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A Precision Millimeter-Wave Modulated-Signal Source

June 6, 2013
Author(s)
Catherine A. Remley, Paul D. Hale, Dylan F. Williams, Chih-Ming Wang
We develop and characterize a modulated-signal source for use at millimeter-wave frequencies. Components within the source are phase locked by a 10 GHz reference source to minimize drift and improve synchronization. The complex frequency response of the

Sequential Estimation of Timebase Corrections for an Arbitrarily Long Waveform

October 1, 2012
Author(s)
Chih-Ming Wang, Paul D. Hale, Jeffrey A. Jargon, Dylan F. Williams, Catherine A. Remley
We present a procedure for correcting the timebase distortion and jitter of temporal waveforms of arbitrary lengths. This is achieved by estimating the timebase distortion and jitter sequentially with overlapping measurements and using the information in

Traceability of high-speed electrical waveforms at NIST, NPL, and PTB

July 6, 2012
Author(s)
Paul D. Hale, Dylan F. Williams, Andrew M. Dienstfrey, Chih-Ming Wang, Jeffrey A. Jargon, David Humphreys, Matthew Harper, Heiko Fuser, Mark Bieler
Instruments for measuring high-speed waveforms typically require calibration to obtain accurate results. The national metrology institutes of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Germany offer measurement services based on electro-optic

A statistical study of de-embedding applied to eye diagram analysis

February 1, 2012
Author(s)
Paul D. Hale, Jeffrey A. Jargon, Chih-Ming Wang, Brett Grossman, Matthew Claudius, Jose Torres, Andrew M. Dienstfrey, Dylan F. Williams
We describe a stable method for calibrating digital waveforms and eye diagrams using the measurement system response function and its regularized inverse. The function describing the system response includes the response of the oscilloscope and any

Why are we concerned with large covariance matrices?

June 1, 2010
Author(s)
Paul D. Hale, Andrew M. Dienstfrey, Chih-Ming Wang
In order to promote discussion, we outline the two different paradigms for propagating uncertainties from the various waveform measurement impairments to the waveform parameters. The first method propagates uncertainty from the impairments directly to a

Electro-optic sampling for traceable high-speed electrical measurements

May 23, 2010
Author(s)
Paul D. Hale, Dylan F. Williams
We will describe how the complex frequency response of a high-speed photodiode is calibrated by use of electro-optic sampling. Our uncertainty analysis includes a unique covariance-matrix based method that allows us to transform uncertainties between the

Waveform metrology and a quantitative study of regularized deconvolution

May 1, 2010
Author(s)
Paul D. Hale, Andrew M. Dienstfrey
We present methodology and preliminary results of a Monte-Carlo simulation to perform a quantified analysis of regularized deconvolution in the context of full waveform metrology. We analyze the behavior of different regularized inversion methods with

Traceable waveform calibration with a covariance-based uncertainty analysis

October 1, 2009
Author(s)
Paul D. Hale, Dylan F. Williams, Andrew M. Dienstfrey, Arkadiusz C. Lewandowski, Tracy S. Clement, Darryl A. Keenan
We describe a method for calibrating the voltage that a step-like pulse generator produces at a load at every time point in themeasured waveform. The calibration includes an equivalent-circuit model of the generator that can be used to determine how the