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Frequency Standards - Rubidium

A10-M

Ultra Low Noise, Rubidium Frequency Standard.
New Quartzlock A10-MX Ultra Low Noise 10MHz

Features

  • No drift
  • High stability
  • 2 year warranty
  • RS232 interface
  • Low phase noise to -165dBc/Hz
  • Ageing: 5x10-10 / year
  • Stability 1 x 10-11/s
  • 1PPS I/O sync.

Benefits

  • Very low cost, high performance reference
  • Fits 1U case
  • Low failure risk
  • Simple systems integration

Applications

  • Frequency calibration
  • Telecom network synchronisation
  • Broadcast
  • Cellular wireless base stations
  • A very high stability LOW NOISE 10MHz Rubidium Reference, primarily for production test of quartz oscillators and RF instrumentation frequency referencing. This industry standard 2U rack-mount instrument has a long heritage and ongoing production life for this latest 2009 version that features RS232 monitoring and control of the DPLL, locking the Ultra Low Noise OCXO to the Rubidium. Damping and Bandwidth is controlled by integrator digital gain, proportional digital gain, pre-filter order and subsample rate. Eight values of user selected bandwidth are available.
  • Phase noise to -115dBc/Hz @ 1Hz offset & noise floor of -173dBc/Hz with excellent short term stability at E x 10-13/s. Frequency accuracy of E-10 with bi-annual calibration or E-13 with GPS locking input option fitted (with QL E8-Y/E8000 GPS T&F ref) This industry leading product can offer 100MHz outputs with circa -180dBc/Hz noise floor. Ultra Low Noise multiple outputs are available. The internal distribution amplifier features -140dBc/Hz @1Hz offset, >110dB isolation @ 10MHz and 90dB @ 100MHz.

Standard Specification:

Output Frequency

10MHz

Output Level

10dBm +/-3dBm

1 PPS Output

Optional

Number of Outputs

1

STS1s

5x10-11

STS10s

1.6x10-11

STS100s

5x10-12

Aging 1 Day

5x10-12

Aging 1 Month

5x10-11

Phase Noise

10Hz-85dBc

Phase Noise

100Hz-125dBc

Phase Noise

1kHz -140dBc

Warm Time

5 Min

Retrace

8x10-11

PSU Nominal

12V

PSU Min

11.5V

PSU Max

12.5V

OT Min

-20C

OT Max

+50C

Current

2.5A warm up 0.5A warmed

Supply

DC

ST Min

-40C

ST Max

+70C

Product Options

This product can have the following options applied to change its specification

Option 00 - Seamless Battery Back-up Switch

Option 01 - Distribution Card 1 Input 4 Outputs

Number of Outputs

4

STS1s

1x10-13

STS10s

3x10-14

STS100s

1x10-14

Phase Noise

1Hz140

Phase Noise

100Hz165

Phase Noise

1kHz 165

Phase Noise

10kHz165

Harmonics

dBc40

Spurious

dBc110

PSU Nominal

24

Current

1

Supply

DC

Option 02 - E1 Output 2048kHz

Option 03 - T1 Output 1544kHz

Option 04 - 13MHz Output

Output Frequency

13MHz

Number of Outputs

1

Option 05 - TTL Output

Option 07 - 10.24MHz Output

Output Frequency

10.24MHz

Number of Outputs

1

Option 08 - 10.23MHz Output

Output Frequency

10.23MHz

Number of Outputs

1

Option 18 - Add Additional 1 to 5 Years Warranty (18.1 = 1 Year … 18.5 = 5 Years)

Option 28 - Change to QL10 High Performance Rubidium Oscillator From LPRO

Output Frequency

10MHz

Output Level

8dBm

Number of Outputs

1

STS1s

2x10-11

STS10s

1x10-11

STS100s

2x10-12

Aging 1 Month

5x10-11

Aging 1 Year

5x10-10

Phase Noise

100Hz140dBc

Phase Noise

1kHz 150dBc

Phase Noise

10kHz155dBc

Harmonics

dBc25dBc

Spurious

dBc130dBc

Warm Time

6min

Retrace

5x10-11

PSU Nominal

24V

PSU Min

22v

PSU Max

30V

OT Min

-20C

OT Max

65C

Current

1.2A

Supply

DC

ST Min

-55C

ST Max

85C

Technical Documents: A10-M

A10-M manual A10-M Datasheet