Lambda Consulting ServicesLLC · ATLANTA, GA

Electro-optic design consulting

Expert electro-optic design of fiber optic test equipment.

From the laser source to the photodetector and the firmware that reads it, I design the instruments that measure light in fiber. Engineering work for telecom, industrial and aerospace applications.

Experience45 years
BackgroundBell Laboratories · Micron Optics
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Drag the slider to strain the fiber. Each Bragg peak shifts about 1.2 pm per microstrain near 1550 nm. Sensing systems built on this effect read hundreds of gratings on one fiber.

Applications

Where the equipment goes to work

Every market measures fiber differently. The design choices for a lab instrument, a factory-floor monitor and a flight-qualified sensor system are not the same, and the experience to tell them apart is what a consultant brings.

C & L band · 1530–1625 nm

Telecom

Test and measurement for optical networks and components, including swept-laser characterization and wavelength referencing.

Distributed & multiplexed sensing

Industrial

Fiber Bragg grating interrogators and sensing systems for strain, temperature and structural monitoring in harsh environments.

Size, weight & power

Aerospace

Fiber optic sensing electronics designed for qualification, from airframe structural testing to embedded instrumentation.

A collection of handheld optical power meters and light sources with LCD readouts in dBm and nm
Handheld optical power meters and light sources, the everyday instruments of fiber optic test. Readouts at 1310, 1490 and 1550 nm in dBm.

Capabilities

What I design

Hardware design across the full optical signal chain, with the documentation to take it into production.

  • SRCLaser source drive and control, including swept-wavelength and tunable sources
  • RXLow-noise photodetector front ends, transimpedance amplifiers and data acquisition
  • ACTHigh-voltage piezo (PZT) drive electronics for tunable filters
  • SYSElectro-optic system architecture and wavelength referencing
  • PCBBoard design for mixed-signal, low-noise instrumentation
  • DOCEngineering documentation, test procedures and design reviews

Background

45 years in optical measurement

A career spent on both sides of the fiber: the research lab where the technology began and the instrument company that brought it to market.

Research

Bell Laboratories

Electro-optic engineering in the lab that produced much of modern fiber optic communication.

Instrumentation

Micron Optics Inc.

Design of fiber optic test and sensing instruments, including swept-wavelength FBG interrogation.

Consulting

Lambda Consulting Services

Independent electro-optic design for companies building fiber optic test equipment. Based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Contact

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Describe the instrument or problem you're working on. I'll reply by email, usually within one business day.

Emailinfo@lambdaconsultingservices.net
Phone(470) 400-3990
LocationAtlanta, GA