[time-nuts] OSA 8600 Oscillators

Rob Kimberley time.bandit at btinternet.com
Wed Mar 15 13:55:08 EST 2006


BVAs certainly are the crème de la crème of OCXOs. I have seen examples that
have been running for several years that exhibit aging down to a few parts
in E-12 per day!! 

The "Father" of the BVA was Raymond Besson, who now works for  Laboratoire
de Chronométrie Electronique Piézoélectricité, France.

Rob K

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
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Sent: 15 March 2006 18:42
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OSA 8600 Oscillators

>From what I have read, BVA technology is about as good as it gets for the
best close-in phase noise in a quartz crystal.  It was once desribed to me
as having the lowest "quartz-to-crud-ratio" since the elctrodes are not
plated on to the quartz.  A limiting factor can be that less RF power can be
coupled through the crystal due to the series capacitance effect of the
spaced elctordes. Close-in noise is great but far-out noise could be poorer
than typical SC-cut plated xtal due to S/N effects with a lower xtal drive
power.

Maybe someone here on this list with more first hand experience can give us
more details about the subject.

-Brian, WA1ZMS

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Bill Hawkins" <bill at iaxs.net>
> The PDF says that nothing contacts the crystal, which implies 
> capacitive coupling. Interesting.
> 
> Oscilloquartz is part of the Swatch group. It has been in the business 
> of time synchronization for more than 20 years. All that I could learn 
> from their web site is that they are proud of their BVA crystal 
> technology, which was announced in 1982.
> 
> Does anyone know anything about the technology?
> 
> Hans, is it possible that you are associated with Oscilloquartz?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill Hawkins
> 
> 
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