My understanding is that the immediate application is for fixed frequency, but my friend's products include some that are frequency agile, and he would like to be able to leverage the technology development across his product line.
In the agile application, I do not know how fast it must switch frequency, and by how much. I am still waiting for that information. It is for a coherent doppler radar system, so it must be clean and stable in the short term. Long term drift can be relatively easily corrected in the receiver processor. I do not know his specs yet, but some doppler radar amplifiers I make must have spurs <70 dBc between PRF lines, including switching frequency and line frequency spurs. Broad band noise and close-in noise are not a problem with my amplifiers, because they are usually masked by the LO phase noise. But, my business is typically for the military, so the environmental requirements, and cost, are usually not comparable to this commercial application. Didier John Miles wrote: > How agile does it have to be, and how clean does it have to be? "Optical > microwave clock distribution" and "price sensitive" aren't terms you > normally encounter in the same wing of the library. > > -- john, KE5FX > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Behalf Of Dr Bruce Griffiths >> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:32 PM >> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT: transfer of 3 GHz via fiber optic >> >> >> Didier Juges wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list > time-nuts@febo.com > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts