Agilent Technologies 8163A User Manual page 129

How to Use Auxiliary Functions
Agilent 8163A Lightwave Multimeter, Agilent 8164A Lightwave Measurement System, & Agilent 8166A Lightwave
Multichannel System, Fourth Edition
To perform a wavelength zero:
1 Move to the Tunable Laser channel and press Menu.
2 Move to <λ Zeroing> and press [OK]. You will see the screen in Figure 84.
λ Zeroing Screen
Figure 84
3 Wait several minutes. This time depends on how much the wavelength of the
instrument has drifted since the last Wavelength Zero was performed.
The instrument automatically performs a Wavelength Zero if there is a ± 5 K
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temperature change since the last Wavelength Zero was performed.
Tunable Lasers
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