Agilent Technologies 8163A - The Pmax Curve; What Is the Pmax Curve; How to View the Pmax Curve

The Pmax Curve Applications
Agilent 8163A Lightwave Multimeter, Agilent 8164A Lightwave Measurement System, & Agilent 8166A Lightwave
Multichannel System, Fourth Edition
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The Pmax Curve
What is the Pmax Curve ?
The Pmax Curve shows the maximum laser output power for your Tunable Laser
module across the wavelength range of your Tunable Laser module.
How to View the Pmax Curve
To view the Pmax Curve:
1 Press the Appl hardkey. The Applications menu, as shown in Figure 117,
appears.
NoH No Head There is an Optical Head Interface module inserted in the
mainframe that does not have an Optical Head connected to
it. No measurement is possible using this channel until you
either:
• reconnect an Optical Head or
• deselect this Optical Head channel as a power
measurement channel.
NoD No Data No data has been measured or measurement is not yet fin-
ished. You cannot access the Analysis Screen yet. Printout
and file operations are not yet possible.
Set Settling A Tunable Laser module is settling. The instrument is busy
and no measurement can be performed yet.
NoR No Ref No reference sweep has been performed. Loss will be cal-
culated using nominal laser power as a reference.
Table 6 PACT Application On-Screen Messages
Agilent 8163A
Message
Agilent 8164A
Message
Description