Leading-edge test equipment like Teledyne Lecroy’s LabMaster 10-100Zi oscilloscope will help in the innovation process as it will allow for the testing of the latest technologies that are pushing beyond 100 Gbps per wavelength, something which is much needed to cost-effectively meet future traffic transport needs. Judge's Comment.
The LabMaster 10-100Zi Oscilloscope offers 100-GHz bandwidth and a 240-GSa/s sampling rate. A modular architecture allows a user to customize an oscilloscope with up to twenty 100-GHz channels or to connect the LabMaster 10-100Zi to an existing LabMaster 10 Zi system to increase overall channel count. Software capabilities, including Serial Data Analysis and Optical Modulation Analysis, help analyze signals intended for 56G, 100G, and 400G communications technologies.
Alcatel-Lucent, which used the oscilloscope to demonstrate a coherent optical receiver capable of detecting a 160-Gbaud QPSK, said the 100-GHz bandwidth and 240-GSa/s sampling rate of the LabMaster were "key" in building the system and noted that, in general, an oscilloscope's bandwidth will no longer be a limiting factor. Rather, with the LabMaster, the oscilloscope bandwidth exceeds that of the transmitter and optical-to-electrical converter.
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