Q-Tech Corporation has announced the availability of the AXIOM line of ultra-low noise (ULN) oven-controlled crystal oscillators (OCXOs). Designed and manufactured by Q-Tech’s German affiliate, AXTAL, the benefits of the AXIOM ULN OCXO’s ultra-low phase noise (close-in and noise floor) are higher resolution for radar systems, better quality and more transmissible information for communications systems and improved accuracy and lower measurement limits for RF measurement systems. Ultra-low phase noise OCXOs can be customized to achieve near-ideal multiplication and, by allowing the use of various noise-cancellation techniques, they can transfer noise levels up to the GHz range. They also reduce jitter—an important consideration in these applications—with RMS jitter values of less than 50 fs for integration ranges from 10 Hz to 30 MHz.
The AXTAL line of ultra-low phase noise AXIOM OCXOs 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 less than -140 dBc/Hz @ 100 Hz offset and a noise floor down to -185 dBc/Hz. These benefits make ultra-low phase noise AXIOM OCXOs ideal for use in a range of sophisticated applications requiring frequency generation from MHz to GHz.
“AXTAL’s ‘ULN’ devices provide a selection of OCXOs operating over broad frequency ranges with the option of creating fully customizable modules using frequency multiplication and/or PLL techniques,” said Henry Halang, AXTAL’s Managing Director. “With the ability to generate signals at GHz levels, ULN OCXOs offer our customers maximum design flexibility and superior performance.”
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