List of Figures
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Figure 99 Power Transmitted through the Measurement Patchcord - External Source . 163
Figure 100 Power Transmitted through the Measurement Patchcord - Internal Source . 164
Figure 101 Measuring the Termination Parameter - External Source . . . . . . 165
Figure 102 Measuring the Termination Parameter - Internal Source . . . . . . 165
Figure 103 Measuring the Return Loss of the DUT (in this example: a Connector Pair) . 166
Figure 104 Measuring the Power Transmitted through the DUT (a Connector Pair) . . 166
Figure 105 The Calibration Parameters Screens - Return Loss Diode . . . . . . 168
Figure 106 The Calibration Parameters Screens - Monitor Diode . . . . . . . 169
Figure 107 The Calibration Parameters Screens - User Data . . . . . . . . 170
Figure 108 Measuring the Power from a Component with a Known Reflection Factor . 171
Figure 109 Measuring the Power transmitted through the Reflection Reference . . . 172
Figure 110 Measuring the Power with the Connector Terminated . . . . . . 172
Figure 111 Measuring the Power transmitted through the Measurement Patchcord . . 173
Figure 112 Measuring the Reflections from the Device Under Test . . . . . . 173
Figure 113 Measuring the Power transmitted through the Device Under Test . . . 174
Figure 114 Generalization of a Return Loss Measurement . . . . . . . . 177
Figure 115 81566A/67A/76A/77A Attenuator module power control loop . . . . 182
Figure 116 81560A/61A/70A/71A/73A Attenuator module, 8164A/B GUI Overview . 183
Figure 117 81560A/61A/70A/71A/73A Attenuator module, 8164A/B GUI Details . . 184
Figure 118 Attenuation factor set to 4.000 dB . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Figure 119 81560A/61A/70A/71A/73A - Attenuation factor applied with no offset . . 188
Figure 120 81560A/61A/70A/71A/73A Attenuation Offset . . . . . . . . 189
Figure 121 81560A/61A Calibration using Pref . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Figure 122 81566A/67A/76A/77A Setting P
SET
after calibration using [PM->Off] . . 194
Figure 123 The λ Offset Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Figure 124 Extrapolation and Interpolation of Offset Values . . . . . . . . 198
Figure 125 81560A/61A/70A/71A/73A Attenuator Menu Options . . . . . . 200
Figure 126 81566A/67A/76A/77A Attenuator Menu Options . . . . . . . 200
Figure 127 Agilent 81592S Optical Switch module (Dual 1x2, straight contact connectors) 205
Figure 128 Optical Switch module, User Interface Overview display . . . . . . 206
Figure 129 Optical Switch module, 8164A/B User Interface Details . . . . . . 207
Figure 130 Laser Source selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Figure 131 Measurement Path selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Figure 132 Circuit selection with crossover switch . . . . . . . . . . 211
Figure 133 DUT selection in a parallel test setup. . . . . . . . . . . 212
Figure 134 Test instruments selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Figure 135 The Application Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Figure 136 The Graph Legend Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Figure 137 Samples Display - <Line> . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Figure 138 Samples Display - <Samples> . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Figure 139 Samples Display - <Samples & Line> . . . . . . . . . . 221
Figure 140 The Lock to Curve Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Figure 141 Lock to Samples On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Figure 142 Lock to Samples Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Figure 143 Example Logging Application . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Figure 144 The Application Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Figure 145 The Agilent 8164A/B Logging Setup Screen . . . . . . . . . 227
Figure 146 The Agilent 8163B Logging Modules Setup Screen . . . . . . . 227
Figure 147 The Agilent 8163B Logging Parameter Setup Screen . . . . . . . 229
Figure 148 The Logging Measurement Screen - Measurement Running . . . . . 231
Figure 149 The Logging Measurement Screen - Measurement Completed . . . . 232
Figure 150 The Agilent 8164A/B Logging Analysis Screen . . . . . . . . 233