Agilent Technologies E4418B User Manual page 83

To set the duty cycle:
Duty cycle can be disabled and re-enabled simply by pressing
Duty Cycle Off On
Note
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System
1. Press ,
Input Settings
Inputs
duty cycle is displayed under the
2. To change this setting press
duty cycle in a pop up window. Modify this value (see below) until the
desired duty cycle is displayed.
Use or
n
positioned.
Use or
n
3. To confirm your choice press
4.
Duty Cycle Off On
entered using
Duty Cycle
.
Pulse power averages out any aberrations in the pulse such as overshooting
or ringing. For this reason it is called pulse power and not peak power or
peak pulse power.
In order to ensure accurate pulse power readings, the input signal must be
pulsed with a rectangular pulse. Other pulse shapes (such as triangle, chirp
or Gaussian) will cause erroneous results.
The pulse power on/off ratio must be much greater than the duty cycle ratio.
, . The current setting of the
More
Duty Cycle
. The power meter displays the
Duty Cycle
to modify the digit on which the cursor is currently
to move to other digits.
.
%
is automatically set to "On" when a value is
.
Power Meter Operation
Measuring Pulsed Signals
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