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Measurement Operations & Settings

Root Layer Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Measurement Functions – The SENSe Subsystem . . . . . 85

Agilent 81635A and Agilent 81619A - Master and Slave

Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Signal Generation – The SOURce Subsystem . . . . . . . . . 113

Signal Conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

The INPut and OUTput commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 The table of wavelength-dependent offsets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Compatibility of the 81560A/1A/6A/7A modular attenuator family to the 8156A attenuator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Signal Routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Triggering - The TRIGger Subsystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Extended Trigger Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

This chapter gives descriptions of commands that you can use when you are setting up or performing measurements. The commands are split up into the following subsystems:

•Root layer commands that take power measurements, configures triggering, and return information about the mainframe and it’s slots

•SENSe subsystem commands that control Power Sensors, Optical Head Interface Modules, and Return Loss Modules.

•SOURce subsystem commands that control Laser Source modules, DFB source modules, Tunable Laser modules, and Return Loss Modules with internal laser sources.

•Signal Conditioing commands that control Attenuator modules.

•TRIGger subsystem commands that control triggering.

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