At the budget end of the oscilloscope range lie the so-called pocket ‘scopes. About the size of a deck of cards, they combine a microcontroller and an LCD screen to make an instrument with a bandwidth ...

Figure 1: The silicon-based ultrafast optical oscilloscope. The pump-pulse bandwidth and the length of the dispersive path determine the record length and resolution of the oscilloscope. The ...

How small of a chip can an oscilloscope detect? How subtle of a signal can it catch? The oscilloscope developed by a Chinese company is making technical breakthrough and demonstrating "China precision ...

Liu Sang, CEO of Shenzhen Longsight Technologies Co., Ltd, introduces the 90GHz ultra-high-speed real-time oscilloscope in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Oct. 15, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An oscilloscope uses a two-axis graph to give a visual representation of a waveform over time, ...

Download this article in PDF format. An oscilloscope is used to measure the voltage change of a signal over time. After a digital multimeter, an oscilloscope is typically the second most common piece ...

The first oscilloscope I ever used professionally was an old synchronized sweep instrument. Obtaining a stable display on that old oscilloscope was an art. Now I appreciate all the triggering tools ...

RF signals historically are measured using spectrum analyzers, at least that was before oscilloscopes offered sufficient bandwidth for those measurements. With oscilloscope bandwidths over 100 GHz, RF ...

Jerobeam Fenderson’s magic mushrooms will make you trip. But you don't have to eat these fungi to get their mesmerizing effects---just watch, and let them dance and multiply in front of you. Look, I’m ...

Before Wiis and PlayStations, before you boasted about how many bits your console had, and before Ralph Baer's Odyssey first hit Sears shelves, a bored physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory ...