Modular platform for fast, accurate
waveform testing up to 40 Gb/s
Infiniium DCA
Agilent 86100A
Wide-Bandwidth Oscilloscope with Digital Communications Analysis
and Time-Domain Reflectometry
86100A
What does a modular platform
do for you?
The 86100A supports a large and
growing family of optical and electrical
plug-in modules. This modular architecture lets you configure the instrument for your application both now
and in the future. New receiver
plug-in modules are being
developed to keep pace with
the evolving communications
industry.
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Compatibility Modules
from the 83480A/54750A
are fully compatible with
the 86100A
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Agilent 86100A Infiniium DCA Wide-Bandwidth Oscilloscope
Powerful combination of performance and ease of use
Agilent Protects Your Investment:
Easily configure from a wide
selection of modules
to fit your needs
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Remote programming commands
from the 83480A/54750A are over
95% compatible with the 86100A
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Free firmware upgrades The meas-
urement capabilities of the 86100A
are always being expanded and
improved.
The 86100A Infiniium DCA is three high-performance instruments in one. It’s a general purpose wide-bandwidth oscilloscope, a digital communications analyzer, and a time-domain
reflectometer.
The 86100A provides comprehensive measurement capabilities and supports wide-bandwidth applications for both optical and electrical signals. Whether you’re working on
SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre channel, Infiniband,
very short reach (VSR) optics, parallel optics, or general electrical signals, the 86100A is the ideal instrument for characterizing your waveforms.
With exceptional vertical resolution and jitter performance,
a fast display update rate, and Windows®-based graphical
user interface, the 86100A is a powerful measurement system for high-speed optical communications, TDR characterization and semiconductor testing of circuit boards.
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Jitter
Agilent breaks through the picosecond jitter threshold
allowing you to see signals as never before
Introducing
Agilent’s New
86107A Precision
Timebase Reference
Module
Accurate views of your 40 Gb/s
waveforms
When developing 40 Gb/s devices,
even a small amount of inherent
scope jitter can become significant
since 40 Gb/s waveforms only have a
bit period of 25ps. Scope jitter of 1ps
RMS can result in 6 to 9 ps of peak-topeak jitter, causing eye closure even if
your signal is jitter-free. The Agilent
86100A has been improved specifically for 40 Gb/s waveform analysis.
The new 86107A precision timebase
reference module represents one of
the most significant improvements in
wide-bandwidth sampling oscilloscopes in over a decade.
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Jitter performance has been reduced by almost
an order of magnitude to 200 fs RMS.
Oscilloscope jitter is virtually eliminated! The reduced jitter of the
86107A precision timebase module
allows you to measure the true jitter
of your signal. The 86107A requires
a 10, 20 or 40 GHz electrical reference
clock that is synchronous with the signal under test. Timebase resolution
has also been improved from
10 ps/division to 2 ps/division,
a 5 times improvement.
The same 40 GHz
sinewave captured
using current DCA
(left) and now with
86107A precision
timebase module
(below).
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Methods and algorithm used in the precision timebase module are so innovative that a U.S. patent application has been filed.
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Helping you accelerate the next generation optical network
Optical networking is critical to the
future of telecommunications and
40 Gb/s transmission rates are
key to the future of optical
networking. The exploding
growth of the Internet,
as well as e-commerce,
IP telephony, and
other data-centric
applications, is
prompting a demand
for increased band-
width. The telecommuni-
cations industry needs to
bring new high-capacity fiber
optic systems on line fast to keep
up with customer demand for more
bandwidth. Agilent’s test solutions
enable you to quickly and accurately
make the measurements needed to
reduce time-to-market for new 40 Gb/s
products. The 40 Gb/s optical network
will provide the speed, capacity and
reliability needed to enable bandwidth
intensive applications and services.
Optical components and equipment
within this high-speed infrastructure
will require characterization with
unique time domain measurements
due to new modulation formats.
86100A—the ideal instrument
for testing devices in the 40 Gb/s
network
The wide-bandwidth sampling oscilloscopes (widely referred to as digital
communication analyzers) are used
extensively in research, development,
and manufacturing of components,
modules, line cards, and network systems. The 86100A is the ideal instrument for quickly and easily analyzing
the quality of your signals.
Faster time to market
Getting ahead in the development,
manufacturing and deployment of
high-speed optical and electrical components and network elements means
one thing: faster time to market.
And the best way to get there is with
a partner like Agilent Technologies.
86100A—the ideal instrument for testing
components to systems
The 86100A is
the ideal instrument
for quickly and easily
analyzing the quality
of your signals.
Network elements
and systems
Line cards
Modules
Components
Components
Components
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E/O
O/O
Multiplexers
Demultiplexers
16:1, 4:1
Optical components
(active and passive)
Serial components
(transimpedance amps,
photodiodes, modulators)
Today’s communication signals have
significant frequency content well
beyond an oscilloscopes 3-dB bandwidth. A high-bandwidth scope does
not alone guarantee an accurate representation of your waveform. Careful
design of the scope’s frequency
response (both amplitude and phase)
minimizes distortion such as overshoot
and ringing.
The new Agilent
86116A and
86109B plug-in
module includes
an integrated optical receiver
designed to provide the optimum
in bandwidth,
sensitivity, and
waveform fidelity.
The 86116A
extends the bandwidth of the 86100A
Infiniium DCA to 65 GHz electrical and
55 GHz optical. The 86109 is an economical solution with 50 GHz electrical
and 40 GHz optical bandwidth. You can
build the premier solution for 40 Gb/s
waveform analysis around
the 86100A mainframe
you already own.
Performing
return-to-zero
(RZ) waveform
measurements
Extensive set
of automatic RZ
measurements
are built-in for
the complete characterization of
return-to-zero (RZ) signals at
the push of a button.
Built-in RZ Measurements
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Bit rate
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Extinction ratio
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Contrast ratio
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Rise and fall times
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Pulse width
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RMS and peak-to-peak
jitter
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Eye amplitude
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Eye opening factor
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Eye height and width
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Signal-to-noise ratio
and more
Wide wavelength range
S-, C-, and L-band. The 86116A and
86109B covers the widest wave-
length range for testing
devices from 1000 nm
to 1600 nm.
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40 Gb/s
Impulse response
of Agilent’s optical
plug-in modules
86116A
55 GHz
86109B
40 GHz
Meeting your growing need for more bandwidth
0 1 1 0 1 0 0
NRZ
RZ
Modulation formats
With RZ, the light level
"Returns-to-Zero" in between the
transmission of two digital 1’s.
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