2 General Power Meter Functions
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12 Press or to setup measurement setting such as
measurement averaging, measurement frequency, offsets, duty cycle and
so forth. Refer to “General Power Meter Functions” on page 31 for the
setup procedures.
13 Send *OPC (OPeration Complete) command to meter to set the
operation complete bit in the Standard Event Status register when all
pending device operations are completed.
14 Set the meter to continuous trigger mode by sending
INITiate:CONTinuous ON command to meter.
15 Configure and set the required power sweep range and step on the
power source accordingly.
16 Set the power source trigger input and trigger output, then start
sweeping.
17 Poll the status of the power meter by sending *ESR?. *ESR? will return
a 1 when buffering is completed. Use FETCh? to retrieve all the
buffered measurement.
Refer to the N1913/1914A EPM Series Power Meters Programming Guide for the
commands usage details.
Example of command set:
BUFF:COUN 100
The power meter can be remotely controlled by LAN, USB and GPIB (IEEE488)
programming interfaces. Refer to N1913/1914A EPM Series Power Meters Installation
Guide for details.