Evaluation of new technologies for harsh environment – Photonics
Testing Resources
- Clean area with a laminar flow chamber (class 100)
- Optical table with vibration stability
- ESD free area
- 1064 nm, 1310 nm and 1550 nm lasers with a modulation option of up to 20 GHz
- Integrating sphere (250 – 2500 nm) and detectors
- Spectrum analyser (600 – 1750 nm, resolution 20 pm)
- Return Loss & OTDR analyser
- Optical attenuators and splitters
- Monochromator (180nm – 2200nm & 2000 nm – 12000nm)
- Translation and rotation positioners
- Climatic chambers (thermal shock -185º to +300ºC , life, etc…)
- Mechanical test system (pull, push, torsion)
Table M-RS3000-48 (120cm x 240cm)
Surface flatness: < ±0.1mm over 600mm
Clean area optoelectronic resources (better than ISO-5 or class 100)
Positioning
- Motion controller driver Newport XPS
- 1-8 axes motion controller
- Precision Motorized Actuators LTA-HS
- Travel: 50 mm
- Resolution: 0.035 µm
- Minimum incremental motion: 0.1 µm
- Rotation stage Newport PR50CC
- Range: 360º
- Resolution: 0.01”
- Accuracy: <0.1”
Tunable Lasers
- Agilent 8168F
- Ouput FC/APC
- Tunable from 1450 to 1590nm
- Optical power -20dBm to 9.9dBm
- ID-PHOTONICS CBDX1-1-C-H01-FA
- Polarization maintaining
- Output FC/APC
- Optical power 6dBm to16dBm
- Line width < 100kHz
- Tunable to any wavelength from 1527.604 to 1567.135nm
- 1MHz step size fine tuning
Laser characterization Specific Photonics Testing Resources
- Thorlabs PRO8000 mainframe
- Thorlabs LDC 8010 board (up to 1A and photodiode detector)
- Thorlabs TED8080 (Peltier control up to 8A)
- Thorlabs MLC8200AG (16 Lasers up to 200mA)
- Keithley precision power supply
- 2635A (1fA, 10A pulse)
- Keithley precision power supply
- 2410A (1100V, 1 A)
- Keithley precision power supply
- 2602A (1100V, 1 A, 2 channels)
Optical spectrum analyzer MS9710C
- Wavelength accuracy: 20 pm.
- Dynamic range: 42 dB (70 dB with an accuracy of 1nm).
- 600 nm – 1700nm.
- Optical sensitivity: -90dB.
Wavelength Meter and Laser Spectrum Analyzer Bristol 721A
- Wavelength range: 1300 to 5000nm.
- Wavelength meter accuracy: ± 0.2ppm (0.2pm at 1000nm).
- Spectral resolution: 6 GHz
