Figures
0-1. Typical Serial Number Label . . . . . . . . . . vii
1-1. The Agilent 83620B Swept Signal Generator . . . 1-3
1-2. Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
1-3. Entry Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
1-4. CW Operation and Start/Stop Frequency Sweep . 1-7
1-5. Center Frequency and Span Operation . . . . . 1-9
1-6. Power Level and Sweep Time Op eration . . . . . 1-11
1-7. Continuous, Single, and Manual Sweep Operation 1-13
1-8. Marker Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15
1-9. Saving and Recalling an Instrument State . . . . 1-17
1-10. Power Sweep and Power Slope Operation . . . . 1-19
1-11. ALC Circuit Externally Leveled . . . . . . . . 1-23
1-12. Typical Dio de Detector Resp onse at 25
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C . . . . 1-25
1-13. Leveling with a Power Meter . . . . . . . . . . 1-27
1-14. MM-wave Source Mo dule Leveling . . . . . . . 1-28
1-15. MM-wave Source Mo dule Leveling Using a Microwave
Amplier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-29
1-16. Reverse Power Eects, Coupled Operation with
0
8
dBm Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-31
1-17. Reverse Power Eects, Uncoupled Op eration with
0
8
dBm Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-31
1-18. Creating a User Flatness Array Automatically . . 1-34
1-19. Creating a User Flatness Array. . . . . . . . . 1-37
1-20. Creating Arbitrarily Spaced Frequency-Correction
Pairs in a Swept mm-waveEnvironment . . . 1-40
1-21. Scalar System Conguration . . . . . . . . . . 1-43
1-22. Automatically Characterizing and Comp ensating for
a Detector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-47
1-23. Decision Tree for ALC Bandwidth Selection . . . 1-50
1-24. SCPI Command Types . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-67
1-25. A Simplied Command Tree . . . . . . . . . . 1-68
1-26. Prop er Use of the Colon and Semicolon . . . . . 1-70
1-27. Simplied SWEep Command Tree . . . . . . . 1-71
1-28. Voltage Controlled Oscillator Test . . . . . . . 1-77
1-29. Simplied Program Message Syntax . . . . . . . 1-80
1-30. Simplied Subsystem Command Syntax . . . . . 1-81
1-31. Simplied Common Command Syntax . . . . . 1-82
1-32. Simplied Response Message Syntax . . . . . . 1-82
1-33. Generalized Status Register Mo del . . . . . . . 1-106
1-34. Typical Status Register Bit Changes . . . . . . 1-108
1-35. Generalized Trigger Mo del . . . . . . . . . . . 1-110
1-36. Inside the Idle State . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-111
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