Atec Agilent-8169A - Manual (Page 3)

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Application Description Agilent 11896A Application Agilent 8169A Application
1. Polarization adjustments (manual or automatic) with extemely
small power variations Yes No
2. Polarization synthesis No Yes
3. Complete, automatically stepped, adjustments of polarization Yes Yes
over the entire Poincare sphere (pseudo-random) (deterministic)
4. Single-wavelength polarization-dependent loss measurement Yes 1 Yes
5. Swept-wavelength polarization-dependent loss measurement Yes Yes
6. Polarization-dependent gain measurements of EDFA Yes 1 Yes
7. Polarization nulling for EDFA characterization No Yes
8. Polarization sensitivity measurements of optical coupling factor Yes Yes
(total power delta) (power delta vs SOP)
9. Optical waveguide TE/TM mode testing Yes Yes
10. Polarized beam alignment relative to principal polarization states Yes Yes
of the test device
11. Polarization adjustment of optical launch conditions for Yes Yes
polarization mode dispersion measurements
12. Simulate depolarized signals using rapid polarization scanning Yes Yes
1 The 11896A may be better suited for this application.
Ease of Use,
Flexibility and Speed
Four adjustment techniques
enhance the ease of use, flexibility
and speed of the Agilent 11896A
and 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 polari-
zation freeing the user from the
tiring, mundane task of manu-
ally tuning SOP across the
entire Poincare sphere. Multiple
polarization scan rates are avail-
able 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 proce-
dures are provided via GPIB. General-Purpose Polarization
Controllers For a Wide Range
of Applications
The combined capabilities of the
Agilent 11896A and 8169A Polari-
zation Controllers offer general-
purpose performance for a variety
of applications summarized in
Table 1. Measurement systems
are created by combining the
Agilent 11896A and 8169A with
other Agilent instruments as
indicated in Table 1; namely:
• Agilent 8153A Lightwave
Multimeter with Optical Head
• Agilent 71450B, 71451B or 71452B
Optical Spectrum Analyzer
• Agilent 8509B Lightwave
Polarization Analyzer.
...To Match Your Application Requirements
Table 1. Application matrix for Agilent 11896A and 8169A Polarization Controllers