Specifications
234 Agilent 8163A Lightwave Multimeter, Agilent 8164A Lightwave Measurement 
System, & Agilent 8166A Lightwave Multichannel System, Fourth Edition
The Agilent 8163A Lightwave Multimeter, the Agilent 8164A Lightwave 
Measurement System, and the Agilent 8166A Lightwave Multichannel System 
are produced to the ISO 9001 international quality system standard as part of 
Agilent Technologies’ commitment to continually increasing customer 
satisfaction through improved quality control.
Specifications describe the instrument’s warranted performance. Supplementary 
performance characteristics describe the instrument’s non-warranted typical 
performance.
Because of the modular nature of the instrument, the performance specifications 
apply to the modules rather than the mainframe unit. The specifications for a 
module are supplied with that module. You should appropriate pages into this 
section of the manual.