Keysight N777 C Series - How to Set Modulation

Keysight N777-C Series Tunable Laser Family User’s Guide 71
N777-C Web User Interface Reference 4
To set your instrument’s Input Trigger Configuration:
1From the Settings > Measurement Settings and select Trigger.
2 Use the drop-down menu to select the Input Trigger. The following
input trigger options are available:
• Ignore, input triggers are ignored.
• Next Step, an input trigger will cause the next step of a stepped
sweep to be performed.
• Run Sweep, an input trigger will start a single sweep cycle.
3 You can generate input triggers in any of the following ways:
• applying a trigger to the Input Trigger Connector on the rear panel
of your instrument,
• setting Trigger Configuration to Loopback so that an output trigger
automatically generates an input trigger, or
• using the :TRIGger1 command, see your Programming Guide.
How to Use Output Triggering
You can configure your Tunable Laser instrument to output a trigger when
the instrument performs certain tasks.
To set your instrument’s Output Trigger Configuration:
1From the Settings > Measurement Settings and select Trigger.
2 Use the drop-down menu to select the Output Trigger. The following
output trigger options are available:
• Disabled, the output trigger mode is disabled.
• Step Finished, a trigger is output after every step of a sweep
finishes.
• Sweep Finished, a trigger is output after a sweep cycle finishes.
• Sweep Started, a trigger is output after a sweep cycle starts.
How to set Modulation?
NOTE
If you choose Step Finished and a Continuous sweep, the wavelength
interval between hardware triggers is set by the Step parameter,
although, the sweep is not stepped.