Reducing Trace Noise; Turning On Smoothing - Agilent Technologies E5071C Manual

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Reducing Trace Noise

Any of the following methods can be used to lower the trace noise. This

section provides the description of Turing on Smoothing.

Turning on Sweep Averaging

Narrowing IF Bandwidth

Other topics about Optimizing Measurements

Turning on Smoothing

Smoothing can be used to reduce noise that has relatively small peaks. By

turning on smoothing, the value of each point on a trace is represented by

the moving average over the values of several nearby points. The

smoothing aperture (percentage of sweep span) defines the range of

points to be included in the calculation of the moving average.

You can define the smoothing trace by trace.

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