DECEMBER 17, 2008 -- Anritsu Company (search for Anritsu) has introduced options for its MP1800 Series that further position its signal quality analyzers as the most accurate, repeatable, and cost-efficient test options for analyzing optical and digital devices operating up to 100G, say company representatives.
The new plug-in cards--a 28-Gbps one-channel MUX/DEMUX, 28-Gbps two-channel MUX/DEMUX, 14-Gbps PPG/ED, and 14-GHz Clock Distributor--are easily integrated into the MP1800 and provide designers and manufacturers of optical modulation devices/components and other digital devices with a single, easy-to-use offering for testing their high-speed products, contends Anritsu.
The new cards take advantage of the MP1800's modular platform architecture and help create a flexible test environment for ultra high-speed bit error rate (BER) measurement. With the options, the MP1800 can evaluate next-generation IFs supporting frequencies up to 28 Gbps; direct-drive EML using high-quality, high-amplitude waveforms up to 3.5 Vp-p; and skew, emphasis, and crosstalk effects up to 28 Gbps. Anritsu says it has developed the MUX/DEMUX modules with all the key functions and performances required for accurate testing of optical modulation formats, as well as 40G and 100G designs.
Generating what the company claims are the highest quality waveforms in its class, the MP1800 Series ensures high measurement repeatability and an excellent margin for error when analyzing devices under test. The best-in-class performance makes the MP1800 Signal Quality Analyzers well suited for a variety of high-speed design and manufacturing applications, claim company representatives including:
• 100-Gbps Ethernet -- The MP1800 supports four 25-Gbps outputs to drive four channels of CWDM, as required in IEEE 802.3ba (draft), from a single chassis. Previously, multiple instruments were necessary. Additionally, the signal quality analyzers can drive four channels for DP-QPSK modulation as recommended by the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF), with high-precision skew control for I and Q on both polarizations.
• Long-haul 40-Gbps transmission -- From a single MP1800 chassis, two independent 20-Gbps outputs with excellent skew control can be outputted for devices that utilize DQPSK modulation. The MP1800 can also control the crosspoint of optical modulators, making it well suited for directly driving optical modulators, says Anritsu.
• Ultra-fast interconnects -- Tests critical to the accurate evaluation of high-speed optical interconnects, such as skew toleration and the impact of crosstalk, can be conducted with the MP1800. A built-in jitter modulation function supports what Anritsu claims is the world's first jitter tolerance testing up to 25 Gbps.
The MP1800 Series offers multiple configurations, starting from a price of $40,000, and the new modules are available today.
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