List: time-nuts@lists.febo.com
From: Richard (Rick) Karlquist
Re: [time-nuts] Low Additive Phase Noise 10 MHz Amps
Mon, Nov 24, 2014 5:53 AM
Phase noise, as all time nuts know, is NOT ADDITIVE NOISE,
as in AWGN. It is multiplicative. The correct term, IMHO,
is "residual phase noise". What additive noise refers to
is the classic noise figure type noise involving small signals.
Again, as all time nuts know, low NF is necessary but not
sufficient for low phase noise.
Rick Karlquist N6RK