Keysight Technologies 8163A - Page 9

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Contents
8 Setting Attenuation and/or Power Levels
Keysight 8157xA Variable Optical Attenuator modules 214
How to Use a Variable Optical Attenuator module 216
The User Interface 216
How to Control the Shutter 219
How to Set Attenuation 220
How to Set a Power Level 224
Calibrating Test Setups that use an 81570A/71A/73A/78A
Attenuator module
225
How to Compensate for Wavelength Dependencies in your test
setup
229
How to Construct a λ Offset Table 231
How to Use the Power Control Feature 233
Attenuator Menu Options 233
Attenuator Status Indicators 236
9 Switching Optical Routes
Keysight 8159xB Optical Switch modules 238
Options 238
How to Use an Optical Switch module 240
The User Interface 240
Dependent and Independent Routing 242
How to set Route A 242
How to set Route B 243
How to Toggle the Switch path 243
Typical Applications 244
Selecting a Laser Source 244
Selecting Measurement and Calibration Paths 244
Inserting or Bypassing an Optical Component 245
Selecting one of several DUTs in a parallel test setup 245
Selecting one of several instruments 246