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Measurements Applications
Measuring Signal-to-Noise Ratios with Averaging
Measuring Signal-to-Noise Ratios with Averaging
When the lasers being measured are modulated, especially with repetitive data for-
mats such as SONET or PRBS, the noise floor is raised. Averaging reduces the noise
floor and allows an improvement of greater than 10 dB in a signal-to-noise measure-
ment. In general, averaging will decrease the noise floor caused by modulation until
the true optical noise level is reached. The displayed signal-to-noise will improve
with each average until the true optical noise level is reached, and then the displayed
signal-to-noise will remain approximately constant. If, however, the true signal-to-
noise is below the instrument sensitivity of approximately 40 dB (in a 0.1 nm noise
bandwidth), it will not be measured.
Averaging can also improve the accuracy of measuring signal-to-noise of unmodu-
lated lasers.
Signal-to-noise with averaging display.
Averaging is performed on the noise, not on the wavelength or power of the laser
signals.
The signal-to-noise with averaging measurement uses the automatic interpolation
method to determine the wavelengths where the noise is measured.
suring Signal-to-Noise Ratios” on page 69
for a description of automatic interpola-
tion. There is no user-entered wavelength selection in signal-to-noise with
averaging.
During a signal-to-noise with averaging measurement, the display indicates
S/N A
xx,
where A indicates averaging and xx is the number of averages taken so far.
The maximum number of averages is 900, the minimum number of averages is 10,
and the default (Preset) value is 100 averages. A measurement with 100 averages
takes about 2 minutes to complete. When the measurement is complete, the instru-
ment switches to single measurement mode. Then, pressing the Cont key will start a
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