Agilent 8614xB Family of Optical Spectrum Analyzers
Optical Spectrum Analyzers
8614xB
Testing at the speed of light
The Agilent Family of
Optical Spectrum Analyzers
Agilent Technologies offers a wide
variety of optical spectrum analyzers
(OSA) to meet your test needs whether
it’s in R&D, manufacturing, installation,
or maintenance and commissioning.
Providing both benchtop and portable
models at different price and performance points so you can choose the
most cost effective solution to meet
your test needs.
Benchtop’s - The OSA family of bench-
tops provides fast, accurate, and comprehensive measurement capabilities
for spectral analysis. Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
(SCPI) over LAN and the display-off
features allows you to make fast measurements while reducing production
test time. Remote file saving and printing,
and full featured SCPI remote commands
make it easy to integrate Agilent’s
OSA’s into your production line.
Portable’s - Rugged, reliable and
easy to use with performance
you would not expect from a portable OSA. The user-friendly interface
and intelligent measurement design
take the uncertainty out of making
complicated spectral measurements.
Measurements you can trust each and
every time.
Benchtop Overview
Portable Overview
High performance OSA with
86146B filter mode monochromator
output
86142B High performance OSA
86140B Standard performance OSA
Standard performance OSA
86144B with filter mode monochrom-
ator output
86145B High performance OSA
86143B Standard performance OSA
More insight than you ever thought possible...
Family
You can choose the most cost effective
solution to meet your test needs.
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Filter Mode
Introducing the brightest members of
the family...
The 86146B benchtop OSA and
86144B portable OSA enable new test
methods you may never have thought
possible. One of the applications of
the filter mode is to allow a single
tightly spaced DWDM signal to be
isolated. You can then quantitatively
analyze in the time domain without
losing any of the traditional OSA functionality you’ve come to expect from
Agilent. It is now possible to switch
between parametric measurements in
the physical domain to functional
measurements in the time domain.
The WDM application can sequentially
or selectively drop WDM channels that
require additional analysis.
The 86146B and 86144B provide the
flexibility to drop a single DWDM
channel as tight as 12.5 GHz spacing
with fast-tuning speed, low-insertion
loss, and highly repeatable wavelength accuracy. We’ve also designed
The 86146B benchtop OSA and 86144B
portable OSA enable new test methods you
may never have thought possible.
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Filter Mode
our built-in WDM application to
work with the single-mode monochromator output path to simplify
the task of pre-selecting a desired
WDM channel for analysis.
Another application of the filter mode
is to measure time resolved chirp (TRC).
Using the SMF feature of monochromator out as a preselector with a DCA,
chirp measurements can be made on
lasers.
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Accelerate Test with
Built-in Applications
Built-in applications take the uncertainty out of measurements for WDM
systems, lasers, amplifiers, and passive components. These applications
allow for fast, accurate, easy to use,
upgradeable, and repeatable measurements of critical parameters. All of
these applications can be added
through a simple firmware upgrade.
WDM Application
The WDM application helps speed
up the test process for DWDM subsystems, so increasing channel counts
does not mean test time increases.
The application can easily measure
DWDM sub-system components, such
as transmission sub-systems, optical
add/drop multiplexers, and multiplexers/de-multiplexers.
This application provides accurate
measurements for critical parameters
such as optical signal-to-noise ratio
(OSNR), channel wavelength, channel
power, and span tilt. The application
also provides both a graphical display
of your WDM signal as well as tabular
data. Each channel is automatically
numbered so that test data can be
easily correlated to each channel.
OSNR measurements of modulated
signals made with the 8614xB series
are highly accurate due to the patented
dual sweep method. The first sweep
is taken at a user-specified wide
resolution bandwidth filter to ensure
accurate signal amplitude measurements. The second sweep is taken
with a user-specified narrow resolution
bandwidth filter to ensure accurate
noise power spectral density measurements. With the fast sweep speed of
the Agilent OSA, the result is a quick
and accurate OSNR measurement.
These applications allow for fast, accurate,
easy to use, upgradeable, and repeatable
measurements.
Passive Component Test
Application
The passive component test application simplifies the test procedure for
passive components, such as filters,
couplers, and isolators.
A user defined test plan allows you to
customize and stream line the process
to measure and display important device
parameters such as insertion and
return loss, bandwidth, and filter shape.
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