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Agilent Technologies E5500 Phase Noise Measurement System

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Absolute Measurement Examples

Microwave Source

5 Test Set Tab

Input Attenuation

LNA Low Pass Filter

•LNAGain

•DCBlock

• PLL Integrator Attenuation

•0dB

• 20 MHz (Auto checked)

• Auto Gain (Minimum Auto Gain - 14 dB)

• Not checked

•0dBm

6 Downconverter Tab

Input Frequency

L.O. Frequency

I.F. Frequency

Millimeter Frequency

L.O. Power

Maximum AM Detector Level

Input Attenuation

I.F. Gain

•Auto

Microwave/Millimeter Band

Millimeter Band Mixer Bias

• Enable

• Current

Reference Chain

• Reference

• External Tune Enable

Tuning Sensitivity

•Nominal

• 100 MHz PLL Bandwidth

• 600 MHz PLL Bandwidth

•12E+9

•Auto

• (Calculated by software)

•0

•20dBM

•0dBm

•0dB

•0dB

• Checked

• Microwave (0 - 26.5 GHz)

• Unchecked

•0mA

•10MHz

• Unchecked

• 0 ppm/v

• 0 ppm/V

•126Hz

• 10000 Hz

7GraphTab

•Title

• Graph Type

• X Scale Minimum

• X Scale Maximum

• Y Scale Minimum

• Y Scale Maximum

• Normalize trace data to a:

• Scale trace data to a new

carrier frequency of:

• Shift trace data DOWN by:

• Trace Smoothing Amount

• Power present at input of DUT

• Microwave Source (12 GHz) vs. Agilent/HP 8644B

using EFC

• Single-sideband Noise (dBc/Hz)

•10Hz

•4E+6Hz

•0dBc/Hz

• - 170 dBc/Hz

• 1 Hz bandwidth

• 1 times the current carrier frequency

•0dB

•0

•0dB

Table 7-20 Parameter Data for the Microwave Source Measurement

Step Parameters Data