Facilities

Our lab is located in a new interdisciplinary research facility:

Tufts Advanced Technologies Laboratory
200 Boston Avenue, Suite 2600
Medford, MA 02155
Office: 617-627-2291

We have a suite of high frequency test and measurement equipment, optical sources, detectors, modulators, and optical test benches.

DC and High Frequency Environment

• Agilent 8510C Network Analyzer
• Anritsu MP1800A 12.5Gb/s Signal Quality Analyzer
• Agilent E4408B Spectrum Analyzer
• RF Cascade Probe station for die level testing
• Agilent High Bandwidth Mixed-Signal Oscilloscopes 54855A DSO
• Agilent High Speed Logic Analyzers 16702B
• Agilent Arbitrary Function Generators 8648B
• Agilent and Instek Precision power supplies and digital multimeters
• Weller Soldering Workstation
• ESD protected work-area

Optical Workbench for Testing and Characterization

• 10Gb/s, 1550nm Electro-optic Absorption Modulator
• Fiber Coupled Laser Source 1550nm, 1.5mW and Collimator
• Fiber Coupled VCSEL 850nm, 0.5mW
• Fabry-Perot Laser Diode and TEC Controller
• Si and InGaAs photodetectors
• Optical breadboard, posts, mounting bases, and lens mounts
• Thorlabs Power Meter System with Ge Sensor
• Thorlabs XYZ Translation Stage
• Polarized HeNe Laser System

The facility is also home to a new Tufts Micro/Nanofabrication Facility for teaching and research activities.