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Application Tutorials
Tutorial 1: Measure Eye-Parameters
Example Extinction Ratio Measurement
10 Change the amount of data used for the histograms by pressing:
NUMBER SAMPLES and enter the # of samples
A larger value gives more accuracy, but increases the data acquisition time.
When making extinction ratio measurements in eyeline mode, the number
of samples should be increased from the default of 1000 to something on the
order of 20000 to insure a number of traces are evaluated to compute the
extinction ratio.
11 Clear the measured data from the screen by pressing:
OFF