Title :
Improvements of the Procedures Used to Study the Fluctuations of Oscillators
Author :
Boileau, Etienne
Abstract :
Considering that procedures currently used to study the fluctuations in oscillators do not give directly useful results, we have tried to define a procedure more suitable for experimentalists. We have tempted to obtain a function ¿(T) which would be a kind of variance of the frequency fluctuations observed in a duration T. Taking a frequency domain point of view, we find a procedure which can yield also an estimation of the spectral density of the frequency.
Keywords :
Current measurement; Fluctuations; Frequency domain analysis; Frequency estimation; Frequency measurement; Nonlinear filters; Oscillators; Performance evaluation; Time measurement; Yield estimation;
Journal_Title :
Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIM.1978.4314665