Adapting a cryogenic sapphire oscillator for very long baseline interferometry

S Doeleman, T Mai, AEE Rogers… - Publications of the …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
… In order to make a cryogenic sapphire oscillator useful for VLBI we need to derive a 10
MHz signal from the CSO with optimum stability and minimum drift relative to the national …

Ultra-stable very-low phase-noise signal source for very long baseline interferometry using a cryocooled sapphire oscillator

NR Nand, JG Hartnett, EN Ivanov… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cryogenic sapphire oscillators (CSOs) cooled with a closed … from this work that the cryocooled
sapphire oscillator (cryoCSO) can … However, these oscillators do not operate repeatably at …

Reliability and reproducibility of the cryogenic sapphire oscillator technology

C Fluhr, B Dubois, G Le Tetu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cryogenic sapphire oscillator (CSO) is a highly specialized machine, which delivers a
microwave reference signal exhibiting the lowest frequency fluctuations [Allan deviation (ADEV…

New-generation of cryogenic sapphire microwave oscillators for space, metrology, and scientific applications

V Giordano, S Grop, B Dubois, PY Bourgeois… - Review of Scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
This article reports on the characterization of cryogenic sapphire oscillators (CSOs), and on
the first test of a CSO in a real field installation, where ultimate frequency stability and …

Frequency stability and phase noise of a pair of x-band cryogenic sapphire oscillators

G Marra, D Henderson… - Measurement Science and …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
… The best drift rates reported to date for cryogenic sapphire oscillators constructed by other
… −15 between 1 and 10 s has been demonstrated for a pair of cryogenic sapphire oscillators. …

Frequency stability measurement of cryogenic sapphire oscillators with a multichannel tracking DDS and the two-sample covariance

CE Calosso, F Vernotte, V Giordano… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… are provided by three cryogenic sapphire oscillators (CSOs) … frequency stability of cryogenic
sapphire oscillators at the 10−… long baseline interferometry using a cryocooled sapphire

Invited article: Design techniques and noise properties of ultrastable cryogenically cooled sapphire-dielectric resonator oscillators

CR Locke, EN Ivanov, JG Hartnett… - Review of Scientific …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
… and construction of cryogenic sapphire oscillators at the … from its beginnings when sapphire
oscillators were first developed … construction of an interrogation oscillator for the PHARAO Cs …

Ultra-Low Vibration Pulse-Tube Cryocooler Stabilized Cryogenic Sapphire Oscillator With Fractional Frequency Stability

JG Hartnett, NR Nand - IEEE transactions on microwave theory …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… has been to develop a local oscillator (LO) for very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) radio
as… time intervals using a cryogenic sapphire oscillator as the LO will result in clearer images. …

Frequency synthesis from cryogenic sapphire oscillator

E Vaillant, F Sthal, J Imbaud, Y Gruson… - … Frequency and Time …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In this paper, different dividers are reported to get 5 MHz from the 100 MHz signal of a
Cryogenic Sapphire Oscillator. The residual phase noise has been measured for different …

Short term frequency stability tests of two cryogenic sapphire oscillators

K Watabe, JG Hartnett, CR Locke… - Japanese journal of …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
… in microwave oscillators based on liquid helium cooled sapphire resonators … cryogenic
sapphire oscillators were built to evaluate their stability at short averaging times. These oscillators