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Frequency standards from industry over the next 25 yearsPresent and possible future performance for many of the existing and new commercial frequency standards is presented here. Recent progress in the gas cell atomic standards with regards to size and cost is significant and considerable improvement is expected. Cesium beam standards will benefit in stability and accuracy from optical pumping. Cooled hydrogen masers will offer extremely good stability. Advances in trapped ion and cesium fountain technologies make them good high performance candidates for the future. The quartz oscillator field is more mature and consequently performance improvements for the future are going to be less spectacular. Oscillators stabilized to GPS will have many applications. Recent performance of cooled microwave dielectric resonator oscillators is very good and they offer the promise of serving as flywheel oscillators for advanced performance atomic standards.
Document ID
19940026178
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Cutler, Leonard S.
(Hewlett-Packard Labs. Palo Alto, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
May 1, 1994
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, The 25th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Applications and Planning Meeting
Subject Category
Physics (General)
Accession Number
94N30683
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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