Oscillator performance from the time evolution ofrelative phase

Abstract
An improved method is described for simultaneously evaluating the fractional frequency stability and phase noise spectrum of ultrastable microwave oscillators from a digitised recording of a zero Hertz beat waveform between two such oscillators. To illustrate the new technique results are presented from a study of two ultrastable cryogenic sapphire oscillators which have a fractional frequency stability near 10-15 at 1s integration time.

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