The high-speed, wide-bandwidth M8196A arbitrary waveform generator can implement digital, multi-level (e.g., PAM-4, PAM-8, DMT) signal scenarios at 8 bits vertical resolution and test their electrical and optical links with complex modulated signals up to 64 GBaud.
The fast and versatile signal generator supports leading-edge research for 100 Gb/s, 400 Gb/s, and 1 Tb/s communication applications. A maximum sample rate of 92 GSa/s with 32 GHz of analog bandwidth on up to four precisely aligned channels per 1-slot AXIe module can be achieved simultaneously.
- Supports high-speed and coherent optical transceiver and component testing with its four synchronized channels in one instrument, allowing deterministic emulation and predistortion of two independent I/Q signals
- Supports R&D tests in the development of new physical layer standards exceeding 100 Gb/s with the instrument’s unmatched flexibility which also allows de-embedding of a channel’s S-parameters, in-situ calibration and signal stress conditioning
- Supports generation of any mathematically defined arbitrary waveforms, ultra-short yet precise pulses and multiple GHz chirps
- A maximum sample rate of 92 GSa/s with 32 GHz of analog bandwidth on up to four precisely aligned channels per 1-slot AXIe module simultaneously
- Up to 2 Vpp differential output voltage and adjustable DC offset in a -1 to 2.5 V window
- 8 bits vertical resolution and rise and fall times below 9 ps
