Why You Can’t Just Use a Spectrum Analyzer Industry has an increasing demand for spectrally pure signals in applications such as imaging radar, mobile communications, satellite communications, weather ...

Normalization Phase noise is specified as the noise power contained within a bandwidth of 1 Hz. Spectrum analyzers measure power using a resolution-bandwidth (RBW) filter, and in most spectrum ...

Dr. Sam Stein is the VP of engineering at Symmetricom Timing Test and Measurement Division. Symmetricom engineers have recently developed a digital sampling technique for measuring phase noise in ...

Figure 3: Measured spin-noise reduction and coherence. The squeezed states prepared in this work can be released from the confining lattice for precision sensing applications. To infer the retrievable ...

To help research and manufacturing engineers make precise and accurate measurement of frequency signals, including those generated by atomic clocks and other high-performance frequency reference ...

Oscillator drift remains one of the most critical threats to precision timing in high-performance communication systems. In ...

“Optical interferometry plays an essential role in precision metrology such as in gravitational wave detection, gyroscopes, and environmental sensing. Weak value amplification enables reaching the ...

In this month’s column, we take a look at a short-distance two-way ranging system using a 5.8-GHz carrier to supply not only precise and accurate distance measurements but also complementary ...