency characteristics of a circular disk plate supported by three un- symmetrical points is derived from the concept of balance of applied forces and the superposition of virtual force pairs. Optimum support- ing angles of an SC-cut plate, which is less immune to radially applied forces, are computed and the validity of the equation is confirmed with experiment. It is proposed that the most probable expansion coefficients of the force-frequency characteristics should be compiled from exten- sive experimental results.","PeriodicalId":291824,"journal":{"name":"39th Annual Symposium on Frequency Control","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125267981","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}