Main facilities
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Microwave and millimeter waves:
- AB Millimeter Vector Network Analyzer 70-500 GHz, plus waveguide, sources, detectors, isolators and filters for W, D and H bands.
- Agilent ESA-E 9khz - 6.7 GHz spectrum analyzer with 1 Hz RBW
- Hameg 1 GHz spectrum analyzer.
- Phase Matrix EIP 575B source locking microwave frequency counter 10 MHz - 20 GHz. Phase Matrix EIP 545A frequency counter 10 Hz - 18 GHz.
- Anritsu MG3690A .1 Hz - 20 GHz phase locked signal generator
- Gigatronics 1026 50 kHz - 26 GHz phased locked signal generator
- Home-made 40 GHz heterodyne radar
- Fluke DC-1 GHz signal generator
- fairly complete collection of sources/detectors mixers and waveguide for Ka band, including two orthomode transducers, Gaussian horn lens, pyramidal horns, isolators, circulators, and two Quinstar active doublers prodcing 20 dBm at 40 GHz.
- Krohn-Hite and ENI RF power amplifiers
- Symmetricom and Stanford Rubidium clocks for all phase locking.
Lasers
- Menlo Systems TC-1550 femtosecond fiber laser (with high power, external pulse stabilization and SGH options).
- Quantronix Nd:YLF 1053 nm laser, 35W average, 35 mJ per pulse
- Spectron Nd:YAG laser. 5 ns/350 mJ pulses, 10 Hz, 1064 nm
- Thorlabs ITC510-IEEE benchtop laser diode and temperature controller 1 A / 32 W with TE cooled diode mount
- Micro-g Solutions ML-1 polarization-stabilized HeNe laser, fiber coupler and Faraday isolator
- Polytec scanning laser Doppler vibrometer (DC-1.5 MHz)
- Temperature and current stabilized 100 mW DPSS 532 nm laser and unstabilized 10 mW DPSS 532 nm laser
- Thorlabs 635 nm fiber-coupled laser source
Standard stuff
- HP 4193A vector impedance meter
- HP 8901A modulation analyzer
- Tektronix 3014b 1.25 GHz 4 ch digital scope
- Gage CS 14100 (l4-bit 100 MHz), CS-1450 (14-bit 50 MHz) and CS 2500 (8-bit 250 MHz) digital oscilloscope cards.
- Fluke 45 programmable DMM
- two-stage vacuum system (Varian rotary vane backing pump and turbo-molecular UHV pump).
- Varian Sentorr vacuum gauge controller with gauges covering the range of vacuum from 1 atm to .2 nTorr.
- Stanford Research Systems 100 AMU residual gas analyzer
- Stanford DS345 30MHz arbitrary waveform generator
- Stanford Digital Delay/Pulse generator
- Stanford SIM with Rubidium clock and BJT amplifier
- Agilent 33220a 20 MHz arbitrary waveform generator
- 2 Newport M-RS4000 optical benches and PL-2000 air-filled vibration isolators, and 3 Newport M-RG lxl m optical benches
Optics
- HP 7095 Optical Spectrum Analyzer 600-1700 nm, .3 nm absolute accuracy.
- New Focus Nirvana auto-balaned photo-receiver
- New Focus 125 MHz photo-receiver
- Thorlabs picowatt optical power meter
- Homemade AOM drivers, varios AOM
- Thorlabs BK7 lens kit
- Spex 1681 grating spectrometer. .3 nm resolution
- Newfocus Barek's compensator (arbitrary wave plate)
DC - Microwave (not millimeter bands) In the George R. Brown building
- HP 8559A Spectrum Analyzer 10MHz to 21 GHz in 6 bands, 3M - 1K RBW, VBW, Digital Ave. GPIB
- Advantest R3465 Spectrum Analyzer, 9K - 18GHz, demodulating (AM/FM), 5M-200Hz RBW, Fuly computer interfacable
- HP 3582A FFT Spectrum Analyzer DC-25KHz, 0-25V max, amp + phase, GPIB.
- HP 8904A DDS Signal Generator, DC-600KHz, square, sine, ramp, arb, dual chan, variable phase and amplitude, GPIB
- HP 3311A DC-1MHz analog function generator, square, ramp, sine, 600 OHM output
- Madell DC-20MHz digital function generator with freq ctr, square, sine, ramp, variable amplitudes
- HP 8673M 2-18GHz, -120dBm-0dBm function generator, FM/AM mod (EXT), var. mod index, internal xtal ref, Freq sweep, GPIB
- HP 8349A microwave amplifier, 2-20GHz
- Tektronix TD210 digital storage o-scope, with 1 and 10x probes
- Tektronix 2246 4 chan, analog o-scope, CRT readout, with probes
- HP 437B RF power meter, frequency dependent on sensor used, sensors are HP8484A & HP8485A, 0.3nW - 100mW 10M-22GHz
- "Home-Made" 2.45 GHz ISM band, low cost, RF power meter, -88dBm to -14dBm, 0.1dBm accuracy, remote hand-held meter
- T-Tech Inc. QC5000S-HF, Milling machine, 0.1mil X-Y res, 0.4mil Z res (manual control only), 12x18" working area, many bits included, Totally computer controlled using ISOPRO
- Soldering - Manual, Weller, Temperature and static controlled
- Substrates - FR4, RO5880, RO3202, many thicknesses
- Misc - Many standard RF parts, isolators, couplers, circulators, adapters, cables, antennas, attenuators, much more
