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Technical
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An 800GHz Oscilloscope Using Optical Sampling
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DATE/TIME
February 23, 2006
(4:30pm to 6:00pm)
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PLACE
Bldg. 1 Auditorium (Avago
Technologies, Fort Collins, CO, formerly Agilent Technologies)
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DIRECTIONS
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Non-Avago
Attendees: Please arrive punctually at 4:15pm as you will
need to be escorted to the seminar
room. RSVP to
bob.barnes@avagotech.com
to expedite sign-in and to help us with a headcount estimate for
food/drinks.
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From I-25, take Harmony Road Exit (Exit
265) westbound, and enter Agilent/HP campus on right. Avago/HP/Intel
campus is on the NE corner of Harmony Road and Ziegler Road.
Proceed to Bldg. 1 Lobby to sign-in and meet host for escort to
Auditorium.
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COST
Free. As always, pizza &
drinks will be provided.
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ABSTRACT
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Optical Fiber Communications was taking off. Faster was better. 40Gb/s
was not enough. Higher bit rates, over 300Gb/s were demonstrated. At
that time a measurement tool was needed to characterize and optimize
optical networks… And the Agilent Optical Sampling Scope was born.
This talk will start with an introduction to oscilloscopes as a preamble
to discussing the optical sampling technology. This introduction will
include the differentiation of sampling approaches (real-time,
time-equivalent, etc.) and less known facts about scope characteristics
and limitations. The talk will then shift to cover the development and
results of the Agilent Optical Sampling Scope. Results of this
breakthrough instrument include measurements of jitter down to 50fs and
pulsewidths as short as 600fs. |
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PRESENTATION SLIDES
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DR. OSVALDO BUCCAFUSCA (Avago Technologies, Fort Collins, CO)
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Osvaldo Buccafusca received his Licenciatura degree in
physics from Buenos Aires University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1989,
and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Colorado
State University, Fort Collins, CO, in 1993 and 1996 respectively.
His research included the study of ultrafast phenomena in semiconductor
materials and the multimode behavior in vertical cavity semiconductor
lasers. Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard in 1998, he held a
research position in the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. In 1999,
Hewlett Packard non-computer divisions spun off to form Agilent
Technologies, where he became the principal scientist in the development
of the first low-jitter (200fs) random sampling oscilloscope timebase
and an optical sampling scope with a breakthrough 800GHz bandwidth.
In 2003, he moved back to Fort Collins where he is providing on-wafer RF
and microwave testing solutions. He is also volunteering as
Chair of the IEEE Centennial Subsection. |
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PRESENTATION SLIDES
Courtesy of Bob Barnes |
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