Keysight Technologies OFC Booth Guide

Introduction by Dr. Joachim Peerlings

Keysight Technologies welcomes you to the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) 2019 in San Diego. We are more than excited to showcase Keysight’s latest products and solutions, that help you to accelerate innovations to connect and secure the world. 400G is moving to deployment. New projects to develop the electrical links and optical components that enable 800G optical and electrical transmission are underway. Verifying compliance for 400G and 800G requires careful attention to test setup and execution as design margins continue to decrease. 400G coherent is an alternative to direct detection for data center interconnects (DCI), and development to reach terabit speeds at 100 GBaud rates for metro/DCI and long-distance networks has started. Let me summarize Keysight’s product and solution demo workstations, that will help you accelerate your projects, give you control over your product quality and help you meet your cost targets.

• For 400GE, we demonstrate complete solutions for design, validation, high throughput production test and network validation.
• A highly flexible and high-speed backbone network is needed to move data into your hands. Take a look into our 1T coherent test solutions for coherent testing in R&D, but also enabling cost effective manufacturing processes for 400G coherent testing, supporting the new 400ZR standard.
• To support cost effective and low power transmission for today’s and future high-capacity data center switches, we are delighted to show a live demo on 300mm silicon photonics wafer testing with a Silicon Photonics Wafer Test system supporting RF and optical testing for design validation and manufacturing.

100 GBaud R&D Test System – Test QAM Signals beyond 64 GBaud

Next-generation coherent transceivers operate at symbol rates around 100 GBaud. Our test solution mimics the function of a coherent transceiver, generating signals with flexible format and shape at 100 GBaud speeds using our new M8194A arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), and analyzing those signals using our new groundbreaking N4391B optical modulation analyzer (OMA) based on our UXR real-time oscilloscope.

• Highest bandwidth
• Lowest noise floor
• Upgradable to 110 GHz

Key Features & Specifications

• 110 | 100 | 80 GHz and 70 | 59 | 50 | 40 GHz system bandwidth options with one oscilloscope
• ADC resolution 10 bits for all bandwidth grades
• Specified typical system noise floor < 1.6% EVM rms at reference conditions · Relative skew < ± 0.5 ps
• Optical operating wavelength range 1528 nm to 1620 nm
• Absolute wavelength accuracy +/- 2.5 pm typical
• Average input power monitor accuracy ± 0.5 dB
• Integrated coherent receiver test application with on-site verification and re-calibration software
• Coherent optical device test application software

400G Manufacturing Test for Coherent – Testing the 400ZR Ecosystem

Interoperability and volume requirements necessitate a paradigm shift in coherent transceiver manufacturing. We offer a test solution designed for the 400G ecosystem, optimized for cost and size, including the M8292A modular optical modulation analyzer (M-OMA) and M8196A arbitrary waveform generator (AWG).

• Low cost T&M solution
• Smallest from factor
• Modular & customizable

M8290A Optical Modulation Analyzer and High-Speed

Digitizer Test Solution

Optimized for the 400G speed class, the M8292A optical modulation analyzer provides a compact, rack-mountable test instrument that connects to the optical output of coherent transmitters. It leverages the full feature set of Keysight's vector signal analyzer and optical modulation analyzer software ensuring a positive user experience analyzing complex modulated data signals.

Automated Test Solution for Coherent Optical Transmit and Receive Devices

Coherent optical devices such as dual-polarization IQ modulators and intradyne coherent receivers need to be tested in their different development stages as well as qualified by the system integrators. The optionally available coherent optical device test software provides a turn-key solution for the characterization of these devices, integrating an M8292A optical modulation analyzer module, an M8296A 4-channel high-speed digitizer module and an M8196A high[1]speed arbitrary waveform generator module.

Target Applications

• Coherent optical transmitter testing
• Integrated coherent receiver ICR testing
• Testing of coherent optical transmit and receive devices

Key Features & Specifications

• Compact and flexible AXIe modular form factor
• 74 Gbaud maximum symbol rate
• 83 to 92 GSa/s sample rate
• 512k samples maximum record length
• 8 bit ADC resolution
• Turn-key solutions for testing coherent optical devices