Novel design of an all-cryogenic RF pound circuit

Ronni Basu; R. T. Wang; G. J. Dick

doi:10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573994

Novel design of an all-cryogenic RF pound circuit

Ronni Basu, R. T. Wang, G. J. Dick

Department of Physics

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We report on the design, construction and test of a new all-cryogenic RF Pound circuit used to stabilize a 100 MHz VCXO. Here, all active and passive RF components used to accomplish the phase modulation and detect a PM to AM conversion have been installed into the cryogenic environment. In conjunction with a high-Q cryogenic sapphire resonator a Pound discriminator sensitivity of 0.1 mV/Hz was seen experimentally. Based on this sensitivity and the noise properties of the pre-amplifier of the Pound signal, we calculate a limit of the oscillator's Allan deviation as low as 4middot10-16/radictau. Experimentally, the first experiments gave a stability of 1middot10-13 at 1 second.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition, 2005.
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2005
ISBN (Print)	0-7803-9053-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.2005.1573994
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	2005 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 29 Aug 2005 → 31 Aug 2005 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/10510/proceeding

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Conference	2005 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	29/08/2005 → 31/08/2005
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/10510/proceeding

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