With speeds beyond 40Gb/s current test equipment
and/or test systems can become outdated fairly quickly and investment
in new equipment able to measure at these new standards is in most
cases very costly and become obsolete once higher transmission speeds
are reached.
This is the uniqueness
of the Apex Technologies Optical Complex Spectrum Analyzer which
characterizes all the required parameters of
high bit
rate modulated signals. It measures intensity modulation, phase modulation
and
chirp characteristics in a simple and effective manner, with the bonus
that this instrument will never become obsolete since it does not have
a “speed limit”.