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Broadband Optical Lab

Some examples of what we have done
Some examples of what we have done

The Broadband Optical Lab at IDLab, an imec research group embedded in Ghent University and the University of Antwerp, is a state-of-the-art test and measurement environment for the characterization of high-speed, high-frequency and mixed-signal electronic circuits and (sub-)systems for wireless, wired and fiber-optic communication or instrumentation.

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