[time-nuts] More HP5065 experiments

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <560B0E63.1060903 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:

>For instance, the lamp oscillator is 
>open-loop, so supply voltage and temperature effects will factor in 
>undamped. Servo up the intensity seems to be the remedy there.

It might also be an interesting experiment to injection-lock the
lamp-exciter oscillator, just to see if there is any RF leakage or
light intensity effects related to that...

>What about the C-field, can we servo up that by looking at the side-band 
>Rabi/Ramsey pedistals? Yes, it should be there, but I haven't had the 
>time to measure it. Doing that would require hacking into the 
>synthesizer side and jump around on the 5,3 MHz signal much as you would 
>do to the 12 MHz signal for Cesiums.

Doing a DSS based synth is a pretty obvious experiment, and along
with an ADC on the optical signal and a processor, a lot of servo-loop
algorithms become viable.

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