Proposal for a new test of the time independence of the fine structure constant α using orthogonally polarized whispering gallery modes in a single sapphire resonator

ME Tobar, JG Hartnett - Physical Review D, 2003 - APS
A new experiment to test for the time independence of the fine structure constant α is
proposed. The experiment utilizes orthogonally polarized transverse electric and transverse …

Compact, high-q, zero temperature coefficient, te/sub 011/sapphire-rutile microwave distributed bragg reflector resonators

ME Tobar, D Cros, P Blondy… - IEEE transactions on …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Some novel new resonator designs based on the distributed Bragg reflector are presented.
The resonators implement a TE/sub 011/resonance in a cylindrical sapphire dielectric, which …

New method to build a high stability sapphire oscillator from the temperature compensation of the difference frequency between modes of orthogonal polarization

ME Tobar, GL Hamilton, EN Ivanov… - IEEE transactions on …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new method to construct a high stability sapphire oscillator is presented. The method
relies on the anisotropic fractional temperature coefficients of frequency (TCF) of …

Whispering gallery method of measuring complex permittivity in highly anisotropic materials: Discovery of a new type of mode in anisotropic dielectric resonators

ME Tobar, JG Hartnett, EN Ivanov… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The whispering gallery (WG) mode method to measure complex permittivity is applied to the
highly anisotropic material rutile. In an isotropic or slightly anisotropic material standard WG …

Difference frequency technique to achieve frequency-temperature compensation in whispering-gallery sapphire resonator-oscillator

ME Tobar, EN Ivanov, CR Locke… - Electronics Letters, 2002 - search.proquest.com
A new difference frequency technique to obtain frequency-temperature compensation using
high quality anisotropic dielectric resonators is presented (patent pending). Compensation …

Improving the frequency stability of microwave oscillators by utilizing the dual-mode sapphire-loaded cavity resonator

ME Tobar, EN Ivanov, CR Locke… - Measurement …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
The design and experimental testing of a novel control circuit to stabilize the temperature of
a sapphire-loaded cavity whispering gallery resonator-oscillator and improve its medium …

The dual-mode frequency-locked technique for the characterization of the temperature coefficient of permittivity of anisotropic materials

ME Tobar, GL Hamilton, JG Hartnett… - Measurement …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work we present a new method for obtaining accurate characterization of the
temperature coefficient of permittivity (TCP) of an anisotropic crystal, which we call the dual …

Temperature compensation of the difference frequency between modes of orthogonal polarization in anisotropic dielectric resonators

ME Tobar, GL Hamilton, EN Ivanov… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new method to construct frequency-temperature compensated oscillators based on
anisotropic dielectric resonators is presented. The method relies on the anisotropic fractional …

High-Q factor frequency-temperature compensated sapphire Bragg distributed resonator

ME Tobar, CR Locke, EN Ivanov, JG Hartnett… - Electronics …, 2003 - search.proquest.com
A new sapphire TE^ sub 10δ^ resonator was constructed with a novel support structure
made from sapphire and rutile (patent pending). The amount of rutile was chosen to act as …

Accurate characterization of the temperature coefficient of permittivity of sapphire utilizing the dual-mode frequency locked technique

ME Tobar, GL Hamilton, JG Hartnett… - … and PDA Exhibition …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work we present a new method to obtain accurate characterization of the temperature
coefficient of permittivity (TCP) of an anisotropic crystal, which we name the dual-mode …