Chapter 4 Calibration Procedures

Aborting a Calibration in Progress

Aborting a Calibration in Progress

Sometimes it may be necessary to abort a calibration after the procedure has already been initiated. You can abort a calibration at any time by pressing any front-panel key (except Shift-Cancel). When performing a calibration from the remote interface, you can abort a calibration by issuing a remote interface device clear message or by pressing the front-panel LOCAL key.

Frequency and Burst Rate Adjustment

The function generator stores two calibration constants related to frequency and burst rate output. The constants are calculated from the adjustment value entered and are stored at the completion of each setup.

1 Use a frequency meter to measure the function generator output

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frequency for each setup in the following table. These adjustments use

a 50W output termination.

 

Nominal Output

 

 

 

 

 

SETUP

FREQUENCY

AMPLITUDE

 

 

 

 

 

00 *

1.00 kHz

10 Vpp

Adjustment for main frequency

generator, sine wave output

 

 

 

01

500 Hz

10 Vpp

Adjustment for burst rate timing,

pulse output.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*A new calibration (SETUP 86 – Rev 4.0) has been added as an alternative to SETUP 00. The new calibration outputs a 10 MHz sine wave, rather than the 1 kHz signal used for SETUP 00. The new calibration reduces slew rate dependent errors in the frequency measurement and is especially important when calibrating the Phase-Lock Assembly (Option 001). Note that either setup is sufficient to calibrate the carrier frequency and you don’t need to perform both.

2Use the CALIBRATE menu to adjust the displayed frequency at each setup to match the measured frequency and enter the value.

3Perform the Frequency Verification procedures on page 56.

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Agilent Technologies 33120A manual Aborting a Calibration in Progress, Frequency and Burst Rate Adjustment