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16 A continuous sweep can end in two ways:
a when the sweep is completed, or
b when you press [Stop].
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].
2Move 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 149 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 88 on
page -154 then appears.
7You 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.
376,Lambda logging in stepped
mode
lambda logging can only be done in continuous sweep mode
377,step not multiple of <x> the step size must be a multiple of the smallest possible step size
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