Atec Agilent-8163A, Agilent-81634A User Manual

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Lightwave Multimeter
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“Working together

should be a standard.”

Agilent 8163A

Lightwave Multimeter

Product Overview

• precise

• reliable

• fast

www.agilent.com/comms/lightwave

The New Standard Features and Benefits

The Agilent 8163A Lightwave Multi­meter is a basic measurement tool
in the fiber optic industry. It ensures
accurate and fast results, even for
your most demanding measurements
on optical components and systems.

The 8163A Lightwave Multimeter is
the successor to the highly popular
8153A Lightwave Multimeter. It builds
on all the key attributes that made
the 8153A Lightwave Multimeter the
standard in Research and Development
and in Manufacturing.

Its modular format makes it flexible
enough to meet your changing mea­surement needs, whether you are
measuring optical power, insertion loss
or return loss for single- or multimode
components.

The lightwave multimeter system
includes the mainframe and a variety of
plug-in modules for set-ups requiring:

• single or dual channel power

meters,

• single or dual fixed light

High Bandwidth

sources,

• compact tunable laser modules

The 8163A Lightwave Multimeter
helps ease your work-load by offering
several advanced functions that turn
your 8163A into a powerful measure­ment system.

Without needing an external controller,
built-in application software guides
you through the step-by-step proce­dures needed for measurement tasks
such as measuring loss, monitoring
stability or logging data.

For example, for long term monitoring
you only need to input the total mea­surement time and the averaging time
per sample – the 8163A Lightwave
Multimeter does the rest. After the test
is complete, the result can be displayed
numerically or graphically on the
display or the result can be sent to a
printer.

You can easily integrate the 8163A
Lightwave Multimeter into your test
environment by using plug & play
drivers over GPIB, or by using the
configurable hardware input and out­put trigger ports.

“The Agilent family of

optical component test
equipment. Because working

High Bandwidth

together should be a standard.”