High-bandwidth, High-dynamic-range, Analog Optical Guided-wave Systems For Physics Instrumentation

We have developed two remote measurement systems that efficiently exploit the information transmission capacity of optical guided-wave technology. The first system, which operates at 820 nm, was developed for nuclear weapons measurements and emphasizes high-bandwidth high-dynamic range information transmission. The second system was developed for the detector readout at the Super-Conducting Super Collider (SSC); this system emphasizes high charge sensitivity measurement transmission and operates at 1320 nm. Most of the component design (including modeling), fabrication, packaging, characterization, and system integration was done at LLNL specifically for these specialized physics measurements applications.