OCXOs Offer Ultra-Low Noise and Jitter Over Wide Frequency Ranges
Q-Tech Corp.’s AXIOM ULN oven-controlled crystal oscillators (OXCOs), designed and built by its German affiliate AXTAL, offer ultra-low phase noise (close-in and noise floor). The devices provide higher resolution for radar systems, higher-quality and more transmissible data for communications systems, and improved accuracy and lower measurement limits for RF test systems. Attendees of the International Microwave Symposium in San Francisco can see these devices in Booth #4215.
The ultra-low phase-noise OCXOs can be customized to achieve near-ideal multiplication. What’s more, by allowing for the use of various noise-cancellation techniques, they can transfer noise levels up to the gigahertz range. They also reduce jitter with RMS jitter values of <50 fs for integration ranges of 10 Hz ~ 30 MHz.
The AXTAL line comprises 16 devices, including the AXIOM75ULN and AXIOM5050ULN (80 to 160 MHz) and the multiple-output AXIOM2700 (50 MHz to 7.0 GHz), all offering exceptional phase noise. At lower frequencies (non-multiplied), the AXIOM ULN OCXOs can obtain levels of <–140 dBc/Hz at 100-Hz offset and a noise floor down to –185 dBc/Hz. These benefits make the AXIOM OCXOs suitable for use in a range of sophisticated applications requiring frequency generation from MHz to GHz.
