[time-nuts] GPS noise reduction

[Bruce Griffiths]

Tom Van Baak wrote:
>> Actually, in this application will a bit of interlocking not 
>> hurt, as the two oscillators should longterm have the same 
>> frequency and interlocking will pull them together to their 
>> average frequency. If you further aid this interlocking by 
>> externally couple them together for higher frequencies (up to 
>> say 10-100 Hz) then you can sum their outputs and get a 
>> reduced noise response, a 3 dB improvement. The noise 
>> processes internal to the oscillators will be uncorrelated 
>> where as the locking causes the signals to be in phase.
>>     
>
> This is very true. I saw that HP did this in their cal lab with a
> half-dozen(?) hand-picked 10811 in order to get a combined
> virtual OCXO with better phase noise than any one physical
> OCXO. Rick, maybe you remember some details of this cool
> 10811 ensemble?
>
> /tvb
>
>   
Tom

Phase noise is also reduced when an oscillator uses several crystals 
(with the same resonant frequency) connected in series.

Bruce