[time-nuts] Re: Best frequency to start for GHz synth ?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

>If you were going insane on a fountain, you likely would go with one of the 
>sapphire whispering gallery devices as the start of your chain. A good one
>will blow a quartz crystal based part away ….

That reminds me:

I think the first quartz-crystal at Bell Labs was ring-shaped, do you know if that used a whispering gallery vibration mode ?


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