This is for a price sensitive commercial application, not a science project and he is trying to minimize the amount of hardware at the far end for cost and maintenance reasons. A cleanup PLL becomes very costly when dealing with a frequency agile system.
Thanks Didier Hal Murray wrote: >> A friend of mine wants to send a 3 GHz LO signal up a fiber optic cable. >> > > How crazy is your friend? What's wrong with a cleanup PLL? > > As Bruce said, the people I know of who are good in that area are the radio > astronomers. They need timing (phase) stability rather than just frequency, > so their problem may be harder than yours. > > Beware: time sink alert. His references are fun reading. > > > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
