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Featured Technology

Broadband High-Performance Amplifiers

PSPL's amplifier product line provides excellent broadband performance. The time-domain and frequency-domain response of these amplifiers make them a good choice for both serial data and RF use. The product line contains several models that cover a wide range of performance:

• Bandwidths to 45GHz
• Output amplitudes to 8Vpp
• Gain to 26dB
• Units with gain and crossing point control

Other PSPL components such as bias tees and low pass filters are very useful complements to our amplifiers in many applications.

PSPL Model 5865

12.5Gb/s Driver Amplifier

News and Events

Picosecond will be exhibiting at DesignCon 2008, February 5th & 6th in the Santa Clara Convention Center. Please stop by our Booth #426 to learn more about Picosecond Pulse Labs' products and technology.

We will be demonstrating a new prototype TDR product for use with Real-Time Oscilloscopes. We will also be running a demo of our Model 4022, the world's fastest TDR/TDT source module.

Check our website for other upcoming conferences and tradeshows that we will be attending.

Tech Center

TDR/TDT MEASUREMENTS AND ANALYSIS are very powerful tools for characterizing electrical design properties such as impedance, risetime/frequency response, electrical length, and fault location. In particular, fast risetime TDR/TDT improves the bandwidth and spatial resolution of such measurements. PSPL's website features several relevant application notes and useful Matlab scripts (for frequency domain analysis) on this topic:

• AN-16a: Time Domain Spectrum Analysis and S-parameter Vector Network Analysis
• High Resolution TDR Measurements Using the PSPL Model 4020 and Model 4022 9 ps TDR Source Enhancement Modules
• S-parameter Measurements with the PSPL Model 4022 High-Speed TDR and TDT System
• TDR/TDT network analysis Matlab scripts ("SpecAnalysisV2.txt - Spectrum analyzer program" and "TDVNAv2.txt - Time Domain Vector Network Analyzer (TDVNA) program")

For a complete listing of PSPL's technical papers, visit our Application Notes and Technical Documents web page.

Product Overview

PSPL offers an extensive product line specialized in the generation, measurement, shaping, and transmission of broadband signals. Our products include instruments, modules, and components. To see a complete list of our product categories visit our Product Overview web page, or click on the images below to go directly to that product's category page.

Amplifiers

Bias Tees

Comb Generators

Power Dividers/
Pickoff Tees

Pulse Generators

Low Pass Filters

BALUNs & Transformers

TDR/T Instruments

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