Equally Spaced Datapoints - Agilent Technologies 8163A Programming Manual

The Agilent 816x VXIplug&play Instrument Driver
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• The Enable High Sweep Speed (hp816x_enableHighSweepSpeed)
function enables/disables the highest available sweep speed (40
nanometers per second) for Lambda Scan operations. The Lambda
Scan operation chooses the highest possible sweep speed for the
chosen step size.
– If you choose Enable, the highest sweep speed possible will be
used. This may lead to less accurate measurements.
– If you choose Disable, the highest sweep speed will not be used.

Equally Spaced Datapoints

A linear interpolation is performed on all wavelength and power data for
the Lambda Scan Application and is optional for the Multi Frame Lambda
Scan Application.
The advantage of spacing all measurements equally is that presenting
results through use of a spreadsheet is greatly simplified. The operation
returns one wavelength array and a power array for each power meter
channel.
Agilent 8163A Lightwave Multimeter, Agilent 8164A Lightwave Measurement System,
& Agilent 8166A Lightwave Multichannel System, Third Edition
Lambda Scan Applications