Chip-scale Photonics Testing Facility

The UCSD NNCI site includes a Chip-scale Photonics Testing facility that is connected to the UCSD data center testing system, enabling real-time testing of developed devices and circuits in a realistic system application environment. As part of the UCSD NNCI facility, the Chip-scale Photonics Testing facility houses unique tools that allow external and internal users to measure the electrical/optical response of photonic devices and circuits. The equipment is highly integrated due to a custom cross-platform scripting framework and device drivers created by UCSD. All of the software is open source in order to better serve the facility users and the wider community.

To request access, please send an e-mail to Dr. Andrew Grieco at agrieco@eng.ucsd.edu.

Notable Equipment:

SPI G4 Pulsed fiber laser
Spectra-Physics OPA-800 (driven by the Tsunami, Millenia, and Spitfire)
MSquared Firefly
Agilent/Keysight N4373C Lightwave Component Analyzer
Agilent/Keysight E8361C 10MHz-67gHz PNA Network Analyzer
Agilent/Keysight Infiniium DSA 91304A Digital Signal Analyzer
Agilent/Keysight N4906B Serial BERT
Agilent/Keysight N9010A EXA 26 GHz Signal Analyzer
Agilent/Keysight 81600B Laser Source
Agilent/Keysight E9393 High Resolution Spectrometer
Agilent/Keysight 86142B Optical Spectrum Analyzer
Thorlabs Nanomax 606/609L 6-axis piezo stages
Newport 350B Temperature Controller
ID Quantique ID220 (one pair)
PicoHarp 300 PicoQuant