Concepts and Features
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Table 3-11: Properties of grid types
Grid type: Keep
Sweep
time
Time
domain
resolution
Unambig-
uous
range
Algorithm fails if...
Stop freq. and no. of
points
–
Freq. gap and no. of
points
Stop frequency beyond upper fre-
quency limit
Stop freq. and approx.
freq. gap
Number of sweep points beyond limit
3.7.1.5
Time Gates
A time gate is used to eliminate unwanted responses that appear on the time domain
transform. An active time gate acts on the trace in time domain as well as in frequency
domain representation.
The properties of the time gates are analogous to the properties of the frequency domain
windows. The following table gives an overview:
Table 3-12: Properties of time gates
Window
Sidelobe
suppression
Passband
ripple
Best for...
Steepest Edges
(Rectangle)
13 dB
0.547 dB
Eliminate small distortions in the vicinity of the
useful signal, if demands on amplitude accuracy
are low
Steep Edges
(Hamming)
43 dB
0.019 dB
Good compromise between edge steepness and
sidelobe suppression
Normal Gate
(Hann)
32 dB
0.032 dB
Good compromise between edge steepness and
sidelobe suppression
Maximum Flat-
ness (Bohman)
46 dB
0 dB
Maximum attenuation of responses outside the
gate span
Arbitrary Gate
Shape (Dolph-
Chebychev)
User defined
between 10 dB
and 120 dB
0.071 dB
Adjustment to individual needs; tradeoff
between sidelobe suppression and edge steep-
ness
Time-Gated Frequency Domain Trace
The trace in the frequency domain depends on the state of the "Time Gate":
●
If the gate is disabled, the frequency domain (FD) trace corresponds to the measured
sweep results prior to the time-domain transformation.
●
If the gate is enabled, the displayed frequency domain trace is calculated from the
time domain (TD) trace which is gated and transformed back into the frequency
domain.
The analyzer uses fixed "No Profiling (Rectangle)" window settings to transform the
measured trace into time domain. The TD trace is gated using the selected time gate.
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