Measurement Operations & Settings

Signal Conditioning

command:

syntax:

description:

parameters:

response:

example:

affects:

:CONFigure[n][:CHANnel[m]]:OFFSet:WAVelength:REFerence?

:CONFigure[n]][:CHANnel[m]]:OFFSet:WAVelength:REFerence?

Queries the currently selected slot and channel of the external powermeter (hosted in the same mainframe as the attenuator module) used by TOREF.

See: “:CONFigure[n][:CHANnel[m]]:OFFSet:WAVelength:VALue” on page 161

none

the slot and channel of the external powermeter as integer values.

CONF1:OFFS:WAV:REF? → +2,+1<END>

Attenuator modules with power control.

command:

:CONFigure[n][:CHANnel[m]]:OFFSet:WAVelength:VALue:WAVelength?

 

syntax:

:CONFigure[n]][:CHANnel[m]]:OFFSet:WAVelength:VALue:WAVelength?<wsp><index>

description:

Queries a wavelength value from its position, or index, in the offset table. Offset table entries

 

are ordered from shortest to longest wavelength. The first index number = 1.

parameters:

<index>

The position of the wavelength value in the offset table.

response:

4 byte Intel floating point; the wavelength in meters

example:

CONF1:OFFS:WAV:VAL:WAV? 1 → +1.55000000E-006<END>

affects:

All attenuator modules.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

command:

:CONFigure[n][:CHANnel[m]]:OFFSet:WAVelength:VALue:OFFSet?

 

syntax:

:CONFigure[n]][:CHANnel[m]]:OFFSet:WAVelength:VALue:OFFSet?<wsp><index wavelength [PM

 

NM UM MM M],>

description:

Queries an offset value from the position, or index, of the associated wavelength in the offset

 

table. Offset table entries are ordered from shortest to longest wavelength. The first index

 

number =1.

 

 

 

Or: Queries the offset applied for a particular wavelength.

parameters:

<index>

 

The position of the value pair (wavelength; offset) in the offset table.

 

<wavelength>

The wavelength for the offset table entry, in m

response:

4 byte Intel floating point; the offset

example:

CONF1:OFFS:WAV:VAL:OFFS? 1 → 2

affects:

All attenuator modules.

 

 

 

 

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8163A, 8164A, 8166A, B specifications

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