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Characteristic Peak Flatness
The peak flatness is the flatness of a peak-to-average ratio measurement for various tone-separations for an equal magnitude two-tone
RF input. Figure 2 refers to the relative error in peak-to-average ratio measurements as the tone separation is varied. The measurements
were performed at –10 dBm with power sensors with 1.5 m cable lengths.
Figure 2. N192XA Error in peak-to-average measurements for a two-tone input (High, Medium, Low and Off filters)
Noise and drift
Sensor model
Zeroing
Zero set
Zero drift
12
Noise per sample
Measurement noise
<500 MHz > 500 MHz (Free run)
13
N1921A /N1922A No RF on input 200 nW
100 nW 2 µW 50 nW
RF present 550 nW 200 nW
Measurement average setting 12481632641282565121024
Free run noise multiplier 1 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.45 0.4 0.3 0.25 0.2
Video BW setting Low 5 MHz Medium 15 MHz High 30 MHz Off
Noise per sample multiplier < 500 MHz 0.5 1 2 1
≥ 500 MHz 0.45 0.75 1.1 1
Effect of video bandwidth setting
The noise per sample is reduced by applying the meter video
bandwidth filter setting (High, Medium or Low). If averaging is
implemented, this will dominate any effect of changing the video
bandwidth.
Effect of time-gating on measurement noise
The measurement noise on a time-gated measurement will
depend on the time gate length. 100 averages are carried out
every 1 us of gate length. The Noise-per-Sample contribution in
this mode can approximately be reduced by √(gate length/10 ns)
to a limit of 50 nW.
12. Within 1 hour after a zero, at a constant temperature, after 24 hour
warm-up of the power meter. This component can be disregarded with
Auto-zero mode set to ON.
13. Measured over a one-minute interval, at a constant temperature, two
standard deviations, with averaging set to 1.
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