Keysight Technologies 81606A Tunable Laser Source
The 81606A Tunable Laser Source helps optical component developers, designers, and manufacturers test more devices per hour and improve test margins with significantly enhanced functionality over the company’s current 81600B laser. It offers:
- 15 dB more dynamic range through high signal power at the lowest spontaneous emission, enabled by the new cavity and laser module design
- A 4-fold improvement in absolute accuracy with increased real-time tracking speed and resolution, enabled by the novel wavelength reference unit
- The 200-nm/s sweep speed gives the customer fast, repetitive measurements of configurable devices like wavelength-selective switches (WSS) and solves the problem of spending hours to create look-up tables. As a result, manufacturing costs decrease, more WSS can be calibrated, and test throughput increases.
Recipient: Honorable Mention
Judge's comment: "With the new 81606A, Keysight has proven once again that tunable laser sources can still be improved to sweep even faster and with better optical performance."
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