Services

Waxwing Instruments Inc. offers R&D consulting services in the following areas:

Embedded systems & electro-optics

  • Hardware and software prototyping
  • Acquisition chain optimization
  • Sensors and metrology
  • High-speed servo controls
  • Internet of Things (IoT)

Signal processing & data science

  • Mathematical and physical modeling
  • Data acquisition and analysis
  • Machine learning

Systems & project engineering

  • Requirement analysis
  • Proof-of-concept generation
  • Risk reduction activities
  • Contact with suppliers

Whether your project is research-oriented, industrial, educational or even recreational, we can leverage the following tools to help you succeed. Contact us!

Hardware

  • Microcontrollers
  • Digital signal processors
  • Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)
  • Arduinotm, Raspberry Pitm, Red Pitayatm, etc.
  • RF and electro-optic lab equipment

Software & firmware

  • C, C++, Rust
  • Python, MATLAB
  • VHDL, Verilog
  • Cloud-based computing
  • Machine learning frameworks

Products

CARIBOU-100: Real-Time Dual-Comb Spectroscopy Averaging System

💥Coming in 2025 Q1!💥

Designed specifically for dual-comb spectroscopy, the CARIBOU-100 system will enable real-time acquisition and processing of interferograms at rates exceeding 100 MS/s. Leveraging a proven correction algorithm, it will efficiently handle delay and phase jitter, providing co-added, high-quality interferograms through a Gigabit interface to a control computer.

The system will also include two CLBs (Comb Lock Boxes), to run servo loops and stream the phase information digitally to the correction algorithm.

The intuitive user interface will offer detailed diagnostics, allowing users to monitor signal-to-noise ratios and jitter levels both before and after correction.

Want to know more? Leave us a message, and we'll keep you in the loop!

FNC-100 : Fiber Noise Canceller

The FNC is a digital controller intended for applications requiring remote frequency stabilized light sources. In a typical application, a frequency-stable laser will be in building A and sent out to building B over a long optical fiber. The FNC, along with minimal electro-optic components, can be installed at site A to cancel any delay fluctuations arising from the long optical fiber. Features:

  • Four independent channels
  • Clock input and management
  • Trigger input and output signals
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CLB : Comb Lock Box

The CLB is a compact, all-in-one, digital phase-lock system for optical frequency combs. It was designed to work with state-of-the art optical clocks. Features:

  • Remote control interface through ethernet
  • 2 input channels with full phase unwrapping
  • Ultra-fast digital PID servo loops
  • Clock input and management
  • 0-30V output (to control a fast piezo-electric transducer)
  • 0-100V output (to control a slow piezo-electric transducer)
  • 0-2V output (to adjust the pump laser current)
  • Extra digitals IOs

💥New software option: Time-Programmable Comb. See paper!💥


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Team

CEO - Simon Potvin, Ph.D.

15+ years of experience in research and development:

  • Signal and image processing
  • Machine learning
  • Electro-optic systems
  • Radiometry, photometry & spectrometry

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The outdoors

CTO - Jean-Daniel Deschênes, Ph.D.

15+ years of experience in research and development:

  • Optical frequency combs
  • Frequency metrology
  • Data acquisition system design
  • Signal and noise analysis and optimization
  • Digital and analog electronic systems
  • FPGAs and DSPs

Likes

Running in the woods

CIO - Hugo Bergeron, Eng., M.Sc.

10+ years of experience in research and development:

  • Signal processing
  • Modeling and mathematics
  • Hardware and software development
  • Machine learning
  • FPGAs and DSPs
  • Electro-optic systems

Likes

Woodworking

Scientist - Vincent Michaud-Belleau, Ph.D.

10+ years of experience in research and development:

  • Signal processing
  • Noise modeling and analysis
  • Optical instrumentation design
  • Radiometry and spectrometry
  • Stable lasers and optical fibers

Likes

Cooking

Scientist - Hakim Bendada, Ph.D.

30+ years of experience in research and development:

  • Infrared sensors, thermography & metrology
  • Nondestructive testing
  • Inverse problems

Likes

Biking

Selected publications

  • Giorgetta, F. R., Potvin, S., Deschênes, J. D., Coddington, I., Newbury, N. R., & Baumann, E. (2024). Free-form dual-comb spectroscopy for compressive sensing and imaging. Nature Photonics, 1-8. (link)
  • Caldwell, E.D., Deschenes, JD., Ellis, J., Swann, W.C., Stuhl, B.K., Bergeron, H., Newbury, N.R., Sinclair, L.C. (2023). Quantum-limited optical time transfer for future geosynchronous links. Nature, 618, 721–726. (link)
  • Caldwell, E.D., Sinclair, L.C., Newbury, N.R., Deschenes, JD. (2022). The time-programmable frequency comb and its use in quantum-limited ranging. Nature, 610, 667–673. (link)
  • Boulder Atomic Clock Optical Network (BACON) Collaboration*. (2021). Frequency ratio measurements at 18-digit accuracy using an optical clock network. Nature, 591, 564–569. (link)

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