Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 21:57:06 +0000 From: Joe Gwinn Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Atomic nucleus excited with laser: a breakthrough after decades Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 17:57:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 17 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-TPJW+HX5JsjsoyOSm7iIrHCqecWi4krZsgWT4j6N5I9e4uk8K/JrFBwpP++EVPVuouI1HHUQGcj/bK/!IHpXrDZ2bvLQK+MHoWxGtYvXKFSXfMadLfFyIaK3tunsc9aypqajwTTJ/7LIc1rIwH/bCJU= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 1936 On Wed, 8 May 2024 14:45:42 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs wrote: [snip] >The cleverest part of the Hall-Haensch comb generator is that you can lock >the blue end of the comb to the second harmonic of the red end, one tooth >off, and lock the difference to a good reference. Then all the teeth have >the same phase noise as the reference oscillator, rather than 20 log(600 >THz / 100 MHz) ~ 138 dB worse, as it would be in a multiplier. Hmm. It had to be true, but I never connected the dots there. What is mechanism by which this is achieved? References? Thanks, Joe Gwinn