Tunable Lasers How to Use Triggers
126 Agilent 8163A Lightwave Multimeter, Agilent 8164A Lightwave Measurement
System, & Agilent 8166A Lightwave Multichannel System, Fourth Edition
3 Move to <Input Trigger Mode>, by using the cursor key, and press ENTER.
You will see the screen in Figure 81.
4 Move to one of the following, by using the cursor key:
• <Ignore>, input triggers are ignored.
• <Next Step>, an input trigger will cause the next step of a stepped sweep to be
performed.
• <Run Sweep>, an input trigger will start a single sweep cycle.
5 Press Enter.
You can generate input triggers in any of the following ways:
• applying a trigger to the Input Trigger Connector on the rear panel of your
instrument,
• setting <Trigger Configuration> to <Loopback> so that an output trigger
automatically generates an input trigger, or
• using the
:TRIGger
GPIB command, see your mainframe’s Programming
Guide.
How to Use Output Triggering
You can configure your Tunable Laser module to output a trigger when the
instrument performs certain tasks.
To set your module’s Output Trigger Configuration:
1 See “How to Set the Trigger Configuration” on page 62 for how to configure
the trigger connectors.
Figure 81 Input Trigger Mode
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