Options

Option 001: Programmable Current Source
Option 002: Built-in White Light Source
Option 003: Swept PDL Kit
Option 051: EDFA Test Personality
Option 052: EDFA Time-Domain Test Personality
Option 053: EDFA Noise-Gain Profile Measurement Personality

• Excellent sensitivity, dynamic range, and wavelength accuracy
• LED, Fabry-Perot, or DFB laser characterization
• Stimulus response system for optical components
• Polarization dependent loss versus wavelength
• EDFA characterization with all common optical test methods
• Spectral measurements from 600 to 1700 nm
• Unique double-pass monochromator
• Real-time sweep rates
• -90 dBm sensitivity and 60 dB dynamic range
• Excellent amplitude accuracy, low polarization dependency
• Wavelength and amplitude calibration across full measurement range
• Optical current-source and white light source (depending on options)
• Five modes of operation

Specifications

• Input Return Loss
  With 9 / 125 µm fiber: > 35 dB
  With 50 / 125 µm fiber: 28 dB
  With 62.5 / 125 µm fiber: 26 dB
• Wavelength Range: 600 - 1700 nm
• Resolution Bandwidth FWHM (selectable): 0.08, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10
• Amplitude, Display Scale: 0.01 - 20 dB log, and linear
• Sensitivity
  600 - 750 nm (second order only): -60 dBm
  750 - 900 nm (second order): -75 dBm
  750 - 900 nm (first order): -70 dBm
  900 - 1100 nm:  -75 dBm
  1100 - 1600 nm: -90 dBm
  1600 - 1700 nm: -80 dBm
• Dynamic Range in 0.1 nm resolution
  600 - 1700 nm: -50 dB at ≥ ±1 nm
  1250 - 1600 nm: -55 dB at ≥ ±0.5 nm
  1250 - 1600 nm, chop mode on: -70 dB at ±0.5 nm, ±1 nm, ±5 nm
• Input Power - Maximum Safe Input Level: +20 dBm per 5 nm, +30 dBm total
• Sweep Time, Maximum Sweep Rate: 40 nm / 50 ms
• Sweep Cycle Time
  50 nm span ( auto zero off ): < 180 ms
  Full span: < 1 s

Monochromator Output (into 62.5 µm fiber)
Insertion loss, 850 / 1300 / 1550 nm, 1st order: <18 dB / <7 dB / <10 dB
Polarization dependence in the range 1250-1600 nm: ±0.5 dB

Photodetector Input (power meter mode)
Absolute Accuracy at -30 dBm, 1300 nm: ±0.35 dB
Sensitivity: -95 dBm (1250 - 1600 nm), -85 dBm (600 - 1700 nm)

Option 002 Built-in White Light Source Output

• Wavelength: 900 - 1700 nm (filtered below 850 nm)
• Spectral Power Density
  Into 9 / 125 µm fiber: 0.2 nW / nm (900 - 1600 nm), 0.1 nW / nm (1600 - 1700 nm)
  Into 50 / 125 µm fiber: 10 nW / nm
  Into 62.5 / 125 µm fiber: 25 nW / nm

Option 003 Swept PDL Kit
Accuracy (1250 - 1600 nm)
Optical-to-Optical Devices (external photodetector): +0.1 / -0.05 dB
Optical-to-Electrical Devices: +0.075 / -0.025 dB

Stimulus Response System Specifications - Passive Optical-to-Optical Devices

• Measurement Range
  1250 - 1600 nm and 9 / 125 µm fiber: 0 to 33 dB in 10 nm RBW (36 dB typical)
  1000 - 1600 nm and 50 / 125 or 62.5 / 125 µm fiber: 0 to 40 dB (10 nm RBW)
• Dynamic Range
  1250 - 1600 nm and 9 / 125 µm fiber: 36 dB (with 10 nm RBW)
  1000 - 1600 nm and 50 / 125 or 62.5 / 125 µm fiber: 36 dB (10 nm RBW)
• Measurement Accuracy
  1250 - 1600 nm and 9 / 125 µm fiber: ±0.1 dB (excluding connector repeatability)
  1000 - 1600 nm and 50 / 125 or 62.5 / 125 µm fiber: ±0.2 dB (excluding connector repeatability)
• Optical-to-Electrical Devices
  Minimum Responsivity: 0.01 A/W
  Accuracy: ±0.9 dB (excluding connector repeatability)

MEASUREMENT SUMMARY

O / E and E / O Devices
Power spectrum, total power
Noise density (W / nm)
LED, FP, DFB characterization
Detector responsivity

DWDM Passive Components
Insertion loss
Polarization dependent loss: (Option 003)
Polarization mode dispersion

Optical Amplifiers
Output spectrum
Gain and noise figure
Noise gain profile
Noise gain peak

Wavelength Division Multiplexing Systems
Output spectrum
Non-linear effects

Supported Fiber Type: up to 62.5 / 125 µm