Industry’s fastest coherent lightwave signal analyser?

According to the oscilloscope specialist, the OM4106D is the first coherent test system with 33GHz bandwidth support. The performance is achieved through integration with the company's DPO70000D series oscilloscopes. Tektronix says this provides 'exceptional' real time performance along with purpose built algorithms with best laser phase tolerance, no pattern length limitation and insightful displays for fast analysis and debugging of high performance optical designs. Brian Reich, general manager, Performance Oscilloscopes, Tektronix, said: "In the world of long haul optical transmission technologies, capacity and performance is the name of the game. By tightly integrating the OM4106D with DPO70000D series oscilloscopes, we deliver the accurate, confident test results optical researchers and engineers need to design more capable optical systems and quickly bring them to market." While optical modulation analysers are traditionally designed to work with a range of oscilloscope models and types, Tektronix says the OM4106D is the first to be tightly integrated with a high speed oscilloscope. This, the company adds, gives it the performance required to test the fastest coherent lightwave systems on the market. The DPO73304D oscilloscope delivers 33GHz real time bandwidth together with 100GS/s sample rate performance across two channels or 50GS/s across four channels. The oscilloscope also features a new DataStore Public Interface designed to provide up to two times the data throughput from digitisers to the MATLAB application processing the OM4106D algorithms for analysis. Analysis software for coherent modulation analysis is included, such as Q Plot, Eye Diagrams and effective bit error rate.