Attenuation; Controlling The Optical Attenuator - Keysight Technologies N77 Series User Manual

Attenuation

Controlling the Optical Attenuator

Keysight N77xx
Series User's Guide
2
Attenuation
This chapter describes how to use the Keysight N7751A and N7752A
Optical Attenuator and Power Meter, the Keysight N7761A, N7762A,
and N7764A Single Mode Fiber Optical Attenuator and the Keysight
N7766A and N7768A multimode fiber Optical Attenuators to attenuate
and control optical power.
If you want to control the power meter channels, please refer the
following sections:
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"Controlling the Optical Attenuator" on page 49
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"Setting the Attenuation" on page 52
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"Applying an Offset Table" on page 56
There are different possibilities to control the instrument:
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LAN / USB / GPIB Connection: [N77xx Viewer]
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LAN / USB / GPIB: Programming with SCPI commands (described
in the Programming Guide available on the CD supplied with the
instrument or from www.keysight.com), or associated drivers,
including the 816x VXI Plug&Play driver.
To connect to the instrument see
Overview" on page 22.
The most convenient way to control one or more Attenuators is using
the Keysight N77xx Viewer, which is a control and display graphical
user interface.
"Input and Output Connectors -