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Equipment in our lab

Fabrication and test platforms

  • Fiber Bragg grating fabrication facility (Innova 300C frequency-doubled ion laser) (1 unit)
      • - Phase masks (uniform, chirped)
  • Silicon photonics test platform (2 units)
      • - Image source USB CCD camera DMK 31AU03
      - 120V Fiber Optic Power Supply (150w EKE lamp, 0.720" fiber input)
      - Metric-Tapped 50 mm TravelMax with BSC201 Controller (thorlabs:LNR50K1/M)
      - Temperature Controller (ILX Lightwave LTD-5910B)
      - Spot CCD IR 1550 (Melles Griot 13PSC008 Spot CCD IR 1550)
      - Vacuum Pump (Gast 0523-V542AQ-G588DX)
      - IR Microscope/Prober Station
      - Digital Cameras
        - Watec America LCL- 17HS
        - WAT-502A
        - Panasonic GP-MF622
        - CCD XC 75 Video Camera Module
        - Hitachi KP-D50
  • Group III-V active device test platform (1 unit)

  • Series time encoded ultrafast imaging system (1 unit)


    • Optical equipment

  • Ando AQ6317B optical spectrum analyzers (2 units)

  • Ando AQ6312B optical spectrum analyzers (2 units)

  • Optical auto/cross correlator (1 unit) (Femtochrome Research, FR-103MN)

  • HP/Agilent 8509C Polarization Analyzer (1 unit)

  • LUNA OVA CTe All Parameter Analyzer (2 units)

  • Ericsson Fiber fusion splicers (4 units)

  • Fujikura 40PM PM Fiber fusion splicer (1 unit)

  • DVP OE Tech. Fiber fusion splicer (1 unit)

  • Exfo IQ-203 laser spectrum analyzer (1 unit)

  • Microscopes (2)

  • Agilent 8163B Digital Lightwave Multimeter (1 unit)

  • Finisar WaveShaper 4000S Multiport Optical Processor (1 unit)

  • Keysight N4373D Lightwave Component Analyzer

  • Dual Scanning Slit Beam Profiler 900 - 1700 nm (thorlabs:BP209-IR/M)


    Electrical equipment

  • Agilent E8364A 50 GHz vector network analyzer (1)

  • Agilent E4448A 50 GHz microwave spectrum analyzer (1 unit)

  • Agilent E8254A 40 GHz microwave signal generator (1 unit)

  • Agilent 86100C/86116A (53 GHz optical / 63 GHz Electrical) sampling oscilloscope (1 unit)

  • Agilent N4901B 13.5 Gbps bit error rate tester (BERT) (1 unit)

  • Aritsu ME522A bit error rate tester (BERT) (1 unit)

  • Tektronix TDS7704B 7 GHZ digital phosphor oscilloscope

  • Tektronix AWG710210 Gs/s 8/10 bit, 32M point, 2-channel arbitrary waveform generator

  • 3 GHz microwave signal generator (1 unit)

  • Agilent 33250A 80 MHz function generator (1 unit)

  • Agilent E5052B Signal Source Analyzer (10 MHz - 7 GHz) (1 unit)

  • Agilent E5053A Microwave Downconvertor (3 GHz - 26.5 GHz) (1 unit)

  • HP 8593A Spectrum Analyzer (9 KHz - 22 GHz)

  • Keysight M8195A 65 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generator

  • Keysight N4391A Optical Modulation Analyzer (4 channels with 33 GHz analog bandwidth)


    Optoelectronic components

  • Modulators
      - JDSU High-speed electro-optic intensity modulators (10 GHz x 3, Model:10021840, 20 GHz x 1, Model:10026465)
      - JDSU 20 GHz High-speed electro-optic phase modulators (2 units, Model:10023874)
      - Thorlabs 40 GHz High-speed electro-optic phase modulators (2 units, Model:LN27S-FC and LN66S-FC)
      - Optilab 40 GHz Analog Modulator (2 units, Intensity Modulator, Moduel: IM-1550-40-PM)
      - JGKB 40-GHz polarization modulator (3 units,1 unit of half-wave voltage 5 V, 2 units of half-wave voltage 3 V, Model:PL-40G-3-1550)
      - Lucent 10 GHz Intensity Modulator (5 units, Model:2623CSA)
      - Fujitsu FTM7921ER Amplitude Dual-Drive 10Gb/s LN Mach-Zehnder Fiber Optical Modulator (2 units)
      - Fujitsu FTM7980EDA DP-BPSK 40Gbps LN Modulator (2 units)
      - Fujitsu FTM7977HQA DP-QPSK 100G LN Single-Drive C/L Band Optical LN Modulator (2 units)
  • Photodetectors
      - New Focus High-speed photodetectors (25 GHz x 2, Model:1414,45 GHz x 2, Model:1014)
      - Nortel 10 GHz photodetecto (5 units)
      - U2T photonics 100 GHz photodetector (XPDV4120R)
      - Optilab 12 GHz photodetector (LR-12-A-M)
      - Optilab 40 GHz photodetector (PD-40-M)
      - Discovery Semicoductors Ultra-fast InGaAs Pin Diodes to 60 GHz (DSC10ER-39-FC/UPC-V-2)
      - Discovery Semiconductors DP-QPSK 40/100 Gbps Coherent Receiver Lab Buddy (DSC-R413)
      - Discovery Semiconductors DSC740 40 GHz Balanced Photo-Detector (DSC740)

    Active optical components

  • IMRA femtolite780 Femtosecond laser source (1 unit)

  • Tunable laser sources (4 units)
      - Anritsu MG9638A
      - Santec TSL-200
      - Yokogawa AQ2201
      - Photonetics PRI Tunable Laser SWS15101
  • Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (4 units)

  • Semiconductor optical amplifiers (1 unit)

  • Fiber lasers

  • DFB laser diodes (6 units)

  • BATOP Saturable absorber mirror for laser mode locking (3 units)

  • Kamelian Nonlinear Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (2 units)


    Passive optical components

  • OZ optics Tunable Optical Filter (1 unit)

  • General Photonics Variable Optical Delay Line (1 unit)

  • 3D MMux Photonic Lantern 3 ch (2 units)

  • Spatially variable optical delay line (2 units)

  • TeraXion linearly chirped fiber Bragg gratings (4 units)

  • TeraXion phase-shifted fiber Bragg gratings (4 units)

  • 1x8 power splitters (2 units, FOCI Fiber Optic Communications, Inc., Model: C-TW-AS-01-H-0800-15-FC/FC)

  • Lens fiber (8 units)

  • Dispersion compensating fibers (4 units)
      - Cisco DCU-W-N-0600-R (-609ps/nm)
      - Fujitsu FC9686DCL3 (-1020ps/nm)
      - BTI BP1A10CC-LC (-680ps/nm)
      - Lucent DK-340 (-339ps/nm)
  • Multimode fibers (2 units)
      - G030016 50/125um, OD=250um (1140m)
      - G030016 50/125um, OD=250um (1190m)

    Active microwave components

  • Broadband RF Amplifier (10 units)
      - Picosecond Pulse Labs 5822B Amplifier (4 units)
      - MultiLink modulator driver MTC5515-751 (3 units)
      - Lucix S060180P3401 (1 unit)
      - Agilent 83050A (1 unit)
      - Litton DXA-5184-01 (1 unit)

    Passive microwave components

  • UWB antenna pair (1 unit)

  • Agilent 18 GHz step-tunable microwave attenuator (1 unit)

  • SMA Bias Tee 20 MHz - 13.8 GHz (2 units), 20 MHz - 20 GHz (2 units)

  • Microwave bandpass filter, center frequency 10 GHz, bandwidth 20 MHz (1 units)

  • Tektronix 18 ~ 220 GHz harmonic mixers (1 unit)

  • 40A-GSG-100-RVP-N RF probe (2 units)

  • Picoprobes (Model-MCW-19-6527, Model-MCW-18-4354, Model-MCW-20-9703-3)


    Design software

  • Optical design software packages: Optisystem, OptiBPM, OptiGrating, OptiAmplifier

  • Optical design software packages: Lumerical Interconnect, Mode and FDTD

  • Dell Precision T7610 Workstation






    Microwave Photonic System Characterization Facility


    Fiber Bragg grating Fabrication Facility