About This Webinar
The characterization and control of optical systems with multiple stand-alone pieces of test equipment often presents difficult challenges that lead to lower stability, more noise, and increased system complexity. With flexible, digitally implemented instruments, though, it’s easy to optimize optical control systems with agility and speed. During this special presentation, Kate Mueller and Steve Kuhn from Liquid Instruments share next-generation strategies to characterize and control an optical system with flexible, reconfigurable, FPGA-based instrumentation. The presentation integrates multiple software-defined instruments in one system, including a lock-in amplifier, phasemeter, PID controller, and frequency response analyzer, to explore novel phase detection techniques. Tune in to discover new ways to fully characterize open- and closed-loop system responses, improve measurement confidence and speed with dedicated phase detection, consolidate legacy test equipment, and reduce costs with software-defined instrumentation.
Attendees will also discover new strategies to optimize optics and photonics experiments by:
- Understanding the advantages of real-time digital signal processing for laser frequency stabilization and phase locking.
- Leveraging flexible, FPGA-based processing with a digital-first approach to quickly adapt instrumentation to measurement requirements.
- Building sophisticated signal-processing pipelines with multi-instrument capabilities.
The webinar includes a presentation, demonstration, and live Q&A session.
Who should attend:
Optics and photonics engineers, researchers, professors, advisers, and doctoral students who are working in microscopy and spectroscopy. Those in fields involving gravitational wave detection research, laser frequency stabilization, as well as R&D scientists and lab equipment managers. Anyone utilizing optical systems in industries such as aerospace, agriculture, automotive, biophotonics, defense, energy, or semiconductors.
About the presenters:
Kate Mueller is senior director of marketing at Liquid Instruments, where she oversees the company’s strategic marketing initiatives. With more than 15 years of experience in test and measurement, Mueller is dedicated to helping customers leverage new technologies to achieve their goals. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Penn State and has held various positions in R&D, product management, and marketing.
Steve Kuhn is senior applications engineer at Liquid Instruments, where he supports prospective and current customers with their applications and use cases. He collaborates with customers to develop software measurement solutions through supported programming languages, such as LabVIEW, Python, and MATLAB. He has over 20 years of experience with instrument control, data acquisition, and automated testing across multiple industries, including magnetics, photonics, low observables, and muon tomography. Kuhn has a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
About Liquid Instruments:
Liquid Instruments delivers modern, software-defined test and measurement solutions that provide advanced capabilities, a great user experience, and custom programmability for maximum flexibility and performance in a range of applications. As a leader in precision instrumentation, Liquid Instruments is revolutionizing the way that scientists, engineers, and students learn, discover, and create. Their products leverage the computational power of FPGAs to create highly versatile equipment. For more information, visit liquidinstruments.com.