[time-nuts] Is oscillator sync always bad?

[Bruce Griffiths]

Pedrag

You may want to look at:

http://my.ece.ucsb.edu/yorklab/Publications/BioBib/84%20-%20MTT%20May%201997%20Phase%20Noise.pdf

http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/49985/1/PhysRevLett_98_184101.pdf

to get some idea of the complexities involved in such a scheme if you
intend to reduce the phase noise of an ensemble of mutually coupled
oscillators.

Bruce

Rick Karlquist wrote:
> Some of Len Cutler's engineers at HP attempted to build
> an ensemble of nine 10811 oscillators.  It was quite
> non-trivial and I'm not sure they ever completed
> the project.  I doubt whether just letting 10811's
> self synchronize would result in satisfactory performance.
>
> Rick Karlquist N6RK
>
>
> Predrag Dukic wrote:
>   
>> Hi, Time -Nuts,
>>
>> Did anyone try to deliberately allow  syncronisation  of two
>> oscillators, by , for example paralleling  outputs of two 10811.
>>
>> I expect to see some benefits from the usual statistics:   Phase
>> noise divided by sqrt of 2    and also decreased  amplitude   random
>> frequency jumps.
>>
>> Aging could also be average of the two.....
>>
>> Predrag Dukic
>>
>>
>>