Lightwave Analogue Links For LHC Detector Front-ends

Summary, in English

The requirements on optical links for transferring analog and digital signals from the detector front-ends to the readout electronics at future high-luminosity colliders are reviewed. The advantages of external modulation techniques are discussed. An outline is given of the the R&D programme recently started at CERN by a collaboration involving high-energy physics institutes, optoelectronics research laboratories and industry, in order to develop electro-optic intensity modulator arrays, particularly for analogue applications, and to investigate the feasibility of volume production. The design of multichannel demonstrators in lithium niobate and III-V semiconductor technology is described. Preliminary results of the performance measurements are presented.

• Author: C Da Via; G Stefanini; J Dowell; I Kenyon; M Haben; K Webster; M Glick; F. K Reinhart; G Hall; Torsten Åkesson; Göran Jarlskog; Stefan Kröll; A Baird; P Sharp; J Davies; N Green; A Moseley; W Stewart; T Young
• Department/s: Department of Physics; Atomic Physics
• Publishing year: 1994
• Language: English
• Pages: 199-211
• Publication/Series: Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
• Volume: 344
• Issue: 1
• Full text: - 1017 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(94)90671-8
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0167-5087