[time-nuts] Vibration isolation of quartz oscillators

[Tom Knox]

I am enjoy this Nth degree Vibration Isolation discussion. Countless amazing tables where I work.
I have been focused on more practical solutions for Vibration isolation of my rack mount oscillators in my home lab, and I think at that level in some ways are focused on eliminating resonances as well as trading one frequency for another taking higher intensity "square waves" and dissipating them over time.
Any thoughts?
Cheers;

Tom Knox

SR Test and Measurement Engineer

Ascent Concepts and Technology

4475 Whitney Place

Boulder Colorado 80305

303-554-0307

actast at hotmail.com

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From: time-nuts <time-nuts-bounces at lists.febo.com> on behalf of Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 12:16 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts at lists.febo.com>; ed breya <eb at telight.com>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Vibration isolation of quartz oscillators

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ed breya writes:

> The nicest optical bench I've ever seen in person, was in one of our
> labs many years ago. It was a huge, precisely flat polished granite slab
> about 6-8" thick, about 4x8' or maybe 5x10', mounted on active-leveling
> pneumatic bladders. It was loaded with thousands of threaded inserts,
> uniformly spaced on a grid, for mounting optical devices and equipment.

It is worth foot-noting here, that at that level of quality they
are usually not made from natural granite, but rather from
"epoxy-granite", which can be designed to have very low temp-co.

> There are lower-grade type platforms available, commonly called "optical
> breadboards," that are made from thick sheets of aluminum or stainless
> steel, [...]

and these obviously have a sizeable temp-co, so the money you saved on
your bench you get to spend on your air-con.

They are a lot easier to move around though.


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