Keysight Technologies N7700 Manuel utilisateur

User’s Guide

Keysight N7700

Photonic Application Suite

Fast Spectral Loss Measurement Engine

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Manual Part Number

N7700-91102

Edition

Edition 12.0, August 2021

Printed in Germany

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Compliance and Environmental Information

Table 1 Compliance and Environmental Information

Safety Symbol Description

This product complies with WEEE Directive (2002/96/EC) marking requirements.

The affixed label indicates that you must not discard this electrical/electronic

product in domestic household waste.

Product Category: With reference to the equipment types in WEEE Directive Annex I,

this product is classed as a “Monitoring and Control instrumentation” product.

Do not dispose in domestic household waste.

To return unwanted products, contact your local Keysight office, or see

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Contents

Compliance and Environmental Information 3

1 Quick Start Information

Fast Spectral Loss Measurement Setup 13

Software User Interface 14

2 Getting Started

About this manual 16

System Requirements 17

Software Installation 18

Connecting the instruments 19

Running the Configuration Wizard 20

3 Fast Spectral Loss Measurement Application

General 24

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Fast Spectral Loss Measurement Application 25

Application Setup Parameters 27

Instrument Setup Parameters 31

Using the Port/Reference Manager 33

Power Meter Zeroing 34

Range Override 34

Taking References 35

Configuring Dynamic Range Related Settings 37

Performing a Measurement 39

Applying Plugins 40

Saving Measurements 40

Loading Measurements 41

Creating .agconfig Files from Measurement Files 42

Automatic History Saves 42

Exporting Measurement Data 47

Changing the Color Theme 47

TLS Lambda Zeroing 48

Configuration Handling 48

Measurement Setup 49

4Automation

COM Components 52

Creating a New Engine 54

Connecting to an Existing Engine 56

Performing a Measurement 57

Accessing the Measurement Result 58

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Reference: Interface “IEngineMgr” 60

property Version 60

method IsVersionGreaterOrEqual 60

method NewEngine 60

method OpenEngine 61

property EngineIDs 61

method DeleteEngine 61

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Reference: Interface “IEngine” 62

property Version 62

method IsVersionGreaterOrEqual 62

method Activate 62

method DeActivate 63

property Active 63

property Busy 63

property EmulationMode 63

method LoadConfiguration 64

property Configuration 64

property SoftwareConfiguration 64

property KeepRawData 65

property WavelengthStart 65

property WavelengthStop 65

property WavelengthStep 66

property SweepRates 66

property SweepRate 66

property UseTwoWay 66

property SupportsTwoWay 67

property PWMAutoRanging 67

property NumberOfScans 67

property RangeDecrement 68

property PWMSensitivityRef 68

property PWMAutoRangingRef 69

property PWMSensitivity 69

property PWMAvgTime 69

property PWMAvgTimeAuto 70

method ZeroPWMChannels 70

property TLSOutputPort 70

property TLSPower 71

property LambdaZeroingMode 71

method ZeroAllTLS 71

method StartCustomReference 72

method ClearReferenceChannels 72

method CopyReferenceChannel 73

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method UndoReferenceOperation 73

method LoadReference 74

method SaveReference 74

property ReferenceList 74

method DeleteReferenceFile 75

property ChannelSetup 75

method StartMeasurement 75

method StartMeasurementRepeat 75

method StopMeasurement 76

method FileSave 76

property MeasurementResult 76

property EventPropertiesChanged 77

property EventMeasurementFinished 77

property EventReferenceOperationFinished 77

property EventDataAcquisitionFinished 78

property ProtocolText 78

property ProtocolMin 78

property ProtocolMax 79

method GetProtocolTextAt 79

property UserInputWaiting 79

property UserInputPrompt 79

property UserInputChoice 80

method UserInputResponse 80

Alphabetical Automation Index 81

5 Troubleshooting

Symptoms and Solutions 84

No measurement data shown 84

Measurement Status Box not visible 85

Graphs are flickering when using high measurement repetition rates 85

The list of values for a drop-down control appears invisible or

displaced 86

COM API registration fails 86

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