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Measurement and Characterisation Capabilities

Optical Component and Sub-System Characterisation

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  • Lasers, modulators SOA and fibre amplifiers characterisation
  • Static DC characterisation
  • Dynamic characterisation at RF speeds up to 40 GHz
  • Frequency and spectral response
  • Alpha parameter measurements
  • Pulse amplitude and phase characterisation

Tunable Laser Characterisation

  • Wavelength drift/locker measurements
  • Switching speed and burst mode transmission

Radio-Over-Fibre System Tests

  • Transmitter and receiver testing
  • Bit Error Rate measurements

Transmission Tests

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  • OTDM, WDM and hybrid WDM/OTDM systems up to
    160 Gb/s per channel
  • DCF compensated 40 km spans
  • BER measurements STM-16, 64, 128

Advanced Modulation Format Systems

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  • OFDM, 16QAM, PSK, DPSK, QPSK Transmission
  • Complete coherent receiver module
  • 1 x 50GSa/s Real Time Oscilloscope
  • 1 x 40GSa/s Real Time Oscilloscope
  • 1 x 10GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generator

Optical Signal Temporal Analysis

  • Eye diagram with 1 ps resolution
  • Jitter analysis down to 200 fs

Optical Signal Spectral Analysis

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  • Linewidth measurements
  • Complex (amplitude and phase) optical spectrum
    analysis with 20 MHz resolution

Wafer and Sub-Mount Characterisation Station

  • Single ended optical input/output
  • 2 x DC probes
  • 1 x 40 GHz RF probe (1 mm G-S-G)
  • Temperature controlled mount

RF Component Analysis

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  • RF spectrum analyser < 75 GHz
  • RF signal generator < 67 GHz
  • RF network analyser <50 GHz

Optical Pulse Characterisation and Compression

  • Nonlinear and linear spectrographic amplitude and phase
    measurements down to 500 fs pulses
  • Optimised linear and nonlinear compmression

Pump-Probe Measurements

  • 2 ps resolution in the C-band

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