Unprecedented High Long Term Frequency Stability with a Macroscopic Resonator Oscillator

Serge Grop; Wolfgang Schäfer; Pierre-Yves Bourgeois; Nicolas Bazin; Yann Kersalé; Mark Oxborrow; Enrico Rubiola; Vincent Giordano

Unprecedented High Long Term Frequency Stability with a Macroscopic Resonator Oscillator

Instrumentation and Detectors 2010-11-04 v1

Authors: Serge Grop , Wolfgang Schäfer , Pierre-Yves Bourgeois , Nicolas Bazin , Yann Kersalé , Mark Oxborrow , Enrico Rubiola , Vincent Giordano

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Abstract

This article reports on the long-term frequency stabilty characterisation of a new type of cryogenic sapphire oscillator using an autonomous pulse-tube cryocooler as its cold source. This new design enables a relative frequency stability of better than 4.5e-15 over one day of integration. This represents to our knowledge the best long-term frequency stability ever obtained with a signal source based on a macroscopic resonator.

Keywords

frequency comb spectroscopy microwave resonators

Cite

@article{arxiv.1011.0927,
  title  = {Unprecedented High Long Term Frequency Stability with a Macroscopic Resonator Oscillator},
  author = {Serge Grop and Wolfgang Schäfer and Pierre-Yves Bourgeois and Nicolas Bazin and Yann Kersalé and Mark Oxborrow and Enrico Rubiola and Vincent Giordano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.0927},
  year   = {2010}
}

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9 pages, 5 figures

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