About This Webinar
The ability to efficiently detect single photons is critical in a number of applications, ranging from quantum information science to optical communications. To preserve the data encoded in these photons, every event must be accurately counted and time-stamped. This requirement places stringent demands on the detection hardware, including picosecond-scale time resolution and minimal dead time between events. In this webinar, we’ll introduce a software-defined time and frequency analyzer deployed on a reconfigurable field-programmable gate array (FPGA) platform. You’ll see how the high parallel processing capacity of FPGAs allows this instrument to maintain high data throughput while cataloguing up to eight separate events and time intervals. Finally, you’ll learn how real-time generation of histograms, correlation data, and analog feedback signals can assist in applications such as quantum optics and light-based communications. You’ll also see live demonstrations ranging from real-time second-order correlation measurement to decoding pulse-position modulated (PPM) data. A Q&A session will follow the demonstration.
Who should attend:
This webinar is ideal for scientists, engineers, and technologists working with high-speed optical signals and time-resolved measurements, including:
- Quantum optics and quantum information researchers seeking precise photon counting, timing, and correlation analysis.
- Photonics and optical communications engineers working with advanced modulation schemes such as pulse-position modulation (PPM).
- Experimental physicists requiring picosecond-scale timing resolution and low dead-time detection systems.
- FPGA and embedded systems developers interested in software-defined instrumentation and high-throughput, real-time signal processing.
- Researchers and system architects designing single-photon detection, time-correlated measurements, or feedback-driven experiments.
Attendees will benefit most if they have an interest in real-time data acquisition, high-speed digital signal processing, or next-generation light-based measurement systems.
About the presenter:
Jason Ball is an engineer at Liquid Instruments, where he focuses on applications in quantum physics, particularly quantum optics, sensing, and computing. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and has a comprehensive background in both research and industry, with hands-on experience in quantum computing, spin resonance, microwave and radio frequency experimental techniques, and low-temperature systems.
About the sponsor:
Most test environments are unique and require customized configuration and careful optimization of multiple instruments, adding cost and time upfront and throughout the test cycle. Liquid Instruments’ reconfigurable Moku is the only test solution that is engineered and optimized for friction-free customization in both simple tests and complex multi-instrument environments. In hundreds of labs around the world, Moku has accelerated the timeline of crossing from idea to implementation by an order of magnitude, reducing the time and cost of advanced research and development. Because our reconfigurable Moku test solutions are engineered by a team of distinguished research scientists to be easy to use and versatile, they deliver efficiency gains in the most complex test scenarios today and meet your ongoing needs in the future.