We describe a new system for broadband characterization of mid-infrared (MIR) photodetectors, manufactured by the VIGO System and encapsulated in TO-8 can. The system comprises a high repetition rate pulsed quantum cascade laser source, stimulating a detector in a special test fixture that is connected to ports of a vector network analyzer (VNA) with a pair of cables. The system operates in a mode of nonlinear VNA, i.e. it is capable of measuring magnitude and phase spectra of harmonic signals up to 5 GHz of bandwidth. This approach enables recovering sub-nanosecond differential pulses of amplitudes below 1 mV and speed up performance evaluation of MIR detectors tested.
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