International audienceThe aim of this communication is to present the performances of 5 MHz distributed ultra-stable system, based on ultra-stable Boitiers à Vieillissement Amélioré (BVA) oscillator. We demonstrated flicker frequency modulation (FFM) floor better than 4.5 × 10−14 ± 2.5 × 10−15 at 12 s with an intrinsic noise floor about 6 × 10−15 at 1 s with a τ−1/2 time integration dependence slope
This paper discusses the time-domain measurement of short-term frequency stability of ultra-stable BVA oscillators with flicker frequency modulation noise on the order of 10‑14 at averaging intervals from hundreds of milliseconds to tens of seconds. The stability has been measured with a highly sensitive phase-time comparator based on the dual-mixer time-difference multiplication with a background instability of ≈7x10-15/τ in terms of Allan deviation. A discrepancy has been observed in the comparator background noise found with two signals from a single oscillator (comparator test) and with two signals from two oscillators (stability measurements)
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