Our equipment inventory includes:

Anritsu

12.5 Gbit/s and 43 Gbit/s BERTs,

and 65 GHz VNA

Agilent

DCA's, OSA's, Dispersion Analyser, 50 GHz RF Spectrum Analyser, C- and L-band Tunable Lasers, 20 GHz Differential VNA, Polarisation Controller and Scrambler                                        

JDSU

EDFA's, Optical Attenuators, Tunable Optical  Grating Filters, Broadband Sources

OFS-Fitel

1500 km of SM Optical Fibre

SHF

Multiformat 10G and 40G Transmission Systems   

Signatone

S-1160 RF Probe Station

(image, user manual )

(courtesy CMC Microsystems)

Tektronix

DSA 8200 Communication Signal Analyser

Thorlabs

6-Axis Nanopositioning System

NEW:

Laser and Photonic Waveguide Chip-on-Carrier Testing (.pdf)

      

Detailed equipment pages are HERE (registration is required to access).

The collaboratory offers a wide range of test capabilities. A few of the fundamental capabilities are catalogued:  Lab Testing Capabilities   (.xls file)

To learn more about the APSL and how it can benefit your work, please contact:

Ms. Patricia Greig, 

Photonics Lab Engineer

Office:  501 Walter Light Hall

Desk:    613.530.4662

Lab:       613.533.3172

Email:   greig@cmc.ca

Lab engineer schedule:

August 2010

September 2010

October 2010

    

"Researchers from Queen's and other Canadian universities will have access to state-of-the-art instrumentation for virtually all aspects of photonic systems testing."

      

Dr. John Cartledge,
Queen's Research Chair,
Principal Investigator, APSL,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Queen's University

    

The Advanced Photonic Systems Lab is located at:

Room 508,

Walter Light Hall,

19 Union Street ,

Queen's University,

Kingston, Ontario

K7L 3N6

CANADA

 

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