38th Annual PTTI Meeting 2006
December 07 - 09, 2006
Hyatt Regency Hotel
400 New Jersey Ave. NW
Washington. DC 20001
Meeting Officers
Paper 1: GPS/GALILEO INTEROPERABILITY: GGTO, TIMING BIASES AND GIOVE-A EXPERIENCE
Ricardo Píriz; GMV S.A., Madrid, Spain
Patrizia Tavella; Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM), Torino, Italy
Jörg H. Hahn; Galileo Project Office, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Paper 2: HISTORICAL REVIEW OF ATOMIC FREQUENCY STANDARDS USED IN SPACE SYSTEMS – 10 YEAR UPDATE
Joseph White, U.S. Naval Research Lab
Pascal Rochat, Temex Neuchâtel Time
Leo A. Mallette, Boeing
Paper 3: METAS NEW TIME SCALE GENERATION SYSTEM - A PROGRESS REPORT
Laurent-Guy Bernier, Gregor Dudle, and Christian Schlunegger, METAS Swiss Federal Office of Metrology
Paper 4: VERIFICATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE PHYSICS PARAMETERS OF THE ONBOARD GALILEO PASSIVE HYDROGEN MASER
Q. Wang, P. Mosset, F. Droz, and P. Rochat; Temex Neuchatel Time
G. Busca; Kytime Sarl, Switzerland
Paper 5: GIOVE-A ONBOARD CLOCK PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION: FIRST RESULTS
Jörg H. Hahn, Francisco Gonzales, Pierre Waller, Daniel Navarro-Reyes, and Marco Falcone; Galileo Project Office, European Space Agency
Ricardo Piriz, GMV, Madrid, Spain
Patricia Tavella and Ilaria Sesia, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM), Torino, Italy
Paper 6: MINIATURIZED MERCURY ION CLOCK FOR ULTRA-STABLE DEEP SPACE APPLICATIONS
John Prestage, Sang Chung, Lawrence Lim, and Thanh Le, Jet Propulsion Lab
Paper 7: A MULTI-CHANNEL STABILITY ANALYZER FOR FREQUENCY STANDARDS IN THE DEEP SPACE NETWORK
C. A. Greenhall, A. Kirk, and R. L. Tjoelker; Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology
Paper 8: COMPARING TWO TYPES OF VHF LOW NOISE FREQUENCY SOURCE FOR MICROWAVE AND HIGHER FREQUENCY SYNTHESIS
Takeo Oita, Fumio Asamura, Katsuaki Sakamoto, and Nihon Dempa; Kogyo, Co. Ltd.
Paper 9: QUADRUPOLE TRANSITION SPECTRUM MEASUREMENT OF SINGLE CA+ IONS TOWARD OPTICAL FREQUENCY STANDARDS
Kensuke Matsubara, Ying Li, Kyoya Fukuda, Hiroyuki Ito, Shigeo Nagano, Masatoshi Kajita, Kazuhiro Hayasaka, and Mizuhiko Hosokawa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Shinji Urabe, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Paper 10: AF/NGA GPS MONITOR STATION HIGH PERFORMANCE CESIUM FREQUENCY STANDARD STABILITY 2005/2006
Dennis M. Manning, NGA/GPS Division
Paper 11: GROUND EXPERIMENTS OF REMOTE SYNCHRONIZATION FOR ONBOARD CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR OF QUASI-ZENITH SATELLITES - USE OF MULTIPLE POSITIONING SIGNALS FOR FEEDBACK CONTROL
Toshiaki Iwata, Michito Imae, Tomonari Suzuyama, and Yoshikatsu Kawasaki, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Naoto Takasaki, Kenji Kokubu, and Akira Iwasaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Satoshi Fukushima and Yuji Hashibe, Space Engineering Development Co., Ltd., Japan
Fabrizio Tappero and Andrew Dempster, University of New South Wales, Australia
Paper 12: CHARACTERISTICS OF TIME SYNCHRONIZATION RESPONSE OF NTP CLIENTS ON MS WINDOWS OS AND LINUX OS
K. H. Sato and K. Asari, Mizusawa VERA Observatory
Paper 13: USNO MASTER CLOCK DESIGN ENHANCEMENTS
P. Koppang, J. Skinner, and D. Johns; U.S. Naval Observatory
Paper 14: CHARACTERIZATION OF TIME TRANSFER PERFORMANCE OVER ETHERNET USING IEEE-1588
Harrell Huckeba and Doug Arnold, Symmetricom
Paper 14.5: IEEE 1588: AN UPDATE ON THE STANDARD AND ITS APPLICATION
John C. Eidson , Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Paper 15: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION IN A POWER LINE NETWORK
Georg Gaderer and Patrick Loschmidt, Research Unit for Integrated Sensor Systems, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Nikolaus Kerö, Oregano Systems
Paper 16: DESIGN OF AN IEEE-1588 INTERFACE FOR SUB-NANOSECOND PERFORMANCE
Marek Christer, Steve Passe, and Samuel Stein, Timing Solutions Corporation
Paper 17: APPLICATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE IEEE 1588 STANDARD IN MILITARY APPLICATIONS
John MacKay, Progeny Systems Corporation
Paper 18: INVESTIGATIONS ON SECURITY ASPECTS IN CLOCK SYNCHRONIZED INDUSTRIAL ETHERNET
Georg Gaderer, Albert Treytl, and Patrick Loschmidt; Research Unit for Integrated Sensor Systems, Austrian Academy of Sciences;
Nikolaus Kerö, Oregano Systems
Paper 19: LONG-TERM STABILITY OF NIST CHIP-SCALE ATOMIC CLOCK PHYSICS PACKAGES
S. Knappe, L. Hollberg, and J. Kitching; NIST, Time and Frequency Division
V. Gerginov, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame
V. Shah, Department of Physics, University of Colorado
A. Brannon, Department of Elec. Eng, University of Colorado
Paper 20: g-COMPENSATED, MINIATURE, HIGH PERFORMANCE QUARTZ CRYSTAL OSCILLATORS
Hugo Fruehauf, Frequency Electronics, Inc.
Paper 21: A CPT-BASED 87Rb ATOMIC CLOCK EMPLOYING A SMALL SPHERICAL GLASS VAPOR CELL
Ido Ben-Aroya, Matan Kahanov, and Gadi Eisenstein; Electrical Engineering Department, Technion, Israel
Paper 22: SUB-10-16 FREQUENCY STABILITY IN THE JPL MULTI-POLE LINEAR ION TRAP STANDARD
E.A. Burt, R.T. Wang, D.G. Enzer, W. A. Diener, and R.L. Tjoelker; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Paper 23: STABILIZED PHOTONIC LINKS FOR FREQUENCY AND TIME TRANSFER IN ANTENNA ARRAYS
S. Huang and R. L. Tjoelker, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Paper 24: RELATIVISTIC TRANSFORMATIONS FOR TIME SYNCHRONIZATION AND DISSEMINATION IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Robert A. Nelson, Satellite Engineering Research Corporation
Todd Ely, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Paper 25: TIME DISSEMINATION ALTERNATIVES FOR THE NASA SPACE EXPLORATION PROGRAM
Al Gifford, NASA Headquarters
Robert A. Nelson, Satellite Engineering Research Corporation
Richard S. Orr, SATEL LLC
A.J. Oria and Beryl L. Brodsky, Overlook Systems Technologies
Paper 26: T2L2 ON JASON-2, FIRST EVALUATION OF THE FLYING MODEL
Ph. Guillemot and I. Petitbon, Microwave & Time-Frequency Department, CNES, Toulouse, France
E. Samain, P. Vrancken, J. Weick, D. Albanese, F. Para, and J.-M. Torre; R&D Metrology CNRS/GEMINI – Observatoire. de la Côte d’Azur, Caussol, France
Paper 27: COMPARISON PRECISE TIME TRANSFER WITH USAGE OF MULTI-CHANNEL GPS CV RECEIVERS AND OPTICAL FIBRE AT DISTANCE ABOUT 3 KM
Albin Czubla, Janusz Konopka, and Marcin Górnik; Time and Frequency Laboratory, Electrical Metrology Division, Central Office of Measures (GUM), Warsaw, Poland
Waldemar Adamowicz, Janusz Struoe, Tadeusz Pawszak, and Józef Romsicki; Research & Development Center, Polish Telecom (TP S.A.), Warsaw, Poland
Marcin Lipiñski, Chair of Electronics, AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH), Kraków, Poland
Paper 28: UNBIASED FIR ESTIMATES VS. THE SAWTOOTH-CORRECTED GPS-BASED MEASUREMENTS: EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION
Yuriy S. Shmaliy, Jorge Munoz-Diaz, Luis Arceo-Miquel, and Oscar Ibarra-Manzano; Electronics, FIMEE, Guanajuato University, Salamanca, Gto., Mexico
Paper 29: AN ENSEMBLE OF ULTRA-STABLE QUARTZ OSCILLATORS TO IMPROVE SPACECRAFT ON-BOARD FREQUENCY STABILITY
Mihran Miranian, Gregory L. Weaver, and Matthew J. Reinhart, JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
Paper 30: ANALYSIS OF CLOCK MODELING TECHNIQUES FOR THE USNO CESIUM MEAN
J. Skinner and P. Koppang, U.S. Naval Observatory
Paper 31: STEERING UTC(AOS) BY TA(PL)
Jerzy Nawrocki and P. Ligêza, Astrogeodynamical Observatory (AOS), Borowiec, Poland
Z. Rau, National Institute of Telecommunications (ITL), Warsaw, Poland
W. Lewandowski, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), Sèvres, France
Paper 32: TIME DILATION AND THE LENGTH OF THE SECOND
Steven D. Deines, SiRF Technology, Inc.
Carol A. Williams, Mathematics Department, University of South Florida
Paper 33: GALILEO SYSTEM TIME PHYSICAL GENERATION
X. Stehlin, Q. Wang, F. Jeanneret, and P. Rochat, Temex Neuchâtel Time
Paper 34: GALILEO IOV SYSTEM INITIALIZATION AND LCVTT TECHNIQUE EXPLOITATION
M. Gotta, F. Gottifredi, S. Piazza, and D. Cretoni, Alcatel Alenia Space, S.p.A., Italy
E. Detoma, Sepa, S.p.A., Italy
Paper 35: GPS CHANGES DURING THE LEGACY ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVE
Marc A. Weiss and Judah Levine, NIST Time and Frequency Division
Paper 36: TIME COORDINATION THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAS VIA THE SIM COMMON-VIEW GPS NETWORK
Michael A. Lombardi and Andrew N. Novick, National Institute of Standards and Technology
J. Mauricio Lopez R, Centro Nacional de Metrología (CENAM), Mexico
Jean-Simon Boulanger and Raymond Pelletier, National Research Council (NRC), Canada
Carlos Donado M, Centro Nacional de Metrología de Panamá (CENAMEP), Panama
Paper 37: IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF LOW COST GPS TIMING RECEIVERS
Thomas A Clark, (NASA/GSFC Retired)
Richard M Hambly, CNS Systems, Inc.
Paper 38: GPS SIGNAL INTEGRITY DEPENDENCIES ON ATOMIC CLOCKS
Pradipta Shome, Federal Aviation Administration/AST
Marc A. Weiss, Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ron Beard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Paper 39: REAL-TIME TWO-WAY TIME TRANSFER TO AIRCRAFT
Jeremy Warriner, John Hein, and Tom Celano, Timing Solutions Corporation
CAPT Richard Beckman, United States Air Force
Paper 40: A LONG-TERM COMPARISON OF GPS CARRIER-PHASE FREQUENCY TRANSFER AND TWO-WAY SATELLITE TIME/FREQUENCY TRANSFER
Christine Hackman, JILA - University of Colorado
Judah Levine and Thomas E. Parker, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Paper 41: TWO-WAY TIME TRANSFER USING LOW POWER VSAT
Jeremy Warriner and Tom Celano, Timing Solutions Corporation
CAPT Richard Beckman, U.S. Air Force
Angela Davis-McKinley, U.S. Naval Observatory
Paper 42: CARRIER PHASE TWO-WAY SATELLITE TIME AND FREQUENCY TRANSFER DEVELOPMENT PLAN AT NMIJ
Tomonari Suzuyama, Michito Imae, Yasuhisa Fujii, and Masaki Amemiya; National Metrology Institute of Japan, (NMIJ)/National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Poster 1: TIME AND FREQUENCY ACTIVITIES AT THE U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY
D. Matsakis, U.S. Naval Observatory
Poster 2: UPDATE OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES ON TIME AND FREQUENCY AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (NICT)
Kensuke Matsubara, Shin'ichi Hama, Kuniyasu Imamura, Yasuhiro Koyama, Hiroshi Toriyama, and Mizuhiko Hosokawa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Poster 3: NEW CLOCKS COMPARISON, TIME SCALES GENERATION AND MASTER CLOCK DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS AT METAS TIME & FREQUENCY LABORATORY
Laurent-Guy Bernier, Gregor Dudle, and Christian Shlunegger; METAS Swiss Federal Office of Metrology
Poster 4: PTB’S TIME AND FREQUENCY ACTIVITIES IN 2006
D. Piester, J. Becker, T. Polewka, M. Rost, D. Sibold, and E. Staliuniere; Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
Poster 5: LONG BASELINE TWSTFT BETWEEN NICT AND PTB
M. Fujieda, T. Gotoh, M. Aida, J. Amagai, and H. Maeno, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan
D. Piester and A. Bauch, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
Poster 6: EFFECTS OF THE ROOFTOP ENVIRONMENT ON GPS TIME TRANSFER
Michael A. Lombardi and Andrew N. Novick, Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Poster 7: ESTIMATING THE RECEIVER DELAY FOR IONOSPHERE-FREE CODE (P3) GPS TIME TRANSFER
Victor Zhang, Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology