The need to transmit increasing amounts of data across high-speed optical networks is driving demand for components that leverage multiplexing technologies to increase bandwidth. Evaluating the characteristics and quality of these devices and components requires high-precision test instruments that are fast, accurate and easy to use.
Yokogawa Test&Measurement is helping meet industry’s evolving test needs with a comprehensive range of high-accuracy optical spectrum analyzers (OSAs) that will be on show at stand E24 at ECOC 2024. Designed for exceptional performance, these instruments offer developers the tools they need to help advance the latest optical designs and contribute to making digital communication more efficient and capable than ever before.
One highlight will be the recently launched Yokogawa AQ6370E OSA . Equally suitable for industry, universities and research institutions, during research and development as well as on the production line, the AQ6370E can be used to characterize a wide range of active and passive components including lasers for optical communications, optical transceivers and optical amplifiers.
The AQ6370E OSA can be used to characterize a wide range of components
Innovative functions and features help users streamline their development and production processes. HCDR (High Close-in Dynamic Range) mode available on the AQ6370E-20 High Performance model makes the spectrum around the peak sharper and the side modes more clearly visualized when analyzing a laser source with a single longitudinal mode. SMSR (Side-Mode Suppression Ratio) mode is an effective feature for most SMSR measurements with two sensitivity settings that can speed up testing by measuring a laser’s SMSR up to twice as fast as conventional sensitivity mode.
As well as a large LCD touchscreen for easier and more intuitive everyday operation, the AQ6370E features APP mode. This provides a user interface specific to the device under test, making the process easier for customers who are unfamiliar with OSAs.
Where telecommunication channels are closely spaced and difficult to separate in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) analysis, Yokogawa offers the AQ6380 OSA , with optical wavelength resolution down to 5 picometres. This makes it possible to distinguish waveforms that were previously not visible in a typical OSA, such as modulation side peaks in the laser spectrum.
Yokogawa’s AQ6380 OSA is ideal for characterising closely spaced telecommunication channels
The AQ6380 is designed for ease and efficiency of use, ensuring the measurement scheme can be set up rapidly and data acquired easily. With wavelength coverage of 1200-1650 nm on the standard model and wavelength resolution from 5 picometres to 2 nm, the AQ6380 supports a wide range of applications from narrowband peak/notch measurements to wideband spectral measurements.
The Yokogawa Test&Measurement portfolio of OSAs covers a broad wavelength spectrum
The AQ6370 series and high-accuracy AQ6380 are used for precision measurement in a range of industries, from communications, industrial production, bio-photonics and healthcare to LED lighting, quantum computing and environmental sensing. They are part of Yokogawa’s comprehensive range of optical spectrum analyzers, covering wavelengths from ultraviolet light at 350nm up to far infrared at 5.5µm. Whatever the application and measurement requirement, there is a Yokogawa grating-based OSA that offers a configurable combination of high accuracy, high resolution, high sensitivity and wide dynamic range.
Visitors to ECOC 2024 can see Yokogawa Test&Measurement’s full range of optical spectrum analyzers and other leading-edge solutions for accurate optical Measurements in action at stand E24.
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