Wednesday, July 6, 2011

T-Era Consulting- THz commercial consulting becomes a reality




MY NOTE: DR. Daryoosh Saeedkia, CONTACTED ME, AND ALERTED ME TO HIS NEW COMPANY AND WEBSITE, T-ERA CONSULTING. VERY INTERESTING, AND A DEFINITE SIGN THAT THE COMMERCIAL EXPANSION OF TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY IS GROWING. 
http://www.t-era.com/
At T-Era Consulting we provide services on design, fabrication, and test of optoelctronic and photonic devices and systems. T-Era Consulting has access to world class measurement and characterization laboratories and unique fabrication facilities to help you in your device and system development projects.
T-Era Consulting has access to the Microwave and Terahertz Photonics Integrated System Lab (MISL), a world class terahertz research lab at the University of Waterloo with more than $2M facilities developed under the CFI and ORF funded program “Center for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS)”. The lab includes a complete set of test and measurement instruments, laser facilities, millimeter-wave test and measurement instrument and terahertz measurement setups, for test and characterization of terahertz photonics devices and systems.
Existing Facilities:
  • Terahertz Time-domain (pulsed) spectroscopy, sensing, and imaging systems
o fs-short pulse laser (Spectra Physics MiaTia Ti:Sapphire oscillator system), continuously tunable over the wavelength range of 690 nm-1020 nm, pulse duration <100 fs, 80 MHz rep rate, average power >2.5 W
o fs-short pulse laser (Toptica Photonics FemtoFiber FFS short pulse laser), continuously tunable over the wavelength range of 1050 nm-2100 nm, pulse duration ~100 fs, 80 MHz rep rate, average power 250 mW @ 1550 nm
o Transmission, Reflection, and Attenuated Totla Reflection (ATR) measurements
  • Continuous-wave THz spectroscopy, sensing, and imaging systems
o Tunable cw laser, 780 nm ± 10 nm, 500 mW, free-space and fiber coupled options
o Single frequency cw laser, 785 nm, 100 mW, free-space and fiber coupled options
o Tunable cw lasers from Toptica Photonics, 1550 nm ± 10 nm, 500 mW
o Two fiber coupled butterfly cw lasers, 780 nm, 500 mW
o DSP digital lock-in amplifier, 1 mHz to 102 KHz frequency range, >100 dB dynamic reserve
o Low-noise current amplifier, 5 fA/Hz1/2 input noise
o Low-noise voltage amplifier, 4 nV/Hz1/2 input noise
  • Infrared pump-probe system for carrier dynamic measurement in fast photoconductor material systems
o Free carrier dynamics can be measured over a wide range of wavelenths from 690 nm up to 2100 nm
o Sub-picoseconds carrier life-time can be measured for material systems based on GaAs, InGaAs, InP, Si, ...
  • High-power backward-wave-oscillator (BWO) and frequency multiplier sources
o Range of coverage: 100 GHz-1.5 THz
o Output power: 1 µW-100 mW
  • Optical wave-meter/spectrum analyzer
o ± 0.2 pm wavelength resolution at 1000 nm
  • Golay cell THz detector
o sensitivity: 0.1 nW/Hz1/2
o spectral range: 0.02-20 THz
  • Pyroelectric detector
o sensitivity: 10 nW/Hz1/2
o spectral range: 0.1-3 THz
  • Biological sample preparation and storage facilities
o Hybridization incubator
o Refrigerator/Freezer
o Balance with 0.1 mg readability
o PH and ion concentration meter
o Purifier vertical clean bench
  • Ocean Optics high resolution optical spectrum analyzer
  • Nicon AZ100 Multi-Purpose Zoom Microscope

Facilities under Construction:
  • Microwave and Millimeter-wave measurement and characterization systems:
    o Far- and near-filed antenna measurement system (up to 500 GHz)

    o Agilent Millimeter-wave PNA network analyzer (up to 325 GHz)
    o Agilent PSG vector signal generator (up to 325 GHz)
    o Agilent PSA spectrum analyzer (up to 325 GHz)
    o Agilent Noise figure analyzer
    o Agilent Signal source analyzer
    o Agilent ENA multi-port network analyzer

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