(Agilent Technologies Inc.: Santa Clara, California) -- Agilent has announced the availability of a new embedded local oscillator (LO) measurement capability for its PNA Series network analyzers. With its ability to accurately test frequency converters without having to directly access a common reference signal, this new measurement capability sets a new standard for radio frequency and microwave test engineers and technicians working on wireless and satellite communications systems.

Agilent’s embedded LO measurement capability can be used with arbitrarily narrow-bandwidth devices—something not possible with methods requiring amplitude and complex modulation. Results from the new embedded LO measurement capability essentially match those achieved by phase locking two independent LO sources. On a typical Ka band satellite converter, delay accuracy as small as 125 ps has been achieved.

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