Technical Notes

These discontinued products are no longer sold by ILX Lightwave, but are typically supported for three years from the date on which they were discontinued. Repairs and calibrations …

The OMH-6709B is the latest edition to a family of Optical Measurement Heads used with the OMM-6810B. It offers a large dynamic range for very stable fiber optic power measurements …

To accurately measure optical power with a photodiode, the wavelength of the source must be known. This Technical Note describes the advantages of measuring wavelength and power si …

This Technical Note presents the experimental results showing the effect of source noise on wavelength measurements using the new and improved OMM-6810B Optical Multimeter.

This ILX Lightwave Internal Technical Note presents the results of bandwidth measurements on the OMM-6810B Optical Multimeter analog output.

This technical note presents the results of tests where the LRS-9424 chamber door is opened and closed while fixtures are operating at different temperature set points.

This technical note presents the results of measurement repeatability of threshold current on three batches of laser diode samples performed using the LRS-9424 Laser Reliability and …

This technical note presents typical 1000 hour test results of laser current source stability and monitor photodiode measurement stability of an LRS- 9424B Laser Diode Reliability and …

This technical note describes configuring and using Windows XP® Remote Desktop with the ReliaTest™ system supervisory software. Remote Desktop is a feature of Windows XP® which allows …

The LRS-9550 High Power Laser Diode Test System houses up to 32 removable laser diode fixtures. Individual fixtures can be designed to hold between 4 and 16 laser diodes, depending …

This technical note describes the thermal resistance of the LRS-9550-4442B C-Mount Fixture. Thermal resistance was characterized across all device locations and with different device …

The LRS-9550 system houses up to 32 removable laser diode fixtures. Depending on the package style and current requirements a fixture can hold between 2 and 16 devices. Devices are …

This technical note describes the laser eye safety features of the LRS-9550 High Power Laser Diode Test System.

This technical note compares the voltage drop across the standard and high current laser interconnect cables available from ILX Lightwave for use with laser diode current sources.

This Tech Note discusses the differences between the three Bias-T mount options offered by ILX Lightwave. The Bias-T mounts allow butterfl y and DIL lasers without internal Bias-T circuitry …

This technical note discusses characteristics of resistance temperature detectors (RTD), the Callendar-Van Dusen equation, and compares RTDs with thermistors.

The non-linear resistance-temperature characteristics of negative-temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistors may be modeled to a high degree of accuracy using several modeling techniques. …

The LRS-9434 Test System utilizes a family of fixtures that are designed to ensure set point accuracy of +/- 2.0 C across a range of 40 to 150 C.

A primary and valid concern when using high volume laser diode test systems is device handling. The ILX Integrated Carrier Solution (ICS) is designed to address this and other related …

This technical note presents the experimental results showing the repeatability of power and wavelength measurements using the OMM-6810B Optical Power and Wavelength Meter coupled to …