R&S FSL  Advanced Measurement Examples 
1300.2519.12 I-2.1  E-11 
Contents of Chapter 2 
2 Advanced Measurement Examples ............................................................. 2.1 
Test Setup .........................................................................................................................................2.2 
M
easurement of Harmonics ............................................................................................................2.2
 
High–Sensitivity Harmonics Measurements ...............................................................................2.4 
Measuring the Spectra of Complex Signals ..................................................................................2.6 
Separating Signals by Selecting an Appropriate Resolution Bandwidth ....................................2.6 
Intermodulation Measurements ..................................................................................................2.7 
Measurement example – Measuring the R&S FSL's intrinsic intermodulation...............2.9 
Measuring Signals in the Vicinity of Noise ..................................................................................2.13 
Measurement example – Measuring level at low S/N ratios.........................................2.14 
Noise Measurements .....................................................................................................................2.17 
Measuring Noise Power Density...............................................................................................2.17 
Measurement example – Measuring the intrinsic noise power density of the R&S FSL at 
1 GHz and calculating the R&S FSL's noise figure ......................................................2.17
 
Measurement of Noise Power within a Transmission Channel ................................................2.19 
Measurement example – Measuring the intrinsic noise of the R&S FSL at 1 GHz in a 
1.23 MHz channel bandwidth with the channel power function....................................2.20
 
Measuring Phase Noise............................................................................................................2.23 
Measurement example – Measuring the phase noise of a signal generator at a carrier 
offset of 10 kHz .............................................................................................................2.23
 
Measurements on Modulated Signals ..........................................................................................2.25 
Measuring Channel Power and Adjacent Channel Power .......................................................2.25 
Measurement example 1 – ACPR measurement on an CDMA 2000 signal................2.26 
Measurement example 2 – Measuring adjacent channel power of a W–CDMA uplink 
signal.............................................................................................................................2.30
 
Amplitude Distribution Measurements......................................................................................2.33 
Measurement example – Measuring the APD and CCDF of white noise generated by 
the R&S FSL .................................................................................................................2.34
 
Bluetooth Measurements (Option K8)..........................................................................................2.36 
Bluetooth Overview...................................................................................................................2.36 
Bluetooth technical parameters ....................................................................................2.37 
Power classes...............................................................................................................2.37 
Structure of a Bluetooth data packet ............................................................................2.38 
Supported Tests .......................................................................................................................2.38 
Overview of Transmitter Tests..................................................................................................2.39 
Functional Description – Block Diagram...................................................................................2.40 
Bandwidths ...............................................................................................................................2.41 
Measurement Filter (Meas Filter On)........................................................................................2.41 
Oversampling............................................................................................................................2.42 
Determining Average or Max/Min Values .................................................................................2.43 
Impact of the sweep count on the measurement results ..............................................2.44 
Trigger Concepts ......................................................................................................................2.44 
Cable TV Measurements (Option K20) .........................................................................................2.46