Agilent Technologies Agilent 86120C manual Automatic interpolation, Repetitive data formats

Models: Agilent 86120C

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Automatic interpolation

Making Measurements

Measuring Signal-to-Noise Ratios

Automatic interpolation

User- entered When the signal- to- noise “user” function is selected, the

wavelength Agilent 86120C uses only one wavelength to measure the noise power for all signals. This wavelength is set by the user and all signals are compared to the noise level at this wavelength to determine their cor- responding signal- to- noise ratios.

Noise bandwidth When measuring noise power, the Agilent 86120C must account for the noise bandwidth used during the measurement. Because noise band- width varies with measurement bandwidth (a wide bandwidth allows more noise to the Agilent 86120C’s detector than a narrow bandwidth), the Agilent 86120C normalizes all noise power measurements to a bandwidth of 0.1 nm. The annotation 0.1 nm is displayed to show that the noise bandwidth is being normalized to a 0.1 nm bandwidth.

Repetitive data formats

The Agilent 86120C signal-to-noise application works best when the laser being tested is not modulated, or modulated with non-repetitive data formats. With repetitive data formats, such as PRBS data and SONET formats, there is signifi- cant low-frequency amplitude modulation of the laser. This modulation raises the noise floor of the Agilent 86120C significantly. The signal-to-noise measured can be limited to about 15 dB while measuring lasers modulated by repetitive data for- mats. For improved performance when the laser is modulated with repetitive data formats, use the Signal-to-Noise with Averaging application.

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