Agilent Technologies 8753ET User Manual page 57

Making Measurements
Measuring Electrical Length and Phase Distortion
You may also want to select settings for the number of data points, averaging, and IF
bandwidth.
3. Substitute a thru for the device and perform a response calibration by pressing:
CALIBRATE MENU
Cal
4. Reconnect your test device.
5. To better view the measurement trace, press:
AUTO SCALE
Scale Ref
Notice that in Figure 1-34
only a 2 MHz span. Other filters may require a wider frequency span to see the effects
of phase shift.
The linearly changing phase is due to the device's electrical length. You can measure
this changing phase by adding electrical length (electrical delay) to compensate for it.
Figure 1-34 Linearly Changing Phase
6. To place a marker at the center of the band, press:
and turn the front panel knob, or enter a value from the front panel keypad.
Marker
7. To activate the electrical delay function, press:
Marker Fctn MARKER→DELAY
This function calculates and adds in the appropriate electrical delay by taking a ±10%
span about the marker, measuring the ∆Φ, and computing the delay as the negative of
∆Φ / ∆ frequency.
Alternatively, press
to increase the electrical length until you achieve the best flat line, as shown in
1-44
RESPONSE
the SAW filter under test has considerable phase shift within
Scale Ref ELECTRICAL DELAY
THRU
and turn the front panel knob
Figure