Atec Agilent-8169A - Manual (Page 4)

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To Match Your Application
Requirements
Ease of Use, Flexibility and Speed
Four adjustment techniques enhance the ease of
use, flexibility and speed of the Agilent 8169A.
• Precise manual adjustments are made while
watching the front-panel display and adjusting
the front panel knobs.
• Nine Save/Recall registers enable random and
rapid SOP hopping between nine different,
user-set states of polarization.
• Autoscanning continuously sweeps over all
states of polarization, tuning the SOP across
the entire Poincare sphere. Multiple
polarization scan rates are available to match
the speed of the application; be it a five-
second, single-wave PDL measurement or a
three-minute, wavelength-scanning PDL
measurement.
• Autoscanning rates are also fast enough to
produce polarization scrambling for some
applications.
Remote interrogation of all instrument settings
and remote control of all adjustment procedures
are provided via GPIB.
General-Purpose Polarization Controller
For a Wide Range of Applications
The Agilent 8169A Polarization Controller offers
general-purpose performance for a variety of
applications:
• Polarization synthesis
• Complete and automatically stepped
adjustments of polarization over the entire
Poincare sphere
• Swept wavelength polarization-dependent loss
measurement (Mueller method)
• Fixed-wavelength “min-max” PDL
measurements
• Polarization-dependent gain measurements for
EDFA
• Polarization sensitivity measurements
• Optical waveguide TE/TM mode testing
• Polarization adjustment of optical launch
conditions for polarization mode dispersion
measurements
Measurement systems are created by combining
the Agilent 8169A with other Agilent instruments.