Title :
Oscillator phase noise: A 50-year retrospective
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA
Abstract :
Fifty years ago emerging developments in oscillator applications led to the formation of an IEEE committee to unify time- and frequency-domain definitions of frequency stability. As a member, the author had the good fortune to participate and contribute. This paper is a personal recollection of events and impressions of the committee´s 1964 IEEE-NASA Symposium, our 1966 Proc IEEE special issue on frequency stability (with comments on this author´s oscillator-model paper), and our 1971 “Characterization of Frequency Stability” paper that was written to provide a basis for IEEE Std 1139.
Keywords :
IEEE standards; frequency stability; frequency standards; oscillators; phase noise; 1964 IEEE-NASA Symposium; IEEE Std 1139; frequency stability; oscillator phase noise; Frequency modulation; Frequency-domain analysis; Noise; Oscillators; Stability criteria; Standards; 1964 IEEE-NASA Symposium; frequency stability; history; phase noise; short-term stability;
Conference_Titel :
Frequency Control Symposium & the European Frequency and Time Forum (FCS), 2015 Joint Conference of the IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-8865-5
DOI :
10.1109/FCS.2015.7138853
