Teledyne LeCroy has introduced the LabMaster 10-100Zi, 100 GHz oscilloscope. With this introduction, Teledyne LeCroy continues to demonstrate a long running commitment to leadership in the high end oscilloscope market by aggressively pushing real-time bandwidth and sample rate boundaries to achieve 100 GHz and 240 GS/s. The 100 GHz technology was first publicly demonstrated in July 2013, and has since been featured at the 2014 DesignCon, OFC and ECOC exhibitions. This industry leading technology, now incorporated into the LabMaster 10-100Zi 100 GHz oscilloscope, is key to analysing and understanding the fastest phenomena found in R&D labs where engineers and scientists are working on next-generation communication systems, high bandwidth electrical components, and fundamental scientific research. The LabMaster 10-100Zi was recently used by Alcatel-Lucent to demonstrate the highest-bandwidth coherent optical receiver capable of detecting a 160 GBaud QPSK signal.
 
“As we research new ways to expand the amount of data that future optical communications networks will be expected to carry, we demonstrated a record 160-GBaud QPSK system prototype. The 100-GHz bandwidth and 240-GS/s sampling rate were key in building this system”, said Dr. Peter Winzer of Bell Labs, the industrial research arm of Alcatel-Lucent. “We are excited to see that Teledyne LeCroy has pushed oscilloscope technology to where the oscilloscope’s bandwidth is no longer the limiting factor in our research; it currently exceeds the bandwidth of the transmitter and optical-to-electrical converter in the receiver.”
 
The Fastest Oscilloscope for the Fastest Signals
 
Whether working on communications technology capable of terabit/s bitrates, analysing the quickest and most energetic laser pulses, or building channels using very high speed NRZ or PAM4 signals, the 100 GHz LabMaster 10-100Zi oscilloscope can acquire and analyse the waveforms. The LabMaster 10-100Zi is built on the flexible and modular LabMaster 10 Zi oscilloscope platform. Multiple LabMaster 10 Zi acquisition modules can be combined with one master control module to build a system of up to twenty channels; each channel capable of 100 GHz.
 
Sophisticated Software for Sophisticated Analysis
 
The LabMaster 10-100Zi offers software packages that integrate seamlessly into the oscilloscope. Since the fastest signals often require custom analysis, LabMaster 10-100Zi comes standard with the XDEV package that allows users to run custom MATLAB scripts in-stream. For a complete analysis of coherent optical signals such as DP-QPSKand DP-16QAM, use the Optical-LinQ optical modulation analysis package.
 
In addition, SDAIII-CompleteLinQ performs and compares eye, jitter and noise analysis on up to four lanes, simultaneously.
 
Capturing and Characterising the Fastest Phenomena
 
Scientific research of phenomena that occur at the shortest timescales require the fastest digitization speeds. At 240 GS/s, samples are acquired at time intervals of 4.17 ps, 50% faster than the next-fastest digitiser, yielding excellent signal reconstruction. For multi-channelusers, the LabMaster 10 Zi’s patented ChannelSync Architecture provides matching between channels that is unrivaled: <130 fs channel-to-channel jitter. Such precision is not possible with conventional methods of synchronising two independent oscilloscopes with a 10 MHz clock is key for applications requiring closely matched channels, such as optical modulation analysis.
 
High Speed Optical and Electrical Signal Analysis
 
Telecommunications companies invest heavily in R&D to develop coherent optical technologies using quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) schemes. In order to characterise the efficiency of formats such as DP-QPSK and DP-16QAM, high speed digitizers are required.
 
Demodulated I & Q signals acquired using the LabMaster 10-100Zi may be analysed with Optical-LinQ software, or using custom scripts, running either in-stream on the oscilloscope, via remote control, or offline.
 
Superior Built-in Optical Modulation Analysis
 
The Optical-LinQ software developed in partnership with Coherent Solutions, is designed to perform a  complete optical modulation analysis on the oscilloscope. Optical-LinQ can analyse I & Q signals from the users’ receiver, or from one of Coherent Solutions’ IQScope-RT Series Coherent Optical Receivers. Optical-LinQ includes a library of DSP algorithms for recovery and reconstruction of I & Q signals, which can then be analysed with a wide range of visualisations and measurements. A LabMaster 10 Zi oscilloscope, IQScope-RT receiver and Optical-LinQ software form a complete OMA solution.
 
Seamlessly Implement Custom MATLAB Code
 
Assign custom MATLAB scripts to the oscilloscope’s built-in math  functions or assign them to custom functions within Optical-LinQ, and analyze data as it is acquired. Tune custom DSP code as it runs in realtime, and view the analysis using tools such as eye diagrams, constellation plots and parametric measurements. Implementing MATLAB analysis offline is also fast and easy. Transfer the data off the oscilloscope using standard remote control capabilities or use the high-speed LSIB
 
The LabMaster 10-100Zi is the newest acquisition module in the LabMaster 10 Zi Series of high-performance modular oscilloscopes. LabMaster 10 Zi is a modular and flexible platform that allows users to build oscilloscopes with high channel counts, even when only one or two channels are in the base model. LabMaster 10 Zi oscilloscopes are built from a single LabMaster Master Control Module (MCM-Zi) that contains the display, control, and ChannelSync clock distribution architecture; all managed by a powerful server-class CPU. Users connect up to 20 acquisition modules, including the LabMaster 10-100Zi, in order to build oscilloscopes with up to eighty channels @ 36 GHz, twenty channels @ 100 GHz, or anything in between.
 
Pricing
 
The LabMaster 10-100Zi is immediately available with a list price starting at €868,000 / £685,000