Hi,
I got a question on 86100C Infiniium DCA Oscilloscope.
The Agilent website says "+The 86100C Infiniium DCA-J combines extremely high accuracy and repeatability with outstanding ease of use to simplify characterizing signals from 50 MHz to 80 GHz.+" (http://www.home.agilent.com/en/pd-318628-pn-86100C/infiniium-dca-j-wideband-oscilloscope-mainframe?cc=US&lc=eng)
Can I use 86100C Infiniium DCA Oscilloscope to see a pulsed signal modulated with a 27 GHz carrier signal (pulse width 1 nS)?
The pulse stream is not a repetitive signal.
Thanks & Regards,
randysl
Edited by: randysl on Feb 17, 2014 7:42 PM
I got a question on 86100C Infiniium DCA Oscilloscope.
The Agilent website says "+The 86100C Infiniium DCA-J combines extremely high accuracy and repeatability with outstanding ease of use to simplify characterizing signals from 50 MHz to 80 GHz.+" (http://www.home.agilent.com/en/pd-318628-pn-86100C/infiniium-dca-j-wideband-oscilloscope-mainframe?cc=US&lc=eng)
Can I use 86100C Infiniium DCA Oscilloscope to see a pulsed signal modulated with a 27 GHz carrier signal (pulse width 1 nS)?
The pulse stream is not a repetitive signal.
Thanks & Regards,
randysl
Edited by: randysl on Feb 17, 2014 7:42 PM
The 86100 and its plugins are generally optimized for digital signals. If you have a good separate clock that is a known time away from the portion of the signal that you want to measure, it might work.
If your signal is something like a radar pulse, then you will see the shape of the pulse (the envelope), but very little detail of the interior. This is because, the signal isn't truly "repetitive", unless the carrier is phase coherent with the clock.
If you have a picture, or a sketch of your signal, then it might be possible to give you a more definite answer.
I'm a little prejudiced, but a real-time scope, like the DSO83204A, with 32GHz of BW, and sampling at 80GSamples per second, might be a better solution. It can capture the entire pulse in a single shot, look at every cycle within the pulse, then even tell the the frequency of every cycle within the pulse. With the built-in Amplitude modulation function, you can get the envelope, and make measurements such a Rise Time, Fall Time, Droop (this takes a little more work), PRF, etc...
Al
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