CONSULTING

PSI provides a wide range of consulting services related to the design, troubleshooting, and evaluation of high-performance photonic and antenna components and systems. PSI’s clients have leveraged our unparalleled experience in the microwave photonics field to perform a variety of functions, including:

• Due-diligence evaluation of companies under consideration for funding by venture capitalists
• Technical evaluation of the electro-optic component development work performed by government-sponsored contractors
• On-site assistance in the assembly, deployment, test of photonic components

Contract Engineering and Design:

Examples of problems to which commercial and government users have worked with PSI include:

• Analysis and evaluation of link designs that mitigate the effects of Rayleigh scattering in links that cannot accommodate optical isolators
• Estimation of a proposed system configuration incorporating newly developed photonic components
• Completion of a link trade study to identify a low-cost broad-bandwidth link design, and fabrication of prototypes

Contract Test and Evaluation:

• Testing of high performance RF and fiber optic cables
• Fiber optic cable splicing
• Antenna characterization