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Company Profile for Picosecond Pulse Labs.


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Picosecond One trillionth of a second. Pronounced "pee-co-second." See space/time and ohnosecond.

(unit) picosecond - 10^-12 seconds.
 Pulse Labs designs and manufactures instruments, modules, and components for generating, receiving, and measuring ultra-high-speed analog signals An analog or analogue signal is any time continuous signal where some time varying feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity. It differs from a digital signal in that small fluctuations in the signal are meaningful.  in the time domain. Our products include signal sources with picosecond rise times, samplers capable of measuring them, and broadband active and passive components to complement them. We sell these state-of-the-art products to other instrument manufacturers, university and government research laboratories, defense contractors, and semiconductor manufacturers in domestic and foreign markets. Founded by Dr. James Andrews James Andrews can refer to:
  • James J. Andrews -- American Civil War spy
  • James Andrews (musician) -- New Orleans jazz musician
  • Sir James Andrews, 1st Baronet -- Sir James Andrews, Bt.
 as a spin-off from the National Bureau of Standards National Bureau of Standards: see National Institute of Standards and Technology.

National Bureau of Standards - National Institute of Standards and Technology
 (now NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. ), Picosecond has been a leader in the design of high-speed pulse generators Pulse generator

An electronic circuit capable of producing a waveform that rises abruptly, maintains a relatively flat top for an extremely short interval, and then rapidly falls to zero.
 and components for over 20 years.


 Company:                Picosecond Pulse Labs

 Headquarters Address:   2500 55th Street
                         Boulder, Colorado 80301

 Main Telephone:         (303) 443-1249

 Website:                www.picosecond.com

 Type of Organization:   Private

 Industry:               Technology: Hardware

 Key Executives:         CEO: Scott Andrews
                         VP Sales and Marketing: Vance Nahman
                         VP Finance and Administration: Jerry Dreiling

 Public Relations
   Contact:              Kipp Schoen
   Phone:                (303) 209-8133
   Email:                kschoen@picosecond.com

 Customer Service
   Contact:              Bob McLaughlin
   Phone:                (303) 209-8218
   Email:                bmclaughlin@picosecond.com
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