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Agilent
Choosing the Right Power
Meter and Sensor
Product Note
Design and manufacturing of now demand power-measuring
engineering processes for RF/ instruments and sensors for average
microwave systems have reached a power, as well as time-gated and peak
status undreamed of a decade ago. power profiles and peak-to-average
Wireless communication engineers ratios, with all those measurements
especially, faced with aggressive delivered at high measurement-data
project schedules, must quickly select rates.
and configure power-measurement
equipment that provides the accuracy The Agilent Technologies'
and repeatability required by their contribution: unsurpassed accuracy
innovative new modulation formats. and repeatability--by design.
New wireless technologies needed to
support wideband data transmissions
In general, power sensors are Technologies. It includes Agilent's new almost exclusively for the
designed to match user signals and power meters and family of peak and standardization and traceability of
modulation types. Power meters are average sensors, designed for pulsed power measurements from the U.S.
designed to match the user's power and the complex modulation National Institute of Standards and
measurement data requirements. signals of wireless communications Technology and other international
That's why you can choose from a markets. It also reviews the families standards agencies. Because the
versatile line of 33 different power of thermocouple, diode, and two- Agilent 432A power meter and
sensors and six power meters from path diode-attenuator-diode sensors. thermistor sensor technology is based
Agilent Technologies, as shown in It discusses the advantages and on the highly precise DC-substitution
Table 1. In addition, Agilent offers disadvantages of each sensor method, the sensors are used as
many custom configurations for ATE technology as they apply to current transfer standards, traveling between
system applications and other and near-future wireless system the user's primary lab and the NIST
calibration, traceability, and quality advances. measurement services laboratory.
processes. Users interested in such metrology
Not discussed is the Agilent family of power-transfer processes may request
This product note outlines applications thermistor sensors and the associated Agilent's AN 64-1 and 64-4 application
considerations and the newest sensor Agilent 432A power meter. This notes.
technologies available from Agilent venerable technology now is used
Table 1. An overview of Agilent power meters and sensors
Agilent power meters
EPM-P series EPM series System power P-series P-series modular
peak, average, and Averaging meters peak, average, and peak, average, and
time gating E4418B single Ch 70100A MMS time gating time gating
E4416A single Ch E4419B dual Ch E1416A VXI N1911A single Ch N8262A dual Ch
Agilent power sensors E4417A dual Ch N1912A dual Ch
Thermocouple
8480A/B/H-family
R/Q 8486A