Laboratory


The Optical Zeitgeist Laboratory was approved and funded by the federal Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) through its Leaders Opportunity Fund and the provincial Ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport (MELS) of Québec. The laboratory is located at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in the heart of downtown Montréal.



Crossbow/MEMSIC wireless sensors for electric power, temperature, humidity and light monitoring.


Equipment


The Optical Zeitgeist Laboratory hosts the following cutting-edge networking and test and measurement equipment.


Networking equipment

Smart Grid
  •    1 x Crossbow/MEMSIC EcoWizard energy monitoring system
  •    3 x PowerSave ENVI home energy monitor kits
Carrier Ethernet
  •    1 x Nortel metro Ethernet routing switch 8603 (MERS)
  •    2 x Nortel metro Ethernet service unit 1850 (MESU)
Wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM PON)
  •    1 x Nortel Ethernet access 1100 optical line terminal (OLT)
  •    2 x Nortel arrayed waveguide grating (AWG)
  •    6 x Nortel residential unit 1112 (ONT)
  •    6 x Nortel business unit 1112  (ONT)
Time division multiplexing Ethernet passive optical network (EPON)
  •    1 x Sun Telecom GE8100 series (OLT)
  •    4 x Sun Telecom GE8200 series (ONU)
Next-generation WLAN acces point
  •    Zyxel NWA570N
NetFPGA
  •    2 x NetFPGA PreBuilt Quad Core - CUBE
Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA)
  •    1 x MPB R35W preamplifier 1530-1565 nm
  •    1 x MPB P21F gain flattened amplifier
100 GHz AWG
  •    1 x 8x8 wavelength router
  •    1 x 4x4 wavelength router
  •    1 x 1x4 multiplexer
  •    8 x 1x8 multiplexer

Test and measurement equipment

Agilent N2X router tester  
  • 2 x  Agilent 4 port 10/100/1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-X (SFP) XR-2 test card
  •    1 x  Agilent 4 port tri-rate Ethernet XR-2 EPON card
Agilent 8163B lightwave multimeter
  •    1 x  Agilent 81989A tunable laser
  •    1 x  Agilent 81635A power sensor
  •    1 x  Agilent 81570A attenuator
Agilent 86100C Infiniium digital communication analyser wideband oscilloscope
  •    1 x Agilent 83496A optical/electrical clock recovery module
  •    2 x Agilet 86105C optical/electrical sampling  module
Agilent 86120B multi-wavelength meter


 

Sponsors


The Optical Zeitgeist Laboratory is built through the support of various provincial and federal research agencies as well as manufacturers.