Labore
The institute is equipped with excellent laboratory facilities. Here you find a short overview of the available instruments and labs.
Overview of the Main Measurement Equipment
Micro- and Millimeterwave Measurement Instrumentation
- 8-port full duplex Vector Signal Transceiver (VST) up to 6 GHz with a Bandwidth of 80 MHz (based on NI PXIe‑5645R)
- Phase noise measurement with AnaPico APPH20G for signals up to 26 GHz
- Signal and spectral analyzer up to 8 GHz (R&S FSW-8)
- 2-Port VNA with complete frequency coverage up to 500 GHz (e.g. Rohde & Schwarz ZVA with ZVA-Z90/110/170/220/325/500)
- Differential „True Mode“ 2-Port network analysis / Single-Ended 4-port analysis up to 67 GHz (e.g. Agilent PNA-X 67 GHz)
- Spectral analysis up to 850 GHz
- Noise measurements (incl. 1/f-Noise)
- Materialcharacterisation up to 325 GHz
- Antenna measurments
- Modular Mixed-Signal-Testsystem
- Analysis capability of signalintegrity issues and signalpath characterization in time and frequency domain
- Time domain measurements reaching to the pico second range
- PCB measurements for signalintegrity and material characterisation
THz Equipement
- Quasi-optical measurement instrumentations up to 2.5 THz
- Electromagnetic field sampling system
- THz-Short pulse system (Menlo Systems Tera K15)
Technologies
- Development and fabrication of dielectric waveguides
- Development and fabrication of refractors and mirrors
- Development and fabrication of polarisation gratings
- Laser structuring of microwave PCB laminates
- Electro plating shop
- Bonding station
- Powerful micromechanical work shop
Photonics and Lightwave Measurement Instrumentation
- Optical spectral analyzer 600 nm … 1700 nm (e.g. Yokogawa AQ6370)
- Broadband tunable laser sources (e.g. Agilent 81600)
- Super-continuum white light source (Koheras SuperK Compact)
- Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, ytterbium fiber laser, femtosecond fiber laser
- Fusion splicers for standard and specialty fibers (Ericson FSU995, Fitel S176 + S183)
- Polarisation measurement instrumentation, Stokes polarimeter
- Optical power detectors from UV to FIR, from 100 fW up to 200 W
- IR beam diagnostics, beam quality measurement