[time-nuts] Re: Optical 10 MHz source information

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Until real world examples exist of multiple designs *and* they have been in the field for a few years …. who knows. At this point even simple stuff like projected cost and MTBF isn’t out in the public domain. 

Like it or not, cost very much *does* matter in terms of widespread adoption of anything like this. Can they get below $50K a unit? Are they now above $500K a unit? We can only guess. 

Is there a (small) market for “the best” at any cost? Sure there is. Is that what these guys are focused on? I’d bet it is. NIST buys two a year, NRL buys 2 a year, PTB buys 5 a year :) , a dozen other “somebodies” each buy 1 or 2 a year …. If they sell for > $500K each, you have a > $5M a year market. 

Bob

> On Jan 22, 2024, at 5:58 PM, Perry Sandeen via time-nuts <time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:
> 
> List,
> I see that there are now two providers of optical 10 MHz souces.
> I would appreciate it if someone could give a "laymans" report on cost, MTBF, how they verify there calibration as well as if they will suppliment Cs, H-masers, etc.
> TIA
> Perry KM6FQV
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