How to Perform a Wavelength Sweep Tunable Lasers
Agilent 8163A/B, 8164A/B, and 8166A/B User’s Guide, Fourth Edition 131
How to Perform a Manual Sweep
You can perform a manual sweep if you choose the <Manual> sweep
mode or if you press [Pause] during an automatic sweep. In a manual
sweep you choose when you want to perform each step of a stepped
sweep. You can choose to move forward or backward a wavelength or
to end the sweep.
To perform a manual wavelength sweep over the range 1510 nm to
1570 nm, three times, sweeping two ways, in 1 nm steps:
1 Move to the Tunable Laser channel and press [Details].
2 Move to [Sweep Mode] and press Enter.
3 Move to the <Manual>, by using the cursor key, and press Enter.
4 Perform step 4 to step 13 on page 127 to set the sweep parameters.
5 Press the [Active] hardkey on the front panel of your Tunable Laser
module to enable the optical output.
6 Press [Run Swp] to start the sweep. The screen in Figure 74 then
appears.
7 You can:
– press [Next] to move on to the next wavelength step,
– press [Prev] to move on to the previous wavelength step, or
– press [Stop] to end the sweep.
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