List of Instruments
Fiber splicing machines and accessories:
- Non-PM splicing machine - Fitel
- PM splicing machine - Fujikura
- Angle cleaver
- Splice recoater
Optical spectrum analyzer:
- Agilent (600 nm - 1700 nm)
- IMON
Laser sources:
- Tunable laser (1530 nm - 1570 nm)
- DFB laser : 1550 nm
- Narrow linewidth laser (Vortex)
- Semiconductor diode laser sources : 1550 nm, 980 nm, 1064 nm, 1440 nm, 915 nm
- Broadband ASE source (C+L band)
Optical amplifiers:
- Erbium doped fiber amplifier - (OptiWave photonics)
- Semiconductor optical amplifier (linear / non-linear SOA) - (CIP)
Specialty fibers:
- Single clad Erbium-doped fibers (PM/non-PM) - OFS, Nufern
- Single clad / double clad / large mode-area Ytterbium-doped fiber (PM) - Nufern
- Highly non-linear fiber (HNLF)
Optical modulators:
- Electro-optic modulators (EOM - 1550 nm) - Photline
- Acousto-optic frequency shifter (AOFS - 1550 nm) - Brimrose
PMD analyzer:
- EXFO
Power measurements:
- Handheld power meters: -50 – +17 dBm
- Inline power meters
- Free-space high power detector (Coherent)
Optical Detectors:
- Low-noise amplifiers (PD-TIA): -3 dBm, ~100 MHz
- High bandwidth TIAs: ~25 GHz
- Ultrashort pulse detectors (FROG): <30 ps
- Femtochrome autocorrelator
Electrical spectrum analyzers:
- Rohde & Schwarz : 30 GHz
- Agilent : 2.2 GHz
Oscilloscopes:
- Sampling oscilloscope (LeCroy) : 30 GHz
- Digital storage oscilloscope (Tektronix) : 200 MHz
- Mixed signal oscilloscopes (Tektronix) : 100 MHz
- CRO (LeCroy) : 175 MHz
Function generators:
- RF signal generator : 9 kHz - 4 GHz
- Pulse generator : 20 MHz
- Signal generator : 5 MHz
- Arbitrary waveform generator : 240 MHz
- Optical PRBS generator : ~10 Gbps @1550 nm
- Hittite : 10 MHz - 20 GHz
Fiber optic components:
- Fiber-coupled optical couplers (50/50, 90/10, 99/1 etc.) @ 1550 nm and 1064 nm
- Isolators & Circulators
- WDM couplers
- Polarization beam splitter
- Tunable optical bandpass filter (C-band)
- Polarization controllers
- Optical attenuators (fixed / variable)
FBG fabrication facility:
- FBG's at 1550 nm and 1064 nm
- FP-FBG's
- Long-period gratings