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DRIFT MEASUREMENT
The Nano-OSA modules provide a Drift measurement
application to perform multiple measurements and dis-
play the recorded results in a graphical format (trace)
over the time.
This can be used to monitor the drift of power and
wavelength of optical systems or components. This is
important to measure the drift of non temperature sta-
bilized transmitter in CWDM networks.
Note:
A Drift measurement can only be done at predefined
wavelengths or frequencies, for this reason a reference
Grid needs to be defined and the Channel Detection
parameter is set to Grid.
The following parameters need to be set for Drift mea-
surements:
Sweep
Set to Drift.
Monitoring time
Set the timeframe for monitoring
Interval
Defines the time between the measurements.
Note:
Wait period specifies the time between start of one mea-
surement and start of the next measurement and includes
the instrument measurement time.
All channels defined by the channel Grid can be mon-
itored simultaneously with the drift application. To
show the monitored measurement parameter use the
Trace/Channel/Drift
softkey on second page in the
result screen. This button has a toggle function with the
following selections:
Freq.
Frequency monitoring
Power
Power monitoring
OSNR
OSNR monitoring
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