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Active Technologies @ Electronica 2022

Active Technologies is present at ELECTRONICA 2022 in Munich, Germany (Hall A3 – Booth 230).

Electronica 2022

Electronica 2022 is once again bring the international electronics industry together and will fill 13 halls on the Munich exhibition grounds during November 15-18, 2022. As a co-located event, SEMICON Europa will take up an additional hall. The exhibitor target group includes companies that offer products and services used in the development, quality control, maintenance and repair of electronic assemblies, devices and machinery. Relevant sectors: electrical engineering, electronics, retail trade (distributors), telecommunications, mechanical engineering, service providers, software technology, data processing. As a visitor target group the developers and designers of application-orientated electronic circuits and products are addressed. Electronica Germany is one of the largest trade fairs among the industry dealing with electronics and showcases the latest technologies related to the electronics from the top most companies. The expo provides the perfect business opportunity to its members, visitors, and exhibitor coming from all over the world. Electronica Germany will be attended by different industry groups from all over the world. It has special offers for visitors on the most recent and high-end innovations of the world. This exceptional show has an International appeal drawing people from all over the world.

Active Technologies will be present in the hall A3 (Test and Measurement) with AWG-5000 the world’s fastest 16 bit Arbitrary Waveform Generator, the only instrument capable to reach 5Vpp – 110 ps rise and fall time at the output. In Simple Rider True-Arb interface, the users can define complex waveforms with up to 16,384 sequence entries of analog waveforms and digital patterns, define their execution flow by means of loops, jumps and conditional branches. Digital output combined and synchronized with analog output signals represent an ideal tool to troubleshoot and validate digital design. The waveform memory length of up to 4 GSamples on each channel combined with up to 16,384 and up to 4,294,967,294 repetitions, make the Arb-Rider 5062/5064/5068 the ideal generator for the most demanding technical applications. Thanks to the intuitive and easy waveform sequencer user interface, the most complex waveform scenarios can be created with just few screen touches.
Up to 4 instrument can be synchronized together in order to obtain a 32 analog – 128 digital channel generator. A dedicated synchronization bus guarantees the intra-chassis synchronization.

Active Technologies is also going to show the new PG-1500 at 50V amplitude – 400 ps rise time Pulse Generator. The Pulse Rider Series offers premium signal integrity with the easiest to use touch screen display interface (SimpleRider™). The Generation of pulses requires only a few screen touches. The output Voltage can be adjusted up to 50 Volts pk-pk in a window of ±25 Volts with
400 ps edge rate (based on RiderEdge™ technology). Its innovative hardware architecture provides the possibility to generate multiple pulse sequences, such as double, triple or quad pulses, with fully independent timing parameters.

 

Ferrara – Italy, 13.10.2022

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Active Technologies @ European Microwave Week

Active Technologies is present at European Microwave Week conference in Milan, Italy at MiCo Milano Congressi Stand F32.

 

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European Microwave Week 2022 takes place in the vibrant city of Milan. Bringing industry and academia together, European Microwave Week 2022 is a SIX day event, including THREE cutting edge conferences, THREE Forums and ONE exciting trade and technology Exhibition featuring leading players from across the globe. EuMW 2022 provides access to the very latest products, research and initiatives in the microwave sector. It also offers you the opportunity for face-to-face interaction with those driving the future of microwave technology.

Active Technologies supports the research activities with AWG-5000 the world’s fastest 16 bit Arbitrary Waveform Generator, the only instrument capable to reach 5Vpp – 110 ps rise and fall time at the output. Thanks to this unique feature the AWG-5000 can drive directly an EOM (Electro Optical Modulator) avoiding the need of an external amplifier. Moreover the RF-Mode allows you to create RF Wireless signals up to 6 GHz without an external up-converter.

The AWG-5000 can be used to generate arbitrary sequences and fast pulses down to 230ps of width.

More info about AWG-5000 Arbitrary Waveform Generator are available HERE

Ferrara – Italy, 26.09.2022

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Molecolar Spin Qubits
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Machine Learning-Assisted Manipulation and Readout of Molecular Spin Qubits

Interesting application in

Machine Learning to control Molecular Spin Qubits

by our partner Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Molecular Spin Qubits
Machine Learning finds application in the quantum control and readout of qubits. In this work we apply Artificial Neural Networks to assist the manipulation and the readout of a prototypical molecular spin qubit – an Oxovanadium(IV) moiety – in two experiments designed to test the amplitude and the phase recognition, respectively. We first successfully use an artificial network to analyze the output of a Storage/Retrieval protocol with four input pulses to recognize the echo positions and, with further post selection on the results, to infer the initial input pulse sequence. We then apply an artificial network to ascertain the phase of the experimentally measured Hahn echo, showing that it is possible to correctly detect its phase and to recognize additional single-pulse phase shifts added during manipulation.

The home-made heterodyne spectrometer used for the generation of MW pulses and time domain acquisition is based on an Arbitrary Waveform Generator by Active Technologies. In this work we exploit the input and output IQ mixers (Marki-IQ-0618LXP double-balanced mixers) to perform two-channels generation of the input pulses and quadrature detection of the output signal, respectively (see Supplementary Information for details). The sample and the resonator are cooled-down to 4 K into a commercial Quantum Design Physical Properties Measurement System (QD
PPMS), which is also used to apply the external static magnetic field.

Our Storage/Retrieval protocol consists of a train of 4 weak MW pulses equally-spaced in time, with duration tp = 40 ns and interpulse delay td = 300 ns. A π pulse with duration tπ = 190 ns is sent after a delay τ = 1200 ns with respect to the last pulse of the input train. A relaxation time trelax = 15 ms is added at the end of the sequence to avoid sample saturation. The refocusing occurs after an additional delay τ with respect to the π pulse, giving a train of weak output echoes. This protocol allows us to use the spin ensemble as a temporary memory for information [51, 68, 69]. In the experiments of this work we exploit the 4 input pulses to codify into the ensemble the binary sequences corresponding to 16 decimal numbers (from 0 to 15, i.e. from 0000 to 1111). An input  pulse ON corresponds to the classical logical bit 1 (visible output echo), while a pulse OFF gives the classical logical bit 0 (no output echo). We denote the position of each pulse in the input train with the index i = 1, . . . , 4, according to the order of generation on the AWG. In other words, the index i will give the Storage order into the ensemble and the weight of the bit from the most significant to the least significant one. For each input sequence, the measured raw trace acquired by the oscilloscope results from 4000 averages.

The full paper is available HERE

Ferrara – Italy, 26.08.2022

 

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