Oscillators – Molecular or particle resonant type
Patent
1977-11-30
1978-12-05
Kominski, John
Oscillators
Molecular or particle resonant type
324 05, H01S 106
Patent
active
041288149
ABSTRACT:
A maser functioning as a frequency standard stable to one part in 10.sup.14 includes a variable volume, constant surface area storage bulb having a fixed volume portion located in a resonant cavity from which the frequency standard is derived. A variable volume portion of the bulb, exterior to the resonant cavity, has a maximum volume on the same order of magnitude as the fixed volume bulb portion. The cavity has a length to radius ratio of at least 3:1 so that the operation is attained without the need for a feedback loop. A baffle plate, between the fixed and variable volume bulb portions, includes apertures for enabling hydrogen atoms to pass between the two bulb portions and is an electromagnetic shield that prevents coupling of the electromagnetic field of the cavity into the variable volume bulb portion. The maser is operated so that the zero wall shift frequency thereof can be determined by being operated at first and second very accurately controlled temperatures for identical small and large volumes. From the two temperatures and volumes, the zero wall shift frequency is determined as the intersection of two straight lines.
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Cervenka Peter O.
Frosch Robert A. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space
Reinhardt Victor S.
Kominski John
Manning John R.
Marchant Robert D.
Tresansky John O.
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