Multi-Instrument Digital Measurement and Control System

Procurement Summary

The Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division (MND) of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) requires a multi-instrument digital measurement and control system that is software-reconfigurable and packaged into a single physical platform, to perform general purpose measurements and control of experiments in areas of passive and active photonics, plasmonics, optomechanics and optical metasurfaces. The system is required to perform data acquisition, real-time control, storage of results over a network, and required to be controllable using a Python program or MATLAB script running on a separate computing device. The system user interface and real-time display of measurements should be fully controllable and accessible over a WiFi network by an external computer or mobile touch screen interface, as well as by an Apple Vision Pro headset which is being used as a form of laser safety eyewear in the laboratory. The system must contain at least 4 inputs, and 4 output channels, and must be capable of performing a broad array of functions (“instruments”) including lock-in amplifier, phasemeter, standard waveform generator, proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controller, data logger, laser lock box, frequency response analyzer, oscilloscope, digital filter, logic analyzer, time and frequency analyzer, arbitrary waveform generator, spectrum analyzer, and finite-impulse response (FIR) filter builder. The system must be able to run up to at least four instruments simultaneously and provide internal input/output interconnection between them. It must also allow browser-based field-programmable gate array (FPGA) programming to implement a user specified instrument with custom functionality.

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