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    frequency standard. Commercial rubidium frequency standards operate by disciplining a crystal oscillator to the rubidium hyperfine transition of 6.8 GHz...
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    disciplined oscillator (GPSDO), is a combination of a GPS receiver and a high-quality, stable oscillator such as a quartz or rubidium oscillator whose output...
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    Rubidium is a chemical element; it has symbol Rb and atomic number 37. It is a very soft, whitish-grey solid in the alkali metal group, similar to potassium...
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    Oven-controlled crystal oscillator RbXO — Rubidium crystal oscillators (RbXO), a crystal oscillator (can be an MCXO) synchronized with a built-in rubidium standard which...
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    standard, such as a rubidium standard, caesium standard, or hydrogen maser. Another cheaper alternative is to discipline a crystal oscillator with a GPS time...
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  • standard. Secondary standards include crystal oscillators and rubidium standards. A crystal oscillator depends for its frequency on its physical dimensions...
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  • A variable frequency oscillator (VFO) in electronics is an oscillator whose frequency can be tuned (i.e., varied) over some range. It is a necessary component...
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  • reference. For example, a GPS disciplined oscillator (GPSDO) usually consists of a quartz or rubidium oscillator whose output frequency is continuously steered...
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    frequency reference tied to a very high stability oscillator, such as a GPS disciplined rubidium oscillator, may be used. Where the frequency does not need...
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    frequency of the rubidium-87 atom, 6 834 682 610.904 312 6 Hz, in terms of the caesium standard frequency. Atomic clocks based on rubidium standards are...
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    proposed at the 1979 Geneva World Administrative Radio Conference. A rubidium oscillator was installed to stabilize the carrier. In 1987 three of the five...
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    Rubidium chloride is the chemical compound with the formula RbCl. This alkali metal halide salt is composed of rubidium and chlorine, and finds diverse...
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  • role creating a highly accurate miniaturised atomic clock using a rubidium oscillator. Richard Schwartz (US) for leading the design and development of...
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    several years of operation. A more stable design based on the vibration of rubidium atoms was demonstrated by NIST in 2019. Like other caesium atomic clocks...
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    A frequency standard is a stable oscillator used for frequency calibration or reference. A frequency standard generates a fundamental frequency with a...
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    An optical parametric oscillator (OPO) is a parametric oscillator that oscillates at optical frequencies. It converts an input laser wave (called "pump")...
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    Laser (redirect from Optical oscillator)
    laser. A laser that produces light by itself is technically an optical oscillator rather than an optical amplifier as suggested by the acronym. It has been...
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    oven-controlled crystal oscillators (OCXO) in specialized units, to atomic oscillators (rubidium) in some receivers used for synchronization in telecommunications...
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    invention of the laser in 1960 by Theodore Maiman. When the coherent optical oscillator was first imagined in 1957, it was originally called the "optical maser"...
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  • Products included hydrogen masers, rubidium and cesium atomic standards, temperature and oven controlled crystal oscillators, miniature and chip scale atomic...
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    century, was the discovery that clocks could be controlled by harmonic oscillators. Leonardo da Vinci had produced the earliest known drawings of a pendulum...
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    mechanical system is a harmonic oscillator. Laser cooling reduces the random vibrations of the mechanical oscillator, removing thermal phonons from the...
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    the derivative of the comparison frequency between a cryogenic sapphire oscillator and hydrogen maser". Physical Review D. 81 (2): 022003. arXiv:0912.2803...
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  • }} are the annihilation and creation operators, respectively, of the oscillator representing the photon. X ϑ = 0 ∘ ≡ X {\displaystyle X_{\vartheta =0^{\circ...
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  • clocks. It is an aliasing effect: High frequency noise in a required local oscillator (LO) is aliased (heterodyned) to near zero frequency by a periodic interrogation...
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    identical. Spacecraft experiments included a Lyman-alpha telescope, a rubidium-vapor magnetometer, electrostatic analyzers, medium-energy-range particle...
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    transmitter and the receiver and thus could be used to measure oscillator drift. Later rubidium and cesium beam clocks were used. Ground stations had number...
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    a state outside of the cooling cycle. The magneto-optical trapping of rubidium 85, for example, involves cycling on the closed 5 S 1 / 2   F = 3 → 5 P...
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  • harmonic oscillator energy. Since the atoms are not in their ground state, they will be trapped in one of the excited levels of the harmonic oscillator. The...
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    frequency locked to a stable reference such as a GPS disciplined oscillator or a rubidium standard in order to support such long duration coherent detection...
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