Re: [time-nuts] NIST Launches a New U.S. Time Standard: NIST-F2 Atomic Clock

2014-04-03 Thread ben bloom
It's true that this is really a feat given the difficulty of measuring these systematics. Not to toot my own horn but... http://www.nist.gov/pml/div689/20140122_strontium.cfm . even just a few months ago we were talking about mid E-18 using an optical clock.

Re: [time-nuts] sysclock source for AD9912 DDS?

2013-12-30 Thread ben bloom
My lab has had good luck with the ADF4350 eval boards as clock generators. The snippet description on the analog devices website of them is incorrect though, they can accept a 10 MHz clock ref. The datasheet is definitely more accurate than the description. -Ben On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 9:36

Re: [time-nuts] Yb clock - NPR Story on Atomic Clocks

2013-08-24 Thread ben bloom
Hi all, I'm new to this list, but papers like the recent Yb Science or the Sr PRL from last year will almost always have freely available draft versions on the ArXiv. It's usually easiest to search for the PI's name to find all the things they have ever uploaded. The Yb clock is