A Commercial Hydrogen Maser

Abstract

Efratom Systems Corporation has been participating in an NBS Industrial Research Associate Program since July, 1981. One of the goals of this program is to produce new and improved small passive hydrogen masers. Efratom will then develop a commercially available full production hydrogen maser. This paper describes the design of the new small passive hydrogen maser prototype and some anticipated design changes between the version reported in this paper and the commercial versions. Specifications of the commercial hydrogen maser and performance data of the prototype are given. This paper describes a program that has been in progress for about a year and a half to design, build and test a Compact Passive Hydrogen Maser atomic frequency standard, in a form suitable for quantity production, with the goal of making this instrument widely available in the commercial market place. The design is derived from the extensive technology in passive hydrogen masers, evolved over the past five years at the National Bureau of Standard by Dr. Fred Wall's and his co-workers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA497106

Entities

People

  • L. Wert
  • M. Dials

Organizations

  • Ball Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Atomic Beam Masers
  • Data Sets
  • Elements
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Standards
  • Frequency Synthesizers
  • Hydrogen
  • Industrial Research
  • Information Operations
  • Masers
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Power
  • Specifications
  • Standards
  • Time Intervals

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