Atec Agilent-83491A-92A - Manual (Page 3)

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Features
Three Instruments in One
For basic oscilloscope operation there is easy front
panel access with that familiar analog-look and feel. A
Windows®-based system lets you easily navigate through
the user-interface. The 86100B Infiniium DCA can be
viewed as three high-performance instruments in one. It’s
a general-purpose wide-bandwidth sampling oscilloscope.
It’s a digital communications analyzer. It’s a time domain
reflectometer. Just select the instrument mode and start
making measurements.
Configurable to Meet Your Needs
The 86100B supports a wide range of plug-ins for testing
both optical and electrical signals. Select plug-ins to get
the specific bandwidth, filtering, and sensitivity you need.
Digital Communications Analysis
Accurate eye-diagram analysis is essential for character-
izing the quality of transmitters used from 100 Mb/s to
40 Gb/s. The 86100B was designed specifically for the
complex task of analyzing digital communications wave-
forms. Compliance mask and parametric testing no longer
require a complicated sequence of setups and configura-
tions. If you can press a button, you can perform a
complete compliance test. The important measurements
you need are right at your fingertips, including:
• industry standard mask testing with built-in
margin analysis,
• extinction ratio measurements with accuracy and
repeatability, and
• eye measurements: crossing %, eye height and width, ‘1’
and ‘0’ levels, jitter, rise or fall times and more.
The key to accurate measurements of lightwave communi-
cations waveforms is the optical receiver. The 86100B
has a broad range of precision receivers integrated
within the instrument.
• Built-in photodiodes, with flat frequency responses,
yield the highest waveform fidelity. This provides high
accuracy for extinction ratio measurements.
• Standards-based transmitter compliance measurements
require filtered responses. The 86100B has a broad
range of filter combinations. Filters can be automati-
cally and repeatably switched in or out of the measure-
ment channel remotely over GPIB or with a front panel
button. The frequency response of the entire measure-
ment path is calibrated, and will maintain its perfor-
mance over long-term usage.
• The integrated optical receiver provides a calibrated
optical channel. With the accurate optical receiver built
into the module, optical signals are accurately measured
and displayed in optical power units.
Switches or couplers are not required for an average
power measurement. Signal routing is simplified and
signal strength is maintained.
Eye Diagram Mask Testing
The 86100B provides efficient, high-throughput waveform
compliance testing with a suite of standards based eye-
diagram masks. The test process has been streamlined
into a minimum number of keystrokes for testing at
industry standard data rates.
Standard Masks
Rate (Mb/s)
1X Gigabit Ethernet 1250
2X Gigabit Ethernet 2500
10 Gigabit Ethernet 9953.28
10 Gigabit Ethernet 10312.5
FC 1063 1062.5
FC 2125 2125
10X Fibre Channel 10518.75
STM0/OC1 51.84
STM1/OC3 155.52
STM4/OC12 622.08
STM16/OC48 2488.3
Infiniband 2500
XAUI 3125
STM64/OC192 9953.28
STM64/OC192 FEC
10664.2
STM64/OC192 FEC 10709
STM64/OC192 Super FEC 12500
STM256/OC768 39813
STS1 EYE
51.84
STS3 EYE 155.52
able measurement conditions, such as mask margins for
guardband testing, number of waveforms tested, and
stop/limit actions.
Measurement Speed
Measurement speed has been increased with both fast
hardware and a user-friendly instrument. In the lab, don’t
waste time trying to figure out how to make a measure-
ment. With the simple-to-use 86100B, you don’t have to
relearn how to make a measurement each time you use it.
Optical
Receiver
Sampling/
Amplification
SDH/Sonet
Filter
Average
Power
Monitor
Agilent 86105A Optical Receiver Section
▲ ▲
The integrated optical channel can be used as a fully
calibrated SONET/SDH/Gigabit Ethernet or Fibre Channel
reference receiver or as a wide-bandwidth receiver.
Overview of Infiniium DCA
Other eye-diagram
masks are easily
created through scaling
those listed at left. In
addition, mask editing
allows for new masks
either by editing
existing masks, or
creating new masks
from scratch. A new
mask can also be
created or modified on
an external PC using a
text editor such as
Notepad, then can be
transferred to the
instrument’s hard
drive using LAN or the
A: drive.
Perform these mask
conformance tests with
convenient user-defin-