Key Performance Specifications
- High amplitude accuracy (0.5 dB) and stability (10mdB), Low Polarization dependence (50mdB)
- Wide Wavelength Range (600nm to 1700nm), Highest Wavelength Accuracy (10pm) and Repeatability
- Widest Variability in Resolution Bandwidth (60pm to 10nm) with accurately calibrated filter shapes and excellent dynamic range
Additional features
- Calibrated filter shapes and high accuracy = accurate system characterization.
- Flexible settings let the OSA fit into many applications
- Fast sweep speeds to maximize throughput
Wide Range of Applications
- Single Wavelength Channel Drop
- Fast sweep time due to its high and user selectable sensitivity (down to -90dBm)
- Built-in applications for Passive Component Test, WDM Test, Optical Amplifier Test, Source Test
The Keysight 86146B is a grating-based optical spectrum
analyzer. The OSA uses a double-pass monochromator design to
simultaneously achieve high sensitivity and dynamic range with a fast
sweep time. This is key for characterizing DWDM components, broadband
passive components, but also active optical components like narrowband
sources (DFBs), wideband sources (FPs) and optical amplifier (EDFA,
Raman amplifiers and SOAs).
The Keysight 86146B is a high performance benchtop optical
spectrum analyzer with a filter mode that provides the flexibility to
drop a single DWDM channel with fast-tuning speed, low-insertion loss,
and highly repeatable wavelength accuracy.
Another application of the filter mode is to measure
time-resolved chirp (TRC). Using the filter with a 86100C DCA, chirp
measurements can be made on lasers.
Benefits:
- High wavelength and amplitude accuracy together with calibrated
filter shapes allows you to accurately characterize your system
performance.
- Wide variability in resolution bandwidth and sensitivity gives you
the flexibility to use and reuse the OSA in different setups and
applications.
- The fast sweep speeds at user selectable sensitivity maximizes your measurement throughput.
- Keysight’s powerful application concept reduces training effort and
test development time and makes complex and repetitive measurements
simple and repeatable.
- Dispersion compensated filter mode enables you to drop a single DWDM channel.
- Dispersion compensated filter mode enables you to measure time resolved chirp (TRC) and calculate dispersion penalty (DP).
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