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PSO-100 Series - Optical Sampling Oscilloscopes

Ultra-high-speed optical sampling oscilloscopes for 40G and 100G R&D, manufacturing and deployment applications.

  • Discontinued date: 2/28/2015
  • End-of-service and support date: 2/28/2020

Key features

500 GHz bandwidth
Bit-rate and modulation format independent
No trigger needed
Polarization independent
Ultra-low timing jitter: ≤50 fs (typical)

Applications

High-speed transceiver compliance testing
Line card and system design and characterization
New modulation scheme research

Description

Optical sampling. Unmatched performance.

With bandwidth demand growing exponentially worldwide, the transmission rates of optical networks are increasing to 40 Gbit/s and, in the near future, to 100 Gbit/s. Thanks to advanced modulation schemes, ultra-high network speeds can be achieved using existing DWDM channel spacing, while maintaining resilience to chromatic and polarization dispersion phenomena. Full characterization of this ultra-high-speed encoding represents a significant challenge. This is where EXFO’s PSO-100 Series comes in.

Based on a unique optical sampling approach, the PSO-101 and PSO-102 Optical Sampling Oscilloscopes eliminate almost all the limitations typically found in electrical sampling oscilloscopes. To do so, narrow sampling pulses open a sampling gate that generates a time-stretched version of the measured signal. The optical samples are then converted to electrical signals, which can be easily detected by low-speed electronics and digitally processed.

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