Power Measurement How to Measure Power
88 Agilent 8163A Lightwave Multimeter, Agilent 8164A Lightwave Measurement
System, & Agilent 8166A Lightwave Multichannel System, Fourth Edition
How to Use Triggers
Agilent 8163A Series Power Meter modules allow you trigger the instrument to
perform tasks and to output trigger signals to external measurement instruments.
NOTE For a Dual Power Sensor, you cannot set the any trigger parameters of the slave
channel, channel 2, directly. By default, all the trigger parameters for the slave
channel, channel 2, are the same as for the master channel, channel 1. See Table 2
on page 90 for more details.
How to Trigger Power Measurements
You can configure Agilent 8163A Series Power Meter modules to perform
certain tasks when you apply a trigger to the Input Trigger Connector.
You must prearm a measurement function before an action can be triggered:
1 See “How to Set the Trigger Configuration” on page 62 for how to configure
the trigger connectors.
2 Move to the Power Meter channel and press the [Menu] softkey.
3 Move to <Input Trigger Mode>, by using the cursor key, and press Enter. You
will see the screen in Figure 58.
4 Move to one of the following, by using the cursor key:
– <Single meas>, an input trigger will trigger one sample of a measurement
function to be performed and to store the result in a data array.
– <Compl. meas>, an input trigger will trigger a complete measurement
function to be performed.
– <Ignore>, input triggers are ignored.
Figure 58 Input Trigger Mode
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