Events
Wednesday, 02 December, 2009
Short course on stable oscillators given by Prof Enrico Rubiola
Université de Franche Comté and the Department of Time and Frequency of
the FEMTO-ST Institute, Besançon, France.
Prof. Rubiola has worked on various topics of electronics and metrology,
navigation systems, time and frequency comparisons, and Cs frequency
standards. His main fields of interest are precision electronics form dc
to microwaves and phase noise metrology, which include frequency
synthesis, high spectral purity oscillators, photonic systems,
sophisticated instrumentation, and noise. He has developed a new
generation of instruments for AM/PM noise measurement with ultimate
sensitivity, based on synchronous detection of the error signal in
a sophisticated version of the Wheatstone bridge, and on a variety of
signal-processing methods.
The course will consist of three lectures
Dec 2nd: General metrology of amplitude and phase noise
Dec 9th: The origin of frequency instability and noise in oscillators
Dec 11th: The cross-spectrum experimental method
and will be given in the Herbert Walther lecture hall from 10:00-11:00 on Dec. 2nd and 9th and from 13:30-14:30 on Dec. 11th.